St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-29
A MAY DAY MATINEE.
Promised by the Meeting of the Repub.
lican State Convention.
The Fifth District MuddIe---Basis of Repre-.
,sentation.

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There were present the following: A. K.
Finseth, of Goodhue county; E. s. Corser,
of Minneapolis; E. s. Warner, proxy for
VIM. Thomas, of Blue Earth county; John
G. Nelson, of Parker's Prairie; T. D. Strait,
proxy for G.. S. Howe, of Shakopee
D. Sinclair, of Winona, proxy for Thomas
Simpson; w. P. Huntington, proxy for w.
F. Dickinson, of Red Wing; Robert Taylor
of Castle; G. II. Conkly, Of Fillmore county
H. G. Kendall, of st. Louis county; z. B.
Clark, proxy for John P, Arnott, of Willmar.
The call for the meeting was read when the
committee proceeded to business.
DATE OF THE CONVENTION.
Gen. Flower first moved that the commit
tee proceed to designate time for holding
the state convention. Carried. A discus
sion then ensued as to the best time for
holding the convention, and on motion of
Gen. Flower the date was fixed for Thursday,
the LIST day of May, in st. Paul.
THE CALL.
Gen. Flower then read the call, which, after
short discussion, was adopted. 1t is as
follows:
ST. PAUL, March 90, 1sS4.-A Republican
state convention will be held ON Thursday,
the LIST day of May, 1884, in the city of st.
Paul, at IL o'clock noon, for the choice of
four delegates at large and four alternates to
the National Republican convention, and for
| the selection of two delegates and alternates
from each congressional district in the meth
cd provided by the Republican National COM
mittee, where such district delegates and al
ternates shall not have been chosen previous
to the meeting of the state convention, and
oil fOr fha off nf hinan
presidential electors and such other business
as may properly come before the convention.
The various congressional districts have
the option of electing two delegates and two
alternates to the national convention at sep
arate popular delegate convictions called on
not less than twenty days published notice,
and held at any time within the fifteen days
prior to the next meeting of the state con-
| vention.
| All citizens are invited to cooperate in
the election of delegates who favor the ele-
waiting and Identifying American labor, pro-
tecting and extending home industries with
out discrimination in favor of any class or
interest, giving free, popular education to
the masses Of the people, securing free suf-
frage and an honest counting af the ballot,
and effectually protecting all humane rights
in every section of our common country,
and whe are willing to support the nominees
OF the national Republican convention.
The representation, as per schedule here
unto annexed, is based upon the average
Republican vote for state officers at the last
general election.
The question of representation was then
taken up, and Mr.. q. H. Conkey moved that
the representation be fixed on basis of one
delegate from each county and one delegate
at large for every 400 Republican votes or
major fraction thereof cast at the last election.
The motion was carried and the secretary
was authorized to issue the call, based ON the
represention as designated by the committee.
THE FIFTH DISTRICT ROW.
Mr.. H. c. Kendall, of st. Louis county,
then addressed the committee, calling at
tention to the fight between the Nelson
and Kindred factions in the Fifth district.
The Nelson faction, he said had already is
sued a call for convention at Moorhead,
and it was understood that their action would
be supplemented by call from the Kindred
faction. In order to prevent trouble and
unite the delegation for Chicago, he thought
the committee should take some action.
Gen. Flower was in favor of any action
that would unite the factions and prevent
trouble; he was afraid the Minnesota delega-
ton would go into the convention with
contest on their hands. He said that he had
anticipated such an emergency while
in Washington, and that he had consulted
with Senator Sabin and others at that time,
as to the best means of settling the difficulty.
Mr.. j. G. Nelson said that as the Nelson
faction had already issued a call, he had no
doubt the other faction would.
Mr.. Kendall was in favor of the committee
taking measures to fix the matter; he wanted
to see the party united, as dispute in one
section was liable to breed dissention in the
rest Of the party.
Mr.. Nelson said that the presumption was
that the Nelson faction had acted on the
principle that the victory in the last campaign
had given them right to issue a call; he
thought if they had been defeated in the
campaign they would have dropped all claims.
The Nelson convention was called for April
"a, and he could not see what action the
committee could take to prevent it.
Gen. Flower said he was not in favor of
one faction debating to another, to which Mr..
Nelson replied that the Nelson party
had the authority of precedent.
If the Kindred faction saw fit to call a con-
vention let it be called on the same day and
at the same place as the other, when com
promise might be effected, or the matter
might be left to the state convention to de-
eide which was right.
After further discussion Gen. Flower sug-
gested that in the interests of harmony the
central committee might issue circular reb-
ommending that the Kindred faction unite
with the Nelson adherents at their conven-
ton.
A good deal of chin music to the same eff
feet was INDUCED in, when Gen. Flower Of
fered resolution which declared it the OPP
pinion of the state committee that one con
vention should be held in the Fifth district
and that all contests should be settled at the
primaries The resolution was withdrawn
and the meeting adjourned.
SCHEDULE OF REPRESENTATION.
Gen. Flower announces the following as
the delegate representation:
Counties. Delegates. Counties. Delegates
Altkln. COOK. .............. !
Anoka. 3 Cottonwood. ........ 2
Becker. ....... .....4 Crow Wing. ........,
DcHlOH. DdkOla 4
Big Stone. .......... Dodge. .............
Blue Earth. Douglas ............
Brown. ............. Faribault. .........
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