Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-10-24

obligations to give that ticket all the aidt could,
because every man on it was pledged against the
fraud, and were temperance men. The ticket
carried into the Convention, where other tick
cts were found with some, if not all the names Of
the same gentlemen on them, and other names of
persons known to entertain different views on the
railroad subject. When it became known that
this last ticket was in the Convention, it was de
nounced as emanating from the Times Office, as
being ssNewson Ticket" although we had no.
thing to do with getting it up-and the gentle
men who were running upon this ticket and upon
the other, were Immediately scratched and every
ticket which could be procured was destroyed
This, too, was done, after the leaders of the
falsely styled Peoples Ticket, had consented to
run certain gentlemen if they would vote for only
two of their favorite candidates. By this means
many votes were secured for their candidates,
while they were all the while swhipping the devil
round the stump' and cutting the throats of those
they had pledged themselves to support. This
was the last game to be played, and it was played
blunderinely, that after having broken the ice,
they fell into the hole, and have gone down
to their political graves.
As soon as honorable men discovered the man
ner in which they had been {" sold,'' they with
drew from the Convention with fixed, unaltera-
BILE determination to work and vote for the Dem
ocratic ticket. They knew that the so-styled
I" Peoples Ticket would be nominated, and al
though three of the gentlemen (Whigs) on that
ticket were excellent men, men whom under other
circumstances they would cheerfully have sup
ported, and whom the Times would have support
ed, still they were not pledged against the fraud
they were brought forward by the leaders of
the Fraud party-they weSe associated with those
who were known to be advocates of the Fraud
they were fraudulently thrust upon them-and in
asmuch as it was mongrel ticket, they felt under
no obligations to give their support and they did
not, and they were justified for not doing so. Mr..
Vance, who was running as an independent can
didate, and who was promised support, was thrown
overheard. DR.. Finch, a most excellent man and
a Democrat, was treated in the same Manner
MIR. Croft, pure, sterling Wing and a temperance
man, was also sacrificed, and when these gentle
men learned hO,o they had been sacrificed, and
the modus operandi of the game, they did as men
ought to have done, come out boldly and fight for
the position they had taken-that of voting for
TO UtUIt VI SeG " W6U tCfCO tCOUtU 7OL TCpuQtQte
the fraud! They DID fight, and victory crowned
their efforts. They stand on safe ground-they
can't be moved-their foundation is solid-they
tread the earth with a consciousness of having
done their duty-they are soldiers upon whom re-
lance can be placed when the battle RACES fercest
and the danger is most imminent. They aid
ed in tearing down the rotten fabric Of the Schuyl-
er Swindle, and they will live to see the day when
those who aided in its construction, will repudiate
their own acts. All honor, then, to those Wings
and Democrats who maintained their consistency
who could not be bought, bribed or frightened
who valued Principle and Right more highly
than party, money, or political preferment, and
who to day stand forth as the guardians of the in
terests of our own lovely, fertile, beautiful Min
nesota.
In all this has the Times been inconsistent p
Would it not have been inconsistent to have taken
any other course? Has it not been true to its
sense of Right ?-to its duty to the public We
ask for no answer-we are willing to leave the
matter to the wheel Of Time, which in its eyou-
tion brings all things right.