St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-10
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
Convention.

To the Editor of the Globe:
Sir: The long threatened anti-Kelly-Doran
conference is now an event of the past. The
indictments have met, issued a manifesto,
passed nu mber of resolutions, and now it is
in order for the 10000 Democrats of this
state, referred to by Mr.. Buck, to discuss
their action and pronounce upon it according
to their Judgment,
Minnesota at the last election went Repub-
Gcan by plurality of 41,620, increasing its
| record of 1880. Governor, congressman, down
to poundkeepers are Republicans. Luckily
the nation was more sensible as q nation than
this state was as state, and. by the election
of President Cleveland, a number OF Offices fell
to the disposal of the Democratic party in
Minnesota.
The president and his advisers were not
only expected to Justify the professions of
Democracy by their policy, but to replace
nearly all the Office holders in the nation with
| others. To save the president and heads of
| departments ANNOYANCE on account
| OF recommended oHS from different
| sets of indorsers OF different candidates for
| the same offices throughout the state, it was
| resolved, at a meeting Of representative
| Democrats held at St. Paul. to appoint the
| Hon. P. II. Kelly, member or the national
committee, and the Hon. NJ Doran, chairman
| of the central committee. to finally indOrse
all applications for offices from Minnesota
| 1t was an experiment adopted in an emer-
gency, and ought to be judged by its results
| and in spirit of fairness to all At the con-
ference at which Messrs. Kelly 81 DOran were
appointed an indefensbe resolution was
passed against Mr.. Donnelly, which received
| almost universal condemnation throughout
| the state from fair-miEded men of all parties
and Mr.. Donnelly should have Deen shrewd
| enough, from his present vantage ground
| to have avoided the mistake his enemies COM
mitted i'll deIouncing MIN and passing q reso-
| luton against him in the absence of himself
! and friends.
| ION what grounds can it be argued that what
| was unfair to Mr.. Donneliy in April, 1885, is
| just in principle to Messrs. Kelly and Doran
| in July, 1886, when one of the gentlcmed to
| be slaughtered at Il packed convention, to
which admission was obtained by ticket, was
at that time sailing the ocean blue" and
| both were absent from the state.
| How did MeSSrS. DoEDelly and Buck pract l.
| caliy illustrate what they theoretically as
! serted? In bitterness OF spirit Mr.. Buck as
| serted that the resolution appointing Messrs.
| Kelly and Doran has bought humiliation
| upon the Democracy" Yet upon the same
| platform on which he stood standing
Mayor Ames with his 5000 majority Of Min
neapols votes, a practical contradiction to
| the theoretical opinion advanced.
The chairman of the convention. Judge
| Smith, advised that there should be no
| vituperation in the convention, rel
Their should war be made upon in
divduais, yet if the resolutions of
sympathy with agricultural md othcr labor
| ers and the recital of the principles of
! Democracy, which Messrs. Doanelly and
| Buck have no more right to appropriate than
any other memte; OF the party has, wore
| eliminated, the balance OF the manifesto and
| resolutions were exactly what the chairman
| advised ought not to be.
| Theoretically Mr. Buck denounced the sys-
| ten that has been in pr ctical operation for
| fifteen months yet strangely enough he neg
fpotQi TO iUStuncp iifJS trlte what he
| so strongly denounced.
The conve ltion Insisted that the appoint
| ment OF MeSsrs. Kelly and Doran was apolit-
zeal sef-apparent crime. and then
turned completely around and Sclidly kicked
| itself By voting conf ence in II president AMI
his cabinet, every one of whom, on the
| authority OF Mr. Do NELL. with tae sole ex-
| ception of Secretary Lamar, were influenced
| by MeSSrS. Kelly and Doran. 1t is supposed
that federal oifiee-holderS are expected in
their different localities 70 support the Demo
attic party, but this amusing convention,
not content with enron MessrS- Kelly "
Doran; not satisfied with defining the whole
duty OF Democrats in Minnesota; after hurl-
ing at an inofensive electorate the grave
conundrum, why has one man greater
right to seek Office than others? And after
q assuring open mouthed audience that
''they are not messengers OF political nate,
that they desle peace and harnony IN the
| party, and that their object is to purify and
save, when their convention was run down.
wound it up again to resolve themselves into
u civil service committee and proceeded &c
loudly ask their Democratic friends through
out the state TO watch federal officehoders
in their different localities and send them
down sworn statements o. their conduct
after which the convention dissolved, not OF
aeco int of inherent modesty.
these same gentlemen are cordially invited
TO every level-headed Democrat throughout
the state now. after they have had their cir
Gus, to jerk their coats off and turn the pres
ent 1880 Republican plurality of this state
into an equally respectable, in figures, Demo
cratic plurality sometime next November.
We shah need every one of Kelly Y Doran I
infantry, every Donnelly sharpshooter and al
the Buck artiilerymen in sight to fgh
shoulder to shoulder in this BLOODY Fifth