Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-12
THE WAY IT WORKS.
A Lively Republican Caucus at Morris
and Double Headed sequel-Kindred
IN the Majority, but the Nelson Rowdies

A Lively Republican Caucus at Morris
and Double Headed sequel-Kindred
IN the Majority, but the Nelson Rowdies
Boisterous.
Especial Correspondence of the Globe.l
MORRIS, Mimi, June 10.-The Republican
village caucus to elect delegates to the
Stevens county convention to be held next
Monday, was in labor here last night, and, as
was anticipated by political experts. gave
birth to a pair of ill-shaped twins. The meet
ing was held in the court house, which was
packed to suffocation by horde of voters,
imported by both parties from the four quar-
tiers of the globe, principally, however, from
the land of the midnight sun and the green
ilse of EriD) and was called to order by
DIR. Sutherland, chairman of the village
committee, and would be Nelson delegate to
Detroit. A motion was offel ed to make suth-
erIand temporary chairman of the caucus,
which motion was supplemented by an
amendment to substitute the name of G. L.
Brown, who, by the way, is the rural roes-
teri who, two years ago, by his precipltate
nomination of Pine Land Washburn in the
Minneapolis convention, knocked the machine
programme into cooked hat and left Charlie
johnson and Z. Blakeley with their little
speeches unsaid and without even the exps-
dent resorted to by congressman of publish
ing in the record.
But TO return to our mutton. Then
followed motion to lay the amendment on
the table which the chairman declared carried
in the face of an evidently overwhelmingly
adverse viva voce vote. Of course all desirable
partisan chairmen are expected to have two
distinct ears, which are supposed to be ar
ranged upon convenient acoustic principles,
1aof 70 hn = ho Nfh or
keenly sensitive to all friendly sounds. Dar-
ling, Nelson man, vociferOusly cried out
that two thirds of all present were non-resid-
ents, and one-third Democrats, which, adj
hitting the correctness of his mathematics,
showed that neither Nelson nor Kindred
had any legitimate voting adherents
in the meeting. The chairman then stated,
as we'll as he could amid the din and uproar,
that the motion before the house was upon
his own election as temporary chairman
(evincipg either an unwarrantable bias or a
lack of knowledge of parliamentary law, and
appointed as tellers two of his own-the Mel
SON faction magnanimously allowing the OPP
position one.
Then began the most remarkable incidents
and scenes ever witnessed In a preliminary
meeting of this kind. Every man who had
Gallo patronymic was challenged and asked
if he had ever heard of Thomas
jefferson (old rock of Democracy,
and an affirmative reply debarred
him from voting, however faithfully
he might promise to stand by the nominee of
Detroit. A Norsk surname, on the other
hand, was passport that entitled the proud
possessor to stand up for his countryman,
and chip in his little ballot. While all this
was going on, and when they were throwing
out all the voters they suspected of being
favorable to kindred, young Stanton, son of
the late secretary of war, who is physically
quite dIminutive, attempted to press up to the
table and got damned in by brawny son of
Erin, who in turn was impelled by the surging
crowd behind. Stanton yelled as Justify as
the curtailed supply Of his wind would
allow, and the chairman taking in the
situation, excitedly called upon the
marshal to knock down the man who was
thus involuntarily wedged IN against him.
What lively scene there would have been II
that advice had been taken, it is hard to con-
lecture, for the Kindred men numbered fully
three fourths of all present, and many of
them looked as if they would relish the
tossing of few Nelson men from the second
story window. No blood shed.
The Kindred men, realizing that ''the plan"
was being carried out, and that they could
not get what they thought justice.
withdrew upon motion of d.
II. Wells, to Goods hall, where
they organized and elected delegates to
the county convention, o, Temporal, o, mores!
when the canting, God and morality, leading
off in-prayer Republican party gets to colon
izing voters and openly resorts to bulldozlng
tacficsi