St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-04

proved was not the intention.
Now this charge is fully admitted in
the proclamation of our opponents.
They say that we demanded of the
county committee, first that such clubs
should designate one or more of the
Judges and the secretaries of the pri-
mary elections; next that the primary
election should be held at such times
and places as they saw fit to direct.'
1hey also say that mo attention was
PAID to the demands" and add coolly,
That the act of 1887 was not complied
with 1t is true" and attempt to justify
this bad faith and disregard of law on
the ground that their ''unbroken Gus
tom" was above the law, and they
deny the right of the legisloture to
control the primary elections or eau
cuses of any political party"
A delegation based upon such action
as is proven by this admission alone,
has no right in any Democratic conven-
ton, and we don't believe would be adj
mitted in
THE COMING STATE CONVENTION
IL we had no other objection to urge
against them. Our second charge is
that the primaries were called in the
direct interest of well known Repub-
Hcan, and with the intention of turning
the delegation over to him. This is not
disputed. The tickets which were voted
Tor the delegates to the market house
convention were all distinctly heaeed,
For Governor, Albert Scheffer." And
the delegates to the state convention
were Instructed to vote for Mr.. Scheffer.
and accepted the election under such
instructions, and now endeavor to ex-
culpate themselves by saying publicly
III their mrnifesto that they thought he
was Democrat. This is hardly cred
lble. AS well might such experienced
politicians aver that they thought Gov.
McGill was Democrat, or that Grover
Cleveland was Republican. 1t is too
thin; and Mr.. Scheffer, in his letter de-
cllnIng the protfered honor, expressly
says they knew he was Republican as
we'll before he told them so as after.
This action was betrayal of the
trust the Democracy had placed in the
Keeping of the county committee, and
also of all those connected with the
holding of the primaries, as we'll as the
delegates accepting positions to carry
out this treason to the party; and had
we nothing else to urge against their
admission to seats in the state conven-
ton than these admitted facts, there
should be no question about their being
unseated. 1t is a novel kind of Democ-
racy that will allow its chosen agents
to deliberately turn it over to the Re-
publicans by bad faith when it has the
power to arrest such action. We eX-
pect better things from the state con-
vention. The declination of Mr.. Schef-
fer does not re-establish these gentle
men as good Democrats. They
DID NOT
carry out the evil designs of the COM
mittee and their own sinister intentions
simply because Mr.. Scheffer would not
allow them to do so.
Our third charge is, the most out
rageouS fraud committed in the holding
of the caucuses. The proof of this we
defer to the proper time and occasion.
AS soon as the action of the market
house convention became known, the
gentlemen who were candidates before
the primaries, and who as we will show,
were elected, met at the club room in
the opera house, formed themselves
into convention and chose new dele
gates to the state convention. Their
position is this: A Republican vote cast
at a Democratic caucus is void, and has
no right to be counted, and as all the
votes cast for the delegates to the Mar
ket house convention were branded as
Republican, they we're all void, and the
only legal votes were those cast for
them. We think this position sound.
Suppose votes were cast at our Demo-
cratic primaries marked. "For Presi-
dent, Benjamin HARRISON" we think it
would be just TO suppose the voter was
a Republican and had no business vot-
ing at our caucus, and that his vote
should be rejected. Our opponents
stand Oh exactly similar ground, and the
state convention should reject them.
They object that if the county primaries
were void, we cannot claim to be
elected, and another call should have
been made and new primaries held.
We answer that we could not expect any
Improvement Oh the former caucuses
from the county committee, and we did
the only thing that could be done under
the circumstances. Their manifesto af-
fordS us another
STRONG ARGUMENT
why they should be rejected-they
threaten that if they are not admitted
no member Of congress from this dis
trict nor no state officer on the Demo-
cratic ticket can be elected. They say:
ave represent the most powerful and
consistent Democratic constituency
within the state of Minnesota, and with
out whose aid the election of a member
of congress from this district or any
state officer Oh the Democratic ticket is
absolutely impossible" No one can
read this sentence without discovering
the threat that if they are not admitted
the ''aid'' of this powerful aud con-
sistent Democratic constituency" will
be withdrawn from both our candidate
for member of congress and our
whole state ticket. The consistency
spoken of must be of the
kind that tears the head of the
Democratic ticket off before it votes.
We beg the Democracy of the state, and
the convention in particular, not to be
alarmed at this terrible threat. These
gentlemen have no such constituency.
and the small following that is left
them will certainly desert them as
soon as the state convention retires
them to private life. There is a verv
large and powerful Democratic con-
stituency in Ramsey county, and we
assure our brethren throughout the
state. and the convention, that thew