The Sauk Centre herald., 1910-12-01

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to drag locomotive.
These wierd tales, by constant re
petition, impre ssed the people will
the idea that Cannon was the whole
thing in legislation and then some
and after that whole lot more, anG
that the president was an errand boy
who did his bidding and the senators
and representatives mere automatons
who only moved this way and that
when he pulled the strings, and that
he strangled all meritorious bills by a
turn of his wrist and passed all trust
and corporation bills by a wave of his
hand, and they came to regard "Can.
non" and "Cannonism" as the politi.
cal crime of the century, and so they
voted to supplant "Cannonism' with
"Clarkism' on the theory til a
Champ did not possess ability enough
to do much damage.
There were many other causes for
the recent democratic victory. Any
one of these / have given furnish a
sufficient reason. They may not be
good reasons, but there really was no
good reason for the republican over
throw, and it is hard to furnish good
reasons when none exist.
Minnesota furnishes the one bright
oasis in the desert of republican
gloom. 1t not only returned all it's
republican representatives by sub
stantial majorities, selected repub-
lican legislature thus assuming the
election of republican United States
Senator, but it regained the governor
ship which the democrats held for
the last three terms, electing their
candidate by the largest majority any
guDernatorial candidate ever received
except one.
This is the Minnesota way. She
always did keep her political head
when the balance of the country went
politically daffy as was wi messed by
her political action in 1892, when the
balance of the nation deserted the
republican faith and went out after
strange political gods.
The reason the republicans won in
Minnesota this year is, that Mime
sofa is republican state, republican
by inheritance, inclination and by
interest. Governor johnson was not
elected governor three times because
he was a democrat but in spite of
that handicap. He stormed the cita-
del of the peoples affections by his
marvellous personality and he appealed
to their love of the spectacular
with the brilliahcy of his intellect
and his dazzling individuality. He
wooed the state to himself but did
not win it to democracy, and when
the magnet that detected it from it's
course was taken away it naturally
returned to it's republican moorings.
| One reason for the magnitude of
the republican majority was the dar-
ing attempt of democracy'S master of
political sleight-of-hand to head the
democratic ticket with a county
option candidate.
Minnesota is not a county option or
a prohibition state, at least not at
the present time, although in some
localities these views prevail almost
with unanimity.
! The democratic party is not a
county option party. The great bulk
of county option strength in this
state lies in the solid republican COM
munities. Frank Day is a great po-
litical manager, one of the greatest.
if not the greatest that ever managed
a political campaign in this state, but
he has one weakness. He rather win
one vote by political legerdemain than
two by straight legitimate politics,
and his daring film fam game of at
tempting to hold the democratic wet
vote on party-regularity and captur-
ing the republican dry vote with
county-option protestations proved a
sizzling failure. The play was too
open and transparent, and Minnesota s
Napoleon of democracy met up with
his first crushing defeat. He may
Come back from Elba," but republi-
cans take comfort in the fact that
the vessel that brings him cannot
arrive for two years and by that time
,, they hope tohaye Waterloo" ready
for him.
The principal credit, however, for
the large majority received by the
head of the ticket must be accorded
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