St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-03


could be brought against it by the Re
bloody shirt TRADE. Cheers Il. a.
L.. Henry, OF Sphinx county, was then
elected secretary. The secretary then
read the call for the convention. The
counties which withdrew were discov-
cred to be Bon Homme, Charles Mix,
Douglass, Sphinx, Beadle, Pennington,
Day, with total of "a votes. The
cnalr was then empowered to appoint
committee of five on credentials. He
appointed NJ. Kaufman, of Minnehaha,
); Z. Ryan, of Aurora, G. II. Freelan, of
Burleigh, B. B. Baer, of Lawrence,
Lowell, of Cass; Erwin, of Brown. He
was then empowered to appoint a COM
mlttee OF seven on permanent OrganiZa
ton, as follows: Col. Thompson, of
Burleigh: j. E. Carpenter, of Sanborn;
+. Ralley, of Lawrence; James, of
Pembina; Fitzgerald, of Lake; Kellar,
of kingsbury ;McHugh,o of Foster. 1t was
then moved by Price, of Highmore,
that committee on resolutions be ap-
pointed. The chair, who was sup
ported in a witty speech by Dennis
Hannafin. declared the motion out of
order until an
ORGANIZATION WAS EFFECTED
stir before SubSiding. 1t was then moved
to extend an invitation to the boiling
delegates to come into the fold, and the
convention took recess until 80. On
reaSSembling, the committees announ-
ced that they were not ready to report,
and further recess was taken until
7:30.
In the meantime Mr.. Day and his fol-
lowers had not been idle. They
had Judge Bangs and were de-
termined to utilize him. Their
scheme was shrewd one. 1t
was this: Mr.. Day informed his forces
designate any hall in which it was to be
held. Consequently, ignoring the in
struction given Bangs by the full COM
mittee, wherever Judge Bangs called
the convention together that would be
the proper meeting place, and that
convention would be the regular one.
Pursuant to this. plan, the Day following
assembled in a lOw-ceilinged, small and
badly ventilated hall in the second story
of a business block. Promptly at the deS-
ignated hour Judge Bangs called the
meeting, which he designated as the
regular convention. The programme
had been all arranged. Even as after
ward appeared the committees had been
written out by a typewriter, and at the
bottom of the page was the significant
Endorsement temporary organization to
be made permanent" The
CALL FOR THE CONVENTION
was read by Bangs and a temporary
organization at once effected with III. A.
Reeves, of Bon Homme county, as chair
man, and Chas. Parrot as secretary. A
committee on credentials was appointed
consisting of Wade, of Duel; Hopkins,
OF Edmunds; Barrows, of Pennington;
Furber, of Marshall Keith, of Brookings;
Thacker, OF Pembina, and Lawety, of
Trail. A committee on resolutions was
also appointed, composed of Bierly. of
Grand Forks Harris, of Yankton; Walsh,
of Sphinx; Reeves, of Trail; Flynn of
Castor, and Engle, of Brown. OF these
Reeves, of Trail. was with the church
faction all the time, and the use of
his name was unauthorized. Whether
any other names were thus used is not
known. A short recess, significantly
short, and the committees were ready to
report. The committee on credentials
reported that delegations from thirty
nine countieS-there are eighty-three in
the territory-were presented with
total of 1877 votes. This estimate left
the remaining delegates, 115. to the
Church following. There certainly
seemed to be 1877 people in the room,
but the Church people say that only a
small minority of them were properly
accredited delegates, and that the names
read, except in the instance of
the seven counties mentioned else
where as not recording to
the territorial committee, represented
delegations which existed only ON pa
per, and that to make showing, men
were brought in the room. There is no
doubt but the crowd was much smaller
than that which assembled in the arm
ory, where admission was by ticket. AT
any rate no intimation was given any
body but known anti-Church men that
THE SEPARATE CONVENTION
would be held. After the meeting was
well under way Julian Bennett, of
Watertown, took the floor and said
there was not man present who
would not support President Cleveland.
But it was their duty to denounce to
the president the principle of carpet
baggism as seen i'll Church. The
only way, to do so was
with resolutions which would
Enthusiastically bear the stamp of denun-
citation. He then reviewed several ap-
pointments of Gov. Church in denun-
ciatory vein and condemned the gov
ernor violently Oh personal grounds.
Church was represented as the modern
Moses, but he was really the child of
the filth of the political slums
of New York. The sooner he was
denounced as an imposter the
better. He continued at length in the
same view. The report of the COM
mittee on credentials was then adopted
in its entirety and Bennett moved that
Ordway Johnston's name be stricken
from the list. They objected, saving
InhnCfnn nnfitIn6 IN
wanted it and it was his own fault if he
didn't take it, and Bennett withdrew
his motion. The temporary organiza-
ton was then made permanent and the
committee on resolutions
READ THE FoLLowING:
Resolved, That we, the Democratic
party of Dakota, in convention assem-
bled, do hereby indorse the independ-
ent, conservative and patriotic admins
tration of President Cleveland, tending
to maintain purity in the party, and
be it
Resolved, That we further commend
his views on the question of civil serv-
ice and tariff reform, the latter princi-
pie as proclaimed by him being in con-
formity with the old Democratic doc
way of stealing from the masses of the
people; and be it
Resolved, That we sadly deprecate
the conduct and action of the territorial
executive and his subordinates in office,
for the fragrant violation by them of the
presidents civil service order of July
ID, 1856. wherin President Cleveland
says: They have no right to die
tate the political action of their
party, associated by methods
and practices which prevent every
,coful an6 inctiGol,Ia ,N,,,noco of
party organization. Officeholders are
the agents of the people and not their
masters. The influence of officeholders
should not be felt in the manipulation of
political primary meetings and nomi-
mating conventions. Such conduct is