Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-25
THE HAPPY FAMILY.
a Moe Picture OF the. Republican, Gang By
One of 'E7a.

One of ;E3,s.
saltwater mathematician
When the Pioneer Press asserts that there
was combination to push Mr.. Gilman at
the expense of Mr.. Pillsbury, and points to
Washington county in proof of it's crazy
theory, it makes most absurd mistake, for
if the returns in Washington county prove
any thing they prove that no special efforts
of any kind were made in Mr. Gilman's be-
half here. Equally ludicrous are the follow
Ing statements Of the same paper:
But in all this gross injustice was done to
Gov. Pillsbury, as all know, who know any
thing of tho circumstances which led to his
! candidacy. The simple fact was John s. Pills
bury was strongly averse to being q candidate
for third term. he neither expected nor de-
sired it. His business interests, too long neg
Looted for public duties, forbade it. But he
was forced against his will, with much hesita-
| ton and extreme reluctance on his part, to be.
come candidate by imperative considerations
of public duty"
In his saner moments Mr.. Wheelock will
be ashamed and coufounded to remember
| that he ever penned q falsehood SO in con-
| tradiction to we'll known facts.
What? PillsburY an unwilling candidate
| the man nominated only through his friends,
dragging his name into the dirtiest bit of
treachery known to the political annals of
the State, and declared nominated then by u
trick liz violation Of all prece-
dent, and without any formal bal
lot? Unwilling candidate forsooth
How gladly would the friends of half dozen
| other men, either of them as honorable and
as competent as MIR. PiIlsburv, have heard
the faintest whisper of unwiil;ngness, and
| how easily could he have escaped the bur
deps of office by one single emphatic word
An unwilling candidate? And every device
OF pipe laying and wire pulling known to
| western politics exhausted in his behalf, that
he might be finally crowded upon reluot-
ant convention by single accidental ballot,
dropped into the informal vote, and utilized
by such keen practice as is the boast Of pol
iticians and sidewalk statesmen!
We are sorry, wrathful and misguided
brother, you so allow your passion to get the
better of your judgment as to lead you into
such foolish exploit of mendacity.
You supported a candidate opposed by a
majority of the Republican convention save
one man, and irregularly nominated; you
opposed man clearly the choice Of the ma
jority of delegates. You learned no caution
from your own situation. You, first of any
man in tho State, advised Republicans to cut
their ticket; you kept up the cry all
through the campaign. It appears
that even yet there are some Repub-
lican voters who innocently accept you
as authority. Acting on this advice,
your own advice, those who believed Gilman
to be, as you asserted, the tool Of corrupt
combinations, cut his name from their
tickets, and those who believed PiIlsbury to
be tainted with the pollution of the State
| h01 orSSa~ ~, soL,
their ears, cut Pillsbury from their tickets.
1t was your own game; you started it, recon-
mended it, and kept it in motion. Respon
sibility for the result rests with you, and no
one else. You have got a dose of your own
medicine, rather an overdose to be sure,
and bitter dose, but if you are careful
| about exposing yourself it may do YOU good.