St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-22
THE PUBLIC BEDAMNED
That is Practically What the Republ leans
Said in Their County Convention
Yesterday.
In Spite of Protests They Rushed Through
the McGill Delegates According
to Program.
Scand1navtans Who Ask to be Recog-
ntzed Sat on Without a Show of
Recognition.
A Cut-and- Dried Objectionable
fllan for Congress--Go in
the Corridors.
AS Was Expected.

About ninety men who had arranged with
the Republican county committee to select
delegates that would vote for Mr.. McGill
for governor, met in Pfeiffer's hall yester-
day morning and carried out their contract.
There were few there who had. by some
misdeal in the cards, been allowed to come
and make minority. who wanted to make
the gathering convention and actually
elect delegates, but they were so few that
the cut and dried list overpowered them en-
tirely and everything went through
for McGil with unanimity that
was pleasant to those that were inclined
that way. Itwas said that there were five
or six Gilman delegates present. The ring
men were out in good numbers. Mark ID.
Flower, Stanford Newell, w. r. Merriam,
Sam Nichols, Auditor Braden, Herman
StockenStrom and the others were all on
hand. They had little to do, however, so
far as work goes, for they had done that
earlier in the game. Maj. Wilson was there
to watch the motions of the men who had
downed him, and early in the session held
an animated discussion with William
Bickel, Jr., as to whether or not there had
been any attempts to run in repeaters at the
primaries to vote for Gilman.
Maj. Wilson said very forcibly
that he knew nothing about any
such business, and MI. Bickel was equally
strong in his assertions that such an attempt
had been made. There was some delay in
the room where the committee on creden-
tials went to look over the list. The COM
mittee on credentials listened to the claims
of the cOntending delegates in the court
house precinct, John Cunningham. p.
Tantnolt and Sam II. Hardy, with proxy
for nj
not only that the caucus was managed in
actually
STUFFED THE BALLOT BOX.
Two men made affidavits that they saw
Mr.. Willis, one of the judges as well as
candidate for delegate. stuff the anti-Mc-
Gill ballots into his coat sleeve. The ne
groes, for it appeared to be quarrel be-
tween blacks and whites, also presented u
statement signed by seventy men who
voted for Gilman delegates. Sam
j. Hardy was the spokesman
for the negroes and a laugh was raised
when Mr.. Willis asked him, did you not
receive money to vote for me?" Hardy
explained the circumstance as having re-
ceived quarter from Mr.. Willis to keep
his mouth shut and produced the coin in
evidence. In making up the list of dele
gates the committee forgot to put on Sean
dinayians enough'to satisfy that branch Of
the Republican constituency, and when
MIR. Osborn respectfully asked that his
race be given decent showing, the ring
sat down on him and his race in manner
rather too heavily tor comfort. The re-
fusal of the gathering to properly recognize
this element created no little feeling among
prominent Scandinavians. and the
opinion was expressed that this would
in the end count against MeGill and the
crowd that carried things yesterday. 1t is
a very pretty row that the Republican COM
mittee stirred up when lt called its county
convention so early. The friends of Mr..
Gilman say that in the long run they be-
lieve it will help their man as, on general
principles, the great bulk of voters do not
like to see things done in that way. Yes
to-day, however, none of the ring seemed
in any mood to take back anything and did
about everything that could have been
done to enlarge the trouble and make the
feeling more bitter. The delegates elected
to the congressional convention are for
Gilman, without positive instructions that
way.