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

| Among the peculiarities of the Presiden
tial campaign is the now famous Windon
boom. It's origin is well understood. Th
Republicans of Minnesota are overwhelm
ingly for Blaine. AS between any outside
competitors a Blaine delegation to Chicago
from this State was foregone conclusion
Conkling was shrewd enough to see this
and he accordingly dropped Presidential
bee into WINDOWS bonnet. That BET
sWarmed.
The very small calibre of the present Pres
ident encouraged Window, and by tipping
his ears with points, he was enabled to estab-
lish lightning communication with the clouds
themselves. Ben Perley Poors and other
newspaper tools of Conkling's, telegraphed
to st. Paul the veriest balderdash in behalf
of the Window movement. They announced
with all the gravity possible that this and
that great man was turning, by intuition, as
it were, to Minnesota's favorite sonny.
When these correspondents met in
Chicago they chuckled with delight
to see how handsomely the soft sawder
had done its work. The history of the
State convention will be readily recalled by
the readers of the GLOBE. The s'favorite
sonny game was worked to perfection.
The Blaine men were oyerborne, and though
they came in and offered to pledge them
selves for Window as first choice they wanted
to be allowed second choice TO this the
convention turned deaf ear. The gorgeous
Yale who presided declared that the delega-
tion should be ''stickers'' every one. Amid
much smirking and grinning the penalty was
rubbed in and flushed with triumph
the sickly Window bonn was launched
upon the political sea. 1t proved to be SO
dead an affair tina I almost feel as though
the motto, "Speak nothing but good of the
Dead" ought to apply, but when recall that
it was never alive, that it was simply a still
born bantling, the desire to make histori-
cal record of the abortion, impels me to re-
cord the appearance of the Window corpse
upon the battle field In Chicago.
In due course of time the ten delegates
ought to have been clad in habilimeuts of
mourning for the early demise of their boom.
Capt. Blakely had, with due consideration,
secured a skylight parlor in secluded nook
of the Grand Pacific, where nothing would
be likely to occur to disturb the requiem.
Brother-in- law Douglas, the gorgeous Yale
and Tommy Simpson put in appearances as
undertakers, while Driscoll, McLaren,
McMurtrie, Doc Keith, P. M. Moore,
Mail Agent Childs, and host of
other Office holders filed the bill as mourn
crs. It was a jolly Doom, provided one can
be jolly when making an ass of himself.
AS matter of State pride, confess to
have felt absolute pity for the Minnesota
delegation at Chicago. Their position was
so jackassical that the worst enemy of the
Republican party could not have desired to
see State placed in SO humiliating role.
In all the preliminary affairs Of
the convention Minnesota was counted
as a cipher. She had no alliance with any
faction or any candidate save her own, and
the delegation was treated with silent con-
tempt by the other States. There was not
darkey delegate In the convention that was
not more courted and sought after than the
Minnesota delegation Other State head
quarters were thronged with friends from
ether States or representatives of different
candidates, and arguments pro
and con were constantly 1u progress.
I visited the headquarters of nearly every
Southern State, and never failed to find
scene of animation, and often an argument
in progress to attempt to convert some dar-
key from tie supposed error of his ways.
A call at the sky light parlor of the Mime
sofa delegation. was like going to funeral.
You could smell the effiuvia of the corpse as
you turned the corner of the hotel corridor,
fifty feet distant from the head or hin6auar-
ters of the animal. The only time
there was any real appearance
of life about the Window corpse was the
morning of the first day of the convention,
when one hundred and fifty or more Mime
sotians were gathered to secure the hundred
tickets allotted to the delegation for distri
button. Upon repeated calls at the sky
light parlor never found any outsiders
little solemn coterie of boomers would be
found in solemn conclave, but during all my
calls I never found any one from another
State present. Minnesota was allowed to
nurse her boom in quiet. There could not
be found solitary man in
all that gathering of 756
delegates, except the ten from Minnesota,
who would vote for Window and SO long
as Minnesota clung to her puerile boom, no
one cared to even speak to her. The dele
cation itself had no real heart in the job.
They felt in honor bound to obey the in
structions issued by the stupendous asses of
the State convention, but at heart they felt
ashamed of THEMSELVES and sighed for a
chance to display little manhood.
THE PRESENTATION.
On the memorable Saturday night when
candidates were presented the cup of morti-
fication for Minnesotians was filed to the
brim. Mr.. Drake, in quiet way, stated all
there could be said in behalf of Bill Win
dom. doubt whether even Drake ever real
lied before the paucity of his subject.
When he arose before the vast assembly to
present a name for the great Office of Presi-
dent Bill Window looked infnitesimally
small, and he sought to stand in his secluded
place on the floor and execute his instruc-
tions without gaining any pub
licity. When IN response to
calls he finally took the platform, he looked
sorry. It can be set down as certain that
the gallery gods would never have called him
to the platform, if they had known for what
purpose he had arisen. And then when the