St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-07
KICKS. LITTLE AND BIG.
Complaints Made by Fuller Me-
That they Were Intimidated.

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Below are given statements Of various
voters who were at the polls and saw that
which raised their ire:
THE HANDY POLICEMAN.
George j. Flint, of the First precinct of
the Fourth ward, in company with w. G.
Gronewald, made the following statement:
I'm that precinct one of the judges is a
minor, MI Ringwald. who is about 20 years
of age. The polls were sur
rounded by repeaters, bulldozers and
policemen electioneering. and working
for the Kelly ticket. At the opening of
the polls we asked to Re allowed to stand
at the window and challenge the votes, and
were forced away by policeman named
RYAN. Threats were made that they would
lick us and throw us out into the street and
we could get no recognition whatever.
Voters were brought in wagons from other
pt.rt5 of the city," Mr.. Flint also said that
he knew it was not right to strike pO-
liceman, but when Officer Ryan tried to put
him away he said it would be done by
force, and it was"
These gentlemen are sympathizers with
Fuller.
FULLER'S TESTIMONY.
Fl. H. Fuller explained the trouble in the
First precinct Of the Third ward this way:
THE regularly-appointed judges Of the
county committee organized at 5 o'clock
and declared themselves ready to receive
votes, when J. j. Ahern, clerk of the
municipal court, talked to the judges,
Messrs. George J. Mitsch and Louis Fischer,
insisting that he should be allowed to go
inside with them. They objected, when
he still more strongly insisted that he
should be permitted to go in, and INDUCED
in abusive language, Jack Frost and Others
Joining in with him. Mr.. MitSch came to
the window and eXpostulated with him,
whereupon the crowd lifted Ahern into the
window and he found his way in, After
wards Thomas Grace was also admitted
into the room and acted as judge in COM
PAW with George MitSch, Jr. A corps OF
policemen aided Anern to get into the room
and allowed him to stay there. Large
numbers of men and repeaters were brought
in from other wards and were permitted to
vote We left, seeing that there was no
use trying to get any fair play when the
caucus was being conducted so contrary to
Democratic principles Of conducting primary
meetings."
NOT TIT TO BE HUMAN.
DR.. Ed Snyder said: ''WordS fail to de-
scribe the disgraceful performances on the
part of Kelly's heelefS and sluggers. A
man who would vote the Democratic ticket
when such men as those are upon it are not
worthy to be human beings"
FULLER VOTERS NOT WANTED.
j. L. Stade, candidate for delegate on
the Fuller ticket in the First precinct of the
First ward, claims that the judges of cleo
ton appointed, Messrs. Thomas Hall and
James Kimball, refused to permit the Fuller
men to VOTE Accordingly they formed a
caucus and elected John Fl. Hoffman and
]. f. Wulf judges. At this caucus, the
Fuller ticket. l.. Stade, George W.
Eckles and Joseph Sansome-received 226
votes. and Pat Conley. Ben Linstead and
Edmund Schurmeier. the Kelly ticket, zig
votes. and credentials were made out ac-
cordingly by Judges Hoffman and Wulf. Of
course this supplies credentials to two con-
testing delegations
J. c. Hanley says In the Second pre-
cinct of the Third ward the election was
conducted on a fair square issue, and the
result was two to One electing the Ames
delegation.
| NEARLY DUMFOUNDED.
President H. F. Notbohm, of the Column
| bia association. left the following with the
GLOBE, Ill HIS OWN
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 6, 1886.
To the Editor of the Globe.
We the undersigned, appointed delegates
of the Second precinct of the Second ward,
were next to being dumfounded at our pri-
mary this afternoon. We were refused q
secretary to take the names of the voters and
we are sure, in our own minds, that we polled
three votes to two of the Kelly crowd and yet,
when the count was taken, they had nearly
two TO our one. JOHN q. DEvEREUx
H. F. NOTBoHM,
H. BURMINGHAM.
OPPOSED TO AMES.
II. F. Notbohm, president of the Column
bia association, said last evening that there
was no doubt buethat the delegates elected
at nearly all the caucuses were opposed to
the nomination of DR.. Ames for governor.
| Mr.. Notbohm, who is one of the dele
gates elected on the Fuller ticket from
| the Second precinct of the Second ward, was
positive the convention to-day would bear
out his statements.
| AMES TICKETS REFUSED.
| A. G. Dorfeld residing at 715 East Sew
enth street, said there never was perpetra-
ted more outrageous bulldoZing fraud
than in the Second aldermanic district of
the Fifth ward.
| "As one of the Ames delegation in that
district" said he, 81 was dealt with in a way
| that would drive the hue of shame to the
| cheek of the most INSCRIPTIONS. When