St. Paul daily globe., 1892-10-07
SMELLED TO HEAVEN.
Republican Primaries With
out Equal in Ramsey
County History.
Cries ofCorruption and Fraud
in the Mouths Of Every
body.
The Legislative Fight General
and the County Ticket in
Doubt.
A Notable Event Was the Fri
umph Of Horton in the
Seventh.
LEGISLATIVE TICKET.

1t must be with great QUalm of con-
science-if they have any-that Kepub-
licans of Ramsey county will prate here
after of purity of their caucuses. The
work of last evening forever put an end
TO that. There have been many curious
and corrupt caucuses, but the Repub-
lican primaries of last evening put to
the blush all previous records. Why,
even the immaculate Seventh, than
which snow itself has not been purer:
where dwells all the holiness of the
party of high morals and tariff; where
the truly good 20 to the polls in dress
suits and cast their ballots with Law
ender kid gloves: yea, even in the Sew
enth ward, which is only little lower
than the angels, did skulduggery and
corruption walk abroad in MONDAY
All over the city, wnere there was
contest of any character, anybody and
everybody voted. without regard to race,
color or previous condition of party
servitude. 1t was open, corrupt and no
toriOus. There were legislative con-
tests III nearly every ward and wher-
ever contest raised its untoward head
LllSlO llAC ulllpIC NOlcI dpDtdIGu.
Howls from the slaughtered aspirants
filled the air until late at night and will
be repeated at the convention tomor-
row.
There is howl from the First, from
the Sixth, the Ninth and from the
country; and the greatest of these is
from the country. d. NJ. Sullivan, the
eX-aIderman from the Eleventh ward,
got the nomination from w. W. Clark,
but how did he get it? Those who op-
posed him say he and Inspector
Clausen voted all the men at the Trans
fer, many of whom came from Mime
apoliS, and that Clark was not given a
square shake. From the Third comes a
wild and fOrlOrn howl over the way in
which the veteran Doc Murphy was
''Snowed under with dirt.'
But the great fight was in the Sev-
enth, where the young and aggressive
Hiler Horton handsomely laid out the
pet candidate of the Pioneer Press,
Capt. Hackett, and in the same sweep
the club ticket for the county conven-
ton utterly obliterated the so-called
Pioneer Press ticket. The result was a
revolt against the methods employed to
coerce the nomination of Capt Hackett,
and The young men Of the ward rallied
to the rescue of Horton and triumph
antly swept him through There was
wild excitement at every polling place,
and though the essay of Hackett on
American tin was freely distributed, it
was Offset by the following circular,
which was peppered about the ward
thicker than leaves in the valley of the
Vallambrosa:
Dear Sir: Your attention is respectfully
called 70 the gross measurements which the
supporters Of Capt. Hackett are making con-
cernlng fller II. Horton. candidate for the
legislature from the seventh ward, and the
unmanly and unfair methods employed by
them i'll the interest of their candidate Mr.
Horton was the first candidate i'll the field
fact well known to Capt. HackeIts mana
gers-he IS man of exceptional ability and
untarnlshed reputation, and the slanderous
and despicable statements which have been
circulated about him should be rebuked at
the primary meetings by every true citizen
ana right-minded man who desires feir piay
and the best interests of the city. Mr. Hor-
tons friends have made an honorable cam
paign in every respect, and not resorted to false
and llbellous statements; they have not at
tempted to muZZle the popular viii by get
ting up combination of one class of men to
the exclusion of all others-by parading be-
fore the public petition purporting to have
been signed by more than a hundred men,
when it can be proved that more than one
fourth of the alleged signers never saw IT.
Mr. Horton s supporters believe that the
propeg place to decide upon candidate for
the legislature is at the place appointed for
that purpose-the primary meeting-and they
believe that the best interests of the city
would be subserved by the election of Mr.
Horton. and your support of his candidacy is
earnestly solicited. Committee
All of this counted, and Horton was
the signal victor.