St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-28
0'BRIEN The WINNER.
Facts, Not Prejudice, Will Set
tie the Senatorial Con-
test To-Day.
Points the Democratic States
man Will Score Against
His Opponent.
Anxious Republicans Hastily
Called Their Warrior Hosts
to Council.
A Revival Of the Club Scheme
to Save the Grand Old
Party in '92.

The O'Brien-Searles contested cleo
tion case will come up in the senate at
IL o'clock this morning, and will be con-
sldered and decided according to the
evidence. and the preiulices certain
bosses have been endeavoring to stir up
for some time past will have no weight
with the men who are to sit as jurors.
Mr.. Searles. the sitting member, yes
Jerday paraded the three election judy
eS who presided at the election in Mar
lne, last November, around the city for
the purpose OF influencing the senators
in their decision to-day. But they i'll
jured his case not little.
II should think that these men would
think that they had done enough" re-
marked senator last evening, ''n
fighting Mr.. Searles' battle at the ballot
boxes in Marine on election day, with
out adding to it this additional labor.
We might have some confidence in the
count made by these men if their
count had been found correct
in the cases of other candi-
dates. But it was not found so.
They erred as gravely in counting the
votes of the other candidates as they
did in counting the senatorial votes.
L
were Intentionally dishonest, whether
they were intoxicated or merely made
errors through carelessmess, but | do
know that the evidence in this case coll
vnces me that those men should never
be allowed to SIT on an election board
again, and more than that, they ought
to be punished for what | call criminal
carelessness, TO state the case mildly"
The O'Brien-Seares contest is not
parallel case to that of Dunn against
Price.
This is the point the Seares' workers
are endeavofing to make, but they are
failing completely. In the Dunn-Prce
case the recount at Little Falls showed
that in the counting OF the votes cast
there no mistakes were male except in
the number of votes cast for Damn.
Aud more than this-the recount
showed that Dnnn's gain was made
solely by means of stickers, which in
many eases were not creased as. the
original ballots were, demonstrating
conclusively that the stickers had been
attached to the ballots after the ballots
had been counted. For these reasons
the house justly paid no attention to the
Little Falls recount.
In the O'Brien-Searles contest things
are found to be quite different. The
recount in Marine shows that the judges
of election made errors in counting the
votes of nearly, if not quite, all Of the
other candidates. and no stckrrS were
found increased on ballots that had
been folded and creased by the voters.
The O'Brien gains were largely mate
through Republican ballots on which
appeared the name of Mr.. O'Brien.
An attempt has been made to preju-
dice the Alliance senators against Mr..
O'Brien by connecting him with the
action OF the states prison board i'll
purchasing foreign-made and eXpen-
sive twine manufacturing plant instead
of better and cheaper plant made in
this country. But this, too. has proved
a failure The Alliance men are not to
be swayed by prejudice and passion.
They remember that
James S. O'Brien was the one man of
the three were sent TO purchase that
twine plant, who insisted first, last and
all the time that the Todd. or American
made plant, should be purchased by the
board.
He was in the minority. and if the
farmers who are urged to vote for MIR.
Searles OH this score will refer 10 the
GLOBES exposure of the trip of this
prison board. published last summer.
they will find that j. G. Todd, the Pater-
son machine man, writes a letter in which
he tells that Mr.. O'Brien did all in
his power to induce NJ. 0. Hall and
Frank w. Temple, the other members
of the committee, to purchase the Amer
lean machinery. for the simple reason,
as he (Mr. O'Briem remarked at the
time, that it was matter in which the |
farmers of the. state were especially in
terested, and their wishes ought |
fo ha racpantQd EVprV A lliaucu
man who had studied the
twine question favored the Todd sys-
ten of machinery, ana for that reason
Mr.. O'Brien felt that it ought To be pur-
chased He said at that time that he
wanted the experiment TO prove sue
cess. and if it failed with the foreign
machinery it might be attributed To it |
and the board.
The emissaries Of certain men who |
will be candidates for United States |
senator two years hence have been |
moving heaven and earth to induce the |
Republican senators TO vote for Mr.. |
Searles regardless of justice and the |
evidence, but so far they have failed |
utterly in their attempts to whip every |
body into line. Senator Eaton is indig- |
nant over this attempt to introduce |
prejudice in place of evidence and he |
will be heard of when the case Is
brought up. All kinds of influence
have been brought to bear upon others |
to vote for Searles. but it is safe to say
that not less than six Republicans will |
vote for Mr.. O'Brien regardless Of pre-
judice and the interests of their would |
be successor, Senator G. K. Davis.
The contest will be opened for Mr.. |
O'Brien by Fayette Marsh. who will be
followed by Mr.. Searles. Congressman
elect j. n. Castle will close the case for
Mr.. O'Brien.