St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-04
THE MORNING SESSION.
Business Quickly Dispatched-A
Mild Platform.

The convention seemed to have eX-
hausted its capacity for row-making
Thursday, so that when it got together
yesterday morning it was disposed to
push business with celebrity. The mem
beers came in slowly, and it was about
10 o'clock before the body came to order
and heard the report of the committee
on credentials, which was delivered
with all the grace and dignity of which
G. p. Preston is master. 1t reported
nearly 400 names OF delegates entitled
to participate in the deliberations.
Gov. Barto wanted every county repre-
sented, and on his motion the
committee was sent back to
revise it's list and accredit
every Republican present from an
unrepresented county. By the time the
committee returned. the convention was
about through with it's work. The
chairman of the committee on perma-
nent organization was absent, but MI.
Van SAINT, of WinOna, SAID the commit
tee voted to continue the temporary
organization, which the convention rati-
fed. Chairman SearleS returned thanks
and called for report from the commit
tee on plan of state league. 1t submit
ted a constitution in brief as follows:
The name to be the Republican League
of the State of Minnesota; its object to
be the encouraging of local club organ
iZatiOnS, their uniting for work, and the
carrying out of the principles of the Re-
publican party; each club to have one
vote in convention; the officers to be a
president, vice president, secretary and
treasurer, each elected for two years;
annual conventions; power to assess
local clubs: an executive committee of
fr.nr, nI, i,rdi nl Ifc%,,
ring the league from expressing any
preference for any candidate before
convention.
The committee on rules reported each
club entitled to four votes. Then came
THE RESOLUTIONS.
+. u. Hay, the chairman, impresSively
cleared his throat before he read the
following:
1.-THE Republican League of the State
of Minnesota, in convention assembled.
hereby atfirmS its confidence in the Re-
publican party as the exponent of the
highest type of craftsmanship and good
government, constant and faithful in it's
efforts to encourage American indus
tries, maintain the dignity of American
labor in field and factory and wherever
else employed, to protect and cherish
the rights and interests of American
citizens of all classes at home and abroad.
to recognize and reward the soldier, his
widow and orphan, and to preserve the
purity of the ballot box throughout the
length and breadth of the Union; hereby
pledges itself to carry forward the work
of organization as proposed by the Re-
publican League of the United States.
until every county in the state of Min
nesOta is thoroughly organized; and to
faithful and tireleSS campaign in favor
OF the platforms and candidates of the
state and national conventions"
There was great applause when he
concluded, and great disappointment,
also. Delegates wanted to know why
their resolutions were ignored entirely.
and were not satisfied with the eX,
PLANTATION that this league could not
dictate party policy.
LITTLE ROW.
The committee also reported that it
had decided to recommend to the next
party convention the matter of adopting
the Abstraction system of voting. This
created quite breeze and a long dis
cuSsiOn, in which it was developed that
few of the members knew what was
meant. 1t was stated that G. j.. Buell.
had appeared before the committee to
advocate the plan, which is that pro-
posed by Allen ThOrndyke Rice in the
North American Review, but the COM
mittee deemed it lnexpedient to act,
and so reported. The motion to refer it
to the state committee was adopted
after a Squabble.
j. E. Osborne, of st. Paul, had
offered, the day before, a resolution
condemning the machine, and the use
of money in politics. But nothing was
said of his resolution in the platform.
The committee evidently did not agree
with Mr.. Osborne in abOlishing the ma
chine, the ring and the Doodle. and the
report was severely silent on the SUBJ
ject. This did not satisfy him, and he
took the floor to object, but he was
squelched by the chair, and sat upon by
the convention