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TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.
Many Men Favored for Only One
Position.

AT o'clock yesterday afternoon the
state central committee held secret
session at the Merchants. Not all the
members were present. The question
before them was the selection of tenn
pOrary chairman for the convention. AT
least one member of the committee was
opposed to the committees selecting any
chairman, leaving that question, in the
interest of harmony, to the convention
to decide. Other Democrats not men,
bers of the committee went to it also,
urging that no chairman be selected, thus
removing all cauSe:for complaint that
the committee was debating to the
party. AS the result of this advice the
committee selected no chairman last
this morning, when the mooted
point will be settled. The DOran
faction are anxious, though, that they
should select chairman, feeling conf
dent that test of strength can be made
upon that issue and that they will win.
They had proposed last night four diff
ferent names for temporary chairman,
viz: W. III. Lamberton, of WinOna;
W. c. Williston, of Red Wing; J. n.
Castle, of Saltwater, and 0. M. Hall, of
Red Wing. Of the four Lamberton and
Hall seemed to be the most favored, and
if the committee selects a chairman
this morning one of the two will prob
ably be the man.
The anti-Doran faction favor Daniel
F. Buck, of Mankato, for temporary
chairman, and expect to present his
name Mr.. Buck is willing to accept if
the position is rendered to him.
A report was started last night that
Mr.. Doran had resigned as chairman of
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one man should be clothed with such


L. E. Bowen, Brown County-Our
delegation is uninstructed, Part favor
Wilson, part Ames. We will give some
one complimentary vote on the first
ballot. We are strongly opposed to the
bosses and favor the No. Ramsey
county delegation.
A Delegate from Hennepin-I am
personally acquainted with both Mr..
Wilson and DIR. Ames, but a man who
took off his coat and made the fight that
DR.. Ames did two years ago is entitled
to denomination, and the bosses can't
beat him out of it.
A Kicker From Hennepin-Ames
can't brag much over his victory in
Hennepin. Had Wilson thrown down
the gauntlet, the result might have been
different. Ames had practically no op-
position at the primaries.
A delegate from OlmSted county, In
conversation with p. II. Kelly in the
lobby of the Merchants last evening,
was heard to remark: "Well, by -,
If you hadn't sent me that pass to come
here On,I would have to vote for Ames." !"
Said DR.. Ames to party of delegates
last evening: ''There will be circus
tomorrow sure. l have no railroad cor
poratiOn behind me, nor am | sending
out passes to delegates, which L can
prove my opponents have done. Mr..
Doran, hear. has resigned the chair
manShip of the state central committee.
He has shifted the danger and sneaked
out before he was kicked out by the
convention. may be defeated tO-mor-
row, but will never run. Pm not that
kind of a SOldier'
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Mr.. Buell., LIE Sueur County, can't
speak for the other delegates, but as for
myself, | am Wilson man and Doran
man. | think the rest of the delegates
feel as do. | have heard since came
down here that LIE Sueur sends con-
testing delegation, but know nothing of
such movement.
A Truree, Carver County-Our delega-
tiOn came here uninStructed, in fact.
[ wouldn't come as delegate wearing
anybody's collar. Regarding the Ram
sey county muddle, we want to hear the
matter discussed before we vote on it.
The old timers Geferring probably to
Kelly and Doran) should give the young
men a chance, and not try to crush
them.
c. D. Johnson, Brainerd-Our delega-
ton is uninStructed, but with leaning
toward Wilson for governor. There is
no feeling that know of against Doran
in Crow Wing county. We have paid
but little attention to the Ramsey county
contest.
A. McIntire, Marshall County-We
are uninstructed. We are in for Har-
mony. with big II, and want to see
the strongest man nominated. There is
no feeling against Kelly or Doran.
G. ii. Robbins, Fillmore County-We
are in for harmony. | am in favor of
throwing out both Ramsey county dele
cations.
Pat Bray, Sibley County-We are
solid for AmeS and in favor of seating
the No. delegation of Ramsey county.
| don't think they can muster 100 votes
in the convention against the popular
doctor.
Peter Kremer, Faribault County-Our.
delegation is strongly in favor of DR..
fnr Il
second choice. There is bitter feel.
ing against bosSiSm in our county.
A. III. Loucks, Mower County-We
stand three to one in favor of Ames. I
will vote for seating the No. Ramsey
county delegation.
T. &. Mealey. Wright County-We
are in favor of Wilson, but Should
AmeS receive the nomination we will
give him warm and hearty support.
There is no feeling up our way against
Mr.. Doran.
j. B. Yates. Mower County, am an
Ames man myself, and l put on this
badge (pOinting to an Ames badge
pinned to the lapel of his coat so none
can mistake where l stand. We favor
the first delegation from Ramsey county
and do not recognize the second. Ames
is entitled to a denomination for the run
he made two years ago.
). j. FurlOng. Mower COunty-Our
delegation is divided between AmeS and
Wilson. What we desire is harmony.
H. r. Wells, Fillmore County-Our.
delegation, so far as l know, are solid
for Eugene Wilson for governor. Ram.
sey county delegations should settle
their differences before coming into the
convention.
c. c. Wilson. Olmsted County-There
is strong feeling in our delegation irl
favor of Edmund Rice for governor if
he will accept the nomination, Others,
wise Mr.. Wilson is our choice as against
Ames. We want harmony.
w. L. Bonniwell, McLeod-We are in
favor of Wilson. There will be big
fight on the forming of the state central
committee. l am opposed to the present
method of naming this committee. No
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WASHINGTON OPINION.
Harmony Desired by Party Lead
ers Away From Home.


Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 14.-Con-
cerning the state convention which will
be held tomorrow, Congressman Wilson
says: Wisdom, and therefore harmony
will prevail. | believe the dele
gates fully understand the significance
of the work before them, in all it's
bearings upon the congressional and
national tickets, ASP we'll as upon the
state ticket which they will nominate.
| have no suggestions to make to them
in print or otherwise. They need no
advice, for they are all REPRESENTATIVE
Democrats, all Interested in Democratic
success, and they are individually COM
petent to advise with each other"
Hon. Edmund RICE says: Il believe
the convention will be enthusiastic and
harmonious. The nominations will un-
doubtedly be such as will draw the
united vote of the Democratic party and
win in addition thereto many conserya-
tive votes. After the convention the
hatchet which has been chop-
ping fellow Democrats will be
buried. 1 know thata the Minnesota
Democracy in convention assembled
reason to doubt what l have sincerely
believed for some months, that the
Democratic party will elect this year
both the state and national tickets.''
Congressman Macdonald says: "Our
state convention has great response
bility resting upon it. Its duty is to act
so as to restore that harmony which is
necessary to success. TO do this it
must make such selections as will not
be followed by heart-burning ana
sulking. If this is done they may
succeed; otherwise not. l hope
the convention will prove equal to the
emergency. Believing it's members will
realize this. L feel confident that all will
be well, and that our opponents who are
now hoping to see disastrous want of
harmony will be disappointed.
Thurman and the Wolverines.
DETROIT. Aug. 1.-THE Democratic
campaign will be opened by Allen G.
Thurman at Port Huron Mich Aup %
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MANY OPINIONS.
The Delegates Talk of the Situa.
tion.


