St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
The "Grand Old Party" Not So
"Truly Good" After All.
High License Voted Down, and C0ch-
ran, Tim Reard0n and Other
Republicans Withdraw.
The First Ward Bummers AdmItted--A Few
Incidental Speeches by Mr.. Wilson.

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v%ention and named the offices for which can
didates were to be selected.
TEMPORARY OFFICERS.
For temporary chairman j. W. Cathcart
and Theodore Sanders were nominated.
Mr.. Cathcart, who was presiding first, put
the motion for his opponent, Mr.. Sanders.
The vote was eioa voee and appeared to be
pretty nearly a tie, with a
slight preponderance in the
negative, and Mr.. Cathcart left it for the
convention to say, when it was generally
conceded that the vote was against Mr.. San
ders, and so without any vote being taken
Mr.. Cathcart was taken and accepted as the
chairman. Frank Fairchild was elected sec
rotary, of course, and thus the convention
was organized and ready for business.
A RECESS VOTED.
The convention having got thus far voted
a recess for ten minutes.
He o OUT.
One fellow who came in during the re
cess, and saw Frank Fairchild sitting up
there in the desk, evidently thought he had
got into the police court, and turning around
said: ''Here, I'm going to get out of this;
there's that id frank Fairchild up there,
it'll be five dollars fine in a minute; l get
out, " and he skipped own stairs.
THE COMMITTEE REPORTS.
The committee reported a list of delegates
substantially the same as those that have
been published in the papers, but through
Mr.. Auerbach the committee informed the
convention that there was a protest against
the delegates from the First precinct of the
First ward. This matter was settled, howev
er, by the convention adopting a motion
made by Mr.. Cochran that the report be
adopted except as to this precinct, and that
that one be left to be settled hereafter by the
convention.
THE CIRCUS COMMENCES.
AS soon as Mr.. Cochran's motion was
adopted matters in the convention began to
look stormy. The warriors were evidently
putting on the war paint and the feathers.
The atmosphere became sulphurous. Mr.W.
s.. Wilson, who seemed to be one of the prin-
cipal speakers in the convention, occupied a
front seat, and was all the time in the thick
of the fight. He moved that the delegation
from the First precinct of the First ward be
admitted.
THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS.
Everything therefore being in readiness,
Mr.. W. S. Wilson, a well known statesman
and %expounder of the law and the constitu-
ton, made q motion that the chair appoint
q committee of one from each ward on ere
dentials. Of course, this motion was
adopted, and the chair appointed w. S. VIII
son, j. II. Burns, H. Bueger, NJ. Auerbach,
A. Ritz, and NJ. Ball.
Mr.. Sanders spoke Of the disgraceful
scenes that took place in that precinct on
the day the primary election was held, and
stated that he had been informed that a good
deal of roydyism and bulldozing was practis-
ed there while the election was progressing,
that respectable people had been driven
away from the polls, and that others who
wanted to vote had kept away for the reason
that they I'd not want to encounter such a
mob as there was at the
polls on that occasion. Now
whether or not these things were true or false
he did not know, but would, prefer to have
them investigated. He would like to have a
committee appointed who would report the
facts.
Mr.. Thomas Cochran, Jr., had heard
statements and rumors ab0nt the disgrace
full scenes that took place at the polls on the
occasion referred to, but he did not know
whether they were true or false. For this
reason he desired to hear the statements OF
parties. He thought the members of the
convention were entitled to that, to enable It
to act with intelligence. 1t was an important
matter and ought to be treated accordingly.
He made a motion that the delegates be
heard before the convention.
This proposition appeared to stir up Mr..
Wilson, and he rose in his place with a good
deal of nervousness in appearance, and with
eyes flashing he declared that as an Ameri-
can citizen he had rights that should be pro-
tected. He wanted to tell Mr.. Cochran that
Cochran-Tell the convention if you
please.
Wilson, resuming, I want to tell you about
it. He then proceeded to state that the con-
test at the first precinct Of the First ward
was conducted the same as at other precincts
in the city. There is always more or less
roughness at the polls, both at the regular
election and at the primary. He maintained
that 1t would be wrong and wholly unprinci-
pied to throw out these delegates because
there was a little skulduggery during some
part of the voting, away off to some point
wher the delegates did not know anything
about 1t, and had no connection with it. II
would be an outrage. One hundred and
fifty votes came from the Merchants
hotel, where we don't never get no aid foI
the Republican party. Is it right, he wanted
to know, for Col. Allen and Gen. Sanborn tc
go in and do that2 If the Scandinavian:
went to the polls and took possession, that
nothing. They have a right to do so. That's
the way they always do on such occasions.
The party that gets there first takes posses
sion and organizes the whole thing by elect
ing the officers. 1t would be a wrong thing
to shut these delegates out, and closed by
saying that if they were shut out it would
work a great wrong in the future.
Mr.. Theodore Sanders reiterated what he
had said about an investigation and was
anxious to know if there was any bulldozing.
Mr.. Wilson declared that he wanted tC
make a motion, but instead of doing so start
ed out to make a speech by declaring that in
his opinion it was all wrong, when he was
called to order by Mr.. Cochran. Mr.. Wilson
proceeded, however, and declared that he
had a right to make a motion, which the
chair permitted him to do. When he col
the privilege, however, he had forgotten
what the motion was that he wanted to make.
After thinking awhile, however, he mace
motion to indefinitely postpone.
AT this point Mr.. Tim R%eardon, who was q
delegate to the convention, jumped up and