Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-20

lican Nominee In Town.-A "Globe
Reporter Holds Communion with Hir
MOT Anxious to Go to Congress;
but Determined to Defeat Dunnell--
Lavish Use of Money for Dunnell--
The Beef Slough Boom Company @
wisconsin to Contribute $4,000 t
Buy Dunnell Through---Ward's De
termination TO "Stick IA Chat will
Hon. j. b. Notwithstanding
Rosy for Ward from His Standpoint
"W. G. Ward, Wasecs," written with &c
broad and iberar' use of ink, met the gazt
of GLoEE reporter as he looked over the
register of the Merchants hotel yesterday af.
ternoon. Calling to mind the fact that the
name of "W. G. Ward, of Waseca," is just
now occupying more or less of public atten-
tion, and using up moro or less of printers
ink in connection with the political Kilken-
ny fight now in progress in the First Con-
gressionsl district, the GLOBE man decided
TO interview Mr.. Ward, and, if possible, find
out how matters stood with the happy IA
mily IN that benighted region. For, 10! these
many years the blackness of darkness has
held sway POLITICALLY speaking) in
the First district, and one Mark
q. Dunnell has been high priest of the
ceremonies enacted bsneath the murky
canopy. The time came however when
the devotes became restive, and determined
ID throw off the yoke of bondage, nd assert
their right to select new high Ipriest to
rule over them, and distribute such crumbs
as postoffiees, internal revenue Offices, etc.
70 drop metaphor and figure of speech,
however, it is well known to the readers of
the GLOBE that there was double headed
convention held at Waseca on the 7th inst,
at which Mark II. Dunnell and w. G. Ward
were nominhted as candidates for member
Of Congress on the Republican ticket, from
that district. Now it makes very little diff
ference to the GLOBE whether one, two, or q
dozen candidates were put in nomination at
the convention, for it has an abiding faith
that the next representative from that dis
trict will be good and true Democrat. 1t
may be interesting however to the many
thousand readers of tie GLOBE to learn Just
what the views at one Or both of the candi-
dates nominated at the Waseca
convention aforesaid, are, upon the
situation. It was with this view that
GLOBE reporter was instructed to call upon
Mr.. Ward and proffer to him the benefit of
its wide circulation and the use of limited
space in its columns to define his position
and state what he was "going to do about it''
anyway. Mr.. Ward is not very small man
in any sense of ths word, but there are
times when he is extremely hard to find, and
such was the case yesterday. But in the lexi-
con of GLOBE man "there is no such word
foil o7,d HpoIIx, Mr. IU,,5 ,roo -,
earth, and the reportorial inquisitorial thumb
screw applied, resulted in the following in
formation being wrung from the unwilling
victim:
Reporter-Senator, the GLOBE is happy to
see you in town.
Mr.. Ward-Drop the Senator, if you
please. I am plain citizen of the State, and
do not credit titles.
R.-Then you are greatly belied, aud po
litleal history is at fault.
Mr.. WI do not catch your meaning.
R.-Are you not q candidate for Congress
from the First district of this State?
Mr.. W.-Oh! yes. have been placed in
nomination for that important and honora-
BILE office by majority of the Republicans
of my district, and in Difference to their
wishes have consented to run.
R.-But Senator-beg pardon-Mr. Ward,
things do not look very harmonious in your
party in this district. 1t is hinted that you
are about to withdraw from the contest and
leave clean field for Mr.. Dunnell. How is
that?
Mr.. W.-Now [ know what you are after,
and have simply this to request. State
that have nothing to say. / have been reg
uisrly nominated by the Republicans of the
First district to represent them in Congress,
and it depends upon them whether I shall
do 30 or not.
R.-But MIR. Ward, the friends of your
opponent Mr.. Dunnell are saying that you
are about to Withdraw?
Mr.. W.-Then they state falsehood. l
regret the unfortunate condition of things
in our district, but as have stated, I have
been regularly nominated, and no matter
what my personal preferences might be. in
justice to my friends could not, and may
say, will not, withdraw, as long as Mr.. Dun
nell is on the track. If he steps off the
track am ready to.
Rep. you think be will withdraw?
Mr.. WI should judge not from what
his friends say. Earl S. Youmans, of Winona,
said at the time of the convention that the
Beef Tough company would expend fifty
thousand dollars, if necessary, to reel ect
Duuuolis t1S also SAID the NORTHWESTERN
road would crush me out. I should Judge
from these remarks DunnelI intended to
stick. He DunnelD told Mr.. Van Leuven,
editor of the Spring Valley Vidette, sub
stantially the same story as that repeated by
Youmans.
Rep-Does not this alarm you?
Mr. W.-Not in the least. 1 am fighting
all this corruption. Mr.. Youmans is
simply discharging an obligation. He
says SO. He has not voted the
Republican ticket for years but Dunnell
helped the Beef Slough monopoly so that
the mills of Youmans and Laird, Norton g.
Co., at Winona are benefited and they sup
port him. 1 shall be pleased to hear whsth-
or the Northwestern road propose to crush
me. l think I am posted about that road.
Mr. Ward was the engineer who built the
Winona st. Peter road, now Northwest
ern leased line. He proceeded to state that
he had placed the assertions at the
head of the columns of his paper, tho
Waseca Radical, and they would appear in
its the next issue. He was in the best of
spirits and while he declared that he had no
personal desire to go to Congress he was
unalterably determined that Mr.. Dunnell
should not.
Hon. u b. WuEetefd