St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-01

and faction. 1t was virtually the North
against the South, and in this the North
stands as the representative OF one state
as against division and CampbelliSm-
end CLIFFORD, so far as he represents
anything. 1t is true that the conven-
ton passed resolutions in favor of divis-
ion and two states, and MATTHEWS has
been claSSed as a divisiOniSt. Should so
improbable a result transpire as the
possession of all branches of the gov
eminent by the Republicans, they
would urge and probably secure
authority from congress TO frame
two, and perhaps three states.
The three-state idea is likely to be a
strong one with the Center when di-
vision is seen to be on the winning pro-
gramme. The result of the three days
contest at Watertown is the emphatic
defeat of the last ditch division element.
The representative of that faction in
the North was Mr.. POTTER, and lie
stood out from the combine of his sec
ton and the Center, and went down
with the extremists. The animus and
purpOrt of this combination are given
by Hon. ID. ii. TwoMEY, one of the
Fargo delegates, in published inter
view. Mr.. TWoMEY was member OF
the council in 1885, and a recognized eX-
pOnent of the dominant sentiment of
the party. He says:
The CasS county delegation has two
objects i'm view, viz. to defeat CLIFFORD.
and, if possible. to elect ALLEN, and
we were united in doing so. 1t was a
fight from the beginning"
F:nling t impossible to coml Inc
quite votes enough on ALLEN, he says
further: "A committee of three from
North and Central Dakota each was
appointed. and they selected MATHEWS
as being the most Objectionable to the
CLIFFORD forces. We were Tot so much
opposed to CLIFFORD as we were to the
district he halls FROM"
J. B. WILLIAMS. of Grand Forks, also
says: 81 am well acquainted with
MATTHEWS. His nominal on makes
me enthusiastic. He has always sided
with the North, and we will give him a
greater majority than any candidate
ever received"
Similar statements might be given
from others. The words of Mr..
TWOMEY are the most significant and
in operative. While there was pur-
pose to crowd out CLIFFORD on the
ground conceded in these columns, of
inefficiency, the inspiring impulse was
to lay out 1.-THE district he lis FROM"
Why was there such intensity of feel
ing against the Southern counties? 1t
was not question of geography, or
of hostility to individuals, but the
South stood as-the spirit of implacabil-
ity on the statehood question: 1t en-
bodied whatever there is of the demand
for division at the expense of statehood.
Those who formed the combination
with Mr.. TwOMEY were fighting the
element that would remain out of the
Union Indefinitely rather than accept
admission as one state. CLIFFORD is too
forceless and inoffensive to excite per-
Sonal animOsity. He was made the repre-
sentative of the tWO-StateS-Or-nOne sen
timent-substantiallY sectiOnal-and as
such all the forces that want statehood,
whether division is had or not, COM
bined against him. To emphasize the
meaning of the combination, as Mr..
TwONEY says, the choice was made
of the man most obnoxious to
the extremists of the South. Mr..
MATHEWS was a member of the COM
mission that took the capital from the
South, and was regarded as identified
with Ordwayism and the things gener-
ally OdiOus to the CLIFFORD section. If,
as is commonly stated, the Republican
politicians are never quite happy unless
they have downed somebody, high
state of felicity may readily be pre-
sumed among the members of the win
ming combination. They throttled the
faction that has stood in the way of
statehood, and sent to the charnel house
all the constitutional conventions and
fiat states that have been playing the
jumping-jack act in the South the past
few years. There will be no more
Quadrilateral conventions or last
ditch manifeStOeS. 1t was not enough
that CAMPBELL was stamped upon in
his own county. His SuDalternS-GIF-
FORD, POTTER, MOODY and all that ilk
must be taught practical lesson.
They are knocked down, and the ground
mOpped with their remains. The man
most identified with whatever is abhor-
rent to them is put at the head.
A leading point always made by POT-
TER, PLUNINIER and other divisionists in
their section has been that the North,
as the weaker section. would in one
state have no show in the division of the
public boOale. Watertown dissipateS
this fallacy. The powerful Center is
their facile ally, and ready to combine
and share the fat things. The South has
most to fear from this source.