Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-21

He "Goes for" Dunneu and Calls for a Mass
Convention to Nominate a Third Man,
Perhaps He Means Cen. Jim.
Mankato Free Press
It Is nov evident that Mr.. Dunnell knows
nothing on this earth of such supreme Inn
portance as Mark 81. Dunnell. 1t was al
ways possible for him, by a semi-heroio aot
of self-abnegation, to have cleared the field
of all its dangers, and by that very deed in
sured future promotion. But every act of
his life demonstrates that he is not made of
that mould of which grand and generous ma
lures are formed. He is possessed of lust
for Office as Unsuitable as the grave. From
this abnormal appetite, the man must thence-
forth be judged. We now believe the story,
told by his regiment, that he was the first
man in Washington after the defeat at Boil
Run. Selfshness ,s the supreme law of his
nature. His flight from Bull Bun, his tele-
gram to ego to hauling sand," and his
"back-pay" history, all elucidate the base ele-
ments which compose his structure. His
appetite has grown by that on which 1t feeds.
He has come to think this district his per-
sonal property, and the Republican voters as
his vassals. It Grant was beaten at Chicago
by reason of his Identification with "ma-
chine" politics, then by parity of even
handed justice Mr.. Dunnell should be de
throned, for the worst form of machine "
political deviltry ever yet invented, has
sprung up in this district under his fastering
hand. Those outside of this district do not
feel the force of this statement. In meas
ure they look upon it as battle between the
i" ins and the outs.' Never was there a
greater mistake. It is revolt of the people
themselves who neither hold nor expect off,
cial favor against the machine in its most
shameless form. That the opposition
to Mr.. Dunnell is composed of those
who want his place, or places un-
der him, is an unmitigated falsehood.
Behind that lie he seeks shelter like a cul-
prit. 1t is rebellion of the people against
"machine" rule. He took this district with
fixed majority of ten thousand; he has re.
duced it to twenty-nin hundred and ninety
five. Thus travelling the decending grade,
he was admonished that he was not longer
wanted. That his hour had come. That
the measure of his political usefulness was
full. A man of sensitive and grateful ma
ture, covered with twenty years of Office
and emoluments, would have gracefully re-
tired, when he had discovered that he had
become an obstruction to Republican har-
mony and ascendancy. But not 80 with this
man of Unsuitable greed. His wolf-like ra-
pacity has come to destroy the best Repub-
lican Congressional diatrict in the United
States. Too long continuance in
Office and the slavish subserviency of his
vassals, has turned him clean daft. He has
set himself above his party and every Repub.
lican interest, and now practically tells the
Republicans of the district "you shall have
me OF will smash the party in piecesv'
The ides of November will teach Mr.. Dun
nell who is smashed. The only remedy for
all this, is series of mass conventions all
over the district, pointing to grand central
mass convention, which should place fresh
candidate in the field, free from all entangle-
ments, and thus by an appeal to the Repub-
lican masses, save the district, save our legis-
lative and county tickets and thus secure
that Tepublican ascendancy, now denied us
by this over-fed political destructionist'
Otherwise Mr.. Ward will be resolutely sup
ported and the victory will 60 to the enemy,
and on Dunnell's head must rest the sole re-
sponsbility.