St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-16

IillSDury entered the elevator to ascend
to the second floor, where Room No. 2
had been set apart for the use OF the
committee, and it was not long before
all regularly accredited committeeman
were grouped around the small table in
the center of the apartment.
Secretary Heatwole whispered some
thing to Chairman Pillsbury which
caused the latter to request the repre-
Sentatives OF the press to retire tempo
rarIty, as the committee wished to trans
act some private business, after which
tfae doors would be thrown open during
the deliberations of the body.
= 1t ~transplred subsequently that the
private business consisted in receiving
the designations of District Judges ID.
B. Searle. of ST. Cloud, and c. l.. Brown,
OF Morris, and the appointment of their
successors on the committee. d. w.
Bruckert, of St. Cloud, was appointed
to succeed Judge Searle and E. w.
Randall, of Morris, in place of Judge
Brown and both of the new committee
men were called into the consultation.
Stanford Newell stated that he had
been requested to act as proxy for E. p.
Freeman, of MankatO, and Secretary
HeatwOle made similar announce
ment as to S. D. Allen, of Duluth, and
e. c. Huntington, of Window.
SENATOR DAVIS LETTER
was then read, but action was not taken
upon it until the public session began,
when it was accepted unanimously.
Meanwhile Stanford Newell, who had
been tidgeting in his chair at the right
of the presiding officer, gave prelim-
mary pull at his side whiSkers and rose
to propose the name of r. q. Evans, of
Minneapolis, as the successor of Sena-
tor Davis on the national committee.
In doing so he paid high
tribute to the political sagacity of
his candidate, Supplementing it
with the declaration that his selection
would be in every way satisfactory to
the Young Republicans of the state.
Hardly had he resumed his seat ere d.
B. Collins, of St. Peter, rising. said as a
Young Republican it gave him great
pleasure to second the nomination of
Mr.. Evans.
Chairman PillsbNry then put the mo-
ton, and by viva voce vote the nomi-
nation was unanimously agreed to.
All eyes were quickly turned toward
the new official, and the chairman in
trOduced him to the assembly and said
they would be pleased to hear some
thing from him. Mr. Evans in response
to this invitation said that he was deeply
sensible of the honor that had just been
conferred upon him, and especially as
he was one of the younger men of the
party. Besides there was grateful ap-
probation that he had been deemed
worthy to succeed such man as Sem
atOr Davis on the committee which
would have such an important bearing
upon the next campaign. He pledged
himself to try to accomplish by every
honorable means the euds for which the
great Republican party had been
created.
Congratulations were then in order,
and many of the friends of the success
full candidate crowded into the room to
shake hands with him, and an inn
prOmptu reception was organized, led
by G. A. Severance, the law partner of
Senator Davis; President Byrnes, of the
State league, and Secretary Tams
BiXby, of the same organization.
This question being disposed of. Stan
ford Newell opened discussion as to the
bestitime for holding another meeting
of the central committee with view to
perfecting arrangements for holding
THE STATE CONVENTION,
whose duty it would be to select dele
gates to the national convention at Chi
cage next June. He favored sometime
in March, as at least sixty days notice
should be given for holding primaries,
and 1t was but four months now to the
time agreed upon for the Chicago gath
ering.
Attention was also called to the fact
that it would be necessary to have the
county conventions held at time when
they would not interfere with the far
iners of the state, and the earlier the
better. The state convention would
probably be held sometime in May, and
ample opportunity should be afforded
all who wished to do so to express their
preferences at the primaries. This idea
seemed to meet with the approval of all
present, and it was agreed that the COM
mittee should convene again in March,
on a day to be selected by the chair
man.
Mr.. Evans suggested the appointment
of committee of three to prepare
plan of representation to the state con-
Yention before the central committee
meet again, and this motion having been
adopted the following gentlemen were
designated to serve as members of the
committee: MessrS. Evans, Newell and
Collins.
This concluded the regular business
before the central committee, and the
chairman then introduced President
Byrnes, of the Republican league, for