Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-10-23
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moro Democratic Representatives ana Seha-
TORS would have been elected, and then the
Republicans wouldn't have had majority ON
Joint ballot-so, they wouldn't-boO-hoo."
This is about the style in which the organ
sroans over the defeat of the Democracy;
and this is the way it tries to cheer up the is-
norant of its own party and inspire them with
courage for another contest If however it
only adhered to the truth i'll the statements 1t
did make, we might pass over its suppression
of factS,-itS neglect to mention. that In
number of districts, owing TO local disputes
and wrangleS, the Republicans have lost mem
bers in both branches which otherwise they
would undoubtedly have carried. Here is
the Pioneers statement of the legislative
losses to its party from boiling"
There have been lost TO the Democratic side of
the Legislature, through the boiling of the late
canvass. one representative IN the Third district;
three Representatives and two Senators in the
Fifth: one representative and one Senator in the
Seventh; two Representatives i'll the sixteenth
one Representative in the Eighteenth; one Repre-
Sentative in the Twehtieth; making Il total of
twelve members of the two Houses; which, had the
usages Of the party been faithfully adhered TO,
would undoubtedly have given the Democracy
majority of twentyfour or twenty-Six on JOINT bal
lot Such result which was legitimately due to
the party. has been lost, TO CRAFTY the ambition
and sehShness of Il few men,
Now, in regard to the Republican Repre-
sentative elected in the Third" district, or
Dakota county, we are confident ISAAC NJ.
RAY, of Hastings would have been chosen
just the same had there been no boiling Dem
ocratic ticket in the field whatever: which
position glance at his vote will establish; for
he leads MCGRoRrY. who was on both regular
and boiling tickets, some thirty votes! If it
will do the writer in the Pioneer any good,
however, we are not disposed to refuse him
whatever of consolation he may find in claim
ing that at all events local feeling in Hastings
helped Mr.. RAJ considerably; as we know it
did ELI ROBINSON, the boiling Democrat who
is elected Senator by nearly 20 majority over
IGSArIUs DoNNELLY, Republican, and entirely
through votes cast by Republicans Of Has
tings in his favor from their local bias or in
terest. But while making up the account of
profit and loss in the Third" district the
official organ should also not omit in the es-
innate the $50 or 200 nonresident Irishmen
working on the Cedar valley Railroad in Da
kota county who voted without legal right
for one or the other of the Democratic ticket
Next: as to those three Representatives
and two Senators in the Fifth District" or
Rice county, our cotemporary is laboring I'M
der a strange hallucination in thinking they
We're lost to the Democratic side in the leg
islature through the boiling of the late can
vas" To-be-sure, one of those Senators and
two of those Representatives, were Demo-
cratic in the last Legislature, but how came
they so? The immense fraudulent Irish
vote at Shieldsville let them in just barely by
the skin of their teath while every body
knew that Rice county was still, as it had
been before, honestly and fairly Republican
county. In the election just held, this fact
has been triunphantly established. The bolt
which SKINNER, the late Democratic Senator
and Faribault postmaster, made from the reg
ular ticket Of his party, in Rice county, does
not affect the argument; for, Notwithstanding
there was a heavy imported Irish Rrilroad
vote in the county, md that a wet day inter
fered with polling great many of the fair
weather Republicans, the entire Republican
ticket has majority over both the opposing
Democratic nominations
The claim Of the Pioneer that a Democratic
Senator and Representative was lost in the
seventh district, or Scott county, by the Chat
field bolt, is probably well founded; but we
emphatically deny its assertion that its party
has lost two Representatives in the sixteenth,
or Blue Earth and LIE Sueur district, by
bolts" That district wassRepublican last
fall but for the voting of the Breech-clOut
Indians at the Winnebago Agency; and with
the progress of intelligence and of free po-
litical principles, is so now and will be hereaf-
ter, independent of any divisions or boiling
amongst the much distracted and curious
principled Democracy. Nor can we admit its
pretence that MARTIN j. SEVERANCE, of Sib-
ley county, in the eighteenth district, would
not have been chosen but for the bolt. When
ever he runs in that district, we always ex-
pect to see him elected, especially as with full
poll of the Republican vote in Mcleod county,
that representative district, is at any rate,
close one politically.
The Pioneers final boo-hoo, that their par
ty divisions in the twentieth district or Ben
ton, Stearns and Meeker district, lost them a
member of the House, is likewise open to dis
pute, as being lachrymal effort without suf-
fcient justification for the tears she'd Ben
ton and Meeker counties are Republican,
and Stearns, through the Catholic Germans,
is Democratic. The district has before elect
ed epublicans-though one of them turned
out to be a bad egg" at the time of the
Constitutional Convention, but then that was
no fault OF the voters. Still, for the sake of
the argument we will concede that the bolt
helped us in the twentieth district; and with |
this admission, we think we have shown that |
the entire loss sustained actually by the Dem |
ocrats through bolts and divisions in their own |
party, amounts just to one Senator and two
Representatives.
But suppose now, we look at the Republi- |
can losses from both divisions and local infer
ests in the disputed Republican districts In |
Dodge ar'.u Mower, both being Republican |
c"''...nties we shamefully loose three members
of the Honse and two Senators through |
county seat fight between Mantorville and
Wasioa A Senator is gained by the Demo-
Gratis in Washington through local dssatisfac-
tons and divisions in the lower part of that
county they secure a representative in ST.
Anthony, through few Republican votes cast
for ALDEN from personal considerations and
we loose M'KUNE for Senator in Waseca and
Steele through personal feud against him on
the part of certain prominent Republican
leaders.
Here are four Senators and four Represen-