Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-28
THE HOME VOYAGE.
Interview suith the Minnesota Delegation
as They Passed Through Chicago.
[Chioago Tribune, June 26

Interview apith the Minnesota Delegation
as They Passed Through Chicago.
[Chioago Tribune, June 26
The Minnesota delegation, under the cap
taincy of Mr.. p. II. Kelly, of st. Paul. az
rived in the city yesterday fresh from Gin
cinnati, and made themselves at home at the
Grand Pacific Hotel. They are: P. H. Kelly
and Robert Smith, st. Paul; w. w. McNair,
Minneapolis; Louis Evans, st. CLOUD; ]. G..
Pierce, Red Wing; Il. III. Everett LIE Sueur;
l.. L. Baxter, Chaska; Gen. Ell. w. LANDER
ton, Winona: j. j. Thornton, ST. James, and
Judge H. II. Wells, Preston. AS has been
stated before, this delegation, as body, is
probably as solid one financially as any that
was at Cincinnati, and represents the best
element of the Democracy of the State. Col.
Baxter and Col. McNair were the two origin
al Outspoken Hancock mon in the delegation,
and Mr.. Kelly has been Gen. Hancock's
friend fer twenty years. They come home feel
ing happy, and seem to be proud of the fact
that they voted as unit for the successful
man every time. Mr.. Kelly, who has been
chosen as member of the National Demo
cratic committee in place of Judge Lochren,
is most energetic worker, a genial gentle
man, and one of the leading merchants of
the Northwest. He is spoken of as the can
didate for Congress against the Hon. W. d.
Washburn, but, as Intercollegiate re-
marked, ''Does not stand much of show of
success, though he would get larger vote
than any other Democrat in the district"
Mr.. Kelly said: "The Hancock forces, when
We got to Cincinnati, had the poorest kind Of
an organization. They were scattered all
about after the first ballot on Tuesday even
| ing. And, by the way, want to say that
Cincinnati is the poorest place 1 ever saw
to hold a convention In. The hotel
accommodations were very poor. At
the new Central we found the table
poor and dirty. We packed up there
and left, and told the proprietor it wasn't po-
sition we wanted but society. He looked at
US in dazed amszement and We marched out
| with flying colors, and stopped at the Bur
| net house.. This was fair compared to what
| We had had. The arrangements for the con.
| vention were the poorest I ever saw, and
| nothing like as good as what you had in Chi
| cago. The press were execrably provided
| for, and had to see to it personally that q
representative from the st. Paul GLOBE got
place to write, and he got it, too. We had
| to go around like beggars every day to get
our quotas of tickets. Mayor Prince was in
Chicago, and he certainly made lots of trou-
bic for himself. He could just as we'll have
given US all our tickets for the entire time Of
the convention on one day, and let US do as
we pleased with them. But Boston culture
ruled.
"Dut coming back to frat principles.
There was an effort made to get US to go
over 10 Hendricks, but we refused. The
Hancock campaign was run by Gen. Frank
lin and Gen. Badly Smith, of the regular
army, Smalley, of Vermont, Congressman
Ellis, of Louisiana, and Col. Burke, of the
New Orleans Democrat, Col. Woods, of
Louisiana, Senator Wallace of Pennsylvania,
and myself. met some of the gentleman
but they had no methods of organization,
and it was not until Senator Wallace and
myself got together that any decisive action
was taken, and we worked with the result
shown Thursday morning. The Wisconsin
and Illinois delegations did we'll by US, and
it was as much through them as any other
that the result was attained. The great State
of New York, with its seventy delegates, was
all at sea. One delegate was suspicious of
the other, and hence they had no influence
on the convention. With Tilden and Sey
mour out of the way, you can see that it was
not hard to spring another man and very
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