Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-07
WINDOWS Retirement.

The long, tedious contest for L. s. Sen
ator to succeed Mr. Window. ended last
Thursday by the election of D. NJ. Sabin,
who received ''eighty votes sure" and
one to spare. The Legislature took thir-
ty ballots, all except the first ballot in
joint convention.
We do not hesitate to say that Mr.
Sabin was not our choice, indeed, until a
few days before his election we had not
thought of him. We trust, and believe,
however, the election of Mr. Sabin will
not be the occasion of any regret to the
people Of the state.
We are gratitied that Mr.. Window was
defeated. For this end we worked from
first to last as we were able.
Mr.. Window has been long in public
life. He had lost, if he ever had any,
sympathy with the toiling millions. who
make up the bulk of our population. He
had begun to assume the roll of the polit-
ical boss, and he played it effectually last
summer in the defeat of Mr.. Dunnell for
congress in the first district. OF course
We cannot say that Mr.. Dunnell would
have been elected if Mr.. Window had not
interfered. But everybody knows that
he did all he could to defeat him, and so
far as human beings can determine such
things, it was Mr.. WINDOWS work.
We do not say this because Mr.. Dunnell
had any better claim to represent the first
district than any other man who lives
within its bounds. And if Mr., Window
had been himself a candidate for repre-
sentative we should have said: Let the
best man win.
But Mr.. WINDOWS object in defeat
ing Mr.. Dunnell was simply and solely to
kill him off as a candidate for the Senate.
This was no manly warfare. 1t was the
work of the political boss in its most OBJ
jectionable form.
Mr.. WINDOWS friends became fully con-
WINGED of his selfShness when he came
from Washington, and was told he could
not be elected. He still insisted that he
was the regular Republican candidate
and he insisted they should continue to
vote for him, not as a forlorn hope, but
when he knew they were simply throwing
away their opportunity and jeopardiziny
the best interests of the state.
What did he carer
Then he remained in Washington as
long as he thought remaining there was
for his interest," and then hurried home to
do the very thing lie and his friends had
condemned Mr.. Dunnell for doing We
say. but on such Hypocrisy
The people of this state owe a lastin g
debt of gratitude to Mr.. Dunnell for Or
ganizing the opposition against this polit-
ical boss, and securing his defeat. 1t was
a good job, and the people will say, well
DONE"
This talk of Mr.. Window being the
choice Of the people, and the fifty Re-
publicans who refused to go into caucus
not representing their constituents, IS all
bosh.
If that were true,-that the people of
this state wanted Mr.. WINDOWS services,
why could he not be elected, with the
two Republican morning dailies filling
their columns day by day with pleading,
begging, and threatning, and with the
federal officers crowding the hotel CORR
doris and infesting the capitol from the
organization of the Legislature to the final
vote?
The fact is, the people we're not banker
ing after any more Windom-they have
had quite enough for the present, and are
entirely contented to see him retire to pri-
vate life.
We heaped honors upon him, and he
came to feel that the people were the
Obliged party, and he was simply bestow-
ing favors upon them by consenting to
serve them as their representative. The
people have now been heard from. Their
verdict was, ''Windom must co."