Editor Abergast, of the Graeeville
Democrat, said to the GLOBE: "Big
Stone and Traverse counties have no
particular opposition to Eugene Wilson.
But as to Doran'S controlling the state
central committee we are opposed, and
think the selection of that committee
should go to the convention for settle
ment. Our judicial district will select
a member of the central committee and
present it to the convention for ratifi-
cation. We would like to see Charles
Canning nominated for lieutenant gov
ernor. He is very strong with the farm
ers in our district and the Scandina-
vians would support him strongly. We
favor the seating of Ramsey county del
egation No. l."
Hon. Charles Lienau remarked of the
situation
q think two-tllirds of the convention
is in favor of the admittance of Ramsey
county delegation No. to the tempo
rary organiZation,s and then of letting
the committee on credentials settle the
contest. The fight tomorrow is not on
the nomination for governor, but as be-
tween boss and anti-boss. We have
tifty-one out of fifty-three delegates of
the Second congressional district with
US on this issue. The fight will open OH
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~ - 'AASh AN Ss,'>>'
eff Doran has horse sense he will not
present a temporary chairman to the
convention as coming from the state
central committee, but will allow the
convention to select its own chairman"
r. j. Smalley, the tariff reformer, and
fearless political radical of Houston
county, laughed when asked to speak
his mind. Finally, he said:
''Our delegation is uninstructed, but
will favor Wilson. My own second
choice for governor is Gen. Becker, a
man who would unite every faction"
E. G. Stringer, of Dakota County-Our
delegation is for Eugene Wilson, and
will vote under the unit rule.
w. p. Murray, of Ramsey-Our dele
cation is the No. hard.
e. w. Durant, of Stillwater-I am
only lOoker-on in Venice.
DIR. Mayo, of Rochester, one of the
Oldest and most reliable Democrats of
the state, tilted his plug hat back while
he said:
Though not a delegate from Ohm
sted county. l can say that our delega-
ton will vote for Wilson as a unit. We
came here to allay feeling and to act in
the interests of peace. We recognize no
Doran nor anti-Doran in this conven-
tion'
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STRAY NEWS.
The Little Pointers of the Da


&. Gulbrandson, of Albert Lea, is
mentioned for lieutenant governor. lie
is banker.
J. N. CASTLE want nor seek no office
at the hands Of the party.
The following government officials
are on deck: Collector Bierman. Mar
Shal Campbell, Land Officers Maginnis
and Macdonald, Surveyor General Nor
rish, Inspector Hays and number of
poStmaSters.
The Fifth district delegates meet at 8
o'clock this morning.
P. II. Kelly was very conspicuous last
night among the delegates.
John f. Meagher has Room 56 at the
Merchants.
Pine county selected Ames delegates
yesterday.
The excitement is of the good. healthy
Democratic kind.
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AMBITIOUS MEN,
Or Those That Their Friends
Would Make Ambitious Men.

"ouiA NhethS hhiOttiOuS Men.
The interest of the delegates has been
so deeply centered Oh the question of
the reorganization of the party that the
candidates for the minor state offices
have been almost forgotten. But all
those mentioned are here given:
For Governor-Eugene Wilson, A. A.
Ames, William Lochren. Edmund Rice,
DanielF. Buck, George l.. Becker.
For Lieutenant Governor John
Frank. a. Nelson, Charles Canning.
For Attorney General-JamesO O'Brien.
j. n. Castle. John w. Willis.
For State Treasurer-A. Nelson, John
Ludwig.
For judges of Supreme Court-Judges
Severance, Lochren, Flandrau and Sea-
grave Smith.
The Hennepin delegates have used
the name of Judge LOchren, although
he has stated positively that he will not
accept. Seagrave Smith is all avowed
candidate for justice. John Frank, of
Morris, made q magnificent run for
lieutenant governor in 1856. John W.
Willis was nominated for attorney gem
eral in 1883.
Among those mentioned for presiden-
tial electors are j. n. Castle, c. ID.
O'Brien, Thomas Kurtz, A. r. Pfau
and Daniel f. Buck, all notable and
strong Democrats.
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STILL TALKING.
A Host Of Delegates Express
Their Minds.

