St. Paul daily globe., 1886-08-19
DEADLOCK AT KASSON
The First District Republican Congress
sional Convention in Serious
Tangie.
White and Lovely Hold Their Men
Throughout Day of Continuous
Balloting.
thirty Eight Votes Taken Without
n Break in the Various
Ranks.
Democratic State Tickets Nominated
In Ohio and Pennsy1vanfa--
Farmers Alliance.
I'm Dead-Eock.
pecial to the Globe.

pec1al to the Globe.
KASSoN, Aug. 1S,-As the convention
Id not assemble until 1 o'clock the entire
orenoon was devoted to active work among
ae politicians. The Winona reserve came
on the2 o'clock morning train and the full
omplement of the convention was made
.p. During the night several candidates
or nomination on the state ticket arrived,
mong them being Farmer McGill, Mr.
locum of Minneapolis, candidate for state
reasurer. and Mr.. Nichols, candidate for
Jerk of the supreme court. Farmer Gilman
vas here already and had part il a night
# active work. He established headquar-
erS on the long piazza in front of the
Walker house, while Farmer McGill and
lis blooming mustache held levee on the
opera house corner just across the street.
Each was surrounded by crowd of ad-
hiring partisans, while each with charac-
eriStIc Suavity was attempting to make
good impression upon the men who attend
conventions. Apparently more interest
;entered upon the canvass of the guberna-
5orial candidates than upon that being
Naged by
THE CONGRESSIONAL AsPIRANTs.
But the latter were not idle nor in reality
lad interest abated a particle in their con-
sest. 1t was the stiffness of deep water,
tor there was many a plan of dark and
ieep intent being considered and some of
Them executed. Mr.. White was not seen
ningling with the crowd this morning. He
Was on the inside of his private parIor.
where his friends were Stealthily slipping
doubtful delegates into his presence. Mr..
Dunnell was moving around with cautious
read. now and then stopping long enough
20 whisper word into the ear of some
oasser-by or occasionally slipping Off to the
md of the piazza to have hurried consul
ation with a delegate. Capt. Mullen was
mixing around generally, laughing and
okng and telling stories of his war ex-
oerence. The captain is a Grand Army
nan, and he lost no opportunity to publish
he fact. Apparently the most indifferent
II all the candidates was Mr.. Lovely
0ne couldn't tell from his manner that he
lad the most remote interest in the result
of today'S work. He talked about every
hing except the nomination. Lovely is a
ipe-lOoking man, has pleasant manners.
rank, open countenance and is evidently
he possesSor of good conscience.
ELOOKS LIKE A DEMOCRAT
and the wonder is that he is not. All sorts
Of rumors were afloat in the early part of
Ehe day concerning the combinations that
we're being made The initial fight was
over the organization of the convention.
The Lovely people made the first pass by
offering the permanent Craftsmanship to
WabaSha. This was conceded to be a good
point, and the White folks went to work to
upset it. The first move was to stir up
Kick among the Winona delegates. This
succeeded, and then the rumor circulated
that White had been with the Winona re-
serve during the night, and had offered
money for votes Bets were offered on
DunnelPs nomination. 1t was rumored
that the Winona delegation would break
Oh Lovely after the first ballot, and would
create stampede to Dunnell and carry him
N on boom. And so it was up to the
nour of assembling. No one had any cor
rect idea of what had been done or what
would be done. Everything was in mist
and doubt, and everybody felt that it would
:eQuire two or three ballots at least before
my of the hidden hands could be exposed.
MAKING LOVE TO wABAsHA
So eager were the Lovely delegates to
say distinction to Wabasha county that on
he assembling of the convention at l
o'clock the usual formality of reading the
call under which the convention was held
was dispensed with and Wabasha man
placed in nomination for chairman by
Lovely delegate. Less than half hour
disposed of all the preliminary work of
organizing and receiving reports of COM
mittees, and the convention hurried to
TAKE AN INFORMAL BALLOT.
1t was evident at the start that the Lovely
force had the advantage in skilled leader
ship. The White men stumbled along
without any sort of conception as to what
hey onght to do, allowing the Lovely men
20 gain all the points in parliamentary
EacticS until young Kingsley of Fillmore,
finally came to the rescue and forced
ballot in advance of the report of the
committee Oh resolutions, which was the
first blood drawn by the White men. 1t
was manifest that the sympathy of the
WabaSha chairman was with Lovely as
against White, as his rulings were clearly
n that direction, in one instance grossly
violating all parliamentary law in deciding
an important motion made by "a White dele
gate. Whites friends cOntented themselves
by resenting their indignity with scowls,
out
MADE NO OPEN KICK.
When Lovely's name had been placed be-
fore the convention in graceful speech by
0'Brien of Houston. the chairman arose
and gravely remarked: ''Mr. Lovely is
nominated" This break on the part of the
chair provoked an uproar of laughter and
applause throughout the hall, and the noisy
humor of the body was intensified when a
stray Democrat IN the further end of
the room called ont: 81 move to
make it unanimous. The informal ballot
developed 10 change from the situation as
it was predicted in the GLOBE yesterday,
except that one delegate from Winona
Topped from Lovely to White The Lovely
fA, 4l,.r, l. I
evinced no disappointment. The four sue
ceedng ballots produced no change. when
motion was made and prevailed that in
stead of allowing the chairman of each
delegation to announce the vote of his
county as the roll was called each member
should step forward and
DEPOSIT HIS INDIVIDUAL BALLOT.
1t was expected that this change would
develop any embryonic break that might be
i'll hiding. But the only result was flop
Of one to White and a gain OF one for
Mullen. The balloting at this
point became interesting ard the
members moved through the hall
IN hurried conversation with each
Other The leaders were stitfening the
Dackbones of their followers and the un-
stable ones were being besought to change
over to this or that candidate When the
result OF the ballot was announced the con-
Vention was on the tiptoe of expectation to
know whether there were any signs of a
general break. There was general feeling
that
A BREAK SOONER OR LATER
was inevitable, and it was expected at this
stage, so when the sixth foamal ballot re-.
suited in putting the one Mullen recruit
back in the White column. shout of re-
;oioino xuont l1y, from, Whto,c follo,ro,, -. :,
there was corresponding sinking of heart
in the Lovely ranks. On the eighth ballot
the Winona man who had been voting for
White went out to see man.
when the chairman of the delegation
took aduantaga of bis ahsence to