The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-15
The Shakopee Convention.

enough to suppose that people can he i'm
posed upon by wholesale fabrications, OF
gullible enough to receive and publish with
olt question any and every story which
veIa politicians may tickle its long
ears with. But that there is more of the
knaSe than the fool in its composition is be-
coming every day more and more evident;
and the unblushing effrontery with which it
puts forth downright and unmistakable lies,
is only equalled by the reckless mendacity
with which it declares it can prove what it
asserts if called upon. Driven into cor
ner by the plain statements of facts, and
unable TO defend its MISUNDERSTANDING can
didate from them, it has fesOrted to whole
sale lying, in the ain hope to turn the tide
now setting ia so strongly against Mr. RICE
even though at the entire sacrifice of truth
and by the manufacture of fulschood ont OF
whole cloth .,,.. AS a. .ar5-
On Wednesday last ii published, with a
great flourish Of trulnpets, what pnrported
10 lie an account Of the Shakopee Conven-
ton where Mr.. RICE was so signally beat
en-: and declared that it stood ready to
prove all that was therein stated, to be true
bv proof This declaration preceded the
statement. and on something of tie princi-
Die thai - guilty conscience is IFS own ac-
,ll,.r," the Damn rat felt it no doubt to lie
lis proper part to preface It's lies with Il
solemn declaration that it was telling the
truth. Now how does it stand?
I'm that statement. Mr.. j. Nj. HOLLAND
is represented rs having been present and
voted In oar Yesterdays issue We pub
li,hed letter from Mr. HOLLAND, stating
.hat he has been confined to his bed in this
civ with typhoid Fever, for monthpast,
and was not at the Convention at all. We
know OF our own, knowledge, that this is So
and 30 do hundred Others This there
fore, is Il lie of the Democr0fs-and as the
old adage is, "false in one thing; false in
all,"-the rest of the statement may pro-
pcrly 60 into the same category with that
IN relation to Mr.. HOLLAND And so the
Democrat stands convicted.
But this was not enough for the Demo
.fat Mad ii, the ovcrturn of its candidate,
al.h the nomination of an OIMsrEn man, in
the person of Mr.. DAVIS: wild with an ey-
ritemrnt which evidently has clouded its
Judgment and damaged its reason the Dem
0rrot greedily seizes hold OF il trnmped up
story that Mr.. DAVIS is not eligible to the
Office of Councillor because he has not been
Il resident OF his present district six months.
1t makes literal quotation of what it
would have gulls, unthinking, and uninforn-
ci persons in Rice and Scott Counties, and
elsewhere, to believe, that " section nine OF
chauter second of the Revised Statutes" alb
~oIuply requires six months residence in
his district Oh the part of the candidate
previous. to his election. Now how does
this stand!
Section nine Of chapter second Of the Re
viSed Statutes of the Territory commences
thus: p al
Sec 9. The Secretary Of the Territory is
required to furnish certified copies of the Re
visrti Statutes TO tine Commissioner, etc
and yoes on to state the duties and com
pensation of the Commissioner appointed
to superintend the publication of the Sta.
tutes Not one word in it about qualitica-
tio,.s of candidates, and not one word in the
whole chapter, which has reference to
anything else but the publication and distrl-
button ct the Statutes. What can the
Democrat reply'
The truth Of the matter is, that these
falSehooaS are manufactured for distribution
abroad Conscious that no one heedS its
declarations here and in this vicinity, or is
surprised at anything it does, the Democrat
is of opinion that lie unhlushingly told
NAV he of some use in the country where
there Is less chance of denying it and where
people cannot every day lay their hand up
on the authorities by which TO show men
,lacity in its true light.
The Democrat is not only unfortunate il
its quotations from the Revised Statutes
but still TOre unfortunate as to the date
Mr. DAVIS removal His residence at Bell'
Plaine dates from within fortnight afte
the close of the last session of the Legisla
ture. Before the middle of that month h,
had taken every step necessary to cOnstitut,