St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-01
LESS TALK AT NIGHT.
Nearly Full City Ticket NOm-
mated by the Alliance.

lkEx3S IAlLh AL
Nearly Full City Ticket Nom
mated by the Alliance.
For Mayor $3.50 WILLIAM H. GRIMSHAW
For Comptroller. -. :. No Nomination
For Treasurer. :. 80. GEORGE F. RANSOM
The Alliance city convention at Labor
Temple last night was composed of
better looking lot of men than was the
county convention, and they knew more
about convention work. AS did their
delegates found good deal of trouble
in finding candidates for any Office but
that of mayor, none of the
patriots being patriotic enough
to put up the required fee.
The convention began work at s
o'clock sharp, DR.. e. F. Clark and II. B.
Martin being elected chairman and sec
rotary respectively. The following
were named committee on credentials:
John Griffin, Andrew Melan, S. S. Whit
tier, j. s. Mcdonald and j. n. Pane.
The following committee on resolutions
was also named: A. S. Edwards, Rev.
Kristofer Jansen, A. d. Campbell. A.
II. Nelson and I'll. l.. Burlington.
While the committee were deliber-
ating, petitions addressed to the state
auditor. and asking that the names
of the men already nominated at the
Alliance state convention be placed
upon the ticket, 1900 signatures being
required before petition for state
candidate will be recognized. were cir
culated among the delegates by the Sec
rotary of the state central committee.
A collection for hall rent resulted in
the securing of S11.30 and one brass
suspender button. While waiting for
the committee on credentials to report,
Rev. Krlstofer Jansen made little
speech, short because he could not
speak English well. He said the Re-
publicans, with the sop of free binding
Irvine, were attempting to atone for
twenty-five years of broken promises.
Helikened the Republican party to the
man who fed beggar on this remark:
"You ask for a meal. Don't you re-
member that juicy beefsteak gave you
thirty years ago?" The Republican
party, he thought, was living Oh its war
record. A. S. Edwards followed with
an eloquent appeal for the support of
the Alliance movement. Thomas Will
son was abused because he is lawyer,
and William r. Merriam because he is a
banker
The report of the committee on Gre
dentials was reported without much
question. At this point Carl F. G. Goe-
bel, who tried to secure the Democratic
nomination for judge Of probate, and
who has since become an Alliance man,
announced that if. as Mr.. Edwards had
stated, no lawyers were wanted in the
Alliance, he had better get out. The
committee agreed with him. but he
didn't go. Tom Lucas was heard
for the first time in moving that the
temporary organization be made per-
manent.. 1t was done. A. S. Edwards
read the resolutions which, in addition
to voicing the same sentiments as did
the county convention platform, de-
mandeu municipal ownership of street
railways and gas and electric light
plants; a weekly pay system for city
laborers; the increase of tax on land
held for speculation; the shortening of
and the holding of annual spring cleo
tions. Lucas had been worked UP by this
time, and in an oratorical burst. he
nominated William III. Grimshaw for
mayor. The convention Endorsed him,
and Lucas, with two others, was sent
after Grimshaw, so that Tom wouldn't
have chance to talk so much. After
half-doZen names had been proposed
for city comptroller, and after all had
been withdrawn, the place of comp
troller was passed over temporarily.
to treasurer, but George T. Ransom was
finally nominated for that place.
There was a good deal of wrangling
over how candidates for the park, Ii
brary and school boards should be nomi-
mated, many of the delegates thinking.
since the Republicans are disposed to
make those nominations nOn-partisan,
the Alliance should favor such a
scheme. Out of the wrangling the APP
pointment of the following committee of
twenty-one from each of the eleven
wards represented and ten at large,
which will confer with the Republicans
on the three board nominations, re-
suited: At large, Kristofer Jansen, A.
Paul, A. d. Campbell, nj. f. Gjertsen,
A. S. MILESTONE. G. F. Ransom, Leroy
Beerrier, j. j. Dinnon; First ward. III. B.
Martin; Second, A. q. Fuller; Third, G.
B. Murphy; Fouth, j. F. Griffin; Fifth,
E. F. Clark: Sixth, W. w. Wraaman;
Seventh. c. c. Stats; Eighth, F. Finste-
bach; Ninth, l.. A. Ferrand; Eleventh,
F. Laws; Thirteenth, l.. A. Turner.
A. S. Edwards was prevailed upon to
become candidate for comptroller.
The following aldermanic nominal
tons were announced as having been
made:
Second ward, l.. n. Keller and 81. G.
Tracy; Third, A. D. Cameron; Fourth,
q. A. Scott; Fifth. ]. B. Dukes; Sew
enth, A. D. Craig; Eighth, Albert Law
renee; Eleventh, Andrew Peterson. No
nominations were made in First, Sixth,
Tenth, Twelfth and Thirteenth wards.
The convention had decided at the start
to indorSe no nominations already made
or candidates already in the field, and
stulnfied itself by nominating Albert
Lawrence, the independent candidate
in the Fourth ward.