Their Minds,
W. b. Davis, Blue Earth COUNTY
Our delegation is opposed to the longer
dominancy of Mr.. Doran. and our main
purpose in coming here is to down him.
The Blue Earth delegation does not
propose to give in a single inch to the
bosses. We want to assert our man
hood, and to do this we must drag the
party from under the feet of Mr.. Doran.
When Mir. Pfau was put forward as a
candidate for congress, John T.
Meagher told us we would go barefooted
with him as a candidate and that no
money would be furnished should he
run. For the sake of harmony we with
drew Mr.. Pfau. For years no man has
been able to get an office unless his ap-
plication bore the signature of John i.
Meagher or John c. Wise. -
ID. NJ. Grath, Clay County-Our motto
is '.Anything to Beat Doran.'' We want
to ssat the regular Ramsey county dele
CATION, the Number Ones.
j. d. Sheedy, Mower County-We are
strong for DR.. Ames and in. favor of
seating the No. l delegates of Ramsey
county.
&. W. Morrill,, Anoka County-There
is cOnteSting delegation from Anoka
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EUGENE WILSON.
He Is Enjoying the Lively Seer

He Is Enjoying the Lively SCene.
Eugene Wilson occupied the double
parlors of the Merchants, and he was
kept busy enough all the evening re-
ceiving the many callers who dropped
in.
81 can't say" remarked Mr.. Wilson,
''what l would do if there should be
fight. Sufficient to the day is the evil
thereof. 1t looks as if would be NOM
mated on the first ballot.'
The Wilson men all wore white badges
bearing their candidates portrait. and
they, like the other fellows, claimed
certain victory. The Wilson vote is un-
deniably strong and his men are conf
dent. They claim a nomination on the
first ballot, and some say that it will be
unanimous.
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afternoon.
The regular Ramsey county delega-
ton have rooms 13, IA, Is and 16, on the
second floor, and there George Allen.
William Pitt Murray and Judge Barrett
held busy consultation until late last
night.
Eugene Wilson has rooms Z and s,
just opposite the state central commit
tee rooms, and the contesting Ramsey
county delegation hives between his
quarters and the committees.
Each set of headquarters has large
contingent of delegates following it. so
that on the surface they seem to have
evenly divided the assembled host.
The best of good feeling prevailed
yesterday about these rooms. There
were wide political differences mani
tested, but no personal bitterness nor
uglineSS.
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THE DELEGATES.
An Almost Complete List of Thos,
Elected.

