The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-07-22
PROPOSAL 70 WITHDRA

that both candidates withdraw from
the canvass and that new convention
he held composed of new delegates, who
shall nominate new man. Five days
IRE given Mr.. Dunnell to reply.
We give considerable space in this is.
sue to extracts from Republican papers
of the district upon the Dunnell-Ward
split. The Mankato Free Press. Vase
ca Radical, Kasson Republican, Free
born Standard, Jackson Republic and
Pipestone Star are favorable to Ward.
The rest are for Dunnell. We give the
facts and opinions on both sides and
leave the people Judge for themselves.
WHICH WAS THE REG ULAR CONVEN:
TION?
Both the Dunnell and Ward factions
claim to have been the regular Conven-
ton. Each declares the other bogus.
We have waded through an immense
mass of statements, letters aud news
paper articles trying to get at the facts.
Here are some things which the Dun
nell faction will have to explain Salts
factorily to prove the regularity and
fairness of their proceedings:
l. A contest was gotten up for Free
born county only few minutes before
going into the Convention in order to
throw the anti-Dunnell county of Free
born out of the organization. There
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this time.
2. The Congressional Committee,
which was made up of a majority of
Dunnell men, decided that their chair
man, in calling the Convention to order,
should name the temporary chairman
and thus secure the temporary organi"
cation. Such proceeding has no pre-
cedent in State and District Conven-
ti0ns-
3. The Chairman Of this District
Committee, in naming Mr.. Youmans
for temporary chairman, did not put
the negative of the question, but declar-
ed him elected.
4. This same Committee chairman re-
fused to hear or to entertain a motion
from Mr.. Child nominating MIR. Braden
for temporary chairman, thus cutting
off the anti-Dunnell men from hear
ing and from participation i'll the choice
of the organization.
S. After nominating Dunnell, his
friends abandoned the hall without
passing resolutions, appointing Dis
trict Committee or finishing the bust
ness, while the Ward faction remained
in full possession, passed their resolu-
tlons, appointed their committee, had
the usual speeches from their nominee
and others, and adjourned in regular
form
Here are Indications Of trickery, un-
fairness and irregularity which need
exclamation. To an outsider it looks
as though the Dunnell men were not
willing to trust the Convention to choose
its temporary officers. The Ward men
assert steadily that the caucussing in
the morning showed that 81 delegates
were pledged to Dralen for temporary
chairman, while there were 10 Dunnell
delegates in favor of Youmans. This
fact, it is claimed, induced the Dun
nell men to attempt the seizure and con-
troll of the Convention 10y the irregular
methods above enumerated. EXplana-
tons will be in order until after the e.
lection.
Our friend Miller of the Wortl.ingt0n
Advance is somewhat perplexed as to a
choice between tie congress iolal cand-
idates. He is one Of the original anti
machine men of the district, though he
Then on the other hand, while his SYM
aathies 60 out to tl.e Ward party, he
ends his Old enemy Dan'l Rohrer in
charge of the interests of that faction
in Mobiles county. lie says if he sup
ports either candidate it will be the
irregular legitimate nominee,'' which,
wo infer has reference to the coming
Democratic candidate, for legitimacy
and regularity can in no sense be applied
to the Republican candidates, both be-
ing bOlters.-AankatO Review.
We shall probably have to resort to
an Electoral Commission to decide
who is the legitimate nominee of the
Waseca conventions. We see one thing
quite clearly, viz: that the Dunnell men
were afraid to trust the Convention to
organize itself and therefore resorted to
trickery and irregularity in order to Sc
cure the organization. 1t is possible
that Dunnell would have had a MAORI
ty of the delegates had there been but
one convention, but it is not proven,
and the Dunnell faction did half doz-
en- things which were IRREGULAR" as
everybody sees at a glance.
The Review is correct in calling US
one of the original anti-machine men of
the district. But our opposition has so
far been a protest against ''machine"
control of all our local affairs, Up to
date the ADVANCE has always support
ed Mr.. Dunnell and has always support
ed the Republican legislative, State and
National tickets. But because the AD-
VANCE would not work with the ina
chine" in all local matters, everything
that machine politics, personal detrac-
ton and legal, social and business per.
secution could do to destroy the AD-
VANCE has been done.
TO show that the District ''machine''
took hand in this fight we need
cite only one instance although we
might give many. Thus when the
Worthington Journal was started as a
''machine" organ, and with the avow-
ed object of destroying the ADVANCE,
every land officer, postmaster and fede-
raj pap-eater in the county encouraged
the Journal and discoura .ed the AD-
VANCE. The Land office printing was
withdrawn from the ADVANCE and put
into the very first number of the Jour
nal. And this was done although Moul-
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