The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23
THE MINI ESQ IA N
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 20, 1854.


WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. ~, 1894.
Progress of the Revolution.
1t will be seen by the news from Maine, re-
ceived by yesterdays mail, that the anti-Ad-
ministration victory in that State is even far
greater than we had been led to hope from pre-
vious accounts.
This will strengthen the free movement of
the people, now going on in the West, and lead
to far greater triumphs over the office-holders'
party in October and November than the most
sanguine among the opposition had been led
to hope The Observation-Disclosures forces in
Illinois are driven to the wall in every quarter,
and there is now scarcely a possibility that
Douglas will be able to hold even his own
State at the coming election. A Democratic
Congressional Convention to nominate candi-
date in the First District of that State assem-
bled few days since at Rockford. The dele
gates had far more interesting labor previous
to their bringing forth candidate, or rather
twin candidates, than was experienced at the
Mineral Point Convention. which resulted in Sc
Iecting the Land Office Receiver at Hudson as
the successor in prospective (and a very
gloomy prospective it isD of Ben. Eastman.
At Rockford they fought like cats and dogs, .
and finally split and separated. Each wing
then proceeded to dominate candidate-Wm
N. jackson, ESQ., of GcHenry County, receiving
the nomination of the Nebraska Douglas tout
and-outers," while E. Ferry, ESQ, of Lake,
was made the candidate of the anti-Nebraska
portion Of the delegates. or course, the pros
pect of either getting to Congress is far in the
back ground.
Meantime the people ore moving along in the
even tenor of their wsy-exercising the majes-
ty of their power quietly, peacefully and har-
moniously. As illustrative of this fact, we CO.
py the following account of the peoples con-
vention. held on Wednesday last at Mineral
Point, to nominate candidate for Congress in
opposition to DR.. Hoyt. We find these pro-
ceedinss in the Galena Advertiser:
TIE Republican Congressional Convention,
which met at Mineral Point, Wis., on Wedncs-
day last, nominated Cadwalladcr e. Wash
burne, Esq, of Iowa county, a candidate for
Congress in the Second District of that State,
by a unanimous voice. A friend in Grant Co.,
one of he delegates to the Convention, wrote
from Hazel Green yesterday
81 am just on my way home from Mineral
Point, where we had very fine Convention
Harmony ''stuck out" very prominently, and
the result of the informal ballot was For
Washburne 81 Cole IA, Eastman 3, Scattering
3. Whole number of votes 47-majority for
Washburne. I. A motion was then made to
nominate him unanimously, which was done
with hearty good will. When the Conven-
adjourned, it was done with three cheers for
Washburne," in good Western style. Last,
though not least, every delegate was So
ber."
Mr.. Washburne is of the well known firm of
washburne d Woodman, of Mineral Point and
Is an old settler in Wisconsin though not an
old man, and is well acquainted with all the
interests OF the State. He is thorough, intel
ligent and energetic business man. of strong
and well-balanced mind and determined will
sound debater, we'll versed in the political
affairs of the country, he will make Represen-
tative of which the Second District and the
State may well be proud.
Mr.. Washburne will scarcely fail to Law Mr.
Frank Pierces land officer of the "Willow
River District to the wind in November, to
the tune Of eight hundred or q thousand ma
jority.
Let the meddlesome Federal Office holders
of Minnesota, and their organs in st. Paul, take
warning by what is going on around them If
Douglas cannot stand the storm in Illinois,
how can the two great Nebraska lights, now
holding chief Offices in Minnesota, expect to
breast the waves, even with the local aid of
their immaculate newspaper organs: Let the
people of Minnesota echo back the thunder
that is now reverbcrating from every hill and
valley of the broad Union. Let no 'sidc is
sues of our weak, vascillating Executive.
and his ''good fellows who are willing to serve
his ends at Washington or elsewhere divert
us from the real point we wish to arrive at
The contest of the people of Minnesota this
year, is against the Territorial Erecutire and
his tools, let them call themselves Democrats or
Wings, or let them be found wherever they
may. They have proved blighting curse to
the prosperity of Minnesota, just as their mas
ter, the President, and his tools have to the
hopes of their former friends throughout the
Union. Wherever the German bugle sounds.
there let us be found-but found in strong ar
ray on the opposite side.