St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-09
CAss UOUNTY,s ROW.
The Difficulty Explained by One of
the Leaders.

The Difficulty Explained by One of
the Leaders.
To the Editor of the Globe:
Your Fargo correspondent, who has usu-
ally been impartial, has allowed himself to be
carried away from the straight lines by the
excitement of politics in respect to the trouble
in the Cass county Democratic convention.
For example, few days before the territorial
convention at Aberdeen he sent the GLOBE
list of the coutesting delegates as
the regular delegation u, and made no
mention whatever of the latter, which was
admitted after full hearing. Again, in
commenting on the result, he referred to the
regular delegation which was admitted az the
! ''Baker-Ryan-Kennedyg gang" There is moth
ing unusual in the fellows who got left re-
ferrinS to their opponents as ''the gang" but
1t does not look well in one who is
supposed to be an impartial chronicler
of events to betray so much feeling.
The facts are briefly these. A majority OF
the delegates to the county convention was
for a straight ticket, while the minority was
in favor of lndorsing a county ticket prev1-
| ously nominated by an alleged farmers con-
vention, composed of delegates appointed by
a lawyer on the plan OF the Donnelly-
| Fuller convention in st. Paul This
| ticket was composed of seventeen
Republicans and six Democrats. The
majority of the delegates to the Dem
ocratic convention thought this was too much
crow to take at one meal. To force the In
dorsement Of this ticket, the minority at
tempted scheme to capture the convention
by having the chairman of the county com
mittee appoint the temporary chairman OF
| the convention without permitting the dele
gates to vote on the question. He appointed
man whose seat was in contest ana tue
latter claimed the right, without motion or
vote OF the delegates, to appoint committee
on credentials, consisting OF i've, three OF
whose seats were in contest, thus placing
them in a position to pass on their own con-
tests and that of the chairman who appointed
them. At this point the majority OF the del
egates took the matter in hand and elected
q chairman, who took his place on
the platform. Resolutions were passed
indorsing the Democratic administration,
affirming Democratic principles and
straight ticket was nominated. The minority
formed a little circle on the side indorsed
the farmers ticket referred to and hastily
withdrew. In speaking of the matter after
wards, your Fargo correspondent admitted to
the writer that it was ground hog" case
with the minority in order to carry their point.
There are two or three good men among the
six Democrats on the farmers ticket who
ought to be ashamed of their action in at
tempting to force the Endorsement of so many
Republicans. Having got their own names
on the farmers ticket they had secured all
the advantage there was in it and should
have been satisfied with their own
nominations by the Democratic conven-
ton. That they were not is conclu-
sive that there was bargain
to secure the Endorsement Of the seventeen
Republicans on the ticket. The talk about a
sell-out or trade at Aberdeen is all bosh. The
case was too plain. The writer was not even
present at Aberdeen, and was elected mem
| Der of the territorial committee in his alb
| sence. The party can never be consolidated
| in this territory unless its conventions con-
| fine their nominations within the party lines
Fargo, Oct. Z. MARTIN RYAN.