The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-09-17

ideas are as necessary to the statesmen
Of action, Is it is that the artillery
should come up and decide the battle
which the advance guard has on.
Accepting that high philosophy
which finds . cause snd . purpose in
every great event, snd in the history Of
men whose lives are great events, we
see in Ulysses s. Grant . personihcs-
tlon OF the Private Citizen and the Pri-
yate Soldier. Let poets ding Of him as
the hero, the captain, the great chiet-
tain, and ureathe his brow with lau-
rels, while 'rtists chisel his name on
monumental stone. 70 US he is The
Man OF this hour, the one true, simple
minded, urostentstious, unambitious
A American-plainly one Of the people
whose life is that Of half the ssen W
meet on Broadway All the traditions.
and customs, and advantages, and cer-
emonies Of the old military regime we're
arrayed against his success. Enough
OF soldier to know the art Of var. but
essentially & citizen, buyer and seller,
reader of newspaper, and taIker Of
politics, scarcely ideslist enough to
vote for Fremont, but very decided that
Buchanan vas an old "2ranny Of an
Execu,ive" The maIignity Of slan6e-
only charges with the vices taas We
meet, and regret, and excuse in half Of
the men ne know. Before he achieved
bis position Of ".lmost dangerous elee-
ti,n," he Was, according to Sherman,
':as unself=b, kind hearted; and lenient,
as man should BE-" We have knowa
him tor three years ia the whirl OF
luxury, peace. temptation, presidential
Establishments, partisan cslumny, aud
political intrigue, and VIC see nothing
to change tha: Judgment. 81 believe"
says Sherman, 'you are as brave,
patriotic, and just, as the great proto-
type, Washington. but the chlet char
acterlstlc is the simple faith IN success
you have always manifested, which [
can liken to nothing else than the faith
a Christian has in the Savior.''
THE sECUSD DISTRICT IaIBROGLIO.
From the Winona Daily Republican.
The story of the Republican imbroglio
in the Second Congressional district Of
the State may be very briefly summed
up 1t was, from the beginning of the
canvass for the nomination, a contest
between Mr. DoNNELLY on the one
hand, and the WAsHBURSE- Press fac
tion on the other, Tor the supremacy.
Mr.. DoNNELLY was a candidate for re-
as he had perfect right
to be; but his opponents thought 9th
erwise, and went into the canvass evil
IDENTIFY with predetermined purpose
to beat him at all hazards. The result
was, as mig It have been expected,
great deal Of c nten,i,n and bitterness,
and not a little foul play in the selection
of delegates, which reflected nothing
but discredit upon all who engaged in
it On either side. When the Conven-
ton met, on the Sd iost, there were 50
many contesting delegations from vari-
Gus counties within the district that the
factions stood mutually in fear
of each other, and artifce was resorted
to with view to securing the organl-
zation.
The chairman Of the District Con-
mittee, a partisan OF Mr. DoSSELLT's,
issued tickets of admission to the dele
gates, but the hostile faction, who had
gained possession of the hall where the
Convention was to have met, guarding
the entrance thereto by ale Of police
men, to refused admission the Don
NELLY delegates upon the ground that
their ii .kcts were not countersigned BY
the secretary of the District Committee.
TLereupon Mr. DoSNELLT's friends re-
tired to another room, where they held
their convention, conducting their pro-
ceedings without interruption or dis
cord, and unanimously nominating that
gentleman By acclauatioo.
The other wing Of the Convention,
assembled in the hall desig-
mated by the Committee, and organized
i'll the customary mann.r, Three cau-
didates were put in nominat:on-Messrs.
HUBBARD, WAsHBURN and ANDREWS.
On the first informal ballot Mr.. VASE
BURN received 81 votes to Is for
HUBBARD and l3 for ANDREws-or
majority Of the whole number cast.
Mr.. WAsuBURN, however, went
through the farce Of declining the
honor of a formal nomination, and the
next ballot gave majority to HUB
BARD, who was declared the nominee
the vote standing 50 ior HUBBARD to
"a for ANDREWS.
During the sitting of the two Con-
ventions proposition was submitted
from the DoNNELL1 wing to the other,
in favor o: referring the Whole subject
Of nomination back to the Repubil-
cans of the district, the result to be
ascertaincd by direct vote instead Of
BY delegates chosen at primary meet
lngs. This proposition, of which
JAMES SMITH, Esq, of St. Paul Was
the bearer, was rejected aoiM emphasis,
if not aciM open scorn.
AS to the regularity of the two Con-
ventions, but little can be said in fsvor
Of either; and re apprehea! this is a
question that aciN haze but little to do
in controlling the direction of any
mans cote IN that district, should the
present. unfortunate stste Of things con-
tinue to exist until the day of election.
In point of numbers, the two assem-
blages were about equal-the partisans
of Nr DONNHILv nnmherfno 81 and