St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-16
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dates were DR.. FL. w. Brazie, Thomas
Downs and Il. l.. Stillman, the two
former being the present incumbents.
6n the fight for delegates in the conven-
lion earlier in the day Stillman had
made consummate ass of himself by
going upon the platform and attempting
10 dictate to the convention, the creden-
tialS committee and the chairman.
Himself candidate, his bold and per-
sonal move toward bulldOZing the con-
vention into presenting him with dele
gates and his attempt to mislead the con-
vention by twisting facts. made him no
stronger with the better element OF his
own supporters. On the first OF In
formal ballot BraZie had 81, Stillman Is
and Downs 10. On the succeeding bal
lots Stillman gained few, Brazie alost
a couple and Downs never went above
his original strength. DR.. Bracken, who
has designs on the health office, and the
''antis.'' headed by Gowdy, worked in
dustriously, but failed. The seventh
ballot stood: Brozie "a, Stillman 10,
Downs 4, and BraZie was declared the
nominee. 1t was reported that BraZle
was nominated only by promising to OPP
pose Kilvington's reappointment as
health officer, but the rumor was denied
by BraZie's friends.
Fred Youngren had no opposition in
the Sixth ward, and j. Nj. Meloy was
renominated in the Seventh without
difficulty. There was much dickering
in the Ninth ward caucus over ''Secret
meetings. combines" schemes"
ETC., but when ballot was finally taken
Aid. Vogt got but two votes, and Rhode
was renominated. The Tenth ward fell
lows couldn't decide upon one man out
of three, so their caucus was postponed
for two weeks.
Jay W. Phillips and Otto Fultz, both
aldermen at present, were candidates in
he Eleventh ward. and through
teven ballots they worked with
out result being reached. AT
the beginning, each had IL votes,
with 2 scattering, Is being necessary
to choice. After that it would be
Phillips IL and Fuitz 10, on one ballot
On the seventh trial, Phillips secured
the Is and was declared nominated.
A. S. Adams was renomlnated In the
Twelfth ward with little trouble, and j.
S. Gray had no opponent in the Thir-
teenth. Aid. Woodward strenuously
denies that he gave Dickinson or any
one else the ''double-cross" in the
Twelfth ward fight. He says some of
his friends voted for Adams men at the
primaries, but that he had no hand
in it.
All the other ward contests were to
the Eighth ward struggle as chincn bugs
TO elephants. When it comes to firm
ness the boy who stood on the burning
deck does not live in the same
state with Eighth ward dele
gates. They went into caucus
at o'clock yesterday afternoon and
it was nearly II o'clock at night before
candidate was chosen. Frank E. Mix
was chairman of the caucus, he having
beaten Babb, and he was mixed all the
time. The fight in the Eighth
was over street commissonerships
rather than over seats in the
council. On the first ballot
The vote stood: Flanders, IL: Law
renee. s.; Russell, 6; Hansen, 3. From
that until the 135th ballot was reached
intervals the ballot, total votes cast,
30: necessary to a choice Is, and the
secretary read theresult. At times Law
renee would have 9 and Russell 5.
but never was there greater
change. On the 135th ballot, a man
who claimed to have failed to vote,
came up and wanted to put in his ballot.
1t had been the practice to let man
east ballots for his friends should they
De out of the room SO long as no more
than twenty-nine votes were found
In the hat, but the Flanders
men kicked on this matter in the 135th.
There had been small break before,
but not enough to give any one victory,
Flanders only securing fourteen votes
in all. When this kick came up one of
Flanders men, Higgins, used some
vigorous language about the methods
Of the opposition. but he was
called off by Flanders and the
delegates told that Mr.. Flanders
did not want the nomination unless it
could be secured quietly and without
kicking and mud singing. That little
pronunciamenti won him the fight. for on
The 136 ballot he had fifteen votes and the
nomination. If another ballot had been
necessary he would have received eight
cen. All of the best business men
and the young progressive men were
for Flanders.
During the caucuSeS on nominations
Tor aldermen, the delegates from each
ward selected their representative on
The committee of twenty-one which will
nominate candidates for the library.
park and school boards. They are as
follows:
First ward, - Erickson; Second ward. &C.
Jones Third ward, Frank Lauderdale; Fourth
ward, W. E. Hale; Fifth ward Henry Brown
Sixth ward, John Berslin; Seventh ward.
James McCutcheon; Eighth ward, Stephen
3. Howard; Ninth ward. W. Z. Hughes
Olson Earl; Twelfth ward, c. l.. Johnson
Thirteenth word, W. W. Bartlett.
Chairman Goodnow will appoint the
Eight delegates at large in couple OF
days. The Ninth ward men instructed
their representative, w. E. Hughes,
to work for j. I'll. Haggin for Park board
candidate, and for Martin Aamond for
member of the board of education.