The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-06-24

anu Prosperity VI tie COIIlElOH pc0plc
than any other political party in the
history OF the world. While at times
we are impatient at the delay in the
most desirable and necessary; while at
times, even recent, there may have
been disappointments in the expecta-
tions of the members of that party
with respect to the accomplishment of
certain policies in their fullest meas
ure,, yet it must be remembered that no
man ever realized fully his own ideals;
plished. Great ideas permeate the
minds of the people of great nation
slowly and these great reforms will all
Party Redeems Pledges.
The Republican party has always re-
deemed its pledges in the past and can
i be depended I fS upon to maintain that pol .he
country are ready, willing and eager
to follow in the pathway of progress
and ,d advancement When they have a
leader in whose judgment they have
coincidence and faith and who points
out this pathway. nothing. can stop
their march toward the desired goal.
Among the great practical issues
which confront the Republican party
within the state of Minnesota today
ana with which the officials nominated
by this convention will have primarily
to deal is the development and conser-
walton of the natural resources of the
state. Conservation is by no means a
new and novel proposition, as popularity
supposed. 1t is an effort to return to
those original principles with respect
to the disposition of the public domain
which contemplated the use, occupancy
and requirement of that domain by the
individual citizen as opposed to Its eX-
ploitation by vast aggregations of cor
porate wealth
.'The original homestead law was a
Republican measure. 1t was intended,
as it's name implies, for the purpose OF
enabling the pioneers and immigrants
to occupy with homes the public do
main. 1t was not designed that this
domain should be, either directly or by
subterfuge,, gather together in vast
of the few. The law was designed to
preserve it for the use of the many;
but laxity in enforcing and conform
has allowed the law to be so perverted
that the public domain has been ac-
cumulated and controlled by a handful
ment of the public at large.
Conservation means, in part, the
adjustment of these evils and the re-
turn to the first and original principles,
and a further extension of these pr1n-
siples to other natural resources, such
as our mineral deposits. our forests, our
water power, sites and waterways and
the. reclamation of land by the appli-
cation Of modern drainage systems.
The party should be committed to
just and fair reapportionment of the
legislative representation.
Good Roads Important.
The party should be committed to
the adoption of measures designed to
promote the easy intercourse of the
citizens of this state and to facilitate
agricultural development by means of
an adequate system of good and per-
highways.
Every year thousands of people pass
our state, migrating into north
western Canada and the western
United States, ignorant of the great
possibilities and superior advantages
offered by the unoccupied broad acres
of Minnesota. We have not properly
encouraged and sustained our immigra-
ton bureau in their efforts to make
known to the public our great natural
been tagging behind our Western and
Northwestern states and the Canadian
provinces.
Other states have established and
are establishing agencies and dissem-
mating literature in advertising their
e9n6entions wh1ie TIVE we conscious OF no our
vast resources and great natural adj
vantages. have been idling away our
opportunities for receiving our fair
of new settlers. We have
remained inactive too long and watched
the tide of immigration flow past our
own desirable lands into other states
and territories which have far less ad-
This is the day of advertisement.
Practically nothing can be sold unless
it is advertised and our state should
adopt this method of making known
to the world at large our proper pro-
portion of the immigration and be able
to develop, the, country as it deserves
Minnesota has been a pioneer in adj
vanced legislation. 1t is the pioneer
among the states as a conservationist.
conservation measure that. was ever
passed by any state. 1t is now esti
mated that this enactment will return
higher education for the masses by
bringing within the reach of the poor
est in the state these higher educa-
Pioneer in Rail Regulation.
Minnesota has been the pioneer In
legislation regulating commerce and
railroad rates, and its examples in this
kind of legislation has been followed
by a great many of the other states,
and even by the national congress
of our railroad statutes.
Minnesota has also taken advanced
ground in the matter of solving the
BY the adoption of constitutional
a few years since a tx
has been created and ma
set in motion which will i'm
listing inequalities and work out a SAT-
isfactory solution of all the questions
''The state of Minnesota is also up
to-date in the matter of labor legisla-
ton, as shown by the laws on the stat
ute books and by the practical results
child labor. providing for compulsory
school attendance and a more recent en-
actment of a law creating liability
commission, all go to place the state in
the front rank of practical and humani
tartan legislation.
Gentlemen. we have assembled here
today, then, for the purpose of n ominat-
ing set of men consecrated to these
great labors, to the performance of
these great duties, to the continuation
and perpetuation of these great policies.
This convention will name such a
ticket And I have no doubt that at it's
head will appear the name of that
and capable young leader, who
has won the confidence of the people of
this state by his successful administra-
lion of our public AFFAIRS and business
D. Eberhart."
When Chairman Keller concluded,
D. A. Allen of Hector, nominated NJ
J. Bowling of Renville as temporary
secretary and A. H. Vernen of Little
Falls, Harry West of Sank Rapids,
ard Farley Dare of Walker, as assist
ant secretaries. After the appoint
ment of a committee of credentials
had been dispensed with, because
there were no contests and Chairman
Brown had been seated as a delegate
in the convention, Frank M. Eddy of
Stearns, moved that a committee on
resolutions be appointed by the chair.
The motion carried
The Resolutions.
Frank M. Eddy of Sank Center,
Stearns county, former congressman
and newspaper man, presented the res
o1x,4s 80 h.