St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-12

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whether Mr.. Pillsbury shall preside, but
whether this convention shall be packed in
the interests OF A. r. McGill. Applause.
Maj. Camp-I am for no packing and no
candidate. [ am not riding on the coat-tails
of either McGill or Gibbs. l believe in the
| hon eSty of our present chairman.
Chairman Pillsbury-There will be no pack
| ing, gentlemen, assure you. l would much
prefer the convention would name these COM
mitteeS.
John Barber-This is no question of men.
| The integrity OF Mr.. Pillsbury is beyond the
reproach OF anybody. This is a pure politi-
cal point.
| THE DISPUTE PROLoNG Ed
Here several motions to adjourn were
defeated, and the dispute was prolonged.
Freeman Lane and H. G. Hicks had sew
eral sharp tits George Camp GRATED for
| harmony, and Loren Fletcher was all for
peace and harmony and McGill, John Bar
Der tearfully pleaded for a secret ballot
and A. Ii. Hall vociferouSly shouted for a
change of officers. The Gibbs men howled
for their lost chance. and the McGill men
struggled desperately to retain the partial
victory they had wrested.
| DR.. Perkins, OF Excelsor-I want it under
stood am for neither McGill nor Gibbs. No,
| I'm not for Charlie Gilman. either. I'm sorry
1 there is not one RopuDIlcau III MluneSOCd So
| far head and shoulders above the rest that
| the nomination should seek him, instead of
| having these three men prowlng about the
state, seeking it out by precincts, begging for
| support. ! am for harmony. Down with the
rings. Mingled applause and Kisses
Mai. Camp-An l want is an honest ex-
preston of these delegates.
A Voice-Let us take recess for one hour
| and fix this thing up.
| Maj. Camp-No, sir, there has been enough
| fixing already. Let us break it up. We are
| the delegates and have the fixing to do and
not few bosses. 1t seems the time has come
| when a few men think they can dictate to the
Republican convention of Hennepin county.
| wild applause.
The motion to take recess was voted
down and by rising vote McGill scored a
second victory by declaring the temporary
organization permanent. Applause and
subdued growls The Gibbs men then got
their heads together and decided to change
the customary rule by which the chairman
| is permitted to name the committee to Sc
lect the delegates. Freeman Lane moved
that each ward delegation and the country
delegation name the delegates to the state
convention to which each is entitled as
follows: First ward. 4; Second, 2; Third,
4; Fourth, 5; Fifth. 5; Sixth, &; Seventh,
| 2; Eighth, 2; country. Z. Total. 81.
| NOl. f1lCkS-1HlS 6OulluS very ldlT, DuI III
| fact it is nothing but a little scheme. The
very fact that Freeman Lane proposes ii is
sufficient evidence that it is scheme.
| [Cheers.l He then proposed to tabu late the
| vote for governor and appOrtion the dele
gates by that vote. But his eloquence failed
| to convince the convention and the Lane res
| olution went through with a wild hurrah,
and thus Gibbs scored his first real victory.
THE DELEGATES.
| The convention tOok raoaSS and fha
ward delegations assembled in groups and
proceeded to ballot for delegates. When
| they had completed, the convention reaSSem-
bled and heard the list. as follows:
First Wards. s. Farnham, E. f. Com
stock, L. Lundquist, E. w. Backus.
Second. s. Pillsbury, E. w. Trask
Thrd-V. Truesdeil. g. 81. Fletcher, Henry
Pratt.
Fourth-R B. Langdon. S. f. Olsen, S. P.
Linden, +. Hooker, NJ. H. G!ertsen-
Fifth-H. G. Hicks. C. B. Heffefinger, G.
A. Pillsbury, L. Fletcher, S. R. Thayer-
Slxth-W. f. Gray, D. F. Collins, +. NJ.
Nye, Il. NJ. Lott, K. II. Crafts, Alexander
Miller.
SEVENTH. A. Newell, L. L. wheelock
Eighth-Albert Nicolls, William E. Lock-
ard.
County-George A. Camp. C. H. Burwel,
A. J. Golfer, William Kell, e. K. Perkins, o.
s. Miller, E. Cooley.
ANOTHER ROW.
When the Sixth ward delegation was
named William Gunderson made a protest
against excluding all Scandinavians from
the delegation.
DR.. Collins-There was one delegate from
each precinct and the precincts elected them.
This convention is not the place to raise this
question. All nationality should be sunk in
the Republican party.
Mr.. Gunderson-Yes, that's what you say
now, but wait until you want US to vote your
ticket.
Mr.. Sandberg-This is just why you call
us voting cattle. 1 don't say this as
threat because ali Scaudinavians are not
going to be Democrats, though many will.
Rev. Torrey-It must have been mistake
to omit Scandinavian. We were careful to
get one on our delegation.
The matter finally was referred back to
the Sixth ward for settlement. The ques-
ton of nationality having been raised,
several inflamed speeches were made. Col.
Hicks. in the height of his anger. charged
upon the craftsmanship of F. P. Lane the
blunder by which the foreign element
| was overlooked, and moved to lay the
whole proceedings on the table. Col.
Mattson was called out and made speech,
| in which he said the Scandinavian element
had been neglected, and the convention
would regret it. The crowd saw the neces-
sity of taking a back step, and Loren
Fletcher asked, as favor, that Col. Matt
son would take his place in the delegation.
| Mattson declined, but Fletcher insisted,
and called Oh the convention, which unani-
mously made the. change. At this point
the Sixth ward delegation returned and re-
| ported that by vote of 20 to it decided
to let the delegation stand as reported. w.
G. Nye, brother of bill" made flowery
speech, in which he said that, deep
grounded as his Republicanism was. he
hoped the party would go down to defeat
rather than truckle to nationality. He
closed by resigning in favor of Sandberg.
The latter made a speech III which he was
frequently interrupted by cries of ''ques-
tion," rats" and ''ehesnuts," and when
he closed the convention adopted the mo-
| ton.
CORRECTING MISTAKES.
Col. Hicks-While we are about correcting
mistakes, let's correct them all. move to
table the whole delegation. There are LOO