The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1855-09-01
The WinOna Argus.

The W7nOna argus has set itself up as
the bully of the Minnesota press, and judg-
ing from the fertility of the editors brain,
in the utterance Of fish-market slang, it is
likely to have no competitor in the object
of its ambition The last number con-
tains a hotch-potch Of demagoguism, false
hood and blackguardism, worthy of the
"nephew of his uncle" who serves his mas
ter, Mr. RICE, at the rate of eight dollars
per day, without reservation of conscience
or that regard for morality which even the
most depraved sometimes exhibit.
The Argus attempts defence of the
time of appointing the Committee on Gre
dentials at the Rice Convention, but takes
good care not to mention the manner and
the unfairness with which the Committee
was constituted 1t forgets to mention
that the temporary President Of the Con-
vention, Mr.. HANSON, did not place sin
gle friend of Mr.. OLMsrED on that Com
mittee, a proceeding which courtesy and
fairness, as well as decency, should have
induced him to do. Even if the absurd
statement in regard to the number of dele
gates which the Argus claims to have been
present and in favor of Mr.. RICE, were
true, there is less excuse for the unusual and
unmanly conduct of the Convention, and its
president, in committing SO fragrant an
outrage upon the rights of minority, con-
stituted of the truest men of the party. But
the Argus knows, or should know, as does
every individual who was present at the
Convention, that when the Committee on
Credentials was appointed it was not at all
certain that Mr. RICE would have major
ity of delegates properly appointed, and
hence the necessity of forming the commit
tee exclusively of Mr.. RIcEs adherents, who
ruled out large number of delegates,
friends Of Mr. OLMsTED, who were justly en-
titled to seats, and admitted others, parti-
zans of Mr.. RICE, who had no shadow of
right to appear as delegates. But this
matter is we'll understood here by all who
were present at the Convention, and OBJ.
served the inscriptions conduct Of Mr..
RIcE's majority, composed of Wings Know
Nothings, and bogus Democrats, and the
absurd assertion that Mr. RICE had III
delegates out Of the 146 said to be present
for the roll was never called, and no one
knows how many there were-excites moth
ing but smile of contempt at the grossness
of the attempted deception. 4 ra,.
The editor of the Argus is profuse in his
charges of abolitionism against Mr.. OIM-
sTED; but these assertions have no effect,
coming, as they do from a man who sup
ports as his candidate, Mr. HENRY M. RICE,
whose convention not only said nothing
whatever about the slavery, or any other,
question, but actually refused to consider
or pass resolutions endorsing the national
administration and re-affirmng the great
principles Of the party as announced at
Baltimore. When our contemporary takes
the beam out of his candidates eye then
he will be entitled to the privilege of TAX
ing the mote out of his neighbors. Until
he does SO, his hypocritical cry of fwolf
wolf will receive no attention whatever.
Among other grave charges the astute
editor of the Argus makes against Mr.
OLMsrED, is one, chat he made his advent
in the neighborhood of Fort Atkinson, as
a vendor Of pumpkins to the Winnebagoes."
We will not attempt to defend Mr. OIMsrED
from this serious charge; but we can assure
the editor of the Argus that Mr. OLMsrED
is still "some pumpkins" and that the
pumpkin pedler" is destined to give the ex-
delegate worse defeat this fall than Mr.
RIcE's Know sthing friends received at
the election, in this city, last fall, for mem
bers of the House of Representatives.
WHY DID You MARY p" Masy. wbv did
you kiss your hand to a young gentleman op-
posite, this morning said careful parent to
his blooming daughter.
"Why the fellow had the impudence to
throw a kiss clear across the street to me- and,
of course, threw it back Indignantly. You
wouldn't have had me encourage him by keep
ing it, would your" ...'
Suspicious paternal relative is convinced
that ne drew an erroneous inference.