The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-11-17
WINDOWS REELECTION AS
SURED.


We mentioned i'm the last FREE
PRESS that the complexion of the
legislature just elected was such as
to assure the return of Hon. VIM.
Window to the United States Senate,
and more full returns confirm the
statement and dispel! any doubts that
may have been lurking i'm the minds
of the incredulous. From Mondays
Pioneer Press we Gull the following
brief editorial relative to the Senator
ship:
MIR. WINDOWS friends, that is those
in the confidence of his canvass, and
protesting to know the status of each
Republican memher-elect on the
senatorial question, are confident that
he will receive ut least eighty votes
on joint ballot, without counting
delegations such rs that of Freedom,
which, though instructed for him.
are not heartily friendly to him. This
estimate corresponds closely To Mr..
Windows own as disclosed to the
Winona Republican, which quotes him
us authority tor the statement that of
the 10 Republican members believed
to he elected, seventy two are ahso.
lutely certain to support him for re-
election; eleven others are known, on
testimony of most satisfactory char
acter. including their own assurance,
to be favorable to him rs their first
choice; while of the remaining twen-
ty-Seven at least five, and probably
eight, may reasonably be depended
upon to support him, if not from the
start, at least after the first formal
ballot if second ballot should prove
to be necessary, and that it will he
there is now no reason to believe.
When we say that the list of eighty
members who were designated to us
as certain to support Mr.. Window
first, last, and all the time, did not
include Mr.. Bell or Mr.. Sargent of
Freedom, who now declares une.
quivOcally to the Pioneer Press that he
will obey instructions to vote for
Window; or even Mr.. Lawrence of
Wabasha, also instructed, and who
publicly pledged himself before the
election to support Mr.. Window, it
will he seen that the estimate pub
lished by the Pioneer Press was made
on sufficiently cautious and cOnser.
vative basis. There is no reason
whatever to doubt the assurances of
MesSrs. Sargent and Lawrence that
they will vote for Mr.. Window; and
If we suppose Mr.. Bell equally ODE
dent to his instructions, these addi.
tons make up the eighty three whom
MIR. Window counts upon as certain
Ia vote for him on the first ballot.
AS seventy-six is a majority of the
legislature OH joint ballot. this estim-
ate of his strength, if it is as reliable
us the sincerity of those who make
it, places his reelection beyond doubt
and confOunds in advance the schemes
of those who are seeking to repeat
the revolutionary expedient by
which Ramsey was defeated in
1875 after his nomination by
the Republican caucus. Besides
these eighty three votes Mr.. Win
dom counts margin of from five
to eight votes which will come
to him, after one or two ballots, if
necessary. The necessity will not
arise. Without placing implicit con-
tidence i'm estimates founded upon
personal assurances, which are often
deceitful. it is safe to say that there
is every reason now to believe that
Mr.. Window will be easily nominated
by AN overwhelming majority of his
party-a majority more than sufii-
! cient to elect him on the first ballot,
even if all those who shall vote
against him in the legislative caucus
should bolt, which we know very well
they will not do-probably not one of
them
From the persistency in which a
certain class of newspapers in the
State traduced Mr.. Window through
out the canvass, it is presumable that
they will not cease their lying Sian
ders at this time, and of course will
den. Mr.. WINDOWS strength, to the
last, and claim opposition that never
existed. The men elected to occupy
seats In the next legislature are those
possessed of integrity, honor and
fidelity and may he fully relied upon
to guard the interests of their State,
and carry out the wishes of their
constituency.