The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-15
n. DAKOTA WILL Be LOST
BUNGL1NG OF THE MACHINE HAS
ABOUT DESTROYED ALL RE-
PUBLICAN CHANCES
DEMOCRATS GAINING SLOWLY
Prominent Republicans, Disgusted
With Their Own Party, Are
Helping Democrats In
Every Way.

in state and national elections They
agree that the state elections are the
more certain, but that the prospects are
in favor of the national ticket being
elected Democratic. There are several
causes which conspire to render this ar
gument decidedly plausible and set at
naught the extravagant boasts which
members of the Republican party may
make concerning their Overwhelming
majorities'' and the conditions which
make them certain this year.
There is, perhaps, not a state in the
entire West more woefully under the
pernicious influences of machine politics,
according to the statements of reliable
| gentlemen from the state and from the
| facts of recent conventions held there,
than the state Of North Dakota. This
machinery is the property of the Repub-
licans and they are running 1t exclusive
~, but not profftably. To the stupid
and unjust Vaccinations of these po-
Htical tricksters, say those who know
the downfall of the Republican party in
that state this fall, may, after the cleo
ton day, be attributed The present
apathetic state Of affairs which exists
among the Republicans themselves In all
parts Of the state, but particularly In
the Red River valley, is a fair warning,
states L. Stavnheim, of Fargo. and other
prominent North Dakotans, of the i'm
pending danger that awaits the party
with Gov Fancher at the head
The death knell of Republican pros
poets for the present campaign was
sounded at the recent state convention
which threw down, for the second time
a man whom the state as whole would
stanu by under almost any condition
Editor Winship, of the Grand Forks
Herald. 1t Is well known that he as
pired for me nomination of governor and
I,
delegates with him, but when the con-
ventton came round he was left out in
the cold and Fancher was renominated.
Ih1s was taken as a direct slap in the
face by the Winship faction, which, by
the way, included the larger and better
part of the Red River valley people and
majority of those residing In other
! portions of the state. But this was not
all that aroused the bitterest feelings
among the Winship people. The defeat
OF Congressman Spaulding Republican,
! at the convention, under the same kind
OF conditions which marked Winship's
! Waterloo, was another sickening Dill
The same faction that supported W1nship
supported Spaulding Saws Mr.. Stavn-
helm, this very pair Of blunders will
cost the Republicans of North Dakota.
the election this fall. Max Wipperman,
the Democratic nominee for governor
Will be elected over Fancher, and M. A.
Hildreth, the Democrats nominee for
congress, will more than supplant
Spaulding by defeating Tom Marshall.
the man nominated in his stead.
While Mr.. Winship himself is In line
with his party, his friends are not. and
Will throw their utmost strength to the
democrats this fall for the election of
their entire ticket. when you take
tnls ract into consideration, together
with the fact that the Democrats are
thoroughly organized and are pl1rsl1trr.,
their campaign with a diligence and
system which would be hard to excel
and also consider that the Republicans
are necessarily disorganized and faithless
IN their work." said Mr. Stavnheim.
you VIII Oily see that my predictions
are not based upon fiction 1t might be
Wen to state that the statements of Mr..
StaVnheim are confirmed by Chairman
Kleinogle, of the state Democratic CEN
trail committee of North Dakota. They
potn declare that those Republicans who
followed Winship to his defeat and have
now deserted the party are of the hest
lot the state produces, and are skilled
IN campaign work. With their efforts
combined with those of the united and
active Democrats, the outlook Is lie
cidedly a gloomy one for the RenuF1li
cans OF North Dakota this fall. esne-
cially with regard to the state cleo
| lions.
AS an Illustration of the manner In
which the Republican machine conducts
affairs in the state its method of securing
the nomination Of candidates will suf-
nee. This is DONE says Mr. Stavnheipa.
long before the convention The hosses
merely make out their slate and nasq n
around to the delegates for their s;ena-
lures, indicating their approval of the
seiectlons made. The convention Is a
mere sinecure and IS held only for tbe
purpose Of ratifying its own action or
Tor the sake of appearance. II 10 said
that the state convention in North Dako-
Ia TWO years ago, held by the RenubH
cans only lasted twenty minutes. and
the entire ticket was placed in the field
at that-but before the convention met.
Mr.. Stavnheim, with whom the GIobA
nad an interview last night at the Mer-
chants, Is editor of the Fran. a leading
scandinavian paper of Fargo and is a
candidate for the lower house of The
state legislature. His party conferred
upon him the nomination for railroad
commissioner, but he declined IT M,
staVnhe1m states that Tom Marshall. the
man whom the Republicans named es
their sole nominee for congress- In tho
state, in the place Of Congressman
Spaulding, recently signed an affidavit
statlng That ne was not a resident of
the state His bushes interests are e+
Aberdeen, s. D., and presumably he "a
citizen OF that state. NeyertheIees
ne is going to make the race for con-
gress. eoA-
LISBON, N. D.. Sept. 14.-(speciaI ~
turns out. after all said and done that
there was considerable and persistent on
position manifested by the deleeat,ops
from Ransom and Dickey counties et M,
Tuslon convention the other day eft For
man. Sargent county, to the candida tnra
OF Judge w. 8. Lauder for Judge of the
rourth Juolc1al district. Until just before
the convention 1t was claimed that mar
Ties In Lisbon had assured the Judge thar
ne hao plain sailing, and that Ransom
county would send a united deIe1a tion To
the convention In his favor, but when ~
was discovered that the Lauder machine
had slipped a cog, and that the local con-
ventlon here had frowned upon the wor
ny Judge ana elected an adverse delega-
ton against him, and had complsmented
County Court Judge Smith by instructing
the delegates to support him for the dis
trict Judgeshdp by only one dissent fling
vote there was CONSERVATION in the I,au-
der forces, and things looked serious for
a time 1t was then that the cry "to
arms went up from Wahpeton, and the
HoANSA AOASSS NSI0 concentrated at For
man, and the aspirant, who was. at his
home at Wahpeton, sped overland a dis
lance Of nearly seventy miles, travelling
night and day, and was early at the scene
| of conflict, and took charge in person of
the battle, aided by his lieutenant from
Ransom county, who was, however, on
sso,y Eyasantsed, none besbsr at any price s1B I'm
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