The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-09-13

sition is perfectly apparent when the
fact Is recalled that the senate holds
over, and that 1t is more than two
thirds Republican. The only thing a
Democratic house could do, II it had
enough majority, would be
To Elect United States senator,
as that is the only question unon
which the house and senate act jointly,
and no bill. can be passed without a
majority of the senate.
The chief popularity of the ticket
nominated Is that 1t is not Democratic.
1t seems to have become the rule in
the anti-Renublican arty that each
branch of it prides itself in not NOM
mating it's own members for Office
The Populists, for instance, nominated
Democrat for president and a free
silver Republican" for vice president,
IND then, when the Democrats refused
to accept their vice presidential NOM
inee they gracefully accepted the
Democratic nominee, who happens to
have been the political partnar and as
ers, most hated by Populists-thev &C.
mate of Grover Cleveland.
just 80 III the state sCOuNeiliOIl, the
Democrats nominated for governor the
man who coined most of the express
sions OF contempt which are current
in their application to Democrats, and
then fitted him out, at his own re-
quest, with a set of running mates
who are. almost without exception,
POpulists or renegade Republicans
but recently identified with Democracy.
The nomination of H. c. Koerner for
treasurer was made in the same vein of
Political Pettffogsing
that prompted the nomination OF
Judge" Kelly for attorney general
two years ago. 1t was expected that
Judge" ]. F. Kelly would be con-
founded with Judge w. F. Kelly and
that many would vote for the DEM
ocratic candidate for attorney general
under the Misrepresentation that they
were voting for the honored and re-
spected Judge of the district court OF
Ramsey county. In the present case
Koerner was nominated in the ex-
pectation that he will be mistaken for
the present incumbent of the same
office, Hon. August T. Koerner, who
has voluntarily retired. State Treas
over the duplication of names as
though he were a candidate himself.
and will make it his business in the
course of the campaign to let his
friends know that the r oerner who is
running for treasurer on the Demo
cratic ticket is another kind of
Koerner H. c. Koerner, the Demo-
cratic nominee. is at present deputy
in the office of f. M Pope, the public
examiner and is in no way related to
the present state treas urer. w. N.
Saunders, the nominee for attorney
general, was
Selected by Gov. Lind at n Late HOrr,
1T is said, upon the refusal of T. D.
O'Brien to take the nomination. Mr..
Saunders is said to be practicing at
torney, or at least to have been adj
mitted to the bar, which is more than
can be said of some former Democratic
nominees for the same position
The nomination of Ringdal Knox
and Owen for railroad commissioners
was determined upon by the governor
long prior to the convention. and the
fight put up by certain friends of
Neary to get him on the ticket for
was as unavailing as was
every other struggle to break .
The Guberpatorial Slate.
Just why the governor, or his friends,
regard Ringdal as formidable cam
didate is difficult to understand. In
1898 Ringdal was the Populist nominee
for congress in the Seventh district.
That district was, at that time, at
least. regarded as the great Populist
and although Gov. Lind
carried it by over 1000,
RingdaI Was Defeated by 1880.
If he could not carry his own district,
which was SO strongly for Lind, it does
not seem probable that he can carry
the rest of the state, which is naturally
and normally Republican. The rail
road commission ticket is. of course,
Populist, Mr.. Owen being
the high priest of that party, and Mr..
Knox that doubtful quantity which is
reducIple into a Poaulist 1 a
Silver Republican. Mr.. Meighen, fthe
for lieutenant governor, is also
a Populist of the most recent fashion,
that is, one Who talks for Populist
principles but is always ready to-
Surrender and Sacrifice
then for votes.
Although there were nearly 10000
people in attendance at the state fair
on the evening Of the ovation to Gov.
Lind, less than e-eighth of that num-
Der took the trouble to attend the
grand rally" at the Auditorium when
the governor made his speech of ac-
ceptance, and by far the greater part
of those present were people from the
two cities, who were not speciality in
terested in the fair. The real farmers
were at the fair grounds, while those
who farm the farmers were at the con-
vention, parcelling out the patronage
they hope to gain by the election Of
Lind.
The farmers of the state do not yet
understand how it is that for years,
under Republican administration, the
prison Irvine plant has been able to
furnish them binding Irvine at from
3 to z cents a pound less than that sup
piled by private dealers and the cord
age trust, and that the very first year
in which reform administration
takes hold of the plant and undertakes
to operate it the difference runs the
other way. Tt is the custom of the
average farmer to look at results
rather than to study out theories.
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