St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-16
THE POLITICAL RING.
Some Of the Untruthful, SLAM
derouS Statements Put in
Circulation.
Truths About the City Con-
Vention and the Result
ing Conditions.
Why Populists Are Hot--A
Street Fight Between
Two Republicans.
Street Laborers Turn Up Cof-
fins and Skeletons in Bur-
ial Shrouds.

ial ShPouds.
The next day after convention is
usually almost as productive of inter
estlng matter as the convention itself.
1t was so with yesterday after the Dem
| ocratic city convention. An interesting
! phase manifested yesterday was the
way the Republican papers handled it,
especially the Journal. That the Dem
ocratic convention produced subjects
for criticism no one can deny. But de-
liberate distortion and bare-faced falsif-
cation is not criticism. The Journal
man did not see fist fights
and personal encounters on the
floor of the convention. Nor did the
Journal man see ''blackened eyes and
bruised faces" after the Coffee john
episode. That one scene, due to the
| wholly ineXcuSable and f1agrantly out
rageous conduct of one man, followed
by some exhibitions of ill-temper and
| eXecrable judgment by two or three
others, was in bad taste, of course: but
nothing approaching what the Journal
describes occurred. No man who was
III that convention dares say thai il was
unfairly conducted: no man who was in
the convention does say il. There was
| struggle over the nomination. and the
man the people wanted was nominated.
That was all.
Equally untrue are the reports that
the Holbrook supporters. the so-called
winston faction will knife James ".
Lawrence because Mr.. Holbrook was
defeated. They have no reason for so
doing, and 1t is unlikely that they will
put themselves in the position of doing
so without reason. Mr.. lawrence's
course throughout the fight for the
mayoralty nomination was fair. He
had nothing TO do with it. Any man
who knows an iota about the conditions
existing before the convention knows
that. And the charge of double dealing
on the part of other prominent Demo
Gratis is equally untrue. Mr.. Holbrook
was not betrayed. He will not say so.
The Journal makes the further mis-
take, for paper claiming to be re-
spectacle newspaper, of revamping the
old story about fraud in the congress
sional convention. 1t stamps itself
as a thoroughly unreliable and
wholly inscriptions sheet BY re-
vamping that story, on the author
lily OF those parasites of the hu-
man race, whom, to mention even
adversely, is to dignity The Journal
should blush for its own actions. How
newspaper claiming to be independ-
ent can, in It's rabid partisanship. lose
sight Of common decency TO such an
extent is what puzzles every man who
had anything TO do with the convention
OF Wednesday.
It was amusing in the convention Of
W Wednesday TO notice how the contest
for the aldermanic nomination IN the
Third ward perneated the proceedings.
As an illustration, one of the Third
ward factions heard that a certain dele |
gate from another ward was slated for
q place on the committee on credentials. |
he was supposed TO favor the OPP |
posing Third ward faction. Presto! a |
contest was filed against his right to sit
IN the convention, and, of course, he
was Kept of the committee on creden-
tails. The contest had accomplished all
II was intended 10 by keeping him off
that committee, and the contest was
never heard Of more. The appoint
ment Of that one committee demon
strated that Chairman Cloutier could
not have been fairer had he never heard
OF Minneapolis politics before. The
committee decided the contest according
10 the merits OF the cases, and that was
all. Mr.. Clouter was fair all through
the convention. The statement that
he ALLOWED the Foote crowd" to run
everything is untrue.
On every hand Yesterday one could
hear the sentiment OF Democrats to the
effect that the convention had made
wise choice. Republicans. too were
forced 10 admit that William Henry
Eustis must charter a limited express
train II ne expects to cross the line be-
fore Mr.. Haynes, and already the Re
publican press has picked upon the one
point that will serve as their
supply of ammunition against
Mr.. Haynes from now until
the ballots are counted-he voted for
the Rand ordinance. Yes, Mr. Haynes
voted for that ordinance and he is
ready at any time to give his reasons
for so voting. The Journal s. y. edi-
torially, on this point: And no man
who did, support it is entitled to the
further confidence of the people OF this
city"
Then the Journal must rise in its
righteous wrath. and declare that Dave
Clough, candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor, is unworthy the confidence of
the people" 1t must say the same thing
about several aldermanic candidates. !
And II 1t looked into the matter care
fully. 1t Will say the same thing about
the pure William Henry Eustis, who is
good member of the Methodist
church, who owns blocks de-
voted TO uses that cannot be
discussed in a newspaper, who got ND
IN the Union league last winter and
went into paroyysm of Indignation
over the Rand ordinance, and last week
accepted nomination for mayor that
was secured TO him by men who openly
Endorsed the Rand ordinance. MI.
Haynes is man who can always give a
good reason why he votes as he does.
He is not man who receives a nonj-
nation by double dealing: nor is he a
man who bellows about his righteous
ness and in muffled whispers plots in
EQUITY. Messrs. Republicans, don't stir
up too many comments on William
Henry EustiS.
The Populists are hot. an evening
paper says, because they were not in
vited 10 dictate Democratic nominations
Wednesday. Why their heat? Last
Monday their avowed leaders fairly
frothed at the mouth in denunciation OF
Democrats, and boosted that they would
indorse 10 Democrat-so boosted before
they were asked to indorse ANYBODY.
They elected TO ''go it alone" They are
mad now because the Democrats do not
insist that they have company. Funny,
isn't il?
The Democrats have no monopoly On
quarrels. W. II. GrimshaN and James
S. Trip, barons of the Eighth ward.
met on the pavement yesterday Trip
is street commissioner in the Eighth
ward and creature of Lowry's foot
man. NJ. Grimes. GTimShaW is an anti.