The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-09-13

forms" The absurdity of this propo'
| sition Is perfectly apparent when the
| fact is recalled that the senate holds
| over, and that it is more than two.
thirds Republican. The only thing o
Democratic house could do, if it had
| enough majority, would be
To Elect n United States senator,
as that is the only question upon
| which the house and senate act jointly,
and no bill. can be passed without q
majority Of the senate.
| The chief popularity of the ticket
nominated is that it is not Democratic.
| 1t seems to have become the rule IN
the anti Republican party that each
branch of it prides itself in not NOM
mating it's own members for office.
The Populists, for instance, nominated
a Democrat for president and a free
silver Republican" for vice president.
and 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 partner and as
sociate of the man who Is, of all 9TH
ers, most hated by Populists-they ac-
cepted Adlai Stevenson, the running
mate of Grover Cleveland. s.@
Just so in the state convention, 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 II. G. Koerner Tor
treasurer was made in the same vein OF
Political Pettifogeing
that prompted the domination OF
Judge" Kelly for attorney general
two years ago. 1t was expected that
Judge" j. 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 hG..ored and re-
spected judge Eof the district court OF
Ramsey county. In the present case
Koerner was nominated in the ex-
pectStion that he will be mistaken Tor.
the present incumbent of the same
Office, Hon. August T. Koerner, who
has voluntarily retired. State Treas
urer Koerner is as much chagrlnned
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 Koerner who is
running for treasurer on the Demo-
cratic ticket is another kind of a
Koerner. H. c. Koerner, the Demo-
cratic nominee, is at present deputy
in the Office of E. M. Pope, the public
examiner, and is in no way related to
the present state treasurer. w. N.
Saunders, the nominee for attorney
general, was :.
Selected by Gov. Lind Mt n Late Hour,
it is said, upon the refusal of I. u.
.O'Brien to take the nomination. Mr..
Saunders is said to be a 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
sNeary to get him on the ticket for
commissioner was as unayailing as was
every other struggle to break
The Gubernatorial Slate.
Just why the governor, 8or his friends,
regard Ringdal as a formidable cam
didate is difficult to understand. In
1895 Ringdal was the Populist nominee
for congress in the Seventh district.
That district was, at that time, at
least, regarded as the great Populist
stronghold, and although Gov. Lind
carried it by over 1900,
Ringdal Was Defeated by $500.
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,
essentially Populist, Mr.. Owen being
the high priest Of that party, and Mr..
Knox that doubtful quantity which is
always reducible into a Populist =
Silver Republican. Mr.. Meighen, the
nominee for lieutenant governor. is also
a Populist of the most recent fashion.
that u.s. one who talks for Populist
principles but is always ready to
Surrender and Sacrifice
them for votes. .'..3
Although there We're nearly 10000
people in attendance at the state fair
on the evening of the ovation" to Gov.
Lind, less than one 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 specially in
terested in the faiY. 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. Az
The farmers of the state do not yet
| understand how it is that for years.