Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-11
Rice County Democratic Contention
Special Telegram to the Globe

Special Telegram to the Globe.
FARIBAULT, Oct. 8, lS80.-At the Demo-
cratic county convention which met in the
court house in this city to-day, Hon. F. a. No
bic, of Northfeld, was elected chairman and
+. A. Davis. of Faribault, secretary. The com.
mittee en- credentials reported thrC ugh John r.
Parshall, and on motion report was accepted
and adopted. 1t was moved by W 4. Hender-
son, of Northheld, that committee of five be
appointed, one from each commissioner dis
trlct, and two at large, to report the names of
candidates for the county ticket. The ayes and
nays called for resulted in favor of the motion,
and the following were appointed as such
committee:
A. e. Haven. Third district; W. r. Hender-
son, Second district; o. F. Burgess, Fourth
district; VIM. Cody, Fifth district; Gale Sex
ton, First district. At large, w. Ennis, NJ. Il.
huley.
It was moved by j. L. Parshall that the COM
mIttee report the names of all candidates will
ing to run. Carried. The committee reported
through A. E. Haven. 1t was moved by G.. E.
Skinner that the convention proceed to ballot
for county auditor. The chair appointed w.
X. Henderson and Gale Sexton as tellers. The
ballot resulted as follows:
u. L.. Lowell, l0; Ct. w. Tower, II. 1t WAS
moved and seconded to reconsider this vote.
and the secretary VAS instructed to call the
towns and the delegates to vote as their towns
were called. The bollot resulted as follows:
G. w. Tower, %; G. l.. Lowell 10.
John Quinn was unanimously nominated for
Clerk of the district court.
John Maloney was nominated unanimously
for superintendent of schools.
Representatives-First district, Joseph Ca
vert; Second district, Hon. Henry B. Martin
Third district, 7. b. Spencer, Unanimous,
amid great applause); Fourth district n. H,
z. EHf "A r1of
County commissIoner-Wm. Chester.
K. A. Davis offered the following, which was
carried:
ResOtred, That a county central committee of
I'VE (5l be appointed by the chair, whose duties
1t shall be to have the management of the cam
palgn and also the appointment of county
committee OF one member from each town,
who shall be chairman of their respective town
committees, and have power to appoint four
additional members IN each town, who shall
constitute a town committee.
Il Fe1c Words to the Independent Toters OF
. the Third District. "Washburn Must Co.
To the Editor of the Globe.
am glad to see you giving your readers
some good items from the record of Washburn
MIR. Washburn is not fit man to represent
this district in Congress. The very fact thai
the only three measures he championed Will,
in Congress were the bill which Gen. Bragg
of Wisconsin, styled "a bill to license thieves
on the public domain" another bill to expenc
a million and half of dollars to food the
upper country with a reservoir system whose
main purpose is to cover up still more pine
land thieving under the slim pretext of i'm
proving the navigation of the Mississippi
river" and a third scheme to fill up the Missis
sippi river with sawdust, mill refuse and sand
bars, by opposing the bill recommended by
United States Engineer Farquhar, and the
Quincy River improvement convention tc
prevent such things-this fact and this record
is evidence enough to me that his object in
going to Congress is not to benefit the honest
people of this district, but to carry out the
private schemes, and promote the private
interests of the rings and corporations in
and around Minneapolis who live
by plundering the governments lands, and to
make all publIclinterets and all the interests OF
his district secondary and subseryiens TO the
greed and avarice of the rings whose money
paid Tor his seat in Congress, aud prostituted
the free ballots of the people by bribery and
corruption. broad gauged people need q
broad guaged representa- i've.
Washburn ts a narrow gauged machine poll
uclan. Gen. Sioley is broad gaugel states.
man.
Just compare the two men. Imagine Gen.
Sibiey schemiDg to get bill through Con
gress TO license stealing timber from govern
ment lauds. Imagine Gen. Sibley working il