The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-12
GIN. CHILDS IS FIRM
ADHEREs TO HIS ORIGINAL OPIN-
ION As TO THE MAKEUP OF
TICKETS
PLACE OF PR0HIBiTIONISTS

PLACE OF PR0HIBiTIONISTS
Information Received at Democratic
headquarters shows the Repub-
IicunS Are on the Run in Many
Countics-Otter Tail, Wadena
and lie Sueur Among Those in
which Lind Is Getting Stronger.
Attorney General Childs yesterday
denied the second application Of the
Prohibitionists for second place on the
state and county ticket.
Daniel w. Doty, on behalf of the
state central committee of the Prohi-
bition party, filed a protest with Sec
rotary of State Berg day before yester-
day against having the names of the
Prohibition candidates placed fourth
on the ticket. The matter was taken
up with the attorney general for the
second time. andsthat official sustained
his former opinion quite emphatiCally.
Mr.. DOty stated yesterday that the
matter would be carried to the supreme
court and an effort made to secure
decision in time to have the tickets
changed if the attorney general was
OVtrTuled by the supreme court. The
text of Gen. Childs' opinion is as fol-
lows:
Oct II. lS9S.-Hon. Albert Berg. Secretary
of State-Sir: l beg to acknowledge receipt
Of your communication of the 10th inst, in
closing the communication Of Daniel Doty,
ESQ.
MI Doty asks a reversal of the ruling of
this Office in its communication to you. under
date OF the 4th inst, on the ground mat the
Democratic and Peoples parties did not act
cOntempOraneOusly in 1895
After a careful consideration of Mr.. Doty's
communication | am of the opinion that you
were correctly advised in my communication
OF earlier date. Furthermore. it is proper to
say that it would be eminently unfair, in the
absence of Overwhelming conviction that l
was previously in error, to hold at this late
hour. when the law might afford no repara-
ton, that the certificates Of the said parties
have no official standing in your Office
l again emphasize what l attempted to make
most emphatic in my former communication,
that l am compelled to adopt Mr.. DOtys view
of the law in toto, with all its logical cOnse-
QuenCeS, or not at all: The argument that
would substantiate the right of the Prohibition
party to the second place on the ticket denies
at the same time the right Of either of the
other parties to any place whatsoever thereon.
The reasons which cOnduced to the conclusion
previously reached by me are not shaken by
the newly discovered circumstances which has
been pressed upon my consideration. I am
very respectfully, H. w. Childs,
Attorney General.
George N. Lamphere the Democratic
and Peoples party nominee for state
auditor, was down yesterday to at
tend the big meeting at the exposition
In Minneapolis. There is no man in the
Red river valley better known to the
residents there than the editor of the
MoOrhead News, and he is familiar
with conditions in that locality. Mr..
L6mphere told clio b e reporter
that he thought the vote for the union
ticket would far exceed that in previ-
Gus years, and if that is so it means
not only the election Of P. NJ. Ringdal
10 congress, but the practical assurance
that Mr.. Lind viii be elected governor
as well.
z. H. Austin, the man who, by vir-
tue of the joint nomination of the
Democratic and Peoples party, is go
ing to GUST Oar Reese from his $4,000
job in the capitol, was in the city yes
terday. Mr.. Austin says that this year
the fight in st. Louis county is going
to be on the square and that the Demo-
Gratis are not going to be counted out
by Republican machinists as they were
two years ago. There never has been
any question but that the people on
the range were Democratic in their
tendencies if they were given free ex-
preston. 1t is good news to learn that
the blocks of five policy heretofore pur-
sued by the Duluth stock jObbing and
mine-owning Republicans has been
abandoned through indifference as to
the personality of the men now COM
peting on the basis Of state issues.
Some very encOura ging reports are
being received at the headquarters Of
the Democratic state central commit
tee. A prominent man in Otter Tail
county, whose judgment would be sus-
. nv ba mi Of III
sagacity were the G 10 b e to betray
his name, which is held in confidence
out of respect to his modesty, predicts
that Mr.. Lind will carry Otter Tail
county by a large majority. This has
practically been conceded by the Re-
pubicans. Mr.. Lind is personally very
popular in the county. He ran 1900
ahead of the Republicans two years
ago. He will no doubt do as we'll or
better this year.
Wadena county has generally been
considered good ground for the sowing
of Republican doctrine, but this year
the reports which are coming in indi-
cate that Mr.. Lind will make marked
gains, and 1t will not be at all sur
prising if the entire county should
flock to the support of the union ticket
headed by the valiant Quartermaster
of the Twelfth Minnesota.
In LIE Sueur county the party orga-
nizatiOn is better than it ever was be-
fore. The county is considered by the
republicans as utterly hopeless. They
have surrendered already But the
county Democratic organization is not
resting on its oars. The determination
is to send in from that county a ma
1crity for Lind which will be a clarion
OF the strength Of the reform ideas