St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-02

man T. Lane arose to set himself and
his friends right before the delegates.
In the course of his speech be said that
up to Tuesday he understood that r. B.
Langdon was the only senatorial candi-
date in the field. On that day he was
told that Langdon had withdrawn,
and said further that after that
withdrawal delegates who had
been elected to support him,
Lane, for the house, had been APP
preached with money. The statement
was SO w0rded as to insinuate that
Langdon had attempted to bride dele
gates. b. q. Truesdale, Langdon's
Son-ln-law, was standing in the door
way, and when Lane said this he adj
vanced into the center of the room, his
form shaking. with passion, his right
arm emphasizing his words. exclaimlng.
Lame, you are liar, you're liar, a liar
"a man who was paid to support both
sides of bill in the legislature as you
were last winter has no business max
ing Institutions against any mans hon
esty.o 1t looked fist encounter for
minute, but Lane proceeded without re-
tallating and tried to take back his in
slnuation by saying that he had not
believed so hlgh-souled gentleman as
K. b. Langdon would do such a
thing as resort to bribery, whereupon
b. Iruesdale apOlogiZed. Lane wanted
the senator. but his scheme was de-
feated. and he seemed whipped, but he
rallied after quarreling over credentials:
and, after H. Truesdale tried to come in
Oil proxy. ballot was taken for SEN
ator and A. j. Boardman was nominat-
ed over r. b. Langdon by vote of 81
to 26. Then it was that Lane
eXultingly remarked: "There, they
can knock me ont if they want to now
was working for Al Boardman and
Eve got K. B. LangdOn's scalp on my
belt" The country delegates wanted
to withdraw and select three delegates,
but were not allowed to. and an in
formal ballot for Representatives resulted:
Emerson Cole. 80; Scott, IS; Lane, 81;
Savage, 81; Cairns, 10, and several
more scattering. The rules were sus-
pended and Cole nominated by acclama-
ton. Scott, EuStiS' running mate, was
next. but Lane got in his work before
the next ballot, aud when it was an
nounced, Lane had 80 votes, Savage 20
and Scott 81, with more scattering.
Freeman P. Lane and George w. Saw
age, from Excelsior, were declared NOM
mated "a straight Boardman-Lane
ticket. Before the balloting William
Henry EuStiS withdrew IN the interest
of harmony.
The following ticket was nominated
at NOrmana hall for the Thirty-second
district: Senate. j. A. Wolvertop
house. T. G. Pillsbury, A. j. Blethen,
j. G. Howard and John A. Swanson.
Tom Downs and Christ Ellinger,
supposed to have ''cincb," were
beaten by combination.
In the Thirty-third district Nicholai
Grevestad withdrew from the senate
rial race in order to be consistent, his
paper, the Times. opposing Merriam.
}. NJ. Underwood was beaten. and Silver
Ellingson nominated for the senate, land
X. b. Thomson and j. E. Vanderwarker
for the house.
At the Union league, where the Thir-
ty-fourth district delegates met, there
was practically no contest for the sen.
ate. E. M. Terrence was put in NOM
nation against John Day Smith, but
afterwards withdrew, aud Smith was
nominated by reclamation. Feeling
ran high over the contest for the
Eighth ward members of the house
E. p. Croker and c. A. Smith were the
nominees, and good deal of loud talk
was INDUCED in by the partisans OF
each. On ballot Croker was nominal
ted by a vote of 25 to 10 for the coun-
try members. George A. Monon was
nominated over r. N. Mills by vote of
% to 10.