St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-22
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS.
Allen Rounds Up the Crowd That
viii Do the Nominating.
Special to the Globe

Special to the Globe.
FARGO, N. D., Aug. 21.-The COM
bine proved invincible. The decree of
the Fancher-Miller caucus was carried
to the letter. That tells the secret of
the first skirmish in the Republican
state convention to-day in few words.
The convention assembled in Armory
hall at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Within
very few minutes after the doors were
opened the hall was filled. There were
perhaps 1000 or 1,200 people present. a
number of ladies being among them.
Tie location of the various county dele
cations was indicated by banner above
them bearing the name of the county,
Portraits of Republican leaders adorned
the walls back of the speakers plat
form, and bunting was lavishly dis
played everywhere. Among other at
tractive features was the chair used by
the presiding officer, it being the one
in which Gen. Grant sat while accept
ing the surrender of Gen. Robert E.
Lees army. DR.. H. Capehart, Of this
city, late brevet major general of vOlun-
teers, and a member of the Cass county
delegation, offered it for use on the oc-
casion. At 2:15 o'clock
GEN. HARRISON ALLEN
chairman of the state Republican CEN
tral committee and Col. E. G. Geary.
secretary, took their seats on the plat
form amid hearty applause. Fifteen
minutes later Gen. Allen called the con-
vention to order. In doing so he took
occasion to call attention to the great
work of the convention. His opening
remarks were well received and showed
careful preparation. One or two pas
sages of his speech were especially ap-
plauded. One in which he claimed:
'.North Dakota is above those narrow
controversies which destroy states and
Individuals; and again when he earn
estly admonished the intelligent body
before him to keep down class and lace
prejudices, and give equal rights and
equal protection to all, he closed his
eloquent address amidst another storm
of applause. The call being then
read, and regular business in Or
der. Miller, of Cass. nominated Hon.
E. A. Williams, of Bismarck, for tenn
porary chairman. The motion was sec
onded by Billings county delegate,
and also supported by Emmons and
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Richland. nominated John NJ. Coehrane,
of Grand Forks, for the position, and
was supported in rapid order by the
counties of Hettinger. Dickey and Mel
son. s. ]. Small. of Casselton, and FL.
E.Patterson, of Torner. were, on motion,
appointed tellers, and the vote for tenn
porary chairman was taken by roll call
of counties. Barnes led off with five
votes for each candidate, and later on
was followed by Foster, Steele and
Trail, all
MORE OR LESS DIVIDED.
The contests in Cavalier. Griggs, Ran
som, Ramsey, Towner and Hart pre-
vented those counties from voting. The
counties supporting Cochrane solid were
Benson, Battineau, Dickey, Eddy,
Grand Forks, Kidder, McHenry, Nc
Intosh, Kelson. Pembina, Pierce. Rich
land, Rolette, Sargent, Walsh and
Wells. The Williams counties were
Burleigh, Bufort, Billings, Cass. EN-
mons, Hettinger, LaMoure, Logan,
Morton, Mclean, Mercer, Oliver, Stark
and Stutsman. The result was declared
13l for Cochrane to 80 for Williams
amid great confusion. When order
was restored the well known form of
Williams bobbed. up to move that the
nomination of his opponent be made
unanimous. The motion prevailed,
and Judge Cochrane went forward to
the chair. In accepting the honor he
made a very neat speech, terse and