St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-25
PICKED AT WATERFOWL
n and About The Convention = The
Pickle of the Uneasy Chairman.
HEARD IN THE COMMITTEE
Which Scoffed at the Pleadings of the
Representative eff the Farmers
Alliance.

were indeed typical Republican con-
yention, if numbers. noise and more
than the average amount of nonsense
makes one. That order, that decorous
mien and placid dignity supposed to
characterize all Republican conven-
tions is wanting in this. Gen. Allen,
stern disciplinarian and in some re-
spects an ideal presiding officer, was
compelled to use his gavel almost con-
tlnuously during the opening hours of
the convention. On one occasion he
asked the convention in terms of most
rhetorical indignation whether it rep
resented the
DIGNITY OF THE PEOPLE
or was simply Democratic convention.
This ancient sally produced more laugh
ter than decorum. Gen. Allen succeed
ed in preserving semblance of order,
but temporary chairman Nash was
tossed about OH the uproarous tide like
a cork on a boiSterous bath tub.
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Watertown is emphatically a city of
conventions and for conventions. With
the new hotel, whose doors were opened
Tuesday morning something after the
manner in which an electric light sys-
tenn is turned On-very suddenly-the
the city is well equipped for accommo-
dations. The Armory Hall is well fitted
for convention purposes, while the citi-
zenS OF ''The peerless city on the sill
very Sioux" are admirable enter
tainerS. Armory Hall was beau
tifully decorated with national COL
ors, and its walls blazoned with
partisan devices. The central chande-
ller was hidden in fields of patriotic
bunting, and supported portraits of the
national Republican leaders. Near the
stage, fixed to the wall On either side,
were sheaf of wheat and bundle of
corn, typifying the
TWO GREAT REGIONS
of the territory. Upon the platfarm on
the right and on the left, stood the
crimson and blue standards of the corn
flower and the wheat sheaf, bright me-
mentos of the late lamented statehood
convention at Huron-''Lamented'' be-
cause the proceedings of that illus
triouS body cut no larger figure here,
and exerted as little apparent influence
upon the action of the body as would
the proceedings of a district school
meeting. Gen. Campbell was left in
glorlouSly, the convention refusing to
go wild over
THE DUAL STATE IDEA,
and Tuesday evening the assembled
delegates treated the Huron Glee club
with positive discourtesy, refusing at
first to listen to their sweet statehood
songs, and withholding that mead of
applause which the excellent singing
merited.
E. The convention is emphatically di-
vision convention, however. 1t is di-
vided against itself, and the struggle is
IN the main between the North and the
South. Central Dakota is an. unhappy
pOSition-between the
UPPER AND NEITHER STONES.
The past, with its bitter words and
sharp thruStS from rantankerous di-
vision, she cannot forget. while on the
other hand strong sentiment in favor
of the candidate of the South unques-
tlonably existed among the delegates
from central counties.
Temporary Chairman Nash had a hard
time OF 1t. 1t was perfectly apparent
that his youth and early manhood was not
spent in the atmosphere of political con
ventions, and the circumstances under
which he was chosen, did not improve
matters. The Clifford forces exercised
no preference end improved every OPP
portunlty to take advantage of the
chairs lneXperience and fatal tendency
to ''get ratified" During Thursday
mornings brief session, Mr.. Nash lost
both his
HEAD AND HIS PATIENCE.
Rising 10 his full heighth, which is
not colossal, the chair declared that he
would have order. The announcement
was followed by general demand of
Louder! LOuder!" and the convention
relapsed into still deeper choas and
disorder which continued until adjourn
ment. Mr.. Nash achieved great sue
cess, however, in adjourning conven-
lions by the use of the gavel.
One of the developments of Thursday
morning explained why Central Da-
kota was not an integer. Edmunds
county voted solidly for Judge Bennett
for temporary chairman. A rumor APP
parently well authenticated was in cir
culation that certain members of Ed
mundS county had been promised the
ABERDEEN LAND OFFICE
and its appurtenanceS in consideration
of its support of the Clifford forces.
Brown county upbraided its neighbor,
and it is said that Edmunds county men
admitted that advances had been made
by the South. The report occasioned
no little comment and merriment at the
expense of the Ipswich statesmen.
The committee upon resolutions which
met at Armory hall on Thurs
day morning deliberated long and
earnestly upon the shape and
quality of the planks to comprise
the territorial platform. Farmer Chase,