St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-29
FILLMORE is WARM.
DunnelI Is Likely to Be Swamped
This Fall.
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Special to the Globe.
AUSTIN, Minn., Aug. 2s.-The old
sores, created in the Republican party
of this district by the fierce factional
fights which have been waged during
the last twenty years, are all bleeding
again. Those Republicans who have
fought Congressman Dunnell campaign
after campaign at their primaries, and
sometimes at the polls, are now in open
rebellion against the nominee of Tues
davis convention, and this time their
animOsity will find vent at the polls on
election day. At least many of the
most prominent leaders are talking this
way, with no indication that they will
change their tactics later in the cam
paign. The fight of these Republi-
cans will be made simply to down
Dunnell. and by downing him give
some more popular and reputable Re-
publican a chance to be elected in 1892.
it is fact generally recognized through
out the district that Mr.. Dunnell could
not have been elected two years ago had
it not been for his express promise that
if given one more term at Washington
he would not again be candidate. This
pledge gave him Fillmore county in
1883 by something over 900 majority,
and his election in the district by trifle
over 1,SOO, although President Har-
rison's plurality in the district at the
same election was nearly 5000. The
fact that a congressional candidate ran
over 2, 300 votes behind his party ticket
in presidential year, when the total
poll did not reach $4,000, is sufficient
evidence of itself that the candidate in
alN tn
of the district, and naturally enough
gives rise to the question asked by a
delegate in Tuesdays convention
eff Mr.. Dunnell ran 1900 votes be-
hind his ticket in presidential year,
where will he come out in an off year
like this?"
The First congressional district of
Minnesota is reliably Republican by up
wards of 1000 majority, and, while there
is considerable diSatfectlon over the at
titude of the Republican party on the
tariff question and other issues, and
many Alliance men are to be found in
the different counties of the district,
there is little doubt that straight party
fight would reveal good working ma
jority on the Republican side of the
ledger. But, unfortunately for Mr..
Dunnell, this campaign cannot be made
straight party battle, anu his defeat is
prophesied on all sides by the best
/ and most representative Republicans.
The personnel of the delegates to
Tuesdays convention was vivid eX-
emplifcation of the ''spoils SYSTEM
in politics. From the strong Demo
cratic counties of Winona and Wabasha
came Mr.. Dunnell's staunchest sup
porters, and without the votes OF whom
he could not have been nominated.
These delegates were for Mr.. Dunnell
because be had the dispensing of the
federal offices throughout the district,
and had placed many of them. or their
friends, on guard. This in a measure
explains the disgust of the Fillmore
| county delegates at the result of the
convention. Old Fillmore gives one
half of the Republican majority in the
district, and cuts less figure in the con.
gressional conventions OF the party
than Winona with its 1,S0O Democratic
plurality. This explanation in meas
| ure accounts for the prediction of sew
eral Of the Fillmore county men thai
their county would give 500 majority fol
| the Democratic nominal In NAuAEAtH-