St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-07
A THUNDERb0LT.
Ramsey County's Democracy
Appeals to the Honor Of
the Party.
Judge Flandrau's Remark
able Desire to Denounce
Kelly and Doran.
No Apology to Be Made for
the Endorsement Of
Scheffer.
Doran at One Time Wanted
to Have Scheffer Nomi-
mated.
The Claim Of the Boilers a
Most BaseIesS and
Absurd One.
The Regular Delegation Has
Never Stood In the Way
Of Harmony.
A Fair, Candid Statement
Submitted to the State
Democracy.
Doran at One Time Wanted
to Have Scheffer Nomi-
mated.
The Claim of the Boilers a
Most Baseless and
Absurd One.
A Fair, Candid Statement
Submitted to the State
Democracy.
no Oemocrocv of Ninnesota.

To the Democracy of Minnesota:
The regularly and duly elected dele
gates to the Democratic state conven-
tion to be held in st. Paul Aug. Is. 1888,
deem it proper to call your attention to
some of the somewhat remarkable state
ments made by Judge Flandrau, chair
man of the pretended Ramsey county
delegation to the Democratic state con-
vention," published in the DAILY
GLOBE of the 4th inst.
In order that the Democracy of Min
neSota may the better understand the
character of this manifesto and the ami
mus of the author. Judge Flandrau, it
may be proper to make known the fact
that but few hours prior to the meet
ing of the duly elected delegates to the
Ramsey county Democratic convention,
IN Market hall, Friday, July 81, 1883,
This same identical Judge Flandrau
came to one of those delegates and So
licited proxy, for himself, as dele
gate to that convention. He stated that
the reason why he desired to be dele
gate to the Market hall convention was,
that he was bitterly opposed to the 'boss
rule of Messrs. Doran and Kelly" and
desired an opportunity, in that conven-
tion to publicly denounce them and their
political methods. Judge Flandrau,
at that time, claimed to be in full SYM
pathy and accord with the feelings and
sentiments of the gentlemen whom he
and his associates now denounce as
guilty of gross fraud at the primaries.
The Judge experienced very sudden
"change of heart" between the time of
the election of the delegates to the Mar
ket hall convention and the rump as
sembly at the club room in the opera
house on Saturday, July %, 1898.
1t is also proper that the Democracy
of Minnesota should know the fact that
JUDGE FLANDRAU,
although a resident of the same ward
for some twelve years, or more, has
never felt interest enough in Ramsey
county politics and the purity of its
primaries to take the trouble to attend
the primaries and lend the influence of
his conceded personal purity and in
tegrity to the cause of his new pet
scheme of ''honest primaries"
The Democratic county committee, in
issuing its call for the county conven-
ton, and appointing judges for the
primaries, followed an unbroken line of
precedents of many years, and it has
never until the present time occurred to
Judge Flandrau and his associates to
question the propriety of such prece.
dents, or the regularity of the election
of delegates under similar calls, so is
sued by Democratic county and city COM
mittees. On the contrary, he and many
Of his present associates have deemed il
proper to accept the honor of an elec-
ton to state and other conventions by
delegates elected under precisely SINH
lar calls. There must be, and there Is
cause for this sudden exhibition by
Judge Flandrau and his associates OF
"holy horror at the alleged frauds per
petrated on the ballot box at the late
primaries.
Perhaps the reason for this eXhibi
tion of 'holy horror may be found il
the fact of the unexpected appearance
upon the ground of a great railroad
magnate, whose word and wish are law
ineXorable and irrevocable, to his at
torneys.
The interests of this railroad magnat,
would not be especially promoted by
the candidacy of Hon. Albert Scheffe
for governor. Not because Mr.. Scheffe
Is not a gentleman of acknowledged
ability and integrity; not because h,
has not fully, heartily and publicly in
dorsed the tariff reform message O
President Cleveland; not because he /
not in hearty sympathy with the Dem
ocratic party of the state and nation il
its warfare against trusts and monopC
lies of
EVERY KIND
and description; and not because he
not in favor of the most liberal legisla
tion in the interest of the great farmin
and producing classes of Minnesota; bu
because Albert Scheffer cannot be cor
trolled by the railroad magnates and tn
agents of other monopolis and trusts.
The Democratic county conventio
has no apology to make for its open il
dorsement of Mr.. Scheffer. 1t ha
reason to believe that he was willing
accept a Democratic nomination ft
governor upon Democratic platform