Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-08
9Th DISTRICT DEMOCRATS.
They Assemble in Convention at Fer
gas Falls.
VERY HARMONIOUS
AFFAIR
Z. r. BarBam, Of Stearns, Nominated on
the First Formal Ballet.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !

FERGUS FALLS, Minn.-The district con
vention which met in this city to-day, as
foreshadowed in the GLOBE yesterday, was
a rather quiet, peaceful and orderly as
semblage. The night and morning
trains brought in the delegates from the
different portions of this congressional
district, so vast in extent and so important
in its varied interests that it takes, Or
rather should take, the front rank in the
congressional districts of reorganized Min
nesota. Its people have too great interests
at stake to have it represented in the ma
tional Legislature by the abject tool of any
clique or body of men who have only their
own selfish and corrupt ends to subserve.
As is well known the district is overwhelm-
ingly Republican, and for years it has been
ruled with an iron hand by
a BAND OF UNscRUPULoUs sCREMERs
who have stolen the livery of the Republi-
can party ander which they have robbed
the people, and well nigh deSpoiled the
land. It is no wonder, therefore, that the
honest and thoughtful men of the dominant
party even reVolted at this corrupt rule, and
determined to spew out the rascally gang
who for years have been growing wealthy
upon their ill-gotten gains. They did do
so at the Detroit convention, but the ring
did not dare to let 90 their hold for fear of
an exposure that would not only compel
them TO disgorge their stolen plumber, but
might place some of their number behind
the bars of prison. The particulars of
4his struggle between the vile and the better
elements of the Republican party which
eliminated at Detroit, are too well known
to need repeating. That struggle is still
in progress and it is under such circum-
stances that the Democratic district con-
ventiOn assembled to-day IN this city.
To very large extent
the representative Democrats Of the district
assembled in convention to-day to counsel
together as the best method to remedy the
glaring evidence of the past, and secure
PURER STATE OF AFFAIRS
In the future.
During the morning hours the delegates
met in little gatherings and discussed the
situation They had no factious fight TO
wage. Their mann object was to take such
action as would promise the best prospect
of putting an end to the baleful and cor
rupt rule of the Window WashbUrn coali-
ton, both of whom, with nearly
all their henchmen and lackeys
who share in the spoils,
live outside OF the district They knew
that Knute Nelson was simply q tool in
the hands of this band of plunderers, and
that they had simply put forward pup
pet to do their bidding and trusted the
clanishness, not to say ignorance, of his
nationa lily to carry him through, and at
the same time aid the local Legislative
tickets in "Boss'' WINDOWS interest All
these matters were discussed pro and con.
All united in the one desire to
REDEEM THE DISTRICT
from the Window Washburn pine land rule
The following report of their doings in
convention assembled will give the readers
of the GLOBE the method by which they
propose to accomplish their purposes: