Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-23
Yours, respectfully,
w. W. WHITE, Chairman.

WHEREAS, The Republican party of the First
Congressional district. would, if united, give
to their nominee for Congress this fall from
| ten to twelve thousand majority; and.
| WHEREAS, The said party has been rendered
without hope of reconcllement by the bold and
wicked devices of one. who, for the last fifteen
years has been sustained by it's benefactors
and, whereas, it is the duty of such Republic
cans as desire rather the success of their party
| and Its principles, than the personal advance
| ment OF any individual or the qualification of
any mans selfish aspirations to stamp the die
tatorial and tyranneous policy of him who is
| responsible for the present deplOrable division
of the party with the seal of our emphatic dis
approval; therefore be it
| ReSOt0ed, First-That the action of Mark a.
Dunnell at the Waseca convention called in
accordance with party usages to nominate a
member for Congress, in attempting, by a
shameless and despicable trick, to organize
| fixed by the published call, in
striving by an infamous forgery
of the credentials of the delegates of one of the
| most populous and prominent Republican
counties of the district, to rob that county of
| its franchise and debar it from voice in the
elaboration of the convention; in debating to
| his stlpendiaries the unheard of and outrage
GUS proceeding which found expression in the
action of the chairman of the Congressional
| committee, who assumed despotically to name
| the chairman of the convention, and defying
| custom, parliamentary law, common Justice
and common decency, refused to recognize the
| representatives of aknown majority of the con-
vention, and sought to balldoze the entire as
sembiy into acauiescence to his assumed au-
| thority, is deserving of the most scathing re-
| buke and should receive the unqualified con-
domination of every true Republican, not only
| of this district, but of the entire State.
Second-That the persistent refusal of Mark
| I'm nall ffNn ,oalo
| est of harmony, and the unyielding and unset
fish tenacity with which he has insisted upon
his own regularity Congressional nominee,
and rejected all reasonable propositions for an
| equitable compromise, has revealed him to our
people as an unwise but determined and des-
perstely selfish politi cal leader, who takes
| counsel only of his ambition and his hopes,
and who would without scruple or compunc.
ton sacrifice the great party which has dealt
| with him so generously, to his intense greed
| for office.
Third-That the indecent and timorous
haste with which he hurried at an early day to
| visit the western portion of the district. in
order to forestall public sentiment and terrify
to his support the industrious farmers
who were too busily engaged for care
full investigation by the threat that
they must take him or Democrat
q threat that has since been echoed by his hire.
lipgs through the entire district, and it is to.
| oehy oAO blluUUIctu VI ELS ldCIlUu, Is rcQOIeQl
| OF Dunnellism and fair example of his
Indirect and unmanly method.
fourth-Ihat the use of the federal patton
| age as wager fund for the maintenance of a
body OF political hirelings, the tyrannous exer-
else of the power of official appointments not
to re ward the services of willing friends, but
| to enslave the will and conscience of it's bene.
ciary is an unbea rable evil and renders the en-
tire party that tolerates it and abets it OBJ
| noxlous to the seyerest criticism.
tltth-That we unhesitatingly assert our ab-
horrence and condemnation of thej political
| methods upon which he relies to perpetuate
himself in office. the organization and drilling
demands of the oficeholders of the district
| that they devote themselves zeaIously, their
| time, labor and money to his service, and hold
| themselves ready at all times to obey his or.
der, that they respond promptly and uncom-
| pIainingly to his levies for expenses of his
| campaign, and that they surrender at his die
| tation their manliness, their independence and
their private judgment.
| Slxth-That as neighbors and fellow towns
men OF Hon. James B. Wakefield we earnestly
| condemn the outrageous visitation of parlia-
| mentary law, custom and precedent in the
means used at the late Waseca convention by
| MIR. Dunnell and his friends, by which our es-
| teemed fellow citizen was defrauded of the
nomination to which he was Justly entitled,
ana we Indignantly spurn Mr.. Dunneli's pre-
tended claim to a nomination, and we de
| nounce him as a usurper who claims the posi-.
ton which by right belongs to citizen of our
| town, and we call upon all loyal Republicans
to aid in rebuking this usurper
and setting the seal of condemnation upon bis
revolutionary conduct.
Seventh-That in view of the foregoing facts
| and in view of the improved condition of the
Republican party in this district, we have cast
aside the leader whose policy foresha lows in
nyIf n In dnE nn& o,,I q
the nominee the Hon. WIG. Ward, to mar.
shall our forces for victory over our antagon.
lists within as we'll without the party.
fesotoed. That copy of these resolutions be
furnished to the st. Paul papers, with the re-
quest that they be published.