Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-30

and sore when the telegraph announces the re-
suit IN November that Hancock is President
and three Democratic Congressman represent
Minnesota in the councils of the nation.
OBSERVER.
WARDS CANDIDACY:
Gen. Baker Writes IncisiUe Letter-He
Proves DnnnetL to be the B0lter-ReaSonS
Why He Should be Defeated.
To the Editor of the Pioneer Press:
In your issue of the - inst. you are
pleased to express doubt as to whether /
am really booked for certain speeches in the
First Congressional district. The chairman
Of the Republican Congressional committee,
Hon. II. w. Holley, has SO posted me, and
by my express authority. II is OF my per-
sonal knowledge, being present and q most
attentive observer, that the Hon. W. G.
Ward was duly and fairly nominated at
Waseca. Knowing this to be true, under
the circumstances I should feel that my Re-
publicanism could be justly impugned if
failed to give Mr.. Ward a cordial support.
After twenty three years of answering fidel.
ity to Republican duty, 1 cannot expose
myself to SO serious charge. Mr.. Ward,
in my judgment, carries the only authorized
Republican Congressional flag in this dis
trict and that flag must follow.
am not unaware that the Hon. M. 81.
Dunnell assumes to be a Republican candi-
| date in this district So far as T am con-
cerned he might as we'll assume to be the
Republican candidate for President. His
title would be quite es good in one case as
the other. he is simply in the field as a
guerrilla, "fghting on his own hook" Mr..
Dunnell has overestimated his own impor-
tanoe as political factor. Having failed
| in the convention ana by adjustment to Sc
cure the nomination by coup d'etat, he has
sought to place himself at the head Of the
column. The audacity of tbs act at first in
spirsd brief following. But reflection is
teaching the people that audacity does not
make ambition virtue. It is only another
unanswerable fact, demonstrating that his
methods are wrong. To submit now would
be to make dummies of every man in the
party, and hand il over bound to its master.
Mr.. Dunnell has nothing of which to CON-
plain. He initiated the wrong at Waseca by
instructing his men to take forcible control
of convention clearly against him.
arbitrary act would not have been
necessary. But the men whose official pos
ition should have made them thrice armed
against injustice were but the swift registers
of their masters will. For once the ma
chine had gone too far, and Mr.. Dunnell
was slain il the meshes of the net he had
woven. He had mistaken the temper of the
men with whom he had to deal. They were
but the representatives of the spirit Of the
rebellion long abroad in the whole districts.
From that hour on, the story has been o
simple one. MIR. Dunnell is enacting, in
broad farce. the last desperate game of am
bition to clutch at fading power. His fran
tic Efforts to save the party are simply efforts
to save Mr.. Dunnell. If he cared fig for
his party, why did he not accept Mr.. Wards
magnanimous proposition for both to retire!
Or still further on, Mr.. Wards proposition
to submit to new convention? But either
| of these would have consigned Mr.. Dunnell
to political retirement.
The truth is that the great body of con-
soientious Republicans in the district be-
ieve that MIR. Dunnell is politically dishon-
est, and that his methods are eapping the
life OF the party. The Pioneer Press itself
has gone Though sundry evolutions touch
ing Mr.. Dunnell's fitness for the Office he
seeks. We may therefore be justly pardon
ed for not following its later advice On the
grounds of expediency, against the earlier
and better demands of principle. 1t is use
less for the press to longer affect virgin in
nocence with regard to the condition OF
things in the First district. The gauze
which is daily spread over the facts by the
two leading journals only serves to make
the nakedness more apparent. Sst it down
in your book of prophecies and calculations,
that the work Of reform in the First dis
trict will go on. The people have ordained
that Dunnellism must go,-the machine is
doomed. We have this battle to fight, and
| there is nothing gained by post
poning it. Our path is light
ened by your own luminous example
For an infinitely less cause the stalwart Re-
publicans of st. Paul and Minneapolis join
ed hands in 1868 to teach Mr.. DonnelIy that
he had become stumbling block in the
Republican path. Feeling that we have
| the affectionate sympathy of all those wise
Republicans, we take courage by your ex-
ample and profit by your admirable teach
inga. In that fight we let you alone, and
| we only ask to be let alone while we teach
MIR. Dunnen the same lesson you taught Mr.
| Donnelly. The whole responsibility Of this
ENHANCEMENT lies at the door of Mr.Dunnell
Seeing that he was an insuperable obstacle to
Republican unity, covered with fifteen years
of honor and emoluments, he could mag
unanimously afford to retire. He affects to
lean his action upon the advice of s'com-
mittee." 1t is of our personal knowl-
edge that no COMMITTEE was ever
appointed in the so-called convention.
Its suggestion was an afterthought, made to
street meeting after the convention had
adjourned sine die. Upon this thing Of all
he lays the responsibility of his acts. The
fact is, his candidacy lisa personal usurpa-
ton and should be so treated by every loyal
Republican.
After a careful canvass of the leading Re-
publicans of the district, I ana. fully satisfied
that the contest lies between Mr.. Ward and
Mr.. Wells. Republicans must cast their bal
lots with that understanding. Changes have
been, and are now going on, which narrow
the contest to these two. To vote for Mr..
Dunnell, therefore, is vote more than
thrown away. We call upon every Republl-
can in Southern Minnesota to prevent this
district, through the insane ambition of one
cell s~,Ao h. Io,,1 rs fha