St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-15
THE TICK EFT.


The convention is over.
What is better, it is well over; and no
Democrat in the confines of Minnesota, from
the northern wheat fields of Kittson to the
most southern pasture of Freebom, will re-
view it with feeling tinged with anything
but graduation. 1t was convention so
emphatically representative of the people
that not trace of boSSiSm was apparent,
nor would it for a moment have been tOler-
ated. Without dictatiOn and without re-
straint the people of a great state spoke,
and with the unanimity of one voice. The
feature of the convention was its perfect
harmony. In the selection of delegates
each county must have chosen its most cour-
teous Chesterfelds, so evident was the de-
sire Oh every hand to exemplify the golden
rule: and the belief is candidly avouched
that a blarney stone was Saluted by every
delegate, as a ceremony as essential as the
presentation of credentials. Harmony was
everywhere and the only commodity more
abundant was good will.
Not boss was present.
Good-natnred and harmonious as was
that representative body of Democracy its
temper would never have withStOod the
presence of so obnoxious and undemocratic
an article. BY common and unSpOken con-
sent, all domineering and overmastering
were LETT, with chickering's, Quarrels and re-
sentiment. at the door Of the convention,
lust as, in Eastern countries, the soiled
fOOtgear is left at the door of the mosque
2, II. Kelly was there, but it was in his in
diyidual capacity as a Democratic elector
and although his Hear! hear" was fire.
ouently heard amid the applause of the
convention, like the deep diapason of the
thunder in the roaring of the storm, he,
with the others, was carried along in the
reSistless current of Isentiment-a unit lost
In the harmonious whole. NJ. w. Glenn,
the Warwick of Hennepin, was there. but
his voice when raised, was only lifted up
for harmony. Michael Doran, with whose
name the Republican mother stills her way
ward child, was there, but when his voice
was heard it was only to swell the chorus
of approval of the work the convention was
engaged upon.
Unity and victory, one and inseparable.
1.-THE convention assembled with TWO def
mite purposes and accomplished both. One
was to nominate winning ticket and the
other was to adjourn and leave no unpleas-
antness or bitterness of feeling. When a
disagreement arose, as honest differences
will, it was discussed in the friendlieSt of
spirits and an amicable settlement followed.
From the selection of the temporary chair
man, down through the committee work,
through the nominations and to the adop-
ton of the platform and final adjournment
every vote was by acclamation and not
once was it necessary to call the roll of
counties 1t is a matter of doubt whether
such another record was ever made in con-
yention, and it will go out to the people Of
the state with more force than the loftiest
argument made by the most fluent speakers
on the floor.
The opening work was rapidly dis
patched.
A feeling of uncertainty was perceptible,
for many were looking for the desperate
light so confidently predicted only few
days ago. There were the committees to
be constituted and the gauntlet of the mex
Orable committee on credentials to be run;
there was the permanent organization to
be effected and the state central committee
to be chosen, and in the intense quiet of the
early session were many fears of friction
possible in all this work. But as the work
began so it was ended and the serene sur
face, if ruffled. inclosed everything obiec-