St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-30

committee, the entire machinery of what
Is called the Estate central committee
was set to work for the purpose of
carrying out his further individual
ideas, and with the additional purpose
OF terminating the political existence or
usefulness OF the persons who might be
| opposed TO him, or whose blind and un-
| questioned adherence he could not de-
pend upon. Letters were written and are
Delng written to every locality in the
State, containing tissues of miSrepreSen-
tation and false and slanderous attacks
upon individuals whose lives have been
entirely without reproach. Newspapers
were subsidized, and on every occasion
Wnen reporter could be found whose
capacity included sufficient training
IN grammar, punctuation and good Eng
liSh to enable him to translate the
declarations of these gentlemen, these
declarations were made. being in all in.
stances either partially or entirely at
variance, with the truth, and containing
statements diScreditable to the men
who had alike the confidence of the
community and their fellow-citizens.
,, 1t was further proposed and stated
| that the Democracy of Ramsey county
would also be attached to the chariot
WheelS OF those uncrOwned kings, and
| that the delegation of this county would
De used In the state convention for such
| particular purposes as they might see
ntto employ them, and to that end
tnese gentlemen commenced the forma-
tlOn In this city of SO-called Democratic
c!uDS. Ihe method was an easy and
simple one. Such individual residents
OF each ward as could be employed
WERE HIRED
at varying rates, the average being SIS
per week, and their employment con.
sisted ln'the organization and carving
on Oh Democratic clubs. And after such
organization had been effected to
| greater or less extent, either actually OF
on paper, the demand was made by
them upon the county committee that
the primaries should be held at such
places as they might indicate; that to
each OF such organizations should be
! delegated the appointment of one OF
more OF the several judges, and that in
each and every other respect as they
saw tit to demand, the county commit,
tee should absolutely surrender its
functions and the performance of its
duties.
Again, perhaps, we may be pardoned
| for not having transferred the trust re.
posed in us by the Democratic voters
of this community to the management
OF the S15-a-week statesmen who have
been SO kindly provided for us by the
| gentlemen we have referred to. And
now we are threatened with a political
| revolution. Messrs. DOran and Kelly
have become the apostles of purity in
| elections, and through the mouths and
hands OF the young gentlemen of liter
airy attainments who still remain in
their employ they occupy themselves
with denunciations of men who. until
they differed with these two gentlemen,
stood IN this community without re-
| proach.
We presume that the delegation nom-
mated by the late Democratic county
convention to our state convention are
amply able to take care of themselves.
| Speaking for the Democrats of this COM
munlty, we think we may safely entrust
the welfare and principles of the Demo-
| cratic party to their hands. If it is true
| that all these gentlemen have been act
i've participants, as well as the success
ful candidates, at an election which has
been carried on by fraud, intimidation
| and chicanery, the sooner that the peo-
| pie OF this community and the state at
| large are advised of such fact the better;
but it is strange that these men have
| through their
ENTIRE LIVES
| succeeded in so successfully hoodWink-
| ing the community wherein they have
lived-that not until the advent of Hon.
Michael DOran has their duplicity been
| discovered.
We dO not, nor do they, as we are ad-
| viSed, intend at present to enter into
| the race for affidavits, or the deluge of
denunciation which is now threatened.
| If the campaign shall consist of a war
| of affidavits, we would advise that an
! armistice should be agreed upon be-
| tween both parties, and it should be
| further agreed that none of these affi-
| davitS should relate to legislative man
| ipulations or occurrences, as we have
no desire to destroy the chief industry
or means of livelihood of any person,
| even though we may differ from them
| in political methods. We are further
| of the opinion that the denunciatiOns
! recently poured upon the mayor of this
| city would have come with better grace
| from one who had resided here suffi-
| cient length of time to have become ac-
| quainted with the real character of Mr..
| Smith. And we point with pride to the
| fact that, however low the Democracy
| fallen, that the gentleman who
was foremost IN his denuncia-
tions and announcements of his
| hereafter to- be introduced affidayits,
| less than year and half ago, on the
| 18th of March, arrayed in a glorious
| sash and waving the baton, proudly
| rode as chief marshal at the head of the
very men whom he now denounces as
ballot-bOX suffers and repeaterS; and it
might be, perhaps, curious inquiry to
| ascertain whether or not change has
taken place in the hosts or in the mar
shall.
The Democracy of Ramsey county
have
NO APOLOGY
to make for their political action, nor
need they blush for their political prac-
ticeS. Like the rest of the community
we have our differences and disputes,
and we arrange them in our own way
| We are also advocates of the Monroe
| doctrine, and we dislike foreign inter-
| ventiOn, even though the prlncipality be
located in the Minnesota valley. We
| recognize the right of every American
citizen to cast his ballot according to the
| dictates of his Judgment and his con-
| science, and for the benefit of the en-
| tire commonwealth. No action of ours
| has ever impeded or endangered that
| right, and none ever will, and neither
| national committeeman, nor state central
| committeeman, nor any other Organiza-
| ton will ever succeed in imperiling the
exercise of that right by ourselves.
Democratic County Committee.
For the Committee:
JOHN B. OLIVIER, Chairman.