St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-11
OLEOMARGARlNE MONEY

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bolt He is still Republican. but wont
support Lovely.
OLEOMARGARlNE MONEY
Used by Manufacturers Against
| White--LOvely On His Knees.
| Mr.. White says there is every reason to
believe that money was furnished to Lovely
! by the oleomargarine manufacturers to
prosecute his canvass. Mr.. Seymour, of
New York. told Dairy Commissioner Rice
OF Minnesota, personally, that he knew the
OleOmargarine people had sent money into
Minnesota to defeat White. The power of
the OleOmargarine ring was also felt in
other directions. Congressman Green, of
North Carolina, who was one of the sub
committee with Mr.. White, that reported
the oleOmargarine bill, was defeated for re-
nomination. and Alien, of Massachusetts,,
was slaughtered by them simply because he
voted with the friends of honest butter.
Hatch, of Missouri, was the only one of the
subcommittee who escaped their vengeance.
AS Seymour knows that some of the
Oleomargarine money came to Mime
sofa, the inference is inevitable
that Lovely got his clutches on it.
Lovely. since the KasSOn convention, has
made desperate efforts to cOnciliate White.
! but to no effect. His friends have made
Overtures to White, but they met with a
very cool reception. And. to cap the eli
max, after every other resource had been
exhausted. Lovely sat down, and, with his
own hand, wrote White a letter. And
such letter! l wish l could give the pub
| lie an exact copy Of it, Mr.. White allowed
Inc to read it, but would not consent that l
should make copy of it. Mr.. Lovely lit
orally gets down On his knees and begS for
Mr.. Whites support. Lovely refers to
their former friendship and the work he
has done for White in the past. He says
he has no unfriendly feeling toward White,
and for the sake of the party, if for no
other reason, White should support him.
The letter is very pleading in its tone and
| concludes in language something like this:
Il sincerely desire your support and hope
fully trust you may give it." Nh. White
answered the letter, as an act of courtesy.
and gave Lovely to understand that he
need not expect any aid or encouragement
from him. And thus Mr.. Lovely failed to
induce Mr.. White to fall into line.
HOW IT WAS MANIPULATED.
Mr.. White detailed to me the real history
of how Lovely came to be declared the
nominee at Kasson. think great deal of
it has never before teen brought out, and it
will be of interest even at this late day.
| Mr. White SAYS he made mistake in stay
ing away so long at Washington, thus Civ
ing Lovely an opportunity to set up the
pins If he had come home earlier he
could easily have secured a number of dele
gates which Lovely captured. But aside
from this. there were two things that de-
feated him-the candidacy of Mullen. of
Wabasha. and trade that was made on
L
Hickman, of Steele county, for district
Judge to beat Buckham, of Rice. Mullen
was the first stumbling block, but Hickman
was the straw that broke the camels back
| Wabasha county was overwhelmingly for
| White. In fact the county convention was
OutSpoken in his favor. at least twO-thirdS
of them being friendly to White. But
Mullen was a local man, and it was deemed
| proper to allow him to select the delegation,
which would give him a complimentary
vote in the convention. 1t was not
dreamed that Mullen'S candidacy would go
further than this. and he had assured
| White that he preferred him to Lovely
| And so it was understood that, after few
ballots, Mullen would be dropped and the
vote of WabaSha thrown to White. But
Mullen, in choosing the delegates, by some
means selected as one an inveterate oppo-
nent of White-A. j. Greer. 1t is not be-
leved that Mullen did this designedly
But, although Wabasha was for White, and
believed its vote would go for him when
Mullen was dropped after few ballots, it
was discovered, soon after the arrival of
the delegation at Kasson, that they stood
five for White and two for Lovely. Greer
had succeeded in making a convert. After
the second day TWO more of the Wabasha
x-ar1fO y-flT IN | nUnIT md NJ h..
ways been a mysterious and unexplained
feature of the convention. why did
they do so, and what object did
they hope to accomplish? Murdoch,
of that delegation, admitted that
WHITE HAD A MAJORITY
of two to one in the county convention that
selected the Mullen delegates. But Null
lens candidacy made a complication that
eventually ended in the defeat of both. He
had made no effort to get single vote in
another county, and Wabasha did not feel
very enthusiastic for him nor consider his
candidacy in a serious light. When Mullen
reached KaSSon, though. he thought he saw
| chance to win through deadlock, and he
| hung on like grim death. But some in
| fluence was brought to bear on the Waba-
sha delegation in the end, because on the
| final ballot White thinks he only got one
vote from there-and he is not sure of that.
He is not positive whether the one vote on
that ballot in addition to his certain thirty
| two, was cast by Stocker. of Wabasba. or
farmer named Haley, from Steele. II
certainly was one of these two. All the
others of the Steele and Wabasha delegates
but one went to Lovely and nominated him.
Dunnell was anxious to defeat Lovely. but
| he could not control the Steele county men.
He told White that if thew
were compelled to leave him (Dun-
| nel) three would go to Lovely, two
to White, and one wouldn't vote for either.
Haley, a farmer, he said. was anxious to
vote for White, and was one of the two.
But the man who declared he would not
vote for either evidently did vote for
Lovely, for some reason, and, if it was
StOcker, of Wabasha and not Haley, Dun
nell was not able to control a single vote.
At the best he did not control but one. An
erroneous impression has always existed in
regard to the personal preference of the
chairman of the KasSOn convention. 1t was
Mr.. Stocker, of Wabasha county, and it
has been generally conceded and never
contradcted, that he was a Lovely man.
Mr.. White says this was not the fact
Stocker was friend of Whites, and the
| latter believes he voted for him on the last
| ballot.
HOW HI WAS DONE.
The Deals and Treachery That Did