Elected.
The following are the list of delegates
rs reported to the party headquarters
and leaders,:
Aitkin-J. j. Mcdonald, J. F. O'Con-
nell.
Anoka No. 1T. Coleman, G. W.
Morrill, w. n. Greenwald.
Anoka No. 2-W. Aammans, DR.. A.
4. Sherman, f. A. Edgerton.
Becker-H. A. Bowman, Chris
Bjorgc.
Beltrami-E. H. Funk.
BentOn-J. S. Quinn, Frank Vermil-
yea.
Big Stone-B. G. Arbygast, Patrick
Clark.
Blue Earth-D. Buck. A. R. Pfau.
William Stroebel, w. II. Cole, W. B.
Davis. II. Forster, 2. Lamb, S. f. Bar
ney, William Hughes.
Brown-T. E. Bowen, c. Berg, DR..
Eerry. NJ. Mullen, E. G. PAIL. j. j.
Ray.
Carlton-A. Gowan, 81. H. Hawkins.
Carvcr-G. A. Du Toit. A. Truree,
il. Minweisen, w. c. Bradenberger,
J. p. Glass, George Faber, Charles
johnson.
Cass-F. n. Bluewood.
Chippewa-A. A. AmeS, c. F. Spen
Ger.
Chisago-K. P. Paulson, D. NJ. Wood
bury.
Ciay-D. c. Smith, D. NJ. Grath, PHI.
Lamb, b. 4. KrOwel.
Cook-L. Harwood.
CGttonwood-S. B. Stedman, George
J.. LetCurneau.
Crow Wings. w. Searle, H. c. Stiv-
prs. {. ID. Johnson.
Uakota-E. c. Singer, A. Durham,
N. Hoffman, J. Mcdonald, w. Kelly,
K. \. Murphy, w. Gibbon.
Dodge-A. j. Leach, j. S. Decker, 81.
{. Rand.
D: n:euglaSs D q; b. Kotaschever, F. A.
Faribault--S. Pfeffer. H. II. Leiper,
p. Kremer, j. II. Moses.
Fillmore-J. r. Jones, FL. r. Wells,
u. Z. Smith, G. Ii. Robbins, S. NJ. Sean
Ian.
rreeborn-D. N. Gates. John Heron,
Hans Grinager, Adam Wygand.
GoOdhue-O. NJ. Hall, w. G. Williston,
i. F. Kingman, j. Baumbach, Jr., |. F.
Clark. S. Parker. w. Hayman, John
Danielson.
Grant-Joseph Moses, B. Fl. Pinnev.
Hennepin-William McArdle, w. ii.
Donahue, p. B. Winston, A. A. Ames,
J. T. Byrnes, Il. A. Westphal, Eric
Nelson, ID. 3. johnson. G. Neuman. ".
+. Bedbury. John Kerr, John Norton,
q. Il. Ortn, John Thielen. c. NJ. Foote.
Fl. p. Herring, C. f. Baxter, F. D..
Noerenberg, A. X. Olson, George w.
Schwend, J. E. Woodford, August
Lind, Julius Heinrich, j. II. Bonestell,
II. j. Rasmussen, William ,Blaisdell,
A. HabSt, James Wiley, n. o. Sundby,
Martin Conger, Hans Wahl, John No
Ian. c. Goehringer.
Houston-E. A. Wheeler. w. H. Har-
gies. F. Glnck, A. j. Flynn, B. Quaele,
?. j. Smalley.
Eubbard-J. F. Delaney.
Isanti-W. A. Smith.
Itasca-L. \. Lowell.
jackson--D. N. DE Wore.
Kanabec-Unknown.
Gandiyohi-D. K. Maynard, B. n.
Sperry.
kiitson--W. F. Kelso,>J. IIedenberg.
Lac Qui Parle-Ed Casey, L. ii. Hine-
'aur.
Lake-GcOrge Kretch.
lie Sucur-M. Doran, T. II. Smullen,
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WILL NOT ACCEPT.
Daniel Buck Declines to be a Can
didate for Governor.

- W.
didate for Governor.
Hon. Daniel F. Buck, surrounded by
a host of old time political friends last
night, left them to say to the GLOBE:
Under no circumstances can my name
be used in connection with the nomina-
ton for governor. will not accept it
and my name must not be brought up
for it.
Early in the day, as the anti-Doran
delegates began to arrive, conferences
were held as to who would be a good
candidate for governor to unite all the
factions. 1t was finally decided that
Mr.. Buck was one who could command
the support of the entire party, ster-
ling Democrat and hard fighter.
But this positive declaration of his
appears to have taken his name out of
the contest. He repeated several times
that his name must not be used, and
that if it was, it would only provoke a
declination from him.
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VARYING MINDS.
Some for Doran and Others for
Harmony.

