Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-17
[st. Cloud Journal Press, July Is, Rep
Some Of the Reasons Why

The Times OF yesterday reads the Journal
Press lecture because it did not anathematize
the so-called Kindred convention held in this
city last week. 1t is not pretended that the re-.
port given OF the proceedings connected with
the holdir-, of the convention, the bolt, and
the election OF the two sets of delegates was
not full, correct and impartial-the gravamen
of the offense lay in our not denounclng with
hot indignation the parties engaged in the
bolt. That at least several matters intimately
connected with the recent Stearns county Re-
publican convention were not commented on
last week was for the one and sole reason that
We were dlsinclired to enter field of con-
troversy in which there had heretofore
been so much of local uDpleasan ness. To
have done anything like justice TO the occa-
sion We should have had to call attention TO
how nearly the Kindred bolt was counter
part of the bolt conceived, organized and
carried out three years before by G. A Gilman
when he was candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor; when, after having been overwhelm-
ingly defeated in the caucuses after thorough
canvass of the county by both sides, be
mustered handful of adherents at the court
house several hours before the time appointed
for holding the convent ton, went through the
motions of electing delegates, and immedi-
ately afterwards with his supporters took a
special train for st. Paul, This was consd-
cred by Mr.. Gilman at that time very shrewd
bit of strategy, but when he finds the same
game played at his expense he is filled with
virtuous indignation. His delegates wereo
elected three years ago to serve precisely the
same end that the pretended Kindred delegates
were elected last week-"for the self-eyident
and obvious purpose" as the Times forcibly
expresses it, "of depriving the Republicans of
this county of a voice in the organization Of
the Detroit (state) convention " The differ
ence between the two is the difference between
tweedle dee and tweedle dun. Neither had
any rights in q district or state convention,
but Mr.. Gilman made persistent though IN
successful fight to secure admission for his
delegates and thus override the expressed
wishes of large majority Of the Republicans
OF the county. The Times is very bitter in its
denunciation of the persons engaged in the
Kindred bolt; and admitting all that it says to
be true, there was not more 'characterlessh
person among those seven delegates than the
man whom Mr.. Gilman chose to head his
delegation and to argue his case before the
state convention, the VIGOROUSLY corrupt
j. Y. Brower-putting him over the heads of
some really respectable men who with mista-
ken good nature had allowed themselves to
be carried to these extremes TO further Mr.
Gilman's political fortunes. The many fea.
lures in which these two performances resem-
BILE each other show that in spirit, at least,
they were same, although IN the matter of eX-
ecution the one had the superiority which
any work by an old master possesses over that
by mere imitator.
We should also have been compelled to re-
fer to certain matters connected with the
present canvass in which Mr. Gilman played q
part with number of the leading Republicans
of Stearns county, who trusted in his pro-
fessed desire for compromise, that was far
from being honorable or creditable to him.
It was from reluctance to enter upon these
details that the JournQl-PreSs refraiued last
week from commenting on the occurrences of
convention day. The Kindred bolt had Its
counterpart in the Gilman bolt, and both
could be fttingly buried in the same grave.
out of public sight. We should not speak of
the matter now had not the TimeS-which &C.
cupies the somewhat peculiar position of be-
ing Democratic paper and at the same time
Mr.. Gilman's personal, If not political, organ
in this city-insisted uDon If