St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-30
MIMI. DISTRICTS.
The Fourth Sends Langdon and
Newell to Chicago.
Ramsey County So Slow Witted That
Hennepin 0utmaneuyers Her
by Large Majority.
Strait Holds Convention at Faribault and
Gets There Handsomely.
Liberty Hall and Garfield Garry Off the
Chicago Persimmons.

National convention to be held in Chicago
on June 3, assembled in Market hall at IL
O'Clock noon, yesterday. The gathering was
called to order by j. A. Wolverton, the proxy
for C. H. Petit, of Minneapolis, who read
the call.
The election of officers was proceeded with,
On motion of Judge Rea, of Minneapolis,
Mr. W. R. Merriam, of st. Paul, was elected
temporary chairman, and Mr.. A. D. Scott.
of Minneapolis, was elected secretary on
motion of H. B. Willis, of st. Paul. These
gentlemen afterwards became the permanent
officers.
Upon taking the chair Mr.. Merriam said
he was deeply sensible of the honor con-
feued; he hoped the proceedings would be
harmonious and the result satisfactory. He
reminded the convention that it would re-
quire the ablest wisdom and foresight to
nominate delegates who would fairly repre-
sent the commercial and farming interests of
the country. [Applause.l
Mr.. j. w. Searles, of Washington county,
moved the appointment of a committee of
five on credentials. Carried. The chair ap-
pointed T. L. Smith, of Hennepin; George
Squires, of st. Paul; L. P. McCusick, Of
Pine, and Martin Warner, of Wright, as such
committee, with Mr.. Searles as chairman.
On motion the convention took recess of
ten minutes.
The committee on credentials reported the
following as entitled to voice in the con-
vention:
Ramsey-.W r. Merriam, C. Gotzian,
Geo. c. Squires, Henry Schurmeir, Geo. r.
Finch, r. G. Wiley, s. Ii. Nichols, Fred.
Driscoll, Albert Scheffer, W. II. Lightner,
NJ. j. Bell, Stanford Newell, H. B. Willis, II.
Stockenstrom, j. G. Murray.
Pine-L. H. McKusick.
Hennepin-J. P. Rea, G. II. Benton,
F. L. Smith, c. w. Dawson, A C.. Austin,
j, II. Thompson, f. ?. Lane, A. F. Scott,
L. Fletcher, Geo. A. Bracket, w. f. Nc
Carthy, Ole Byorum, G. E. Miner, Geo. W,
Cooley, j. Batcheller, Thos. Hitler, and W.
Hayden.
Wrght-W. W. Webster, A. H. Bertram,
A. Y Eaton, j. n. Stacy, j. T. Alley, Ma
than Warner, A. A. Noyes, proxy for e. W.
Mcdonald.
Anoka-Jared Benson, E. D. Sage and W.
Brown.
Chisago-W. H. Winkoop, Otto Walmark.
The former held proxies for o. Roos and L.
s. Christensen.
Washington. B. Higgins, j. II. Town
shend, j. N. Searle, A. Borreen, E. l..
Hospes, A. X Doe and e. f. Sabn.
Isanti II. +. Barker, substitute for Mr..
D. Anderson, A. A. Halleen.
Sherburne-W. V. Dance.
Kanabec-N. II. Danforth.
The committee also reported that they had
an application from w. II. Houlton, of
Sherburne county, for a seat as delegate at
large, it being customary to give each county
such a representative, but it had been
omitted in the call for the convention. The
committee submitted the application without
recommendation.
Mr. Sam Nichols, of Ramsey, moved the
adoption of the report.
Jared Benson, of Anoka, moved to amend
by allowing an additional delegate at large to
each county. He said this was according to
usage. There had been complaints about
set-up thing for certain parties-a purpose to
assist certain candidates. He supposed such
was not the case, but still he should insist on
his amendment, for delegate at large. 1t
had always been done, and should he con-
tinued.
Mr.. McCusick, of Pine, opposed the mo-
ton in brief speech,
He said that the action of the committee had
been unjustly crticised there had been no
effort to further the interest of any one can
didate. The committee had endeavored to
, act squarely, and he explained the basis of
representation; the committee, he said, had
done what was considered fair; they had
fixed the basis so as to give the small coun-
ties fair showing in the convention. The
basis was delegate for each 300 Republi
can voters, or major fraction thereof. Take
the case of Pine county. That only cast 146
votes and still under the amendment of the
gentleman from Anoka it would have two
votes.
Mr.. Benson replied that he appreciated the
point about the small counties, but it was no
worse than was done in the organization of
the United States senate. There was the
state of Rhode Island, which was no larger
than Hennepin or Ramsey counties, and it
had two senators just the same as the empire
state of New York or the great state of Penn
= sylvania. He thought if that could be en-
dured the convention could afford to give
the small counties an extra delegate. 1t
would not amount to much, but it was a
right he was contending for. According to
Judge Rea's statement the county of Pine
was not entitled to any delegate, as it did not
cast major fraction of 800 Republican votes
The very fact that they gave Pine county one
delegate showed that they recognized the
principle of allowing delegate at large. The
danger was that the big cities, like the big
fish, would eat up the small counties.
Mr.. Fletcher said he desired to see every
thing fair and harmonious and he would
move to amend the amendment by granting
an additional delegate at large to each coun-
ty that cast 300 Republican votes or major
portion thereof. (This would give an adj
ditional delegate to each county in the dis
trict except Pine.)
Freddie Octopus Driscoll said he accepted
MIR. Fletcher's amendment. (Just why he
should accept the amendment any more than
any one else is as much a mystery as the
Octopus) He regarded it as an admission
that the call of the convention was wrong
and he was glad to see Mr.. Fletcher admit it,
With this the Octopus sat down.
Mr.. Fletcher's amendment to the amend
ment was then put by the chair and carried.
Mr.. Searle rose to point of order. He
declared that all this matter was irregular
They could not enlarge the delegation until
they had a convention and they must adopt
the report of the committee on credentials
and then they could consider whether they
would give any more delegates or not. They
must get convention first.
The chair held the point as well taken and
the original motion to adopt the report was
put and carried.
Mr.. Benson then renewed his motion
for an additional delegate at large from each
county.
Some one moved to lay it on the table and
the vote was carried almost unanimously,
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