St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-03
SPLIT IN twain.
Dakota Democrats at Water
town Divide Into Two
Conventions.
Both Claim to Legitimately
Represent the Territorial
Democrats.
Preponderanee Of Argument
and Reason Favoring the
Church Crowd.
General Opinion That 1t De-
serves to Be Called the
Regular Convention.
Connecticut Democrats De-
mand a REIMBURSEMENT Of
the Tariff.
illinois Declares for Gresham
Iowa and Nebraska
Democrats.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WATEKToWN. OAK, May 2.-The eX-
pected split among the Democrats as
assembled here for the purpose of hold
ing a convention to send delegates to
the st. Louis convention occurred much
earlier than was expected, and what up
to the last moment promised to be an
exceedingly lively time became an
extremely tame time, with plenty of
enthusiasm, to be sure, but never the
sign of row. The outcome was two
conventions and two sets of
delegates upon whose credentials
the national convention will be
called to pass. 1t occurred in
this way: The meeting of the terri
torial committee, composed of mostly
Church's friends, it was decided without
Il dissenting voice, although Judge
Bangs, the chairman, and several other
supporters of Mr.. Day were present,
that in order to effect a temporary Or
ganiZatiOn, the test of delegates should
be submitted to the committee which
would make list of the actual un-
disputed delegates present. 1t was also
decided that Judge Bangs, chair
man of the convention, would submit to
the convention as temporary chairman,
w. ii. StOddard, of Sioux Falls, and that
the organization would be perfected and
committee appointed to pass upon Gre
dentials. This was the plan the Church
men had made after night of labor to
nlyTlC 10 hfs 4la.,
strength before the convention. The
committee,
SEEMINGLY IN PERFECT ACCORD,
then adjourned to meet at 80 in the
armory This fact is important. The
armOry had been designated by the full
committee at its Bismarck meeting, and
the local committee as the place of
meeting. All arrangements had been
made for the meeting there and it was
file of both factions that it would be
held there. Well, the committee met
at the appointed place at the appointed
hour, but Judge Bangs was not pres
ent. Th time came for the holding of
the convention, but still he had not ar
rived. Neither had M. II. Day, and
most of his known supporters were con-
spicuOus by their absence. Still
nothing was known of their
assembled in the spacious armOry with
every one of the 800 seats filled, and
Ordway Johnson, of the committee, di-
rected that delegations come and leave
the list of their delegates with the terri
tOrial committee sitting on the platform
in order that the roll of delegates might
be made up and a temporary OrganiZa-
ton effected before moving further.
This was done and the rumOr that had
Il 4l,,nI
a packed committee would constitute it
self a credentials committee and shut
out the Day men was seen to be ground
less. The proceeding was perfectly
regular as it only assumed to constitute
provisional fall and no objection could
be made to it. The original resolution,
however was so written that it might
easily give rise to the impression that
the committee did intend to pass upon
credentials. The counties then sub
mitted their lists. When Denny Han
natin came forward with the Logan
county list the convention burst forth
in cheers. After the call of counties
was finished Mayor GeSley, of Water
town, delivered an address of welcome.
Col. Williams, formerly a Wisconsin
congressman, added further words of
welcome in an extremely happy vein,
and upon its conclusion
N,
chairman of the executive committee of
the central committee, stepped forward
and said: 'In my official capacity it
becomes my duty in the unexpected alb
sence of the regular chairman to call to
order the regularly constituted cOnven.
ton of the Democratic party in Dakota.
Actuated only by my duty to my con-
stituents and my party, without allie
glance to any one man and surrounded
Inv m of bn 70
mittee, will call the regular convention
together. l have just been advised that
handful of men, discontinued men,
who show by their action they are not
Democrats, have withdrawn to another
hall and are holding a mock conven-
tion." This was the first intimation
that the Day forces had not come into
the convention, and the Chnrch forces
when they comprehended it shook the
building with cheers. Mr.. Johnson
then went on to review the Aberdeen
convention of two years ago, when he
and his faction were showed under by
the committees action and reaSserted
his own Democracy. From the list of
delegates he would need the informa-
ton that only seven counties out of
eighty-three had rebelled. He deeply
regretted the political folly of his friend,
Mr.. Day; but as men with principle,
as men deeply interested in the Dem
ocratic party, they would hold their
convention, the regular convention of
the Democratic party. [Cheers.l The
committee without dissenting vote had
moved to present to the convention
Capt Stoddard as chairman. Judge
Bangs had made a mistake. He should
have come here and performed the duty
which the committee had instructed him
TO perform, and which now devOlved
upon him as chairman. lie would ac-
cordingly
NOMINATE CAPT. sToDDARD.
tCheers.l The nomination was immedi-
ately put and enthusiastically carried.
Capt. Stoddard, taking the chair, ac-
knowledged the honor conferred upon
him. Though a stranger to many of his
hearers he was no stranger to the Dem
ocratic party. He had grown gray in
the service, and hoped to live to see the
day when the Democratic party would
be i'll the ascendancy in the state of Da-