St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-08
Of the History Of the Late
Convention at James,
town.
The Skeleton in the Closet
Comes Out in the
Globe.
How an Ex-Governor Dick
cred and Didn't Keep
His Word.
The Old Crowd Run It and
the Staunch Potter
Left Out.

the Staunch Potter
Left Out.
Special to the Globe.
LA INQUIRE, Dec. 7.-AS usual it is left
for the GLOBE to give the inside facts
in relation to the jamestown conven.
ton. Apparently there was harmony
almost equal to the peace that troubled
Denny Hannatin's. mind. But there
was many sore left by the convention
just the same, and the GLOBE would
not be faithful to its constituents if it
did not bring to view the skeletons that
the the other morning papers are so
carefully concealing.
1t appears Gen. A. B. Ward was the
author for the call for the convention,
but the statesmen Of Grand Forks OF
both the Winship and the Walsh fac
tions are jealous Of the able and brill
liant general. and seemed to take pride
in sitting down not only on him but on
Cass county; also, because the first
proposition of that county was to sup
port the general for chairman, even if
he was opposed by his home delega-
ton. True. the proposition was not
met with favor, but the fact that it was
made leaked out, and led Grand Forks
to join in the combine which defeated
the
CASS COUNTY NAN
for chairman and elected the eX-gover-
nor in his stead.
1t was matter of surprise that James
town opposed ex-Gov. Pierce; and it
leaks out that when Pierce was made
president of the North Dakota Loan
and Trust company he agreed to move
his family to Jamestown and become
do it. He travelled throughout the East
seeking money to place through his as
ISOLATION, always registering from Bis
marck. Finally he moved his family to
Minneapolis, and as Jamestown man
said, there would not have been man
by the name Of Pierce left in the terri
tory excepting the young man at Bis
marck. who can't get away, it Harrison
hadn't been elected president. Why,
d-n him, said this jamestown man,
HE KNITTED BLAINE
all through the campaign of 1884, and
was rewarded by Arthur for doing it,
and now he expects the Dakota people
to not only ask Harrison to make him
governor, but to elect him to the United
States senate.
Waldo M. Potter, the old war horse of
Republicanism, the constant and eff
cient worker for division under all cir
cumstanceS, who even voted against
Allen at Watertown because he had not
taken position for division, was prob
ably more disguised than any other man
when he saw that the control of the
convention had passed into the hands
of the old one-state crowd at Bismarck.
There the Burleigh county delegation
sat and voted county after county in the
Missouri giver country, or the ''SlOpe,"
as they call it, which had nOrepresenta
ton in the convention, but objected to
Mcclure, who voted one of the up-coun-
try counties, on credentials he offered
for their inspection. go
But this was not all; there was an
error of 10 made in the count OF the
notes.-the vote really standing so for
Stone to 101 for Pierce. Pierce, in Sc
Letting his committees, deliberately
sighted Judge Toomey, of Cass, who
moved the committee to draft bill for
submission to the legislature for the
constitutional convention. The slight
was so apparent because OF Judge
TOOMEY'S SPECIAL FITNESS
for the place, and because under every
rule of courtesy he should have been
chosen, that inquiry was made as to the
cause, and the following facts were
brought out:
Toomey was in the legislature four
years ago, and bill appropriating
$4,000 for the agricultural college, d
special pet of Fargo and the Cass
county delegation, was vetoed by the
governor at the instigation of certain
CASS COUNTY PEOPLE,
and that, too, after the governor had
given his pledge that the bill should be
approved if it passed both houses of the
legislature.
Pierce, feeling that he had done
Toomey an injustice, sent for him and
told him he could name the North Da-
kota member of the state railroad COM
mission, and assured him that he had
unbounded confidence in his integrity
and in his Judgment. So he named,
after due consideration, Charles T..
Clement, but Pierce claimed that there
was opposition to him.
"Of course there is" said Toomey,
''there is opposition to every good man."
After talking it over, Pierce again
agreed to appoint him. But he again
sent for ToomeY and told him there was
so much opposition to Clement that he
wished he would name some other man.
s.Who do you want?" said Toomey.
Pierce suggested John 3. Raymond.
Toomey told him that he was perfectly
satisfied with Raymond, and so it was
AGREED THAT RAYMOND
should be appointed. But La Moure.
Mckenzie, Walsh and others demanded
the appointment of Grlggs, and Pierce
again went back upon his promise to
TOomey.
Still dissatisfied with himself, he sent
for Toomey, and wanted some sug-
geston from him as to the appointment
for attorney general. Toomey had no
suggestions to make. Would you take
it yOurself?" said Pierce.
Toomey said he wasn't candidate
for the place. But said Pierce, II
want to do something for Fargo, and
since you have been disappointed in
both the agricultural college matter and
in the railroad commission want to APP
point you attorney general. VIII you
| take it?'' Toomey replied that he would,
as it was in the line of his profession.
So Pierce agreed to appoint him. But
| it was no sooner rumOred that this was
| the case than Pierce sent for Toomey
| again and told him he was in trouble
and finally that the pressure was so
strong for the appointment of Judge
| Hudson that he didn't see how he could
resist it.
Mr.. Toomey at once withdrew his
| name. and Mr.. Rice. of Moody county.
was appointed on the recommendation
| of La Moure and associates.
Then Toomey was offered the privi-
| lere of naming the secretary of the rail