Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-02
MINNESOTA.


The gentlemen selected by the Republican
convention last spring to cast the vote of
Minnesota for the candidates for President
and Vice President thereafter to be nomi-
mated at the Chicago convention, having on
Tuesday, according to the statute in such
case made and provided, presented them.
selves to His Excellency Gov. Pillsbury, and
received from him the legal certificate
that the people of Minnesota 10y large
majority at an election said to have been
held on the % day of last month, had
confirmed their selection and appointment
by the Republican State convention afore-
said, assembled themselves together yester-
day about 8 A. NJ, and elected Hon. ]. A..
Thatcher, of Goodhue county, to be their
chairman, and the Hon. Pennock Pusey, of
Ramsey county, (who is the Governors 3
private secretary0 to be their
secretary, and then took q
recess to IL o'clock, noon, the hour fixed
by statute for their performing the duties
of electors Of President and Vice President
as prescribed By the constitution and laws
of the United States.
The electors, five in number, we're Hon.
j. A. Thacher, of Zumbrota, Goodhue
county; Hon. L. G. Nelson, of Kasson, Dodge
county, Hon. J. T. Williams, of Mankato,
Blue Earth county; Hon. VIM. Schimmel, of
St. Peter, Nicollet county, and Hon. Knute
Nilsson. of Alexandria, Douglas county.
Except MIR. Thacher, they are all of foreiYn
birth. MIR. Williams beng from Wales, Mr..
Schimmel from Germany, Mr.. Kuute Nelson
from Norway, and Mr.. L. g. Nelson from
Sweden.
At noon the electors again met at the gov
ernor's room and proceeded with the for
mality of expressing their party
choice for President and Vice
President by ballot. The first
ballot. being for President, resulted in a
unanimous vote of the five for James A..
Garfield, of Ohio, the announcement of
which was greeted with wild applause from
the fec etary, hearty expression of graf
ifcation from Capt. Russell Blakely, chair
man of the Republican State committee,
who was an interesting as we'll as interested
spectator, and one of the governors most
CHEEKY of smiles. The second ballot, being
for Vice President, was likewise unanimous,
and was announced for Chester A. Arthur,
Of New York, without those distinguished
marks of appreciation which followed the
first announcement. n B. Mr.. Arthur as
Vice President is of no account. He hasn't
enough Offices at his disposal to satisfy one
country Sunday school.
Nextly the five electors addressed them
selves to the task of designating the
one of their number who Is to have the first
pick of the official plckings which the next
President-as in duty bound, according to
4fo Of 81, x,sIl
the gentlemen who were selected by the
Republican State convention last spring TO
vote for the gentlemen who were thereafter
most unexpectedly nominated by the Repub.
lican national convention at Chicago. This
might have been delicate operation, plac-
ing Mr.. Thacher in the awkward position of
having to vote for himself, had not the good
Captain Blakely, in one of his blandest of
moods and with his most persuasive manner
labored with the ambitious Junior who wish
ed to be preferre d, and convinced him that
there would be time enough and place enough
for him after Blakely, Thacher and the other
old timers have passed away. As it was the
choice was harmonious]y and
unanimously made, and Hon. J. A. Thatcher
was formally deputed as official messenger
to deliver into the hands of the Vice Presi-
dent at Washington sealed and properly
certified transcript of the proceedings of the
Presidential electors of Minnesota.
Next came the choice of another official
messenger, whose important duty was to
carry duplicate envelope with duplicate in
scriptions, seals and contents, to the post
Office in St. Paul, with polite request--to
be addressed to Postmaster Day or in case
he was found asleep or absent) to one of his
oIo thoff ho
duplicate should, if the law permitted, bs
received as registered package and be con-
veyed as such to the Vice President of the
United States or some person duly authorized
10 receipt for his registered letters.
This honorable Office was accorded to Mr..
Williams, and he was further honored in
being made doubly an official messenger, BY
being charged with delivering to Judge
Nelson, of the United States district court,
a third envelope, the counterpart in all re-
spects, outside and inside, of those addressed
to the Vice President. Mr.. Williams ably
performed his duties soon after the electors
meeting was adjourned.
The three envelopes each contain a GER
tifcate signed by the five electors and sealed
and attested, as by law required, reciting
that their five votes were given to James A.
Garfield, of Ohio, for President of the United
States, and to Chester a. Arthur, of New
York, for Vice Presid.n of the Uaited
States. The envelopes, elaborately decorated
with bunches of red wax, are each endorsed
with declaration that it contains certii-
cate duly signed by all the electors.
While the certificates were being prepared,
signed, sealed, ETC., the electors and the
speci ators, most of whom were State officers
and their assistants, chatted with all the
pleasure which might be expected from win.
ners when drawing in the stakes, and most
cordially 'ngratulated each other on the
prospect of new President making just
enough changes to comfortably
provide for all the gentlemen
who have especial claims upon
him, according to the unwritten but we'll un.
derstood canons of the party Then, their
labors being over, the electoral college of
Minnesota was dissolved and Mr.. Williams
hurried to to the custom house; Mr.. Thacher
was genial enough to almost raise the tenn
perature as he walked out into the street;
their associates looked like men who were
sure of opportunities in the near future;
and Capt. Blakely he Just looked as if he was
ready to say, "It's all right boys; your tnrn
will come bye and by"