St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-07
WILL IT Be DUNNELL?
There Are Signs That Say He
Will Oppose Thomas
Wilson.
But the Field Is Mixed and a
Shaking Up May
Change 1t.
Lovely Has Reasons for STIR
ring Up a Lively
Rumpus.
Good Money Ready to Be
Wagered on Cleveland's
Election.

The Rochester convention of next
Tuesday, which is to nominate a con-
greSSional opponent to Congressman
Wilson, is placed in peculiar position.
1t must do one of two things-either
nominate very bad man politically
speaking) or very good one and accept
defeat. 1t is Dunnell, with bare fight
ing chance to win, or some untried cit
izen and certain failure. Mr.. Dunnell's
canvass, it will be noted, has been car
ried on in the same as Maj. Straits was
or as Gilman is doing-constant as
sertions that no office is desired,
but willingness to accept if
unanimously rendered: and great
deal of quiet work behind the
scenes. The natural result is that
though he may fall short of the nomina-
ton, Dunnell will be the disturbing
factor of the convention. He will have
to begin with sufficient strength to di-
rect the course of the convention to the
nominee if it be not himself.
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The representation of the different
counties in the convention will be as
follows:
Dodge. ....... 6ISteele ............... 6
Fillmore. .l3 Wabasha. ....... z
Freeborn.... 1900. 9lWinona. IL
as@ssRn: Mo#ef Total =. rs
OlnSteu.....> ......lOl
Necessary to choice, 40.
This is the same number of delegates
as in the Kasson convention of two
years ago. Winona, Olmsted, Move r
and Freeborn can name the nominee.
The Kasson convention fought through
over seventy ballots. The prevalent
public opinion is that this will be settled
in ten, and Dunnell be the nominee.
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But there are other candidates than
Dunnell, men of standing in the dis
trict, and who have better political rep
utations than he. None of them have
yet developed much more strength than
that of their own county. In the first
place, on the statement of the Winona
papers, ID. Sinclair is not a candidate.
Sheriff Bogart, of Winona, and Mayor
John Ludwig, who were in st. Paul
yesterday, gave it as their opinion that
he was not candidate. Winona county
would have supported him solidly if he
had been in the field. Also j. A. Leon
ard, the Rochester editor, is out of the
race, having withdrawn last week.
This narrOws the contest to
Dunnell and Messrs. COnkey, of
Fillmore, and Mullen, of Wabasha;
O'Brien, of Houston. There is no evil
dence at hand that any one of them has
made especial effort to win. Dunnell-
ism has been so rampant that their
claims have been overshadowed. Capt.
Mullen is an ex-soldier; Conkey one of
whom they say locally:
''He is man Oh whom the different
factions can unite"
This qualification ought to make him
the only available timber in the First.
Something of that sort is badly needed.
O'Brien is the attorney of Houston
county. His cause is not being vigor-
ously pushed.
The claims being made as to the situa-
ton at the opening of the convention
are many. Only two are given there.
The first gives the list of delegates and
their preferences:
Fillmore Delegates-A. D. Gray, C. M. Low
ell, G. W. Rockwell Thomas Thorp, Horace
Wheeler, E. G.. Bolles, Edward Burnham,
Tallak Broken, G. G. Edwards, L. Prosser.
T. A. Sorenson, M. A. Maland and J. H. Phil
lips. Instructed for c.. II. Conkey.
Freeborn-John A. Lovely, John Whytock,
M. Halverson, J. E. Starks, H. r. Fossum. H.
&. Nelson, A. C.. Wedge, FL. Blackmer, j. C.
Ross; alternates, G. Gulbrandson, E. W.
Knatvald, T. Dunno Fl. o. Harkness, A. Har-
aldson, A. Newell. 7. A. Helvig, III. Ingebret-
son, N. 7. Sandberg. Not instructed.
Wabash-J. G. Bartlett, W. Foreman, A. j.
Greer, G. W. Harrington, o. N. Ford, Henry
1. Whitmore, w. H. Feller. The delegation
is uninstructed. but unanimous for Capt
John II. Mullen.
Winona-Thomas Simpson, E. HILL w.
Hayes Laird, C. Gerrish, NJ. B. Webber, s. R.
Van Sant W. E. Smith, E. B. Hoffman, DR..
S. B. Sherdown, F. D. Sloan, T. A. Pierce j.
A. Tawney. Are unpledged and are for any
man to beat Wilson, with preference for a
Winona man.
Houston-James O'Brien, o. G. Laugan'
John Fishel, j. j. Bondalie, G. F. Potter, G.
P. Weld, A. J. Snure. Preference for Dun
nell.
Dodge-I. Grinnell, T. J. Hunt, A. E. An
derson, j. W. Stevenson, j. W. Cooper. K. K.
Thoe; alternates, j. K. Fancher, B. F. Latta,
+. Hewitt. T. Martin, E. L. Severns, F. j.