Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-11
FROM A REPUBLICAN STANDPOINT.
Il Wide Atrake IndirfduaI Tells the Trssty
about the Rochester Convention,

Wide Arake TndirfduaI Tells the Truth
About the Rochester Conventfcn.
The following correspondence ap-
peared in the Owatonna Journal, the Re-
publican organ of Steele county, and
forcibly illustrates what any man, who
kept his eyes and ears open, might have
seen and heard on the day of the memoir
able give-away convention at Rochester:
Happening in Rochester on the day of
the recent congressional convention, l
saw and heard some things which NAV
interest your readers. For example, l
saw several business men of good repute
In Rochester who sorely mourned the
nomination of Milo White, while admit
ting that they participated in t he eau
cuses, and by their votes aided in giving
him the nomination. They plead as 8
reason for their course that Milo was
good fellow, and they wished to
give him the compliment of the
vote of his own county in the
convention, not dreaming Of his sue.
cess in the district convention. | heard
man say that if he had read his piece
before the ballot was taken he would not
have had four votes. l heard one man
ask another "What will they think in
Washington when they see him walk
into Dunnel's seat?" The other replied
"They will think we have vacated the
office and sent id fool down to tell
them about it." l heard several dele
gates who participated in the convention
and voted for White say that thew
were ashamed of what they had
done. L saw several who were
active supporters of White pick
up their hats and march out of the hall
before White was half through reading
his piece, and when asked why in sucH
haste, L heard them sneeringly reply
SCOT to see man." On the train up
from Rochester, on the night following
the convention, l saw two White dele
gates talking and heard them say, we
have done a poor days work. l heard
Collins, the chairman of the convention,
say that White was "troubled with an
almighty lack of abilitt" That he
fought to have read over that paper
and got acquainted with the writing be-
fore he went up there to make a fool of
himself before the crowd'' [ heard this
same Collins say IN his speech to the
convention that s'we want to nominate a
man who will unite the party to- day,
and go home resolved to send men to the
legislature who will re-elect Window to
the senate" l heard Milo White say,
speaking of the way the Dodge county
delegates would vote, that
"Edgerton went from Dakota
Territory over to Dodge cou nty to work
that county up for Windom,'' and he
significantly asked, edo you suppose they
will vote against me?" L saw the pup
pets dance as Window pulled the wires.
l saw the people chagrined at the result,
and bethought me that our people
need no longer commiserate boss
ridden Pennsylvania. They have a
case in hand at home. Window NOM
mated his SINE too" at Rochester on the
18th. The question that now canfrents
the Republican party in Minnesota Is,
do we want senator who not only wishes
to perpetuate himself in office, but also
seeks to dictate the nominations to the
house of representatives. This
same senator sought Dunnell's
defeat two years ago, and
his horde of official hangers on bounded
Dunnell from before the primaries in
July till the polls closed in November
1t will not do to say Dunnell's senator
ial aspirations are only-the result of Win
dom's persecution. The end Is not yet.
Let the voters ponder these things