The Irish standard., 1904-06-18
HEkNEpIN COUNTY AGAIN.

HEkNEPIN COUNTY AGAIN.
The expected has happened. Henne-
pin county has demonstrated again
that there is no Democratic party here.
by margin of one vote the whole
delegation has been instructed to vote
at Duluth for the discredited candi-
GATE, whose II oney has been literally
Used to corrupt the electors of those
districts, wher the Democratic party is
weak and unorganized. After a cam
paign Of three months, carried on by
men upon his payroll, and without any
organized opposition to combat, the
man who started out to buy the Dem
ocratic nomination has carried the
county by bare vote. 1t is such vic
tories as this which have been herald
ed around the country by the yellow
press and its votaries as sweeping
Hearst victories. We have been in
formed all along by the payroll man.
ayers of the Hearst boom that there
was an overwhelming Hearst senti-
ment i'll this county and state, and
now, with the state convention less
than week away, it appears certain
that, after a long campaign in which
more money has been spent in trying
to get delegates to nominating con-
vention than is ordinarily spent in Il
whole campaign before an election.
the effort has met with failure. The
Democrats of Minneapolis should not
be discouraged for it must be remem-
bered that an especial effort was made
to buy this delegation. The weakened
condition of the party here invited the
attack just as the weakened condition
OF the body will invite disease. Every
radical enthusiast, every mercenlry,
every Populist bent upon disruptiny
the Democratic party which they
hate, were aligned with the Hearst
campaign.
1T must be apparent to any fair
minded person that the Democratic
party in Hennepin county. without the
elements above named. who are not
Democrats and who will not support
the candidate of the PARTY this year
would repudiate the insoltnt attempt
of the first man who has ever con
crlved and put into practice the no
tion that the nomination for president
was Il thing to be bought. We believe
that the aggregation of boomers sent
from here to Duluth will have little to
do in determining the result of that
convention. To be sure, they can vote
and could on occasion do some "strong
arm" work, but they are weak, with
few exceptions, and for that reason
will have no influence with other dele
gates. Delegates from other sections
of the state should understand that
Hennepin county is by no means rep
resented by the delegation which will
go to Duluth. Mr.. Hearst spent his
money here and his friends insisted
upon getting their full moneys worth.
They trampled ruthlessly upon the
rights of one-half of the delegates to
the county convention. Hennepin
county has placed itself in the position
of instructing for a candidate who is
already certainly defeated. They have
placed themselves in the position Of
debating to Democratic communities
and there is not any person at all cog
infant of political affairs who does not
know that if Mr.. Hearst were the cam
didate, this county would give an un-
usually large Republican majority. We
confidently hope and expect the Demo-
Gratis from other sections of the state
to save the state from committing the
error which has been committed here.
If the Minnesota delegation to st.
Louis is to have any influence in the
convention it must be an uninstructed
delegation. There is but one thing for
the Duluth convention to do and that
is to select able representative dele
gates from the other districts of the
state. enforce the unit rule and send
the delegation uninstructed.