St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-30
AFTER THE STOR

AFTER THE STORM.
Some of the Obstacles which the
Mortified Convention Has Placed
in the Pathway of Candidate Reed.
The Mortified convention developed some
striking and peculiar features which were
not clearly brought out by the telegraphic re-
ports. The fact has dawned upon the
minds of large number of the men who
nominated Mr.. Herbert that he has some very
weak points, and it will not be an easy mat
ter to elect him. In the first place Capt. Reed
showed that he was disgruntled, and did not
feel very kindly toward the nominee, when
he introduced his Fitz-John Porter reSOlrl-
ton as an amendment to the platform. 1t
was deliberate stab at Mr.. Herbert. 1t
was meant for him, and for nobody else
and for no other purpose. Mr.. Herbert'S
managers and friends recognized this fact
very clearly, and they were exceedingly
bitter after the adjournment of the conven-
ton in denouncing Capt. Reeds action.
They felt the sting of it keenly and were
not slow to resent-under their breaths.
They realized that it would not do to openly
antagOnize the Mcleod men, by opposing
him and talking back, and so
they swallowed the insult silently
but sulleniy, and made no sign.
Capt. Reed knew just what he was doing
when he made the motion to amend the
platform. He had previously appeared be-
fore the committee on resolutions and at
tempted to incorporate his FitZ-J ohm Porter
plank in the platform. Failing to accom-
pliSh his object at that time, and smartng
under defeat, after the nomination of Her.
bert he deliberately concOcted this plan to
cripple and embarrass his successful oppo
nent He knew that Herbert had publicly
supported Porter and advocated his rein
statement to the rank of general in the
army, and he calculated that if the conven-
ton put plank in the platform
DENoUNCING PORTER
it would humiliate Herbert and place
him in an awkward position in con-
Quoting his campaign. and this will be the
result Herbert's friends realize it and
are very sore toward Reed for placing them
in this position and offering a gratuitous
insult to the candidate of the party. Ii
Herbert stands by the platform he will nee
essarily ALLEVIATE large soldier vote, and
Oh the other hand if he refuses to indorse
this plank of the platform he will be COM
PEELED to go back on his own
record. which would disgust many
voters who are now his friends.
Mr. Herbert is thus compelled to grasp one
horn of the dilemma or the other. In either
event the Democratic candidate will be the
gamer. The fact that Capt. Reed intro
duced this resolution is evidence that he
does not feel very kindly toward Mr.. Her
bert, and it is not probable that he or his
friends will give tue nominee very cor
dial support. 1t Iss certain. therefore, that
this FitZ-John Porter matter will he seri-
Gus stumbling block in the path of the am
bilious Red Wing editor. 1t will take some
time for Capt Reeds sores to heal. He
talks guardedly but it is plain that beneath
the surface there is much that would like
to come out. Coming up on the train yes
terday from Northtield, the captain talked
great deal. He said if he had been NOM
mated the Republican majority in the dis
trict would have been 3, 900, but when asked
what Herbert's majority would be, he would
say nothing. He asserted, however. that
the district was reliably Republican.
Denny he claimed was dead duck, and he
ascribed his defeat to that gentleman. He
was also inclined to be trit1e uncOmpli-
mentary to Judge Macdonald, and gave
emphatic denial to an assertion
made by abystander that the judge was
IMPARTIAL AND NoNPARTIsAN
on the bench. He chargd that Macdonald
had been lobbyist and politician, and
that he was one of the most pronounced
partisans among the judiciary of Minnesota.
He realized, he said, that Strait had also
contributed to his defeat. In fact. the cap
tain seems trifle sour at most everything.
and most everybody. Another matter was
developed in the convention which may
tend to embarrass Mr.. Herbert. Before
the convention it was charged by prominent
Rice county Republicans that the Goodhue
county delegation to the state convention
had broken faith with them, deserving Pat
tee, their neighbor, ard going over to
Clapp, The Rice county delegation, for
this reason. did not very warmly indorse
Herbert's congressional aspirations, which
was shown by the fact that majority Of
the Rice county delegates to the congress
sional convention would not support Her
bert until the last moment, when. to break
a tiresome and improbable deadlock, they
consented to swallow him. Everybody
understood that they did this under protest,
and that they would gladly have voted for
some new man if he had been brought out
Despite the denials of the GOodhue
men that they had played false
with Pattee it was fact. that the Rice
county delegates refused to accept any
apologies, and were not disposed to sup
port Herbert. Those who were at North
field in the interest of harmony, for pru-
dental reasons attempted to pooh-pOOh
the idea that Pattees friends entertained
any malice, and that the action of Goodhue
in the state convention was being used to
Herbert's detriment in the congressional
convention. but it was true all the same.
And after the adjournment of the conven-
ton, and Herbert had pulled through by
the skin of his teeth, by the aid OF Denny's
friends, the GoOdhue men discerned the
negro in the wood-pile and were very
wrathy, though they did not boil over in
public. Two or three of the more out
spoken Goodhue delegates, laying caution
and diplomacy aside, soundly denounced
the Rice county men, and intimated that in
future Goodhue would take occasion to pay
off some political scores There were men
in Rice county. they said, who aspired to
political preferment, and some day
these men would want an office,
then Goodhue would be in position to
reciprocate "a neighborly courtesy" as
Rice had done in this instance with Good
hue. Of course, the Goodhue delegates,
for policy's sake, were careful not to talk
this openly in the presence of any of the
Rice county men. but they felt it keenly all
the same. and talked it, too. This state of
affairs will, Of course reach the ears OF
the people of Rice county, and the feud
will necessarily become more intense,
which will not inure to the benefit OF Mr..
Herbert, and thus another stumbling block
is placed in the way of Mr.. Herbert by his
own convention. He will hear from it
later. G. d. E.
Sub seq uent to the Battle,
1t was Denny who nominated Herbert.
Herbert is on record as in favor Of Fitz
John Porter. The soldiers will see about it.