St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-29
THIS FOR THE PEOPLE.
Ramsey County Committee
Defend Their Course To-
ward Scheffer.
He Was the Choice Of the
Democrats Of Ramsey
County.
Doran Interfered in Politics
Where He Had No
Right To.
Both He and KellV Working
Both He and Kelly Working
for Their Own Personal
Ends.
ST PAIL. Inlu 27 1888

publications and declarations made by
the adherents of Messrs. Kelly and Do
ran in this city, touching the last
county convention for the election of
delegates to the state convention, and
the action of such convention on the
presentation of the name of Albert
Scheffer, we have determined that for
this once we will answer the aspersionS
that have been cast upon the Democracy
of this county and the members of the
recent convention, by giving to our citi-
zens an accurate and succinct history of
the entire matter. 1t is no part of our
intention or purpose, in doing this. to
indulge in personality or recriminations,
but we merely confine ourselves to a
statement of the occurrences as they
have actually taken place, stripped of
all attempt of either argument or abuse.
For great many years it has been
the uniform custom on the part of the
Democracy to call the caucuses or pri-
mary elections within two or three days
of the date of the holding of the paltic-
ular city or county convention for
which they were intended. This Gus
tom has been uniform and unbrOken,
and has been we'll understood by every
citizen OF Ramsey county, and
THE CUSTOM
which we have alluded to has been es-
tablished and carried out in all of the
political parties in said county, Repub-
lican as well as Democratic. These
primary elections or caucuSeS have
always been called by the county COM
mittee, and the same unbrOken rule of
hof no
should nominate the judges and appoint
the places for the holding of the primary.
election. 1t has equally been the uniform
custom to converge all of the election
districts contained in each ward into one
district for the purposes of such primary.
election; and the polls have been kept
open for two hours, between the hours
of and Z in the evening. The primary
elections recently held in this city were
co nducted with regard to and in strict
observance of the rules that we have
referred to, and not a solitary prece-
dent concerning the calling of the eau
them, the duration of the polls and the
naming of the judges has been de-
parted from.
1t seems to us that under these cir
cumstance there is little occasion for
any honest objection to the results,
whatever they may have been.
So far as the presentation of the name
our esteemed fellow citizen, Albert
Scheffer, for the consideration of the
coming Democratic state convention is
concerned. we believe that the conven-
tion, In doing so, expressed the wishes
of the Democrats of Ramsey county. In
order that full expression of opinion
should be had upon the subject, and
that the voters who chose to attend the
primary could act intelligently, and
that the delegates whose names were to
be voted might have full knowledge of
the proposed movement, which, in our
judgment, requires neither apology
NOR DEFENSE,
the name of Albert Scheffer was
printed upon those of the tickets which
were proffered by the delegates or the
proposed delegates who were favorable
tice and full and complete knowledge of
all of the circumstances, the vote was
overwhelmingly in their favor, and to
such an extent that not a man was
elected as delegate to the county con-
ventiOn who did not, when assembled in
the convention, give his entire and
hearty acquiescence to the presentation
of the name of Mr.. Scheffer.
The Democrats of Ramsey county did
not in this action, nor do they now,
propose to dictate to the rest of the
state, or to any voter in the state. AS
the result of their observation of the
political condition of the state of Min
nesota, the demands and interests of
our people, the issues to be determined
by the popular vote in the coming cam
paign. they have exercised their judg-
ment in expressing at this time, and at
period that gives ample time for study
and reflection, their preference for Mr..
Scheffer, and this they have done with
| full knowledge of the man. his political
attitude and his political beliefs. 1t is
no part of the duty or purpose of this
committee to euiogiZe or advocate Mr..
Scheffer in this communication, but we
can and do say, without fear of contra
diction, that
HIS CHARACTER IS WITHOUT STAIN,
| that his requirements are amply suf-
| fcient, and that at his hands, no matter
what party he represents, the people of
| this state will receive and have the
| benefit of the services of an active, hon
est and intelligent executive. His
| political faith was in conformity with
| the political platform of the Democratic
| party nominating Horace Greeley. He
was the endorsed choice of the Dem
| ocracy for state senator in 1856 in Ram
| sey county. His votes in the senate, his
everyday life, his anti-monopoly views
on every question affecting public inter
ests, his well known views on revising
the tariff and reducing the national sur
plus, and his nomination by the farmers
of the state on platform identical with
the national Democratic platform as
their choice for a leader to give them
the utmost and cheapest facilities to. the
markets of the world for their produce,
mark him politically as leader bold,
fearless and firm, like our great chief,
Grover Cleveland, to lead the DEM
Ocracy to victory in this state and give
/ the electoral vote of our commonwealth
to Cleveland and Thurman. 1t might
be well, perhaps, after this explanation,
to allude to the position taken by the
two gentlemen
WHO ARE ARROGATING
to themselves the right to dictate, not
| only to every voter of Ramsey county,
but to every Democratic voter of the en-
tire state, what his particular actions
shall be in the matter of the exercise
by him of the elective franchise con-
ferred upon him by the laws of his
country. AS to one of these gentlemen,
MIR. Kelly, it is enough to say that the
echoes of his most recent and public as
sertionS, that he has forever retired
| from all political Intervention of any
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