Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-14

eordance with his secondipg speech. Tickets
to the convention sold from forty down tc
two dollars, according to the greed ol
shrewdness of the delegate making the sale
/ should have supposed that some darkey
who had sold his ticket for two dollars might
have been induced for hundred dollars tc
have recorded the nomination Of Window
with the understanding of course that nc
money compensation would beadequate to in
| duce him to add his vote to the immortal ten
Elliot, the darkey delegate from South Car
olina who seconded Sherman's nomination
was the only man from the State who would
vote for Sherman. ALI the rest voted
for Grant, but he helped oui
| the Sherman boom with q second.
I would have Clipped in a little myself, as q
matter of State pride, if the gorgeous gale
and brother-in-law Douglas had passed
around the hat. I think the Blaine men
from Minnesota would have also been will
| ing to ioin the Minnesota Grant force in
making this contribution, rather than have
| had the State left in such disgraceful atti-
| tude.
If the State was humiliated Saturday
| night it was destined to worse humiliation on
Monday and Tuesday. Then it was that the
boom blossomed in all its magnitude. There
were ten solid votes all day Monday for
Window, and as Mlnnesotians were met by
outsiders Monday evening the salutation gen.
orally was,
"Well, how long are these blank blank fools
from Minnesota going to vote for Window .
referred all inquirers to the gorgeous
Yale, and told people that didn't know any
thing about Minnesota as / belonged in st.
Paul.
On Tuesday, when Blaine was utterly
dead, having died early on Monday the solid
phalanx of ten was broken and three went to
Blaine. A moment later Wisconsin started
the Garfield boom with sixteen votes. Min
nesota might have done it with her ten votes,
but she had her putrescent boom and SO
three drifted to another dead man, and
for that ballot seven held fast to
the original corpse. Of course it was then
but a question of very few minutes when
the entire boom should collapse, and two
more ballots finished it, Minnesota voting
for Garfield when he was sure of a nomina-
tion, and it didn't make any difference what
they did. It only remains for the poetic
muse to embalm their remains in verse:
Ten little delegates standing all in line,
One went home and then there were nine.
Niue little delegates swinging on a gate,
One fell off, and then there eight.
Eight little delegates never heard OF heaven,
One went to bed and then there seven.
Seven little delegates cutting up tricks,
One broke his neck and then there six.
Six little delegates kicking all alive,
One got drunk and then there were five.
Five little delegates on cellar door,
One tumbled in and then there were four.
Four little delegates went on spree,
One got in jeil and then there were three.
Three little delegates out in canoe,
One tumbled overheard and then there were two.
Two little delegates playing with gun,
One shot the other and then there was one.
One little delegate living all alone,
He got post office and then there was none.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
While do not think the Minnesota dele
CATION to Chicago was remarkable for bril-
lianoy, the fault lay, primarily, with the ri
diculous action of the State convention in
giving its instructions. The delegation
could have no individuality, could display no
briIliancy if they had any. they were tied
down to O nonentity, and their usefulness was
gone before it had began. They did not even
dare to applaud in the convention. They
sat lust across the aisle from Conkling and
iust in. front of the Michigan delegation
which was red hot for Blaine. Hence if
they cheered one side they feared to offend
the other. J. V. Daniels, of Rochester, was
the most brilliant of all. He wound a yard
of red flannel about his neck and corked
up his ears with his fingers when the ap-
plause was il progress. That ought to have
been non.committal enough to have secured
another vote for Window but though six
Mississippi darkies sat on the seat in front
of Daniels not one came to the aid of the
boom.
From close observation of the workings of
that convention, fully believe that if ten en-
thuslastic working delegates from Minnesota
had been sent down in favor of Blaine, it
would have given him the nomination. The
loss of the State damaged Blaine more than
the mere ten votes. The ten votes of them
selves would have made Blaine on the first
ballot 295, and 1 have no doubt If
Minnesota had not given him black eye
he would have led Grant on
the first ballot. Gov. Davis would
have presented Blaine's name in a manner
vastly superior to Joy, and the Blaine stock
would have risen instead of fallen, as the
result of the effort. If Blaine could have
once led Grant, even but single vote, ne
would have been the nominee. The Rapub-
licans of Minnesota preferred Blaine by an
overwhelming majority. They we're de-
frauded out of their choice by the most
arrant of humbugs, and silliest of nonsense
known as the Window boom. It is little
consolation to read in the papers that Win
dom was serious and hopeful 1t is not
very consoling to reflect that but for the
" Window boom," Blaine would have been
the nominee. About the only reflection left
for stalwart Minnesota Republicans is
sOf all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these-It might have been."
81. p. II.
Rarkiss Is Willing.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. June 13.-The Journal
this morning reports by authority the decla-
ration TINT Hon VIM Hielman will under