St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-27
LOUNsBERRYFoR OSTMAsTER
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of rbe Next Minnesota House.
of Tbe Mex:

of rbe Mex. Minnesota House.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Nov. ga visiting Min
nesota politician gentured suggestion to-
day which is worthy of reproduction. He
said
1.-The Minnesota house of representatives
will elect Col. Lounsberry to some good posi-
| tiOn-poStmasie of the house, probably
"Why should they select him? He is not
| seeking Office, is he?"
mo, l suppose not, and the idea has not
! been suggested to him yet, but it is working.
| There are many reasons why he should lie
called into some office there. In the first place,
| he needs something of the kind. His Dakota
/ ventures have not panned out any too well, and
( he ought to have some evidence of apprecia-
ton from the people of Minnesota, whom he
has served long and we'll He was gallant
soldier. being advanced to the cOlonelcy of
! his regiment when he was only p years of
age. At the close of the war he went to Min
ness Martin and Faribault counties. Aft
erwards he lived in Minneapolis. and did a
| great deal of good work on the papers there.
| He ran for the legislature in taribault county
! in three-cornered fight, and when the votes
| were canvassed he appeared before the board
and asked that thirty-iye votes, an error in
! the returns from one precinct be counted
for his opponent, because they were intended
for him, and had been erroneously credited
10 Lounsberry. He declared that he would
not take the seat, even if the certificate were
issued to him.
THAT may have been credtable to his
heart, but it was not to his credit as poll
tcian."
well, differ with you. 1 believe it was
creditable to his head as well as to his heart.
l believe it pays in the long run to he fair and
square. This morning l had chat with j. J.
| RarDeS N the inferior deDaItmpuf Ha and
Lounsberry were captured at the first Bull
| Run fight. Louns Ierry was only private
| then, and was badly wounded. but kept in
| the ranks and continued his share of the
! fighting until captured. Barnes was sick in
prison. but Louusnerry refused to leave him
or allow him to go to the hospital. When he
| wa: taken down with typhoid fever Louns-
| berry nursed him until he took the same
disease himself. He remained in the prison
| on the floor, using brick for a pillow,
and recovered his strength by wearing
| out the disease by sheer will-power. He was
| the first man in mis- regiment to re-eniist. He
was Gen. Cutcheon's adjutant general, and
there is a letter on file in the interior depart
ment recommending him for the Dakota gov
! ernorship, in which Gen. CutcheOn says:
He was the bravest man l ever knew"
| George Arnold. member-elect of the legisa-
ture, was adjutant of Lounsberry's regiment,
and il is he who is determined to have Lounsi
berrs well fixed in the hou Sc
Wasn't Lounsberry turned out of the Bis
marck postofice?"
mo sir. On the contrary he promptly re-
signed when the new administration came in.
He said that Republicans had no right or eX-
cuse for holding Office under a Democratic
administration. He said that Republicans
| holding presidential Offices ought, prompted
| by self resi- ect, to resign at once; or if they
| had not enough self respect to resign they
ought to be kicked out. Hon. A. P. Edger-
| ton, president of the civil service commits
J sion, was friend of young Louns-
| berry, and when the Oung man came home
! the third time badly wounded, but wearing
captains straps, Mr. Edgerton complimented
| him and promised him horse and equip
mentS when he should become colonel of his
| regiment And that is how it came that
| Lounsberry had the finest horse which ap
peared in the grand review at Washington at
] the close of the war;
''You seem to know the colonel very well 4"
IL d and like him. As soon as L learned
| that Arnold desired to have Lounsberry n
| the house, in some position, I wrote
| him that ne could count on me and
| all of my friends to help him.
| guess there are great many Demo
Gratis, also, who would like TO see Lounsberry
/ there, although they would never vote for
| him. because he is u Republican. But he has
always spoken well of everybody, and every
! body likes him.