Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16

Pillsbury, was nominated by the adhere Esnts
of the 'favorit'' sonny and w. j. Portner
stood as the representative of Cush Blaine.
On the vote being taken, there were
various counts, some claiming it stood eleven
to eleven, others nine to eight, and amid
much wrangllng the adherents on either
side urged their representatives. to walk into
the building and assume the duties. Porten
started to act on this advice,
whereupon Pusey made a break, and those
who did not know his Quaker antecedents,
might have supposed there was about to be
blood or something shed. It proved,
however, that Pusey was simply proposing
to be in at the death, and amid
the enthusiastic smiles of ]. K. Hilyard and
several other rolored barbarians, both gentle
men entered the room where the sacred ci-
gar box, with hole in it, was located as the
emblem of the palladium of our liberties.
Chas. Dana was chosen Secretary and the
proud bird of freedom (meaning the cigar
box was announced as open for the recep-
ton of Democratic or any other votes in
the Second ward. Halt a dozen Re-
publicans and several handsome Demo-
Gratis stepped up lively and pumped in their
votes for the "favorit" sonny. Capt. Blake
ley received the votes, and as the stalwart
Democracy came up with Window tickets,
he smiled smole of satisfaction, ,and chucked
the votes into the sacred cigar-box with an
unction and chuckle worthy of veteran
mail contractor. And that was where the
Capt. was caught mapping. He is usually
pretty shrewd, but in letting down the bars
in the "bloody second" he sowed
beans, and, consequently, reaped q
cyclone. Cush Blaine is more popular
than the 'favorit'' sonny and hence when
the Captain had established the precedent of
accepting the votes of all corners, whether
it was colored barbarian or son of the
Emerald Isle, he was goner. AS the Re-
publican voters rolled up, the Hon. Pennock
Pusey's eyeballs dilated until they overlap
ped his gold trimmed spectacles, so great was
his astonishment at the strength of the
party in this ward. It was case where si-
lence was golden and the Hon. Pennock said
nothing, though he heaved a sigh which
threw a staunch Democrat off from his horse
twenty feet away from the building.
AS the voting proceeded Capt. Blakely be-
came more and more impressed with the
idea that early precedents were dangerous,
and he occasionally handed back would be
voter the palladium of his liberty, on the
ground that he was not ''favorit" sonny
Republican. The State house phalanx, who
were hot against Cush Blaine looked
tired and evidently wanted to
go home. HiIyard, and the other
enemy's cohorts rolled up from the Warren
House and other Republican strongholds in
the ward-all except the youthful scion of
the Hiyard race who, having just celebrated
his sixteenth birthday, voted for his daddy
and the "favorit' sonny, and then jumping
into the finest Window hack on the ground,
ordered the driver to take him on a trip
about the city. Out of regard for the ex-
odus movement of The "favorit" sonny the
driver obeyed.
The long, long weary two hours finally
wore away, the Hon. Pennock showed back
his eyeballs, and Capt. Blakeley declared the
polls closed with several Republican saloons
yet to hear from. The four judges rolled
up their sleeves and proceeded to count. The
Hon. Pennock, with an eye to having an
easy job, selected the 'tfavorit'' sonny
tickets, and Capt. Blakeley proceed
ed to handle the Cush- Blaine cards,
shuffiing them about in a style which
reminded the bystanders of Gov. Marshall's 8
celebrated Indictment of some of his Repub-
lican associates as ''three card monte trick
sters." The captain dealt out the Cush
Blaine pack in piles of ten, which Sanborn
proceeded to verify by recounting. The
captains dexterity as a shuffier d cold
deck was proven by the fact that he only
made one mistake, and only one pile, which he
counted ten, contained eleven. If Sanborn
found any pile containing only nine, he pro-
IDENTIFY refrained from mentioning it.
When the entire pack hak been dealt the
vote stood for the Cush Blaine ticket 142.
For the "favorit" sonny ticket At. The
following were the respective tickets
CUsa BLAINE TICKET.
j. N. Granger, Wendeln Weiss J. Z. Hill
yard, E. s. Foreman P. G. Hass.
''FAvoRIT'' SONNY TICKET.
r. Blakeley, VIM. B. Dean, W. Weiss, W. P.
Jewett, j. K. Hilyard.
And the Hon. Pennock and Capt. Blakeley
folded their tents like the Arabs and silent
regard for their freinds causes US to
refrain from completing the sentence.