St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-30
A Platform From Which More
Was Cm tied Than
Was Put In.
Hall Notified Of the Defeat
That Is Surely Awaiting
Him.

In0ugh, that he went into the flgnt hon.
estiy, acted honestly, and died without
more than one or two groans. But he
and many of his friends will never for
give Maj. Strait. 1t seems to be the
majors misfortune to suffer from
calumny or something else in his own
district, just as Gilman does in the Fifth.
If anything goes wrong, ''Treacheryr'
shout the disappointed ones and point
their fingers at Strait. Unquestionably
had kept away from Red Wing Reed
would have been nominated.
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The game which the knowing ones
pretend to discover as being played by
the major, is that he effected HALLS
nomination without intending that he
should be elected. Hall has nothing to
lose if he is defeated, for he is state
senator and has competence secured.
Having secured a complimentary vote
and been defeated he leaves Strait in
the position to come to the district con-
ventiOn Of 1890 and say:
Twice you have tried to elect Re-
publicans other than me and failed.
Am | not proven to be the only candi-
date that can VIM" And then, accord
ing to the programme of the machine,
all of the delegates will fall down and
worship him. They say that the major
was not so very sorry for his congress
sional defeat, because it leaves him free
to pose as dark horse candidate for
governor, something that he was ac-
cused OF two years ago.
1t was funny to see delegates who in
1886 were enthusiastic for Herbert rush
npIl-mQll affnr Jall hic
nation seemed possible. Hall had not
the sligest claim upon their support,
and If they had stopped to think they
would have remembered that Hall has
always been accused of wantOn betrayal
OF Herbert i'll the campaign of 1886.
Maj. Strait did have the good grace to
send check of 500 to Herbert's cam
paign fund, but what did Renville
county and Hall do? The county is Re-.
publican.
Majority
In 1881 it gave Hubbard .................5 500
In 1888 it gave Hubbard - 100
In 1882 it gave Strait :. .................90 900
In 1884 1t gave Strait 400
In 1880 it gave Garfield d..........9O 900
In 1884 it gave Blaine ne....................7O 700
In 1876 it gave Herbert. ......... ...... 4
And yet Mr.. Hall was elected state
senator in 1886. The Herbert mem
must have forgotten or else forgiven.
The convention revealed one thing to,
many-that house file 157, with its bad
taint on certain officers of the state and
members of the Legislature, will in time
prove damaging to the political career
OF more than one Third district politi-
elan. The stories of barter and sale in
connection with that bill, and told at
this convention, were shameful in the
highest degree. SO open were the
charges made that two incipient candi-
dacies were nipped in the bud and laid
away. There were other ugly stories
afloat in regard to legislative tricks,
emanating from Republicans, and which
Strlklngly revealed the intense Repub-
lican harmony prevailing in that section
of the state.
The original platform submitted by
the committee on resolutions is in the
possession of an Interested party to the
proceedings. 1t shows Oh its face that
it was hastily prepared and clumsily
drawn. 1t is written in lead pencil on
rough paper, fair evidence that it was
prepared in committee and not before
hand. After the phrase Resolved,
That we indOrse with hearty approval
the platform of the late Republican ma
tional convention comes the following,
through which pencil marks were
drawn: ''With the following modifica-
ton, except as to the expression upon
the tariff Can any one tell what that
means? In the paragraph devoted to
the demand for tariff for revenue, the
words ''by placing upon the free list''
are stricken out This last elimination
shows just how near the platform COM
mittee come to being honest without
succeeding.
The committee appointed to notify
Senator Hall of his nomination spent
yesterday at the Merchants awaiting
his arrival at his farm. The committee
consisted of Gen. Chandler and AIesSrs.
Nelson and RailSon, Frank Wilson
having been unable to be present Mr..
Hall had been telegraphed for, and his
arrival was timed for $40 last evening.
The affair was purely formal. there
being no danger of his declining.
During the afternoon Gen. Chandler
said to the GLOBE that any animOsities
caused by the convention had passed
away with one exception. That ex-
ception must have been Capt. Reed,
who was in st. Paul all day accom-
panied by two or three tried friends.
Il was working in my potato patch,''
said Senator ID. S. Hall. ''when | re-
ceived dispatch notifying me of my
nomination by the Red Wing conyen-
ton. Of course l would be very pc
culiar sort of man did | not feel henored
in being selected by the Republicans of
my district for so honorable post. |
did not seek the nomination, and had
no idea that would be the nominee. /
have just been officially notified by
MeSSrS. Chandler, RailSon and Ives, the
delegates appointed for this purpose by
the convention, and L have signified my
acceptance of the nominations
The congressional conventions of the
state still unheld and the probable can
didates before them are: 49,
First DiStrict-Republcan, July 12..at
Rochester; Mark III. Dunnell, D.. Sim
clair, J. d. Leonard, G. II. Conkey.
Democratic. August /, at Rochester;
Thomas Wilson. f9f
Second District Democratic, August
IA: t. E. Bowen, Morton S. Wilkinson.
Third District-Demecratic uncalled:
John L. Macdonald az
Fourth Distriet-Republican, un-
called; Loren Fletcher, Capt. Snider,,
d. NJ. Clough, Judge Rea. Democratic,
uncalled; E. W. Durant, r. a. Smith,
C. d. O'Brien.
Fifth District-Democrati unealled;
f. B. Nash, Jr., Thomas Maginnis.
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The Minnesota delegates to the Balti-
more meeting of the National Demo-
cratic league leave tonight. A party of
from seven to nine will leave st. Paul,
and from Minneapolis. Col. Landberg
and J. c. HaineS.
From Over the Ocean.