The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-08-29
CONTRAST BETWEEN THE
= TWO STATE CONVENTIONS
Fruitful Subject Over Which the
Voters Of the State May
s.s.> /: Il. Ponder.

taken the liberty to borrow the Her.
AIDS article In full 1t Is as follows:
's~as 1.-TWO Conventions"
The real activity of the governor
ship campaign will not begin right
away, certainly not until after the
coming primary election is out of the
way. but in the meantime there is a
very fruitful subject for the voters of
the state to think about, and that is
the contrast between the conventions
that nominated the two candidates
for governor.
But while the memory of the two
conventions is still fresh in the minds
Of the people, it is well that the voters
should contrast the pictures formed
IN their minds by the spectacle Of
the nomination Of jacobson in st.
Paul and the nomin nation Of Governor
Johnson in Minneapolis.
Nomination of jacobson. -.
In the convention that nominated
Mr.. jacobson everything was prearr
ranged. The candidates, the plat
from, the organization of the conven-
tion-everything was arranged for
the delegates by party leaders by the
night preceding the convention. !.
Indeed, before the delegates came
upon the scene representatives of ma
chine politics and of the corporate
interests had everything fixed so that
the delegates had nothing to do but
vote "aye''- occasionally. r. =.
The candidate, who used to talk
freely land loudly upon the relations
wit
corporations, hadn't a word to say
about them at the convention, and
hasn't had a word to say about them
since. s5 ..
Steam Roller Meti1ods. = - <-1ses,s -
The convention was over and the
platform and ticket adopted before
the delegates realized what was going
on; and since the adjournment some
Republican papers, including the Du-
luth News Tribune, have, repudiated
the steam -rolelr methods that pro-
duced a bad platform, many others
have repudiated the interference Of
corporations that produced the nomin-
alton Of one Of the candidates for
railroad and warehouse commissioner,
and others have been looking ask
ar ce at the manner in which the can
didate for governor received his NOM
nation with the help of machine
politicians and the corporate interest
and at the price of silence upon mat
ters in which both were interested:
1t was purely machine affair, and
one of it's, objects was to lacerate the
political corpse of an attorney gen
eral who had dared to- enforce the
law against the selfish interests which
procured his defeat for the governor.
ship and the nomination of Jacobson.
Nomination Of johnson. =.
In the convention that renominated
Governor Johnson the leaders were
swept, off their feet and carried along
In storm. Of enthusiasm for the gov
ernor who has brought fame to his
state and to himself: &-
He did not want the nomination,
and the leaders had taken him at his
word: much to their regret, and did
their best to nominate another He
had done his share, and he thought
1t was time for somebody else to take
up the work. 4 + ~ - ,
:.,-~ The Peoples Choice. o.. T.
:" His own reluctance and the plans
OF the leaders were as nothing in the
path Of the convention, which, with
out Encouragement, without i. order
and without anything but a very posi-.
tive knowledge of what it wanted,
burst all bounds and nominated Gov
ernor;% Johnson for a third term by
acclamation.1 g. .es-ss IT. & - 81
4 This is the difference between
macl1ine-made candidatef and a Fcandi.
date named by the irresistible will of
the people who are proud of him and
anxious to have him save the. state
from the prospect of.a jacobson for
governor. i. . .ss<;ssses.ss /. 43ss.