The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-29
BY REFLECTED POPULARITY, SO
MAJORITIES FOR ALL WILL
BE LARGE.
BANNER
iR POPULIsT COUNTY.
1t VIII Turn the Tide In the Seventh
Dfstrict-Heavily Against
Eddy.

shouting just~alike. Polk county is
having it's innings this year for the
first time In its political history One
OF its favorite sons is the probably sue
cessful nominee for congress- An
other in the person of Alex McKinnon
is on the fusion ticket for state treas
urer. The Republican convention which
nominated Mr.. Eddy was held here
The alleged convention Of Democrats
which consisted OF, a chairman and a
secretary-which indorsed Mr. LON
men, was held here. For several years
Crookston politicians have gone dowr
to congressional conventions in other
cities Of the Seventh district with q
candidate for congress for whom they
worked with heart and soul, and have
gone home again beautifully walloped
sore, surly and disgruntled. They have
always come within a few votes of sue
cess at the outset and steadily lost
ground from that point. When Mr..
Eddy was first nominated, in 1894, they
came to the convention with Halvor
Steenerson-the tall pine of the Red
river valley-on the brain. Otter Tail
and Stevens counties smooth wire
pullers outwitted them, and they went
home to sharpen their knives. Steen-
erson made a loyal speech to the con-
vention, but nobody heard word
from any Crookston politicians during
the remainder Of that exciting cam
paign. Nor was that their first exper-
ence of the same kind; but it is un-
necessary to go into ancient history
This summer they came to the Peoples
party congressional convention in Fer
gus Falls-among them some of the
same men who attended the Republican
convention two years before-with the
grim determinatio to nominate Edwin
E. Lommen or know the reason why;
and they did It, They went to the
same come one come ll-this-rock-
shall-fiy idea about McKinnon; and
they nominated him. They say now
there were not bands enough in the
county to meet these successful dele
cations when they came home. So il
is not to be wondered at that there is
a great deal Of enthusiasm in this
neighborhood for Mr.. Lommen's candi-
dacy and Mr.. McKinnon's; and both
Bryan and Lind are coming in for a
heavy vote through the light that is re-
fiected from the favorite sons of Polk
Both these nominees are personally
very popular here at their own home
and the idea of county loyalty will
help to swell their vote still more Polk
is the
BANNER POPULIST COUNTY.
of the state anyhow, and this year 1t
gives promise of outdoing all pre-
vious records. Two years ago it gave
Mr.. Boen a plurality of 1,772 after
throwing 710 votes for the Democratic
nominee, DR.. Mclean. So far this
year nobody has been able to find
more than $500 votes for Mr.. Eddy
out of the 1000 or 5000 votes that the
county will undoubtedly poll, and
nearly every one of the remaining
5000 or so will go to Mr.. Lommen.
This one county will neutralize the
plurality which Mr.. Eddy will bring
with him from the southern counties
OF the district, counting Otter Tail as
the dividing line. All the Democrats
who voted for Mclean two years ago
are going to vote for Mr.. Lommen A
good many Republicans are going to
do the same thing. There Is not a
doubt here of his election. One could
get bets to any amount at almost any
odds If by any f1uke of destiny Mr.
Eddy should squeeze in 1 am almost
afraid to speculate on the consequen-
ces in Crookston. There would GER
tainly be an effort made to move Polk
county out of the state. There is not
the same certainty about Mr.. McKin-
non, because the people realize that
the state is a good deal bigger than
the district, and their share in shaping
It's destiny -correspondingly diminished
Still, 1t will be a bitter blow If Mr.
McKinnon is not also elected Mr.
Eddy was here the other day Sen
ator Nelson delivered the principal
| speech and the nominee for congress
| although hoarse and somewhat weary
from campaigning, gave an excellent
| talk afterwards: but the people lis
tened in much the same state of mind
| that they would listen to a condemned
IL
respectful hearing. Polk county is full
| Of Canadian French people to whom
the message of Populism came as a
| revelation from on high. The only
| way in which the section will ever be
| brought to another way of thinking
is by full and complete trial of the
| Peoples party doctrines, and their full
| and complete failure Many of them
used to be Democrats. just as the
Scandinavians used to be Republi-
cans, but all the old-time neighbor-
| hood disagreements about the two
parties have melted away, and each
| quarter section harbors a. Populist
The counties north of Polk share In
| the beliefs and prejudices of this
county Crookston is their nearest
that the thought molders spread out
| into Kittson and Marshall and Roseau
! This last county was cut off the east
ern edge Of Kittson by the last legis-
| lature and it is q rapidly growing Sec
ton of the state. 1t has a vigorous
town or two. Roseau being the leader
/ met r. j. Bell. editor Of the brisk
| little sheet, the Roseau County Times
He put the vote Of the county at 1000
| and thought Lommen would get 700
| Eddy 300 NJ. A. Goar. of Kennedy
| Kittson county, a member of the
| Seventh district Democratic congres-
sional committee. said that Kittsor
| was
/ SURE OF A PLURALITY
| for Lommen of 500 ors606 figuring on {