Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-10-31
SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 1854.
SHUFFLING.

matter without perverting truth. To spend time
with such an opponent is useless. We will brief
lv notice, however, the material points in its last
| issue.
|. We stated that the falsely styled Peoples
Ticket g was nominated by unfair MEANS" The
Minnesotian wishes to know how? We answer,
| by introducing ticket into the Convention upon
which were printed twelve or fifteen names; by
going to the individual whose name was on that
ticket, and telling him that you would support
him if he would vote for your candidates; by
crossing his name off of that ticket, and voting
only for your own men, after he had fulfilled his
part of the bargain. This was done in the case
of Mr.. Vance, and others, and this was the cause
dependent candidate, and his subsequent support
of the Democratic ticket. We do not say that
the editor of the Minnesotan did this, (probably
he did, but it tcas done, and done extensively by
those with whom he was connected. The object
was, to wiring in certain men under false cOlors,
and that object was accomplished, and the Mime
sotian knows ho,o it was accomplished. Was
this fair, or manly or honorable? If so, we fail
to see it.
2. The editor denies that he was ever asked to
harmonic, and creeps out of the dilemma in this
wise:
''We were never waited upon by any one having
any authority whatever from those Wings who
differed with us. and asked to harmonize."
We said nothing about you being &c waited up
on by apy one having any authority" We stated
that you were 'swaitcd upon, and asked to har-
monte, but you declined" every word of which
is true. But you 60 further, and say that the
gentleman who addressed you was joking. Then
Mr.. Chamblin, who addressed you, must have been
joking, and if we are not greatly mistaken, Mr..
Frank E. Collins was also joking, and you must
have been joking when you went about the streets
in an angry mood, telling every one you met the
nature of the proposition you had received. All
joke We dispise such meanncss and dupicity,
but yet we can't help but pity!
3. An article whic! we penned before the cleo
ton, stating that it was " unnecessary to stub
bornly adhere to party when question Of so
much Importance to Minnesota was before the
people, is quoted by the editor. who draws the
deduction that if, in view of what we had previ-
ously said, he had harmonized with us, we should
have been inconsistent! Not by any means. The
editor of the Minnesotian had repeatedly said
that no fraud had been committed. Now, if no
fraud had been committed, we could see no objec-
ton why the Minnesotian should withhold its sup
port from good, honest, upright Wings, who hon
estly differed with it, and believed fraud had
been committed. Such ticket would have been
acceptable to the Times, and if, as the editor re-
marked, there was no fraud, it could not hurt the
Mnnesotan. We preferred Wing ticket Nth
| cbO 1i0fo md
but such a ticket ,cds not what the Minnesotian
wished-it was bound body and soul to the Rice
interests, therefore, it impossible to harmon
ize on a ticket of this character, and we knew it
was useless to bring third ticket into the field,
for it would draw off from the Democratic ranks
and throw the election into the hands of the Rice
clique. This was what the Mnnesotian wished,
but in this in most other things, it failed in its
purpose. Our position, then, with Wing organ
ization, and without one, WOuld not have been
the same. 1t was the Minncsotian which preven-
ted that organization, and compelled large num-
Der of Wings to vote the Democratic ticket, which
was the only Anti Fraud ticket in the field.
The EDITORS twaddle about our connection with
'sthe leading men of the present Administration,
and of the Nebraska offce-holders of Minnesota .
is unworthy notice. Those who have watched the
course Of the Times, know that what the Minnc-
sotian says is false, but it is an old saying that
a lie well stuck to, is as good as the truth.''
| Our Posi- OFFICE.-Whle much fault is found
with the Chicago Post Office, and not without
reason, we are gratifed in being able to say that
the st. Paul Post Office is conducted with an eye
single to the wants of the people. We have heard
of cases where letters have been mislaid, but the
fault lies not with our Post Office, but with those
below. Mr.. j. G. Terry, the head clerk, and the
under clerk, are interchangeable in their efforts to
accommodate and please all, and in view of the
large amount Of mail matter which is distributed
at this Office, we know Of none where fewer mis-
takes occur. Where there arc so many strangers
continually arriving in our city, it is not to be
expected that matters will 60 along with the same
evenness in al old settled place, but even with
this difficulty, citizens generally appear to be
satisfied with our Postmaster and his clerks.
| WOULDN'T ACCEPT.-C. l.. Emerson, of the Dem
ocrat, j. p. Owens, of the Mnncsotian, and Ii.
F. Masterson, Esq. the committee appointed to
wait upon II. NJ. Rice, and invite him to supper,
have received letter of declination from that
gentleman, assigning as his that his stay
will be necessarily short and he has many press
ing engagements.
CoMMERcIAL.--We call attention to our Com
mercial articles. They are in the hands of care
full, correct, business man, who will spare no
pains to make them reliable and interesting. We
shall add other new features to our journal in n
day or two, which will tend to make it still more
acceptable to business men.
G1y- The Alhambra was at Saltwater yesterday
afternoon.
Cy We are under many obligations to Robert
X. Smith, Esq. for late papers.
CO The deaths by Cholera in Toronto, in eight
weeks, was COZ.
CO A. S. Prentiss, Esq, young lawyer of
promise, died Of cholera in Chicago short time
| since.
CO Judge auckland, of Howell, Livingston
county, Mich, is dead.
CO The Chicago Press says that there are at
least one hundred doctors in that city, who realize
annually one hundred thousand dollars.
| CO 1t is now stated in the Galena papers that
the cars of the Illinois Central road will run to
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