Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1856-04-17

liz you are inclined to vote for fneaand
use your inhucnce in my favor, and
should be elected, you shaIl be chair
man; on one Of the committees"
ts'Nuf said said /, :" ] am in for
YOU. and We went out.
3s5 / turned that s,lmmerset frcm Smash
aII To Daubum out of the best Of mo-
tives, and wholly for the benefit Of our
country. No man can ever accuse me
of destroying Smashan for 4 never
promised to vote for him / had merely
made ups,ny mind 70 do 50, and changed
il because I afterwards learnt that
SuashaIl was not 10 be in town during
the Session. When / got out Of the
Governors room, and in the entry. /
met the members coming out Of the
caucus room. .ey
ss'ss Halo, Crashum, said one Of them,
we have been looking for you, in fact
sent q committee Of three gentlemen to
your hotel togiye you an invitation from
Colonel SmashaA to take hot supper
with him. y
"Can't co." says l.
The ID you cant, ",says he, my
dear fellow, he is one Of our party, and
you may be sure that if you want any
thing done in your country this session
you must stick to party"
Now, gentlemen, | was not elected BY
any particular party. ! was elected be-
cause you all voted for me 10 represent
this county, and / knew no party, no
sect, but when this individual spoke 10
me Of party, and that must stick to our
party to get any measures through for
our country Ifelt little pride in learn
ing what party Gun party was, there
tore | joined them for the purpose Of
being one of Sinashali's party not that
4 wanted any Of his supper nor his
liqunr, but went, as said before. for
The good pf our country, and to let them
know that the Representaliye from this
county would be \ "a iadcp snde eae ipeIa-z
her of il,e Assembly. Wen, gent emea,
7 went TO that party, and there Ihad tho
pleasure of seeing Smashall, and when
| left tile company the next morning, ]
had different opinion Of the man. But
as TO what OUR PARTY consisted Of. il
was beyond my comprehension TO un-
derstand its principles, for if the subject
was broached during the evening, il es-
capped my memory before morning, for
last thing | remember hearing that even
ing was e Smashall.''
Well, gentlemen, the next forenoon
the General Assembly met, and .
Speaker was elected. but from causes /
did not comprehend at the time, and Of
which | will yet speak, Blastum was
elected on the tenth ballot. did my
duty however, iot I soted FOR Daubun
and Smasha.l, alternately until the
Speaker was elected But when Blast
um was announced as the successful
candidate, Of course ! had nothing moro
10 do with the other sentleman. and |
soon saw that there was another . Pha-
+ - -
raoh in Egypt that knew not Joseph"
and consequently the member from Our
County must use his endeavors to get in
with the popular current. was not
long il doing this, though ], required
some tact and indefatigible energy on
MY part, aud | Of course succeeded.
After the General Assembly had been
in Session for few days, Bill was in
troduced entitled Bill 70 amend an Act
entitled an Act for extension Of time to
the National Improvement Company in
the opening Of canal from Popgun
Lake 10 the Northwest fang Of Rattle
snake creek. There was some sharp
talk on this bill for some two weeks,
and | felt some interest il the passage
Of this bill, for | was told by friends Of
the bill, that il they could only get the
work completed, i would help that por-
lion or the country through which it
passed. By turning the current Of emf
grafton into that quarter, andthey whia-
pered to me, and said If wen, in for il.
il weuld help our county by keeping
the skum Of this emigration in that To-
cality. and kept il away from us. saw