St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-12
PROGRAMME OF Mr.. DAY
Set Forth by an UnfriendIy and Preju-
diced Hand, Quite Evil
IDENTIFY.
What He Demanded, and What Gov.
Church Replied to His
Demand.
The Right of the Governor to Defend
Himself, and No Violation Of
Civil Service Rules.

Special Letter to the Globe.
Days causes for complaint are that
Gov. Church refuses to concede to him
individually the three following de-
mands:
First-The right to name the two
delegates to the st. Louis convention.
Second-That Day continued upon
the national committee.
Third-That Edwards be recognized
by placing under his control large
amount of the territorial funds.
These were the demands made by Mr..
Day. If they were not granted he
avowed his determination to do his ut
most to break down the governors adj
miniStratiOn.
To these demands the governor re-
piled:
First-That he had no right or power
to say that MI. Day could name the
delegates to st. Louis, as that was
matter to be settled and determined by
the WatertOWn convention.
SecOnd-That he could not promise
that Mr.. Day should be retained on the
national committee, as that was mat
ter for the st. Louis convention to de
termine.
Third-That he was Democrat, and
as such should undertake to make his
administration Democratic, and that
under no circumstances could he advise
the territorial treasurer to place any
part of the territorial funds in the con-
troll of Edwards or any other newspa-
per Republican for the purpose of de-
feating and weakening the Democratic
territorial administration.
These are only portion of the rea-
sons why Day feels sore. NJ. H. DaN,
was candidate for the governorShip of
Dakota from the time when he COM
was appointed. The articles sent
broadcast through the territory to the
effect that the Democratic candidate for
congress in 1886 was to be the
next governor were all boom arti-
cles for Day. By the management
of the Aberdeen convention he was
nominated, and by combinations with
Republican candidates he tried to build
up himself and secure a large vote at
the expense of Democratic candidates
who were nominated before he was.
His game did not work in Cass county
as he was defeated by $500 majority,
whereas some of the men he tried to de-
feat were elected by majoritieS of from
600 to LOO.
Immediately after that election he
met in st. Paul with the old territorial
Republican ring and perfected arrange
mentS for the gOvernorship. He did
not get it and was mad, and the chair
man of the railroad commission was not
the man agreed upon at the st. Paul
meeting and he was mad.
One of Days favOrite sayings is, II
don't want anything, or expect anything
myself, | only want to take care of my
friends"
Did be want the governorship? Fail
ing in that, did he want the territorial
authorship? Failing in that, did he
want the treasurership? Failing in that,
did he want the -generalship?
And still he wants nothing.
The means made use of by Day to de-
feat Gov. Church's appointment as gov
ernOr were of such character that he,
Day, could get nothing from the presi-
dent, and the measures adopted to pre-
vent the governors confirmation were
far from the character that would
recommend him to the governors favor
for appointment to any office.
His claim of reducing the Republican
majority in 1886 is not well based. The
election of President Cleveland in 1884
and the change in the national admins
tratiOn reduced the Republican major
ity. and M. ii. Days vote did not repre-
Minnesota. with her A.. 900 majority at
the last presidential election, was one
of the strongest Republican states in
the Union. If Dakota had pOlled as
many votes in 1856 as Minnesota did in
1884, Gifford's majority, figured upon
the same ratio, would have been
more than 10000. No man believes
such representations as Day is circulat-
ing. He does not himself. His attack
was such as is made only by the deSpe-
rate, and is wholly directed against
Church'S administration. The governor
had a perfect right to defend and pro-
tect himself, and the territorial officers
had the right and it was their duty to
defend the administration against such
malicious attacks, and in no manner did
their work conflict with
THE CIVIL SERVICE RULES.
There was no politics, or political is
sues at stake. The Democratic party
was attacked only so far as diSgracing
the territorial administration by the I'M
manly and unDemocratic conduct of
Day and his sore heads. Both sides
were for the denomination of President
Cleveland and for the Endorsement of
his administration. BY no stretch of
the imagination were the civil service
rules infringed upon. Suppose the COM
LlitpCC oPPOlHtCu NY LAY d olillC SliOW
Music hall buckers, at Watertown,
should present to the president, or the
United States congress, these charges
that are the result of vituperative bit
terness, and picked in the very essence
of gall. would Gov. Church be war
ranted in, or have right to prove their
falsity? The only difference between
presenting these charges to the presi-
dent and congress and Days attempt to
control the territorial convention for the
purpose of having it condemn the
governor administration is, one would
be in Washington, and the other was at
WateTtown, and in both cases it is moth
ing but a personal attack upon Gov.
Church. He is the governor, and Day
is not. There is where the shoe pincheS,
and the man who is guilty of conduct
so unmanly and unprincipled is not
Democrat, and hardly fit to be Repub-
lican. He thought that by uniting with
Haggert in the last general election he
could get the same vote as he received.
but he could not even do that. And he
thought that Edwards and Mccormick
could save him this time, but he was too
much of load.
His Haggart racket in 1886 resulted in
showing him under completely, and
Briefly, Engle, Bangs, Barrett, Ed
wards, gathering was penetrated at
Watertown by the Democratic lance,
and he is now buried beneath that mass
of political corruption, A. u.
B. Y. JOYE.