The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-06
Democratic County Convention.

The Democratic County Convention met in
the Court House yesterday afternoon nj 1:jJ
O'Clock
j. \. Wiswcll called the convention to or
der, and read the call, whcrcupom Geo. \.
Clarke was made temporary chairman and
DIR. Murphy, nf Garden Cuy, secretary.
TN motion, II committee of five an crcdcn-
tials Was appointed ly the chair, composed
Of tho following named gentlemen:
l. Mullen, Jamestown.
JC CurryCr, Garden City.
j SchwcItIcr, MankatU.
II VI burgess, hankaIo.
II shelly. BuItcrnui Valley.
The chair was anxious for platform and
while the committee ON credentials were
making up their report, NJ asked il il would
not Ia well t. have u committee On rcsolu-
tuus No response hut II dead silence The
chair took it for granted that resolutions
were a drug in the market and acIuiSccd.
The committee reported the following
named delegates us admitted 10 deliberations
in the convention.
MHukuto City
First W,rd-F Bocgcn. IL WbitrOck, John
MuhJwuld, VI Jordan. Geo MaAtcld, NAH
1 Imam, III Schroeder. John Schclman, Henry
| ilIii,shcim.
.ScpHd Uurd-J Schwcitzrr, G A Clarke, J
fnchsenhar, \ Weis, Quann, Henry Guth.
mart uard-N" delegates elected, but ON
motion Hidden was empowered To cast the
! CUt, ui the ward.
| F"ar!k Wood-D sullivan, " Martin, j
! Dnugherty, ! l. Washburn.
/ SChwickhart, IL NJ Burgess, Suntag
Gpd'H our q Murphy, Curryer.
R"p,iaH- + 4 Klein, Just.
| Lgra-Ja> Mountain, q jones, L Malchen.
VI Cunray.
GimGriSi-D z Davis.
! JYdSoa-P McGivcu.
| SoHih Bad-LcwiS Scppman.
! LGk. CyySt0i-TJ Perry.
Lo,c"ir-T J Ferry, proxy for 5 Wood
worth.
hcLt.rs""--J Ruder, WIN Ulrich, VIM Doc
| ley, BcycrSdOrt.
! B'dttOr,i-C. GainOr, i. OCOnnOr.
| jam. storm 4 Mullen.
Mpi,toa-L rrcndell, Z Shimley, l. No: T.
| ton.
| N,,rliag-Jns Gaino..
Isrnon entire EW washhurn. ID Carpenter.
! Bit'"'d Iah.g-C II Shclby.
/ l., E"y-P + Hamcrsey, j J Haggard.
! State, unrcprcScntcd-G HONersOn, admit
/ ted.
! DuHcdi., unrcprcscntcd- VIM Casey, admit
| ted.
| On motion of J. l.. Washburn, the tempo
rarl organization was made permanent. On
motion. delegates present were empowered
| Ia cast full vote of township or ward.
\ motion was made To proceed to an infor-
| mai ballot for Senator. ID. Buck name was
presented, but that gentleman percmptorial-
| ly declined He said that he had served the
people 81 Blue Earth county i'll the state
Senate for four years, and had sacrificed at
least 500 10y 81 doing, and would not accept
the place again could he he presented tn II
| certificate of election by both the Rcpubli-
can and Democratic parties. lie said further
that he was well aware that it WAS trick of
! the Republicans To get him nominated for
the Senate, that he might bc defeated for
| the petty office of Probate Judge.
Judge Browns name was also presented
Mr.. Brown being the nominee of the Alliance
convention for Representative, he stated to
| the convention that nc did not feel il to DC
| consistent to accept II nomination of this
nature. and would therefore beg of his
brethren to consoles him out of the Senator
! iul race.
But there was no dcarth of candidates, and
after the presentation of II half dozen or so
| al namcs, the convention proceeded To an
informal ballot, with 4. n. Klein, Il. Bcycrs-
dori and :. Hidden as iclicrs.
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