Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1882 — A FREE BALLOT. [ARTICLE]

A FREE BALLOT.

It Is Found Numerously in Mimu so a—Republican Returns That Would Make the Worst Bulldozer in Hie South ISluHh. [From the Chicago Timos.] As nearly as can be found out, two Republicans were running for Congress in the upland district of Minnesota — Knute Nelson and Charles F. Kindred —differing only in the degree that each called the other a thief. Much bad language was whirled all along the line of the Northern Pacific railroad from Duluth to Moorhead. In such a contest the Democratic candidate, whose name was Barnum, stood no show. It was highly resolved that a Bepublicah should be elected, even though Nelson and Kindred “chawed up” one another in the conflict. The Governor of the State was moved to open up pollingplaces in unexplored regions. The returns from some of these are curious. Crow Wing county, that gave a population of 2,319 in the last census, now sends in a return of 2,379 votes—for Kindred, 2,153; Nelson, 174; Barnum, 52. Itasca county, away at the head waters of the Mississippi river, was counted for 124 in the census, and counts for 643 in the vote, viz.: Kindred, 633; Nelson, 2; Barnum, 8. In these and such as these counties Mr. Kindred evidently got in his work. But it must not be supposed Mr. Nelson was idle. He also had a business end of the district, and an eye to business. Ono of his counties (Norman) not named in the census, came up smiling with a vote of 1,046 for Nelson, who figures an election by 5,000 in the district. Chalmers or Mahone could certainly not have improved on these efforts to secure an exceedingly free ballot.