The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-09-05
Republican Ticket.

Republican Ticket.
For Congress.
MARK H, DUNNELL.
Of Steele County.
REP UBLICAN STA TIE CONVENTION.
A Republican State Convention will be held at
the Academy of Music, in Minneapolis, OH We'd
nesday, the 9th Of September, 1871, at II O'Clock
NJ, for the purpose of nominating one candidate
for Chief Justice and one candidate for AssOci-
ate Justice Of the Supreme Court OF this State.
The apportionment as fixed by resolution Of
State Convention, is one delegate for each organ
ICED county and one for every 1900 Republican
votes, and major faction thereof, based upon the
average vote for State ticket in the last election.
MOBILES county is entitled to two delegates.
G. II. Petit, c. StebbinS, Levi Nutting, G.. A.
Gilman, YIN. Eickel, l.. G.. Stevenson, W. l..
Wilson, d. Sinclair t. p. Freeman, Jacob Fran
kenfed G. \. Conkcy, State Central Committee.
JUDGB WAITE NOMINA TED.
The Democracy, Tor the HybridMis-
cellaneous partly Of this district, which
met in Convention at Owatonna on the
lst, nominated Judge Franklin II.
Waite, of Mankato, for Congress-
The Judge, in his speech, confessed to
having always been a Jackson Demo-
GRAFT, but he says he was a war Demo-
crat during the war, and that he did
not vote for Lincoln when renOminated.
Of course he did not vote for him the
first time. So the Judge lodged and
thus escaped the stigma Of having vo-
ted for Republican candidate for the
Presidency.
WATCH THEM
The Democracy are as busy as bea-
vers. They have been counting noses,
button-hQling voters and writing let
ters for Il week or two past, as though
the fate of the nation depended upon
their efforts. We have no doubt that
amost determined effort will be made
to defeat Mr.. Dunnell upon the salary
question, and that gross misrepresen-
tation will be kept up. Gentlemen, we
can't spare Dunnell, just yet. lie has
been too good friend to the Home
steader and of the frontier to be
''swapped" off while we are crossing a
stream. The most he did was to take
the back pay, and slX-sevcnths Of Con-
gress did the same. lie voted squarely
against the bill, and when you have
done your worst you can only show
that Dunnell did what scores of the
best men in the nation did. lie was
not enough Of demagogue and cow
ard to refuse the back pay and then
make political capital out of his 'hon-
esty."
BEEC4ER'S COMPLETE ERADICATION.
We give elsewhere the substance of
the report of Plymouth Church Inves-
tigating Committee, completely exhon-
Grating Henry Ward Beecher and re-
ceiving him with greater respect and
love than ever to their hearts and homes.
The Christian world and the fair-minted
of the non-Christian world accept the
verdict. Bcechcr has been through the
fiery furnace and has come out without
the smell of fire upon his garments.
We have not space to review the evil
dence, but there are a few leading points
which must satisfy any fair mind that
Beechel is not guilty. Some Of these
are
The charge rests upon Mrs. TIL
fon's confession, upon Beecher's letters
and upon Moulton's statement that
Beecher confessed to him. Let us look
at the these: /. Mrs. Tilton confess
ed when i'll and two weak to resist the
demands Of her husband. She imme-
diately retractcd this confession, de-
MED its truth in apublic statement and
also denied it's truth before the Com
mittee. Here are two solemn denials
when she is we'll and of sound mind
against one confession extorted from
her when she was i'll and too weak to
resist her husbands demand. 2 Beech
er's letters, even in the garbled and
false shape in which TiltOn and Moul-
ton published them, prove his innocence
just as much as his guilt. They are
therefore of no weight in establishing
his guilt. 8. Moulton states that Beech
Ell confessed adultery to him, but has
no letters u other evidence to sustain
his statement. From the known char
acter of the man, as a blackmailer, a
bully, a frec-loyer, and, as he himself
acknowledged, a ''hcathen," his state
ment ought not to be believed. Be-
sides, Moulton fatty coAtrilcts him.
self, for he wrote to Beecher, II know
you can stand, if the whole case was
published tomorrow" thus showing
clearly that whatever the offence was
it was not anything of an unchaste or
impure nature.
2. There is no letter of Boecher's
confessing his guilt. On the contrary,
his letters show clearly that he was not
guilty of the main charge, for he says
IN one, dated June l, 1873, my mind is
clear; I am not in haste I Shall write
for the public u statement that will
bear the light of the Judgment day
God will take care of me and mine. -
AS the committee say, ''tllese ale not
the words Of a.gui!ty mind.''
3. Both Tilton and Moulton. with
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