The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-31
CHOICE OF THE GOVERNOR.
f. f. Steidl Appointed to Succeed
Judge Brown on the Bench in the
Sixteenth Judicial District, and
Other Changes Contemplated.

Other Changes Contemplated.
Gov Lind has named F. E. Steidl to sue
coed Judge Brown upon the bench in the
Sixteenth judicial district to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of the latter,
owing to his election to the supreme bench
Of the state.
Mr.. Steidl is a citizen Of Wheaton, and is
county attorney for Traverse county He is
q POpulist, and stands we'll in his locality
1t is said that Judge Steidl will appoint as
his court stenographer E. H. KrelWitz, OF
Minneapolis. While Mr.. Krelwitz is prac-
ticing law here, it is said that he has re-
tanned his residence in Traverse county, and
is therefore eligible for the place.
Rumor also has 1t G. A. Westphal, proml-
nent in Populistic circles in this city, is
to be appointed county attorney OF Ira
verse county, to fl 1.-The place vacated by
has been practicing law in Minneapolis
and maintaining residence IN traverse
county.--MinneapOlis Tribune.
Many readers of The Representative
will recall how G.. A. Westphal was
delegate to the Hennepin county Popu-
list convention in the summer OF 1893.
and how he was by the fusion faction
of our party elected chairman of that
convention after the regulars had ad-
iourned. It will be interesting to con-
slider how many votes in that conven-
ton were cast by men like Mr.. Westphal,
claiming a residence in Traverse or
some other county. Suppose some Pop
ulist had challenged Mr.. Westphal's
right to vote in Hennepin county Pop
ulist convention on the ground, first,
that he was resident, not Of Hennepin,
but of Traverse county.
If Mr. Westphal is and was then a
resident of Traverse county, If his legal
domicile was in Traverse county, what
right had he to vote in Hennepin coun-
ty affairs?
How many more voters Of that kidney
figured in disrupting the Populist party
in Hennepin county?
When will our party have welded out
that class who are unprincipled enough,
be they Democrats or fusionists, So
called. to do indirectly and by implica-
ton what the law would punish as per-
jury if done directly? How would
Mr.. Westphal have sworn as to the
question of his residence, had he been
challenged here in 1898? If he had
sworn that his residence was in TRAY
erse county, would he have been al
lowed vote in Hennepin county af-
fairs?
II Mr.. Westphal should swear now
that his residence was in Hennepin
county, would Mr.. Lind appoint a resi-
dent of Hennepin county attorney for
Traverse county? This Democratic
swearing, and voting, and question of
Democrats legal domicile is as the
Dutchman would say, "a tam funny piz-
ness" and the Democrats of Minnesota
have not hesitated to do vast amount
OF funny business to beat the Populists,
Down with the Democrats. 1t is the
Populist's first duty to God and to his
fellow man. If there is in politics any
thing too mean to be done by Repub-
lican, you have only to look for Demo
crat In 1900 the Democrats will stand
on Wall streets platform of anti-im-
perialism and antitrust They will
swear their legal domicile is in Lincoln
Neb.. and they will vote in and fol-
Wall street to man, and Bryan, wheth-
er willingly or not, will be plutocracy's
tool. EAT