Joseph Kelly, of Olmsted, lifelong
Democrat and prominent politician of
hat county, said to the GLOBE:
1--WE will nominate and elect Eugene
Wilson, and do the same for Thomas
Wilson. The cause of Thomas Wilson
is booming. There will more support
him than two years ago."
Charlie Cresap, of the Olmsted dele
cation, and wearing an A l Cleveland
hat, took it off to show that in the
crown he had pasted the pension record
of the president.
R. S. Jones, of the Olmsted delega-
ton, and chairman, is the son of Dick"
Jones, SO hOnorably known to the De
mOcracy of Minnesota, and in himself a
chip of the old block as to his Democ-
racy. Mr.. Jones and his delegation ia
vor Wilson and harmony.
The Olmsted delegation meets at
o'clock this morning to confer OH the
situation.
Collector of Internal Revenue Bier
said:
''1he course of the GLOBE has been
damnable."
Senator Peter Nelson's opinions was !:
Eugene Wilson is my choice for gov
ernOr -
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the lieutenant governorship and came
out for state treasurer, but the opposi-
ton continued until it reached that
height last night that the anti-Nelson
men stated that if he came up for the
nomination they would rise and state
to the convention that it was endanger-
ing party harmony and success in Ohm
sted county to nominate him.
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the state central committee and dele
gated that office to j. n. Castle. Mr..
Castle quickly denied this, saying that
Mr.. DoraE had never made any such
tender to him and that he did not desire
him to.
Henry R. Wells has been asked by
Mr.. DOran to call the convention to-
gether for him and will do so.
Mr.. Wells said of the meeting of the
state central committee:
1.-The committee met harmoniously
and is working for harmony. There
was no debate and we recommended no
chairman
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proposition, for some unknown reason,
was finally rejected, and the last report
from Mr.. Doran was that no comprO-
mise was to be expected from him.
During the day the proposition was
to him that he permit the .conven-
tion to select its temporary chairman
and decide the question as to how the
state central committee was to be APP
pointed, but he was in for fight, and so
were his followers. Nevertheless"
said Mr.. Doran, Il am for harmony, and
as to other questions the party can de-
eide them"
Mr.. Doran's claim of clear majority
of 80 was not admitted by the ''antls,"
who first claimed Ii votes, and last
night raised that total to 172. The total
vote of the convention being 359, and
majority $50, this would leave the Doran
majority only s. His friends claim but
122 votes in opposition to him.
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OLMSTED COUNTY
Divided Against the Candidacy of
Nelson,

In the race for the nomination of lieu
tenant governor, A. Nelson, of Roches-
ter, has been conspicuous. But yester-
day when his home delegation arrived
they gave it out cold that they did not
want Nelson for. that position, and that
if he was nominated it would provoke
local county fight that would seriously
endanger the success of Congressman
Thomas Wilson in the county.
There are seven members of the
Omsted delegation, and five of them
declared that they would not vote for
Nelson nor support him.
Mr. Nelson on learning this dropped
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A. A. AMES.
No Lack of Enthusiasm About
Him.

Him.
81 am here to stay until the end and
so are my delegates" asserted DIR. Ames
last evening, and went merriiy about his
way. His headquarters were filled all
evening, and not man pledged to the
Doctors cause would concede defeat.
The story set afloat that in the
event of his losing ground Ames would
declare for Scheffer was vigorously de-
MED, and authentic proof Off could not
be found. No exact estimate of the
Ames strength was given out, but the
outside calculations were about 125
votes, while the highest claim made for
him was 16S. The Hennepin men were
very happy and doomed their man.
Ames badges foated from good many
coat lapelS.
I'VE are not here for fight" said an
AmeS man, ''but to nominate the best
man. If the party thinks Ames is not
that man we won't sulk."
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the temporary organization and the Sc
lection of the state central committee.
If Mr.. Doran triumphs the Democratic
candidate for governor will be buried
deep this year."
Hon. j. S. Cater, of Mile Lacs county,
said to the GLOBE:
''Our delegation is uninstructed, but
l am for A. A. Ames and anti-Doran
every time. l believe the convention
should select its own officers and own
central committee"
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TOGETHER.
Hennepin and Ramsey Link Their
Fortunes.

Hennepin county's delegation an
nounced flat-footed that they would
stand by the regular Ramsey county
delegation, and thati if that delegation is
shut out of the temporary organization
they will march out with them and
take twenty-five counties along.
The point is still unsettled as to the
fate of the Ramsey delegation. The
"bolters" held caucuses last night and
made half-overtures to the regulars"
which were promptly rejected. Wise
men were called into council, but late
last night no conclusion had been
reached.
A strong sentiment was developed
among the county delegates for the ad-
mission of the regular delegation, and
that this morning may cut the Gordian
knot. The prospects of bolt pleases
no one. and the best wisdom of the party
will probably be brought to bear on the
issue.