The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-10-23

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he makes no pretensions to elo.
quence, yet he made speech of
fully an hour and a half last
night which held his hearers in
close attention: from beginning to
end. At times there were bursts
of true eloquence, but it was not
these which moved the crowd;
but rather the plain, unvarnished,
straight-forw style Of the
man.
The people had not come to
hear an oratorical effort from the
repu ublican candidate. They had
come to hear q plain, sincere
message from man who does,
as Senator Clapp put it, as con-
trasted with a man who talks
(referring to Johnson).
Henry Funkley, the republican
candidate for county attorney Of
Beltrami county, 'did the
honors'' of the evening. He in
troduced each speaker in turn,
and prefaced the introductions
with a few brief and pointed re-
marks.
The first speaker was A. G..
Bernard of Cass Lake, who dwelt
on Mr.. Coles relations with the
drainage question years ago
when they we're fellow citizens of
Walker, and before fame had
singled out one Of them for ad
vancement. T.
| Following Bernard, the candi
date for governor stepped to the
front Again there were wild
applause and cheers and it was
some time before. Mr. Cole could
begin.
| Gas longeas I live this occasion
will be remembered said Mr..
lCole in opening his address, and
then in tones of appreciation he
referred to the good feeling
which Beltrami county had al.
ways shown him, and especially
the aid the county had rendered
him at the state convention in
securing the nomination. - ,.-
The speaker then launched
himself into the gist of his ad-
dress. He said he understood
that when "a certain gentleman" "
was here a short time ago, he
|(Cole) had been charged with
petit larceny, with the theft OF
an idea. With some show of
feeling the speaker denied his
! guilt, and showed that while his
opponent was fighting drainage
in the legislature, he (Cole) had
been working for State develop.
ment with all his strength
| Mr.. Cole took up at some
length the question of drainage
and told how under the old way
of appropriating money, part o1
the appropriation had been spent
for draining private lands
simply because the Legislature
was not in a position to tell which
lands were private and which
were public. 3
| The first thing he did, declared
| the speaker, when he planned
his comprehensive system o.
drainage," was to provide for 8
Typographical survey, which
would enlighten the legislature
on this essential point, and guarc
against any such misuses O.
public funds in the future.
! This drainage bill of his, saic
M. Cole, was such q business
like bill that when the congress
of the United States wanted tt
provide for the drainage of The
Red Lake Indian reservation
swamp lands, it adopted all tht
essential features of it in full.
The republican candidate the1
took up the question Of immigra
tion, the twin sister Of drainag,
in state developm emit, and showed
how Minnesota needs new immi
grants, and how she can secur,
them If she adveItises properly
This advertising was a them,
on which Mr.. Cole grew eloquent
He showed how the state ha.
been losing settlers for man,
! years simply because the rail
roads have sold practi tieally all D