At the next state election in the presidential year, 1892, a Norwegian ran for governor on the Republican ticket, and a large part of the Scandinavian deserters wheeled into line and voted the Republican ticket. With a total vote only 15,000 greater than in 1890, the vote for the Republican candidate for governor increased in round number 20,000, for the Democratic candidate, 9,000, and for the Prohibition candidate, 4,000, while the vote of the Alliance or People's party fell off 20,000.[404] [404] The ticket in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, in this year, 1892, is an interesting illustration of "recognition" of the power of the recent deserters. The Scandinavians had: Republican Democrat Populist Presidential elector 1 2 2 Governor or Lieutenant Governor 1 ... 1 Secretary of State 1 1 1 Legislative ticket 2 2 ... County officers 2 1 ... City officers 4 1 ... _Minneapolis Journal_, Nov. 3, 1892. Conditions in North Dakota and South Dakota were even more favorable to the new party than in Minnesota. Estimates based on a study of statistics and newspapers have been confirmed by prominent officials of those States, one of whom declares that "in some localities quite a per-cent has joined the Populist party; but it is very rare indeed to find a Scandinavian Democrat."[405] Another believes that a considerable portion of the Scandinavians voted the Populist ticket in 1892 and in 1894, but that they were normally believers in the protective principle and therefore naturally affiliated with the Republican party.[406] A German lawyer of Valley City, North Dakota, a Democrat, practically agreed with the Norwegian city attorney of Devil's Lake in the same State, the one saying that a large part of the Norse voters were Populists, the other declaring that the Populist party was largely composed of Scandinavians.[407] All agreed that these voters later tended to return to their former Republican alliance. It may be doubted, however, whether the hold of the protection idea is one of the primary reasons for Scandinavian Republicanism. At any rate the vote of the Hon. Knute Nelson for the Mills Bill for tariff revision in 1888--one of six Republican votes for the measure--did not make him politically _persona non grata_ or a suspicious character among his Norwegian or Swedish brethren. [405] Letter of Thomas Thorson, Secretary of State of South Dakota, April 9, 1906. [406] Letter of C. M. Dahl, Secretary of State of North Dakota, March 24, 1896. [407] Letter of E. Winterer, Valley City, March 21, 1896, and of Siver Serumgard, March 24, 1896.