St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-16
DUNNELL IS LOSING.
The First District Opposed
to the Chronic Office
Seeker.
How He Tries to Work the
Baptist Brothers for
Votes.
An Ex-POstmaster Who Could
Not Get the Pay He
Desired.
Labor Repudiates a Man Who
Favored the Heather
Chinee.
Special to the Globe.

Speclal 10 Lne GlODe-
WINoNA, Oct. 15.-In 1880 Mr.. Dun
nell, then a candidate for reelection to
congress, said to an audience which he
was addressing at Austin:
"Re-elect me to congress just this
once and | will never ask you to do so
again."
He must have forgotten this pledge,
or else his candidacy this year is mirac-
ulously independent of his own Will.
The good people of Winona, especially
Farmer Coleman, who has been chasing
Mark Ii. for several years to collect an
unpaid hill, do not explain it that way:
They say: ''He is a perpetual and
chronic office-seeker."
And the public records show that
since the close of the war Mr.. Dunnell
has sought every office that it was pos
sible for him to secure, and injured
every Republican who stood in his way
to secure it. Mr.. Dunnell has made fire.
quent visits here of late, accompanied
by James O'Brien, of Caledonia. who
for the nonce is his shadow. On Friday,
when they arrived here, Mr.. DunneH
was met at the depot by political
henchman, who laid before him a serious
grievance. The GLOBE, in explaining
what this grievance was, gives fair in
sight into the methods OF DunnelPS
campaigning.
For the last ten days Mr.. Dunnell has
had an eX-postmaster of his at work
with two other men among the BaptlstS
and ProhibitiOniStS of Freeb0rn county.
Their object was to divert their votes
from the third party ticket to Dunnell,
and if report be true, they were highly
successful. When the ten days were
I'D the eX-poStmaster. as the tale runs,
called on Chairman Birkett. of the con-
gressional committee, at Owatonna, and
demanded $40 Gay for the work per-
formed. Mr.. Birkett replied that only
SIS day could be paid, at which the
sex" departed in wrath and hunted up
Dunneli at Winona. The latter SAID
that Birkett's word was not final, but
did nothing toward settling the bill. at
which the TEX" quit his services at once
and told this story of his own v0litiOn.
The whole thing goes to show just
how desperate DunnelFs cause is, and
to what depths he will go even into the
sacred precincts of the church, to secure
his election.
am told that there is no doubt as to
the truth of the report that every Re
publican county ticket nominated IN
the First district this year, is to be
traded off by Dunnell and Merriam to
save their own hides.
DunnelFs campaign is being worked
in harmony with the Republican state
central committee. The committee has
received direct information that both
Dunnell and Merriam will run behind
their tickets, and to avoid this, have de-
termined to sacrifice the county tickets.
AS was the case in Ramsey county, i'll
Winona, Houston. Dodge, Wabasha,
and other counties, the Dunnell men
who had control of the conventions
named nominees unpopular with the
masses. The result was that in
some counties the Democrats have
dropped party lines and nominated
So-called Peoples tickets. This leaves
the opening for Dunnell and Merriam
to trade, if they can find Democrats dis
loyal enough to consent to it. l don't
think they can. The Democratic feel
ing in the district runs high, and old
campaigners tell me that the party is
more firmly united. The congressional
committee, headed by Chairman Ran
dali, is sending out more tariff material
than the state central committee is. The
Democratic papers from the Winona
Herald to the Rochester Record and
Union, are loyalty at work; and such
independent Republican papers as the
National Republican at Preston, edited
by Mai. Hotchkiss; the Chatlield Dem
crat, edited by r. Mcneil, and the
Freedom County Standard, edited by
ii. G. Day, are cOnscientiously support
ing Congressman Wilson on the plat
form of low taxes.
In the course of my Journey through
the district, have heard many quota
tons from remarks attributed to Dun
nell, and which my informants claimed
to have heard from his Cwn lips during
the period between 1882 and 1888. | note
the place and time where he is said to
have made them, and those who know
him best can judge as to whether or not
they resemble anything heever did say:
At Houston, lSS6-If Lovely is nomi-
mated some Democrat will win.
Lovely is all stomach and no brains.
What do you want to nominate him
for?''
milo White is Stoughton bottle in
Washington"
At OwatOnna, 1SS4-Milo White ought
not to be sent to congress.
At Austin, 1SS6-Milo White Is an old
granny, and can beat him for the NOM
nation.
At Owatonna, 1SS6-Lovely doesn't
amount TO much.
at Kasson. 1SSG-White and Lovely
together make weak pair, and neither
are Republicans.
[ presume dozen more such express
siOnS could have been collected il there
had been more time, but these will show
in what esteem Dunnell has held brother
Republicans. Ill. L. y.