St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-16
Why NELSON LEADS.
Tactics Used by His Friends
to Secure Blue Earth's
Twelve. Votes.
The Machine Being Used for
All 1t Is Worth in Every
County.
Peoples Party Leaders Viii
Work in the Unorganized
Counties.
Lively Meeting Of the Ramsey
COHnfv Rpnuh1icap COn1.
Lively Meeting of the Ramsey
County Republican Com
naittee.

3 The leaders Of the Nelson machine
are losing no points in the county con-
yentions these days. Every where they
are organized and working. If few
delegates get into the conventions who
are not ready to fail into line for the
candidate from Douglass county, they
are rode over rough-Shod. If the OPP
position happens TO have majority,
methods are invoked to help out the
minority. In this county the tactics of
the Nelson men, who. under the specious
plea of harmony, desire to have the
coming county convention choose an
unin3tructed delegation to the state
convention, trusting, in this way, to he
able to give the Little Norwegian" at
least half the delegation This. how
ever, is not quite SO bad as the method
used in Blue Earth county Thursday
To secure Nelson delegation. A good
account OF that convention from the
pen Of an eyewitness follows:
To the Editor CT the Globe.
The selection OF delegates to Re
publican state convention is no longer
an expression of the honest sentiment
of the people, nor of the delegates
themselves, hut is reduced to fine art.
This was eXemplified in this county to-
Gay. There IS no question but the hon
est, unpreJudiced preference of ma
]ority OF the Blue Earth county Repub-
iieanS is for Lieut.. Gov. Ives for gov
ernor. Certainly those who favor Ives
AID McGili are largely in majority over
the supporters Of Nelson. Today, when
the county convention was called to-
gefher. by an adr0it movement the Mel
son men, sylio are the professional poll.
t'cians OF the county. and favor him be-
cause they think he can bring back the
thousands of Scandinavian farmers
now In the Alliance, succeeded in
e!ectlng z. q. Spau!ding chairman, and
through his tavOritism in naming cou,-
mittees and feigned ignorance of par
iIameiitary rulings. blundered so as to
elect the Nelson delegation.
The chairman is. a Nelson man, be-
cause he believes that he has
some peculiar attraction for Scan
dlnaviaiS, and. when he was au-
tbOrlZed to appoint committee
to select delegates Republican conven-
tions do hot elect them any more-he
appointed all Nelson men on the COM
mittee. Then Superintendent Hunt of
the worlds fair commission handed a
member OF the committee a ticket with
the names OF delegates already pre-
pared and printed; the committee re-
tired, pretended to be celebrating over
the delegates. and: when they reparted
they returned tie names precisely the
same as the Nelson heelers had pre-
viously prepared. The opposition, see
ing the trick which was being worked
upon them, made motion to substitute
other names and TO havesa square ballot
OH the propositions, but the chairman
Numbered and lfe5itated. just enough to
stand off aud confuse tile opposition, who
were not posted as to tricks that
dark. until a favorable opportunity,
when the Nelson list was run through
against tthe wishes of a majority. OF
coarSe thereswaS swearing, butIthe trap
had Seen most artroitfy laid. s1,rewdIy
managed, and then sprung at the right
time to win. The whole programme
had been prearranged. ! he selection of
chairman, the names Of the committee
to name delegates. and the names they
were to return were even printed, in
case the programme otherwise might
miscarry, that they could spring a vote
and by methods of manipulation, in
which they are a,lepts, count the
ants out. The chairman, however.
saved them that resort, and carried
them through by his shrewd Yankee
cunning. He is a. brick, and il Nelson
should be elected, and believes in re-
wardipg his friends, Guy Spaulding
ought 10 he made state dairy commits
Sioper.
Both Ives and McGili will recognize
in the delegates selected men who prom
iSed to support them. and others again
who said they would ''do nothing against
them" But they are for Nelson, all the
same. Just such tricks as this has been
working the gradual but certain depie-
ton of the Republican ranks in this
county. At the same time it has earned
for those who practice them the fayors
of the Merriams, the Dayises. the Wash
burns and the Linds. How long it can
be continued and still keep the old de-
crepit craft afloat is for the future to
decide. Look out for kicking in the
traces. OBSERVER.
Mankat0, July IA, 1892.