The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-08-05

Mtnnessta Constitutional Convsn'
\ tIen.. How DeSMscratAc Delegated
/ arc MADE.
| We have been Watching our Minnesota ex.
changes for some time, hoping to get an ex.
position Of the facts Of the case, and at last
We are gra,ifed with the following from ths
/ St. Paul Times. 1t will be remembered thai
4 the west side of the Red River VI the North
mentioned below, il not within the bound,.
ries of the proposed new State, ut all, and
lhst those living on that side have shout y,
much voice in tho framing Of tho new Con.
stitution and election OF delegates, AS have
the inhabitants Of the Fejee Islands, whom
they somewhat resemble. But, read
/ ALL Amour PErnsSA!--By the arrival Of
1 Mr.. II. Baldwin, from Pcmbna, on Sa,ur-
day. We are placed in possession OF tho actu.
al returns OF the Delegate Election there,
which we hasten TO lay before our readers
Mr.. Baldwin is one Of the pioneers Of tbs
+ West, and an old resident OF this city, 90
tina. his statements may be implicitly relied
4 on as correct.
Mr.. Baldwin says the voters OF Psmbina
city, on the west side of the river, got togcth-
or on the LIST Monday in June and drew up
/ a ticket to be voted for on the east side OF
the river, aud knowing by the provisions OF
the Enabling Act that the vest side had no
part in the election, the polls we're not open
ed
/ On the east side of the Red River, he says,
there were two places OF voting, and the
iticket--Democratic of course, and the only
one in the feld--wAs composed Of four can
didates, and ran a. follows: Joseph Rolettc,
Jerome 81. Msrtre, j. T. Wilson, and DO
serh Versere.
"A ~
Martre, were both from the west side OF the
river, outside tho boundaries Of the proposed
State, and Of the remaining two, J. z. Will
flying trip to Cheyenne (threc hundred
never been near Pembina in his life? Jo-
seph Verserc was hslf-brecd living on the
east side--the only one on the ticket eligible
to election.
Mr.. Baldwin, e. Democrat himself, was
present, but percsiving that game Of high
handed fraud was being played, refused to
man who became On accomplish in the crime"
Well, the farce went on, and Mr.. Baldwin
ascertained at night from the "Judges OF
Election" that there had been only eleven
tITJ votes cast, att told, and that Ave {55t1 of
side. This would leave six simon.purs vo-
ters to elect four delegates, but now Gorman
and his toois--Becksr, Sherburne, Flandrau,
Sib.ey, Brown & Co.--insolently claim Six
delegates, or precisely one to every voter.
The two extra men whom they have fraud
ulently summoned to the rescue OF collaps-
ing Democracy, are James McFetridgs, who
is Custom House Officer ut Pembina, and
who was CLERK at the bogus election, the
ridiculous details OF which We give above,
and half-breed cousin Of Rolette's. All
these six are now sitting in the Democratic
''Conv ention," to frame a Constitution for
the Free People Of Minnesota. To the truth
Of the above facts Mr.. b. is willing to make
afidavit.
\ Thcse-the particulars OF this stupendoua
fraud which the Gorman rebels hoped would
be hidden in tho shadow Of is own unex.
plored obscurity, are before the world. On
these six 10 the whole farce Of the revolution
lists leaning for an apology, ~ without these
they would be--even admitting the other
half-dozen Of their bogus ssmsmbers" to be
/ simon pure--in helpless minority Of slev
en-. fair and candid statement Of facts i,
now before the People, and, without COM
ment, we leave all honest mon to deduc.
their own differences.
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