Daily globe., 1879-06-27
Blu Kings Paper Puts Pillsb,try In the
Field "bv AMth0rity."
minneapolis Pioneer Press, (Bill King), June
, 26th.1

Inc 1rlendS OF Lle0tenant Governor
Wakefield have been making themselves very
busy of late in circulating throughout the
State the feeble invention that Governor
Pillsbury had concluded not to permit the
use of his name before the Republican State
convention for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton. The Wakefield boom must be in a
desperate state of attenuation and his
sources of recuperation pretty we'll exhaust
ed to make it necessary for his friends to re-
sort to so poor fabrication as that. Gov.
Pillsbury, we are assured, has at no time
given any intimation whatever to anybody
that he has changed or modified in any re-
spect whatever his original position on this
question. Personally we have no doubt at
all that he would greatly prefer to retire from
the executive Office at the conclu-
sion of his present term, and if
he obeyed the demands of his business
interests or the counsels of his per-
sonal inclinations, he would long since have
removed the only formidable obstacle which
Mr.. Wakefield finds in his path to the guber-
material chair, by positive refusal to accept
q denomination. But in the face of the
urgent representations of leading Republi-
cans from all parts of the State that his
was the only name commanding for the time
spontaneous popular strength sufficient to
break down the artificial combinations which
had been long forming to inf1ict upon the
party and the State a.nomination which was
regarded as disgraceful to tn. party and
calamitous to the State, and that his positive
decl1nation would therefore be public disas-
ter, he did not feel at liberty to set his private
spto foo1srrn oh <ha
tions of public duty thus spontaneously
him-or to refuse to the Republicans of the
State an opportunity to indicate their wishes
in matter of snch grave importance
He would greatly have preferred that that
choice should fix itself on any one of the re-
spectacle and worthy Republicans who have
been named for the position, and has simply
acquiesced in the negative attitude he held
at the start, that while he did not desire the
nomination, and would make no canvass fol
it, yet if it were true that the people wanted
him for another term he would not under The
actual circumstances feel at liberty to decline
duty imposed upon him by the spontane
ous public choice. IF he was not disposed
to modify that position when he might vel
have believed that the representations which
tial and uncertain and might be de
oeptive indication of the general desire
of the Republicans of the State
he can hardly be expected to change it, nov
that the evidences have multiplied on every
hand, and are daily reinforced by the testi
mony of the best informed and most infu
ential Republicans in every part of th'
State, that the better elements of the Re
publican party are generally united in hi,
support, except in few counties wher,
local bias predominates. II would be
gross and objectionable piece of injustice
to the thousands of Republicans who hav'
relied on Gov. Pillsbury's candidacy as tn
only effectual means of preventing great
public calamity, if he should now disap
point their expectations by Withdrawing hi
name from the canvass-and we are quit
sure, and, indeed we are authorized to say
that no such thought has entered his head