St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-09
ACCEPTED BY AMES.
He Replies to Doran and
Makes a Red-Hot Issue
for Him.
MIR. Doran Must Fight OR See
the Doctor Waltz as
a Victor.
Gossip Of Merriam and Fetch
ep, With the Events Of Next
Week Noted.
A Call for a Meeting Of the
Democratic Central Com
mittee.

paint.
He will enter the lists as candidate
for delegate at large to the st. Louis
convention, and will come out Yicto-
rious or be carried out on stretcher.
Michael Doran has flung down the
gauntlet and the doughty mayor of Min
neapolis has taken it up, with all that
the gage of battle implies.
"The situation has been first present
ed and then forced upon me, and [ am
ready for the result" he said. II make
no demand and urge no claims on the
convention, but simply lay the situation
before the Democratic party, for it in
its wisdom to act"
MI. Doran has been reported as say
ing he would not go as delegate to st.
Louis if Mayor Ames were member of
the delegation, and this declaration has
been taken up and variously commented
upon by the state press. Mayor Ames
regarded it as deliberate challenge
and he deliberately accepts it. 1t is be-
lieved that but for this, he would
not have allowed the use of his
name as candidate, and this fact
has created revolution of sentiment in
the breasts of his friends. 1t had been
the almost general opinion of those who
have always stood by him that Mayor
AmeS should not be candidate for this
honor, but those who had so expressed
themselves now say that since it has
come to so open warfare, AmeS should
go in and assert himself. In an inter-
view yesterday Mayor Ames makes
some very positive and characteristic
assertions, cracking right and left at
what he calls bOsSiSm, and intimating
very boldly that the anti-election
riot of 1856 was the result of
a Republican scheme. Yesterday
DR.. Ames made public his
REPLY TO MIR. DORAN,
the salient features of which are:
From the Endorsement which 1 re-
ceived in this city one year ago, and the
following which | had in this state as a
candidate for governor. feel that there
is no question about the future. The
Democracy. if they place the proper
men in the field, will succeed without
any question. We have dissensions in
the Democratic ranks, but the ants
only represent very small minority of
the Democratic party, and will be
showed under when the national and
local questions are placed before the
people for their selection of candidates
and representatives in their con-
YentiOnS.
am told that certain self-constituted
political leaders in my party have de-
CARED that they cannot and
WILL NOT SERVE WITH ME
if l am delegated by the people as their
representative. To these L would say
that it is time for them to decline
after they have been selected to serve a
constituency. l go before the people
now, not as candidate seeking nomi-
nation nor with an insatiate desire for
Office, but go before them, as [ always
have, in defense of their rights and as
an open and avOwed enemy of the
wrong placed upon them by mOnOpolies
and trusts.
You ask me if desire to go as a rep
resentative of my party to the national
convention at st. Louis. If my private
wishes were consulted should say no.
But Mr.. DOran, the constituted Sa-
chem of the Democratic party, says he
will not go if | head the delegation. |
think there would be ample time for
MIR. DORAN TO DECLINE
after he has been selected. / do not ask
or demand of any party any recognition
for my past services, tO-wit: | have
been called upon repeatedly to fill a
breach mown down by the enemies
guns, and have taken defeat when my
party has called for volunteers. A year
ago last fall my party called upon me to
and to see what | could make out of
the situation. In the previous election
Mr. Blaine carried the state by about
$4,000 majority. l pledged them when
was nominated lively contest against
monopoly and oppression. That | was
successful, not only in carrying out my
pledge, but in carrying the state against
the aforesaid majority. is evident to
every right thinking voter. | was
elected. but unfortunately for me, the
machinery which decided the result was
against me. OF this [ may have more
to say hereafter. What defeated me be-
You'd redemption was
THE RIOT
which occurred in this city the night
previous to election.
''DO | intend to make a contest for the
position of delegate from this district?
No, sir; under no circumstances would
l consent to be elected as such. have
carried the standard of Democracy
nearer to success as state candidate
than any man who has preceded me.
accept the gauntlet thrown down to me
by Mike DOran, and will either 90 as a
delegate at large, representing the state.
or remain at home. This is not resolve
taken by my own cnOice, but must be
considered as in response to the arre-
gance of Me and Nike L think it is
about time that the officeS-patronage
of the general government-shOuld not
be based upon the qualifications as to
whether you buy your groceries of Pat
Kelly or options at the
GAMBLING HOUSE OF MIKE DORIAN.
"The recent election at st. Paul has
lesson. | know of no nationality which
does or should stand i'll the country eX-
cept the American. If there is any
foreign-born citizen who has come
to America except with the avowed pur-
pose of becoming an American, he had
better pack up his duds and go back. |
am become sick and tired of this ever
lasting clang of 0ffice-seekerS who crave
Office upon the ground of their former
nationality.
GAS far as my selection as delegate
at large is concerned, l feel but little
concerned, but L here declare that my
first choice in the matter-even at the
expense of my own candidacy-is that
MI. w lllSlOn Slldli rcpTSSenG llllS us
trct. Outside of the local field l would
like to see
Z, ". DURANT,
of Saltwater, go as one of our repre-
sentatives to st. Louis, because he faith
fully and truly represents modern
Democracy.
about the troubles and petty quar-
relS Of our local Democracy I have
nothing to say. If there are any they
are gotten up by those who insist upon
having a row whether there is any
cause or not. | am fighting nobody
having honest intentions, nor have
any opposition to any among the wrang-
ling masses of my party who aspire TO
office. am through with local politics,
and do not aspire to any office in the