St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-13
THE COMMITTEES WORK.
A Convention Called for Sept. 22, in
st. Paul--One Delegate to 400
Blaine Voters.

A Convention Called for Sept. 22, In
St. Paul--One Delegate TO 400
Blaine Voters.
1t was 2 o'clock sharp when Chairman
Henry a. Castle and Secretary John Espy
seated themselves at a table in the corner
of the ordinary of the Merchants hotel, and
Messrs. NJ. j. Daniels of Rochester, War
rem j. Ives of Hutchinson. G. Fl. Petit of
Minneapolis, Col. Joseph Bobleter of New
Ulm, Senator W. P. Sergeant of Albert
Lea, c. II. Strobeck of Litchfield and E.
G. Holmes of Detroit, constituting all the
members of the committee who were in the
city, seated themselves around the room
and began talking politics. weather and
crops When the chairman called these
gentlemen to order he suggested that as
Messrs. Dan T.. Chamberlain of Hastings,
Senator II. G. Waite of st. Cloud, Frank
A. Day Of Paramount and Gen Levi Nutting
of Faribault were absent. proxies might be
proposed if the respective districts of
the absenteeS were represented by
good, reliable Republicans. Motions
were carried making Joel P. Heat
wole of Mortified proxy for Nut
ting. John Van Slyke of Hastings proxy
for Dan Chamberlain, and John d. Jones
of Long Prairie proxy for Senator Waite.
Nobody was present from the Jackson and
Martin counties section, so they were not
represented in the committee in Editor
Days absence. There was some slight OBJ
lection to Mr.. Jones being made proxy for
the reason that he was a wouldbe candi-
date. This was Overruled, Mr.. Daniels
suggesting. with significant lifting of his
eyebrows, that if such principle was ad-
hered to it might exclude all the members
+I,a
menced by G. Ii. Strobeck moving to go
into executive session because there were
some matters which the committee would
like to talk over informally" Senator w.
P. Sergeant saw no reason why the pro.
ceedings of the committee should be pri-
vate but Lieut.-Gov. Gilman, who was
present, arose and smilingly limited to the
other candidates present that they were all
willing to withdraw. All who were not
members then took leave, and the dark
workings of the committee were confined to
closed doors.
WHAT THEY DID.
The policy of holding county conventions
before the state committee had fixed the
date for the state convention, the basis of
apportionment. the plan of temporary Or
ganiZation of the convention and the date
and place were then all freely discussed. Ex-
Senator Ives opposed the holding OF county
conventions before the state committee
met, on the general principle that they
tended to disorganize the party, and he
favored declaring all such county conven-
tions previously held illegal. according to
Republican political law. The committee
decided, however, to recognize all county
conventions so held, and to appoint sub
committee to cover this matter in recon-
mendation to the convention. On the ques-
ton of the date the general sentiment OF
the committee seemed to be for an early
convention and Sept. was proposed. But
this would come between two fairs
and would interfere with the
state fair. The 18th was proposed,
but Mr.. Daniels said this would
interfere with the Southern Minnesota
fair at Rochester, and he suggested Sept.
20 or %. Col. Bobleter favored later
date. a motion was made to set the
date at the 22d. W. j. Ives amended to
make it the 2sth. This amendment was
urged by Messrs. Petit, Sergeant and
Ives, who, at the previous meeting were
anxious for an early date. Mr.. Ives soon
discovered the majority of the committee
to be in favor Of the 22d. Accordingly,
he withdrew his amendment, at the same