The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
The Democratic State Ticket.


partly for the qualification of the public
curiosity, and partly as matter of duty
incumbent on the public press. We sub
nit to the requirements of this custom, in
respect to a majority of the candidates
presented by the Democratic State Con-
yention, very much as the patient takes
ipecac at the hands of the dOctor-with a
most revolving sensation at the pit of the
stomach.
The nominee for Governor, Mr.. HENRY
T. WELLEs, of Hennepin county, and the
candidate for Secretary of State, Major A.
E. WEIGH, of the Fourth Regiment, are
exceptions to the irretrievably base mate
rial of which the ticket is composed.
Mr.. WELLEs is gentleman of fair parts,
good education, high tone, and comforta-
bic property. The nomination does him
infinite injustice, in bringing him into pub
lie contempt, when he has done nothing
to merit such a wrong. Socially a gen.
tleman, he is classed with parcel of low
fellows, destitute of character or brains,
who calculate to maintain themselves
through the canvass on the strength of as
ISOLATION with a citizen of unblemished
reputation, and whose future claim to re-
spectability will be the fact Of such asso-
citation. Mr.. WELLEs owes it to his good
repute as man, and to prevent his utter
disgrace as politician, that he should in
stantly retire from the unenviable con-
nection in which the convention has placed
him.
Major WEIGH is a young man of thor
ough education and correct training. He
had just finished his collegiate course
when the war broke out, and, with all the
enthusiasm of patriotic, impulsive ma
ture, he helped to raise company for the
glorious First Minnesota, and entered the
service as lieutenant. He was wounded
and taken prisoner at the first Bull Run
battle, confined as such for months in
Southern prisons, and, while thus in cap
tivity, was rewarded for his gallantry and
his sufferings, by promotion to his present
rank. He returned to the State while our
Indian troubles were upon us, and took
command of the Third Regiment, and
with that participated in the battle of
Wood Lake, where he was second time
wounded. On his recovery he joined his
regiment, the Fourth, and remained with
it until after the surrender of Vicksburg,
- being in the previous battles, and par
ticularly in the famous assault, whereat he
received third wound. He is now at
home on sick furlough. He is a talented,
noble, gallant young man and officer; and
we cannot conceive that he will allow
himself to remain on this infamous ticket.
Mr.. A. D. LA DUE, the nominee for
Lieutenant Governor, we have known for
fifteen years, and each year of the fifteen
has added to our original conviction that
he is an ass, absolute and irredeemable.
He is insufferably vain, without single
quality outside of his vast impudence to be
vain ola weak, blatant, uncompromising
ASS. His nomination, however, has the
merit of propriety in it; for, taking the
convention as whole, he was, probably,
the fittest representative to be found of
the loyalty and intelligence of its mem
bers.
The candidate for State Auditor is JOHN
H. McKINNEY, editor of the Chatfield
Democrat. He comes as near being a
rebel as the fear of political prison will
allow him to be, and his paper is as pes
tiferous sheet as limited brains, stimu-
lated by disloyal heart, enable him to
make it.
The nominee for State Treasurer is
PETER WILKINS, of LIE Sueur county. We
don't know that there is anything infa-
nous attaching to PETER WILKINS; he is
simply unfit for any position of response
bility, public or private.
WILLIAM II. GRANT, of Ramsey County,
is the nominee for Attorney General. Mr..
GRANT is of the Quirk and Snap order OF
attorneys-what they call in New York
''Tombs' lawyers" and which signifies the
lowest and most contemplate in the pro-
fession. He is generally found in the po-
lice courts, or before a petty magistrate,
for the criminal in the one place, and for
the plaintiff in the other, in small cases
involving five and ten dollars of damages.
He is recognized by the respectable por-
ton of the bar only under protest, and
ranks simply as low, vulgar, dissipated
pettifogger. He, however, properly rep
resents the convention that placed him
where he is.
Mr.. HUGO PETzoLD, the candidate for
Clerk of the Supreme Court, is a poor,
miserable vagabond, but who, degraded as
he is, cherishes too high sense of self-re-
spect to permit his name to remain on the