Morris Tribune

Our Candidate for Congress.
St. Cloud Journal-Press: Hon. Henry Feig of Kandiyohi county is the Republican candidate for congress in the Seventh district. He is a young man of ability, energetic and popular. While the district went Alliance two years ago, it is believed that the Republicans have a good chance to win. The nomination of Mr. Feig indicates that they are going to make a lively fight.
Benson Times: The Republicans of the Seventh district have nominated Henry Feig of Kandiyohi county for congress. It is an excellent nomination. He is a farmer, young, bright aggressive and popular. He was a member of the last legislature and one of the most influential members in it He is a German by birth, and strong with the Alliance, and known to be a man of good judgment. His record is good, his skirts are clean, and being a tiller of the soil himself. he knows their wants, and if elected, as it is believed he will be, will make a member of congress against whom no farmer can complain.
Herman Enterprise: Henry Feig of Kandiyohi county was nominated at the Republican congressional convention held at Moorhead. His nomination gives general satisfaction and he stands a good show of being elected. Hurrah for Feig!
The Grant County Herald says that the nomination of. Mr. Feig "is a wise and strong nomination for the Republicans."
Willmar Republican Gazette: On the 1Oth ballot, when Mr. Feig was declared nominated, his nomination was made unanimous, and amid great enthusiasm he delivered an eloguent speech. The convention made an excellent choice, and.the fact that Mr. Feig is a farmer will make him a very strong candidate. He will conduct a vigorous campaign and will undoubtedly represent this district in the next congress.
Hon. E. E. Corliss of Fergus Falls, speaking of politics in the Seventh district, today said: "I think Feig has a good show for getting a majority of the congressional vote in our county. Boen has a good many of the bitterest enemies a man ever had among the Alliance men of the county He has more arrogance than Sockless Simpson, andlacks a good deal of having his ability. He appears to have an idea that he owns the United States now, and if he is elected there will be no bounds to his overbearing disposition. Several strong People's party men have told me that they might as well move out of the district if Boen was elected. Halvorson is a modest man and does no particular harm, but Boen would be a detriment On this account Feig will get a much larger vote than a Republican could otherwise hope for
Fergus Falls Journal: The Moorhead convention furnished a surprise for the state in the nomination of Hon Henry Feig, a Kandiyohi county farmer for congress, but it was the first step for the restoring the Seventh district to the Republican ranks. The convention, according to all reports, was eminently fair one and from the beginning to end was harmonious. The Seventh is an agricultural district and it is but just that a farmer should be selected to represent it. Mr. Feig is a farmer and what is more, he tills the soil with his own hands, earning his living thereby. He is a young German, Minnesota born, however. He is 30 years of age. He is a good speaker in English and talks and writes German just as well. During the past few years he has written a good deal for the German papers upholding the Republican doctrines. When the Alliance movement started he joined it with the other farmers of Kandiyohi county. He discussed with them grievances from which they thought the farmers suffered. He acted with the Alliance as long as it was a non-political organization. When it went into the horsetrading business he said to them; "I believe in the Republican party and principles, and if you attempt to run the Alliance into a political party I am done." They did so and he declined to go with them. In 1886 and 1888 he declined to go with them. In 1890 he held a minor position in the legislature. In 1890 Kandiyohi county elected him representative and he made a fine record fighting thecombination between the Republicans and Alliance men. He is "on to their racket," and he will chase them up and down the Seventh district with their records until the People's party hunt their holes. He will make an aggressive campaign from now on, and Mr. Boen may as well recognize the fact that he has got an opponent who will allow him no time to sleep. Henry Feig is the name of the Seventh district's next congressman.
The Alliance Standard, published at Henning, Otter Tail county, has a long article, highly complimentary to Mr. Feig. from which we make several extracts. The Standard says: "Mr. Feig has been a member of the Farmers Alliance for several years and has generally been a delegate to the annual state meetings, butopposed the third party movement, contending just as Gen. Barrett and others have that it was just as practicable to control the old parties as it was a new one. He is a very forcible speaker and in his speech of acceptance to the convention surprised most of the delegates by the able and advanced positions that he took on public questions. His nomination came as a concession of the Republicau party that this is a farming district and that the member of congress should be a man with those interests at his heart. Mr. Feig was born in Hennepin county, Minn., and is the first nomination of a native born citizen the writer has known for congress from this state His farm is small one on which he does nearly all his work himself; and his prominence and popularity at home has come about because he has been a firm and positive advocate of thefarmers interests. From these facts he is not only the strongest candidate the Republican party could have nominated, but he will make the best representative for the people if he should be elected.
One of the strongest points in his speech accepting the nomination was a declaration in favor of deep water navigation to Duluth. that ocean steamships might load wheat direct from state warehouses and thus open our wheat markets to the world, and he declared he would do his very best to secure government appropriations in aid of deep water navigation; in fact the writer had known that Mr. Feig has been an adyocate of this movement for several years past. The facts are, Mr. Feig is much stronger in this district than is his party and it need cause no surprise if he should be elected in view of the disrupting course followed by the adherents of Donnelly and Fish and their attempt to force ring methods and bossism into control of the reform movement in this state and district."
Princeton Union: Hon. Henry Feig of Kandiyohi county has been nominated for congress in the Seventh district by the Republicans. Mr. Feig is a farmer by occupation, and a man of more than ordinary ability. The Republicans of the Seventh district choose wisely, for Mr. Feig is, all things considered, the strongest man in the party in that district, and if elected will make a first class representative.
Grant County Herald: "The office should seek the man and not the man the office" is admitted to be an axiom of clean politics. Andrew Peterson of Traverse, one of the Republican nominees for the legislature, was nominated. Such a man can have no axe of his own to grind and his only ambition will be to serve his constituents. In these days of selfseeking in politics, it is a pleasure for the Herald to support such a candidate. The people of the country will have an opportunity to be become acquainted with Messrs. Thorpe and Peterson before election day. They will be found to bear acquaintance most favorably. Some of their more tricky opponents will not be "in it" in Grant County on election day.
The following named gentlemen have been appointed as a congressional committee for the Seventh district: Otter Tail county, Bronson Strain. Batle Lake; Kittson, H. W. Donaldson, Northcote; Marshall, John P. Lundin, Setphen; Polk, E. M. Walsh, Crookston;Norman, O.H. Myron, Ada; Clay, A. T. Austinson, Ulen; Becker, S. S. McKinley, Osage: Wilkin. James Strachan, Barnesville; Grant, Ole Cannestorp, Elbow Lake; Douglas, G.J. Gunderson, Alexandria;Traverse E. F. Joubert, Wheaton; Stevens, R. G. Stevens, Morris; Big Stone, P. E. O'Connor, Graceville; Pope, F. M. Eddy. Glenwood; Swift, S. H Hudson, Benson; Kandiyohi, S. M Sivertson, Atwater.