St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-07
Another County Convention
by Club Delegates Pro-
posed for Tuesday.
An Attachment Issued for
Money Belonging to a Pop
ulaP Actress.
Gleanings of a Day Condensed
for the Benefit Of the
Globes Readers.
WANT THEIR WAY.
Representatives of Democratic
Clubs Are Dissatisfied.

The executive committee of the Ram
sey county Democratic clubs, met at
the Grand block last evening. and is
sued the following prOnunciamento to
the voters of Ramsey county:
In view of our duty to the cause of
political reform which we have at heart,
and in consideration of the public inter
est which we represent, We deem 1t
proper to announce the grave reasons
which have compelled us to adopt an
independent course of political action.
independence is at all times commenda-
BILE; but we value personal and party
associations too high to allow any but
conscientious mo tiveS to inter
Tupt their continuance. We have not
undertaken lightly, nor without relue-
lance, a course which places US, to some
extent in opposition to the recognized
mechanism of the local Democracy.
Nothing but a grave sense of public
duty, TO which all Americans should
subordinate partisan attachments, could
have induced us to adopt our present
attitude. We therefore declare our ar
dent adherence to Democratic prIncl-
plies. We believe in the
SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE
With the utmost cordiality we sh all
support the federal and congressional
nominees of the Democratic party, be-
lieving that Grover Cleveland, Alien e.
Thurman and Edmund Rice are worthy
to rank with the heroes and fathers of
the republic. We pledge our earnest
support to the meritOriOuS and eminent
Candidates nominated by the Democratic
party for state offices. We command
the nOn-partiSan action of our
fellow citizens who have named
for reelection the incumbents
of our local judicial offices.
And secondly, the Democratic clubs of
the various wards and precincts of
Ramsey county, which, having always
been open to all persons who wished
to join their ranks. fairly represent the
sinew, fighting element and patriotic
shirt of the Democracy, have set them
selves with unfiinching determination
as uncomprOmising enemies OF all
PUBLIC AND POLITICAL EVILS.
Among the reforms which they adYo-
cate are the enforcement of purity in all
elections whether held by the people for
the selection of public officers or as pre-
liminary to the nomination. of candi-
dates. We are opposed to a system
which substitutes for the reality of an
election scheme of fraud. We ac-
gain the prize of party nomina-
ton through bribery, intimida-
ton, ballOtbox stuffing and
the various methods by which
vice seeks to clothe itself with the
| majesty of public hOnOrS. We there
| fore hold any primary election void I'M
less it be conducted with honesty. fair
ness, Justice and in strict conformity
with law. We adopt. to the fullest ex-
tent, the legal maxim that fraud vitiates
| everything.
We know that the people, without
respect to party, desire this, and these
! clubs, as the organized representatives
of the people, have
ATTEMPTED TO SECURE IT.
Party machinery is an absolute neces-
sity. Committees for the management
| of party affairs are, therefore, cOnsti-
! tuted and rightly invested with large
powers, but such committees are SUI
| periOr neither to the party which ere
| ated them, nor to the laws of the state.
| They are merely agents of the party
with well defined functions, and their
| acts are of.nO binding force when they
! exceed the limits of the authority
| conferred upon the commit
| tee, or transgress statutory pro-
| visions. In order to correct long train
| of abuses. which lapse of time could
| render decrepit and decayed but never
venerable. the legislature of this state
| at its last session enacted into law GER
| tain highly salutary regulations for the
government of primary elections. The
! law which embodied these provisions
was inspired and promulgated by the
| concerted action of good men without
regard
| TO PARTISAN AFFIL1 ATOMS.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse for
misconduct, but, in order that even this
poor excuse might not be pleaded, the
| Democratic clubs of the county have of
! late frequently called the attention of
the county committee of our party to
| the statute question, and have de-
manded compliance with its provisions.
This demand has been wholly disre
garded. The primary elections held
during the past three months under the
control of that committee have been a
REPETITION of the wild orgy of fraud and
corruption, which the law was designed
to Illustrate.
Furthermore, the committee, by writ
ten communication. pledged itself to
comply with the statute at one time
and in another communication to us
openly defied and repudiated the law
upon the pettifogging plea that it was
Unconstitutional. This was character
istic, however, since the committee
seems to have calm disregard OF law,
WHETHER MORAL OR STATUTORY.
The recent caucusses and the conven-
ton held in Market hall, in this city to-
dov, have been called and conducted ac-
cording to the pernicious and illegal
methods against which we have urgently
| protested and do now protest. The ac-
! ton of that convention is binding upon
no honest Democrat or patriotic citizen.
The acceptance of a nomination at the
hands of such body ought to be tant-
amount to political suicide and
public oblivion. We cannot indOrSe the
acts OF selfish politicians, who nurse
political wrongs and pervert the party
machinery with the sole design of per-
petuating their unhallOwed grip upon
official SpoilS. Governed by these con-
siderationS, we have determined to in
vite, and do hereby invite all patriotic
citizens to unite with US in a deter
mined effort for
THE PROMOTION OF REFORM.
We hereby summon a convention to
be held at the room used for the Ram
sey County Democratic Club in the
Grand opera house block Tuesday. the
ninth day of October, A. ID. 1888, at ten
O'Clock a. M. for the purpose of NOM
mating candidates for ell the local and
legislative offices to be filled by the peo-
pie at the next general election.
The apportionment of delegates will
be six delegates from the Ramsey
County Democratic club. delegates
from the First Ward Cleveland and
Thurman club, s from the club of that
name in the Second ward, from the
club in the Third ward, from the
Fourth Ward club, 6 from the Fifth
Ward club. from the Sixth Ward
club, 4 from the Seventh Ward club, Z
from the Eighth Ward club, 5 from the
Ninth Ward club. for the Tenth ward,