The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-13

HON. DAVID OLMSTED.
The so-Called Democratic Convention.
I'VE have asserted that the Territorial Con-
vention was sustained byfraud of a shameless
character deliberately committed by the
Rice faction, and that its action is, and
could not be in anywise binding upon the
Democracy Of the Territory-who repudi-
ate with honest loathing the reckless efforts
Of demagogues, and their hired assistants,
to force upon them the name of Mr. RICE.
1t has been freely charged, and is generally
credited that besides the frauds in the re.
turns, there was the fraud, also, Of unspar-
ing use Of money, by which mob Of men
Of no worth except to bore and below in a
political assembly, were made to see Mr..
RlcEs merits through gold spectacles, and
to labor for him in spite Of the certainty of
detection in their villainy. in place where
they had no shadow of right to be.
1t is hard to suppose, even for moment,
that any one would dare to insult the intel
ligence and good sense of the great body of
the people as did the drunken RICE rowdies
OF Mendoza memory, or that there would
be such unlimited impudence on the part of
the RICE COMMITTEE on Credentials" as to
ill up delegations with non-residents, and
in fact to manufacture them out of people
Of St. Paul, as was the case with Fillmore
county, from which came the delectable
body of st. Paulites headed by Tom Wal,
the jailer, and yet every one, whether Re
publican or Democrat, knows that it is so.
Were these two instances of premeditat-
ed and practiced frauds tho only ones by
which mongrel crew was brought togeth-
er to boost up Mr.. RICE, that individual
would, if he thought rightly and had the
courage to do so-but he has not-have
repudiated the so-called nomination at once
and demanded new trial of his popularity
before the people. But he rejoices in the
iniquity, and is content to remain in the
field, though the evidence of wide spread
and deliberate intention on the part of his
followers, is rising up every day to shame
him-as witness the following, which is
among the latest.
We haveit from very reliable authority
that Major Watrous, we'll known Wing
and tail-tender Of Mr.. RICE, for years past,
whose proper residence is somewhere down
in Ohio, and his present one in Wisconsin,
came with his fellow delegates (?) from
Chisago county, to the Territorial Conven.
ton s0ithoHt any authority achaterer from the
Democracy of Chisago county! there having
been no meeting held to appoint delegates in
that county.
We have it also on good authority that
some time before the meeting of the Con.
veution, ig-Watrous came over to Tay-
lor's Falls aud stated the names of persons
Is delegates-that he had drawn up the
proceedings; and addressing himself to one
individual at least, Appointment citizen Of
Chisago, asked him if he would not sign
the paper as one of the officers of the sup
posed meeting He was refused at once,
and for the reason that no meeting had
been held in Chisago, andthe whole matter
was fraud. And yet Whig-Watrous went
with his fellows to the Convention, was ad-
mitted, made temporary Secretary in the
absence of Mr.. Gear, who was first chosen,
and actually offered the resolution of conf
dence in Mr.. RICE, the adoption of which
amid a babel like confusion, about constit-
tutes the suIn-total of the nomination of gen.
tleman.
It thus appears that WMg-Watrous had
no business in the Convention, and it was
fraud upon the Democracy of Chisago to
admit him, and those who came with him.
The plant tools of Mr.. RICE did not dare
to assert the right and expel him, and they
sanctioned in every way a shameless outrage
for which there is no defence.
Life and Ttimes Of Gen. Cass.
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