St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-07

l1dG call ana the primaries nolu Ill puf-
suance thereof and the subsequent
county convention on May IL, 1888, were
sufficiently regular and free from fraud
ulent voting to justify such well-knOwn
Democrats as Col. William Crooks and
such less-known Democrats as Mr..
Eawler to
ACCEPT THE HONOR
of seats in the Democratic state conven-
tion by the votes of that Democratic
county convention.
If the last call was irregular, the for
mer was also irregular, but the former
call could not have been irregular. for
if it had been irregular, it is to be pre-
sumed that neither Col. Crooks nor Mr..
Lawler would have taken seats in the
state convention.
AS to their second objection, it is suf-
ficient to say that the practice of fraud
by the voters who elected the recognized
delegates to the Market hall convention
is expressly and Indignantly denied by
| those voters, and the delegates chosen
by the rump assembly have not
attempted to offer to the Democracy
of Minnesota any proof of the commits
sion of the fraud charged. The most
thatt hey have done is to give utterance
to threats that, at some time, affidavits
would be produced (at the state cOnven-
ton it may be assumed) showing fraud.
Gentlemen of the boiling convention,
why do you not produce those affidavits
now and give the parties charged with
fraud an opportunity to answer them?
Is it be cause you propose to spring them
upon the convention when it will be
utterly impossible, for want of time, to
meet such affidavits with counter affi-
davits?
Do you think that such action on your
part will evidence your professed desire
for honest and fair dealing?
If you do so think, you will find your
selves greatly mistaken.
The third objection attempted to be
sustained by such studied but Illogical
argument by the author Of the mani
festo issued by Judge Flandreau's bolt
ing delegates, is still less worthy of
serious consideration.
Will he for a moment seriously con-
tend that the delegates elected by the
Ohio state convention in 1868. who were
instructed to vote in the Democratic
national convention for that eminent
statesman and iurIst, Salmon P. Chase,
for president, were Republicans, and
therefore not entitled to represent the
Democracy of the great state of Ohio in
the Democratic national convention?
Mr.. Chase was Republican,. To be
sure, he, like Mr.. Scheffer, had at one
time been Democrat. Would he
(Judge Flandrau) seriously contend
that the delegates to the Democratic
national convention which placed in
nomination that great Whig, and after
wards Republican, Horace Greeley who
had never been Democrat, nor advo-
Gated, prior to his nomination, the prin-
cipleS and policy of the Democratic
party, were Republicans, and there
fore unworthy of Democratic coll
fidence and support? Not much.
On the contrary, Judge Flandrau
and such of his associates as were, in
1872, out of their swaddling clothes, not
only recognized the wisdom of Mr..
Greeley's nomination, but ardently sup
ported him and advocated his election.
The result of Mr.. Greeley'S nomination
in 1872 was to draw from the ranks of
the Republican party great many men
who never returned to 1t, but remaining
faithful and true to the principles of
Democracy, aided in the election of that
great apostle of Democracy, Samuel j.
| Tilden, in 1876.
1t cannot be treason to the Democracy
of Ramsey county or to the Democracy
of the state for the delegates to the Mar
ket hall convention to follow such Illus
trious precedents.
The claim of the boilers to represent
the only and simon-pure Democracy Of
Ramsey county is the
MOST BAsELESS
and absurd claim ever set up by any
party of defeated politicians.
1t may be necessary and proper. for
| the information of the Democracy of
Minnesota, to analyze this pretentious
| and ridiculous claim.
The rump assembly which met in
the club room of the opera house on
Saturday, the 2Sth of July, were present
and participated in the Democratic
primaries on Thursday, July 26, and
were routed, ''horse, foot and dra-
| goons."
What did they or the candidates whom
they supported for delegates to the Mar
ket hall convention do to assert any
rights which they might have had by
reason of being cheated at the primaries?
Did the delegates for whom the boilers
voted appear at the Market hall conven-
ton and ask to be heard by it's commit
tee on credentials? No! Why not?
For the reason that they well
knew that they had no ground
upon which to make contest. They had
been fairly and overwhelmingly de-
feated at the primaries and kept away
from the Market hall convention. They
may claim that it would have been USE
less for them to have made any contest
for seats in that convention. But why
useless?
The Sixth ward of st. Paul was enti-
tied to and elected nine delegates to the
Market hall convention. At the Sixth
ward primary there was no contest. All
the ballots cast were for the delegates
who appeared in the Market hall con.
vention On the following day. From
that delegation alone a committee on
credentials could have been chosen who
would have been impartial, as those
delegates were the unanimous choice OF
the Democracy of the Sixth ward.
Perhaps Judge Flandrau aid his as
sociates may claim that there is nc
''true Democracy" in the Sixth ward
Such claim would be
NO MORE ABSURD
than other claims NOW made by them