Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-25
THE FIFTH DISTRICT IMBROGLIO.

THE FIFTH DISTRICT IMBROGLIO.
Buy All You Can and Bmadose the Rest
The Grand Old Party Ruled by Money
| Whisky and ShutIdu0gery.''
To the Editor of the Globe:
| The friends of Mr.. Nelson in Stevens county
| have, up to this time, treated with the silent
contempt they deserved the malicious libels
published in the st, Paul papers under the pre-
| tense of being report OF the Stevens county
convention. But since it has become evident
that these libelous articles are being used to
cover up the gigantic fraud attempted to be
perpetrated upon the Republican voters of
Stevens county and the Fifth congressional
district, and to bolster up an appearance of
business to the doings of three or four men
who have undertaken to deliver over the Re-
publican party of this county to their master,
| it becomes the duty of every honorable citizen
| to expose this knavery and vindicate the peo-
pie of this county from the odium which
| falsehood andsmalice have sought to fasten
upon them.
In the beginning of this canvass, Mr.. Ed
| itor, we assert that there were not twenty
| men in Stevens county who had the remotest
| idea of supporting Mr.. Kindred for congress.
man, and the apostate who is now (true to the
| old saying) his most Jealous partizan was then
| himself an avowed Nelson man and wanted to
go to Detroit in his interest.
Naturally you will ask what has brought
ABOUT such change. Before answering that
| Kindred buster the change is much
more apparent than real and this apparent
change has been brought about it
seems, by plan which has been adopted all
over the district, and the order went out here
| as elsewhere "buy all yon can and bulldoze
the rest
The working of this beautiful scheme was
apparent in the exhibition of contesting dele
gates from all towns which conld not be car
of these caucuses would disclose the
true tactics of Kindred's manipulators
complete history Of the manner Of
conducting these caucuses if it were practi-
cable in o letter OF this kind. AS it is, we
stall give you few facts, au of which we
are prepared to substantiate whenever their
truth may be called in question. In the coun-
try towns the practice of these men was to
gain their delegates by bribery, and failing in
this to falsify the ballot, or have credentials
made out wrongly or incompletely, and fail
ing in all these practices to manufacture them
to suit themselves. In the village OF Morris.
knowing that they had no show at these
games, and finding themselves hopelessly in
the minority, what did they do?-telegraphed
repeatedly for help from the Sixth ward of st.
Paul: met their man at the depot at midnight
preceding the caucus, snd the result was
that at the caucus appeared q crowd of
gravel train men and railroad graders, who to
man expressed their intention of voting
for the young man from Crow Wing,
and it was upon the refusal OF the tellers TO
recognize Democrats and such men as these
as having right to vote in caucus of the
Republican electors of the village of Morris
thar the Kindred phalanx boiled.
And now few words as to the convention.
The chairman of the county committee, Hon.
81. W. Stone, called the convention to order
and declared that towns where there were
contes ting delegates would not be allowed to
| vote for temporary chairman, and that he
would not allow contests which were mani
testify trumped up and manufactured. This de-
cision was exactly in accordance with the
expression of one of Kindred's leaders here
| on Saturday night as la as 10 o'clock.
| This ruling, however, did not suit the Kin
| dred faction on Monday, as they had mean
| time discovered their weakness in several IN
contested towns which they had considered
solid for them.
1t was necessary, therefore, that contest
should be presented from those towns, and
men whe were said to have been elected dele
gates for Kindred knew nothing of it until
| they heard their names read off in the conven-
| ton. It was upon ruling Of such mock
| contests as these that the Kindred faction
| seized the chair from Mr.. Stone and attempted
| to take possession of the hall, an attempt
which was happily frustrated by the prompt
| action of the sheriff OF the county.
| As to the reports OF fighting, torn coats and
bruised heads, no such things ever happened,
| and the sheriff, Mr.. MaGinnis, will confirm
| this statement.
| AS to the conduct of Mr.. Nelson's canvass
in this county, we challenge the production
of any evidence of the improper use of money,
the use of whisky or skulduggery in carrying
| caucuses.
We, the undersigned hereby certify that the
| above is true statement of the facts as they
| transpired in the recent canvass in Stevens
| county:
81, T, Bevens, D. r. Sutherland,
Samuel Larson, 81. w. Stone, ST.,
Henry Foss, Ri. Hall,
E. Domers, A. A. Stone,
o. C.. Hanson, W. W. Griswold,
II, Hutchins, Geo. E. Darling.