The Daily Minnesota Pioneer

A few Candid Words for our Readers before they go to the Polls.

There is no doubt about this fact, that Henry M. Rice or William R. Marshall is to be elected Delegate to Congress to-day. No reasonable, intelligent man supposes that David Olmsted will receive even a respectable vote. Every man who votes for him virtually disfranchises himself. You might just as well throw your ballot into the fire, as to deposit it for Olmsted; you would be exercising the rights of a citizen just as sensibly in the one case as the other so far as any practical result is concerned. Few men like to be non-entities; and no man has a right to make a cypher of himself in a contest like that which is to be decided to-day. There are only two sides to this contest. Fanaticism on the one side and Democracy on the other. To make your vote count in determining which doctrine shall rule our Territory, you must support either Mr. Marshall or Mr. Rice. It would be the height of folly for any abolitionist to vote for Olmsted, although he has given the best evidence in the world that he is an abolitionist at heart, because there is no possibility that he can be elected, and your vote would be thrown away. It would be positive madness for any Democrat to vote for Olmsted, because he has repudiated by a hundred acts the Democratic platform on which he was nominated, and has thus shown himself unworthy any man's confidence. You can only give effect to the Democratic sentiment that is within you, by casting your vote for Henry M. Rice. Let every man prove himself one thing or the other to-day - Democrat or Abolitionist. On no account permit your personal prejudices to make of you an Olmsted man, or what is equivalent, a Nothingarian.

Our Adopted Citizens

Who have become disgusted with the blarney of Governor Gorham, and the anti-Democratic action of the friends of OLMSTED, have been rapidly changing within the last week. This vote, which Olmsted calculated on as his principal strength, will go against him almost unanimously. Our adopted citizens think more of the integrity of the Democratic party than they do of the private quarrels of politicians, and they have therefore dropped Olmsted, and will cast their votes for the regular Democratic candidate.