The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
HOW j. ADAM BEDE NOMIN.
ATED HARRY HAWKINS,

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ATED HARRY HAWKINS.
The Minnesota state democratic
convention was held in st. Paul,
August 3, 1892. It was late in
assembling that afternoon. There
had been some warm pre-conven-
ton contests. There were many
disputes, much wire-pulling and
numerous delays among the dele
gates.
Daniel w. Lawler was placed
in nomination for governor by
Judge Flandrau. The nomination
was seconded by Cy Wellington.
D. B. johnson of Hennepin coun-
ty also seconded the nomination.
Mayor Winston then moved that
Mr.. Lawler be nominated by ac-
clamation, which was done.
A platform was adopted and a
state central committee selected,
both of them tasks marked by
discussion, if not friction, after
which adjournment was taken
until the evening session.
When the convention came to
order, a small, beardless, boyish-
looking chap secured the floor
and presented the name of Harry
Hawkins Of Carlton, Carlton
county, as candidate for lieuten-
ant governor.
The delegates were SO tired,
nervous, fussy and, peeved that
the funny little fellow with his
droll and pertinent expressions
came like a cup of cool '7ater
to a man athirst in a desert. r:ecp
interest and then unbounded ell
thusiasm were the results.
The speaker was j. Adam
Bede, then hailing from the port
of Duluth and an aggressiv ;
dmocrat That was after he had
deserted the republican party of
Blaine and Garfield, for that Of
Grover Cleveland, and before he
had returned to the republican
party of Mckinley and Mark
Hanna.
Bede secured the nomination
of Harry Hawkins. That gentle
man, sometime before, had taken
valuable gold watch as a fee
from some criminal he had de-
Tended and he was so pleased
with Bede's speech that he pre-
sented him with that time-plece'
Bede's nominating speech was as
follows:
Gentlemen of the Convention: On
behalf of Northern Minnesota, to
which the republican party IN 1ts
political greed has left nothing put
a few icebergs and the aurora pore
ais. but where democrats are multi
plying like Jacobs cattle, 1 rise to
nominate for lieutenant governor OF
Minnesota that happy hustler OF the
wildwood, Harry H. Hawkins, OF
Carlton county-a suburb OF Duluth
We are young democrats up there
and, perhaps, are not so tamlllar
with history as you may be, but we
have read somewhere that, IN the
beginning, God created the heavens
and earth, and that soon the flood
came to wash the wicked folks away.
Then a covenant was made and
sealed with the radiant arch OF
heaven that the flood should come
no more. And so the democratic
party was created to keep the ma
tions pure and defend the down
trodden and oppressed. 1t was here
when this government was founded
and has been here ever since, living
side by side with Uncle Sam as his
loved and honored friend. We have
read these things and are satisfied
with the democratic party.
We are young democrats up there,
but we have read that about the tlrst
act of Jefferson's administration was
the purchase of Louisiana territory
containing over 100000 square
miles-double the area of the thir-
teen original states of the Union
and without which this great con-
solidated republic would have been
impossible.
It was that first Of democrats who
sent an exploring party to plant the
stars and stripes on the Rocky
Mountains and to claim the Pacific
Northwest by right of discovery and
possession. We have read these
things, 1 say, and we are satisfied
with Thomas Jefferson-and we are
satisfied with the democratic party.
It was the democratic party under
James Monroe that, in 1873, pur-
chased Florida from Spain, extend
ing our national boundary to the
Gulf; and thus the dominion OF
Uncle Sam, which had been at first
but a fringe along the Atlantic coast
was made continental in extent,
reaching from ocean to ocean and
from the frozen North to the sun
kissed Dixie. I say again, we have
read these things and are satisfied
with the democratic party.
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