St. Paul daily globe., 1891-11-26
Minneapolis to Begin Cele-
brating Its Convention
Victory Today,
And the Rejoicing Will Go
Right On Until the Early
Days Of June.
The Tug Of War Takes On the
Habiliments Of a Large
Failure.
Thanksgiving to Be Duly OBJ
served--Serious Accident
Reported.


The celebration of the victory gained
| in Washington by the Minneapolis con-
ventiOn hustlers will begin to-day, and
| will not close until tomorrow night at
midnight. 1t is, indeed, almost useless
to set date for the closing. Mime
apOlis will celebrate the winning of that
! convention until after the meeting
| of the convention next June. The
fire will be kept up all along the
| line. But the celebration proper will
! commence this morning as soon as the
Kansas City train pulls in from Chicago.
| Unfortunately. the delegation to Wash
ingtOn has been split into two divisions.
The first of these will arrive this morn
ing az $40. The others cannot get to
Minneapolis until afternoon at the best.
That will make two celebrations
for today. A portion of the
party arrived in Chicago yester-
| day at 1856. The others. accord
ing to the time they left Washington,
did not arrive there until yesterday
evening al $3.50. The first detachment
lett Chicago last night at O'Clock. and
the others were expected to leave there
| at 10:45. That is the best that can he
! done. 1t is thought that all will arrive
today, because Col. McCrory was tele-
| graphed to have all the Minneapolis
men get back to Minneapolis at the
earliest moment.
The committee on arrangements that
was appointed at the meeting in the
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Office of the United States district at
tOrney. They were all business. and
the Democratic mayor of Minneapolis
was the busiest man in the party. They
had to arrange the preliminaries for the
meeting at ArmOry hall tomorrow
night. There is an indoor base
ball game scheduled for tOmor-
row night at the armOry. That
would conflict somewhat with the prog
reSs of mass meeting. SO the COM
mittee sent out after Capts. David
Knowlton and Fred AmeS. the COM
manders OF the companies whose teams
will compete. The captains arrived,
and were asked 10 postpone the bali
game. Capt. Perry Harrison, of the
board of directors of the Armory asSo-
citation, had said that the association
would not object to the postpOnement if
the captains would agree. These cap
tains interposed the objection that over
100 tickets had been sold.
"We'l take the tickets" said the
mayor.
Yes, We'll take the tickets" inter-
| posed John GOOdnOw, but if you OBJ
| ject we will have the governor order
out the milia and send you fellows out
of town."
But that hitch was soon settled with
| out any such summary action. The
game will be postponed and the armOry
will be open. George Marchant and
Charles Cove were directed to see that
the hall was secured and that there
were facilities there for seating every
body that could be packed inside the
doors.
The committee decided to abandon
the special train down the road, mas
much as the returning delegation is now
| split. The train could not meet both
parties, and there is no necessity of
meeting one and not the other. Instead,
Robert JamiSOn and John NJ. Bennett
will be sent down to st. Paul this morn
ing to meet the advancing heroes They
VIII take with them as many as want to
20, irrespective of party or religion. In
| Minneapolis they will be received at the
depot 10y as many citizens as can get up
that early in the morning and escorted
| to the West hotel. There there will be
congratulations and sort of reunion
after the battle. the whole of an inform
al character. Then all will 90 home to
a Thanksgiving dinner to meet again in
the afternoon and greet the balance of
the party that will arrive III the after
noon.
The meeting at Armory hall tomor-
! row evening will be hummer. 1t is
expected that more Minneapolis people
VIII turn out than were ever gathered
i'll that building since the night of the
census Indignation meeting. Col. w.
S. King will preside. There has been
no set list of orators prepared, but the
chairman will be provided with a lit
tic sheet of paper bearing the names
of some who may be called upon to lump
into the breach and save the meeting
from lack of enthusiasm. 1t was eX-
pected that Senator Davis, of st. Paul,
would be on hand to make one of his
eloquent addresses, but word was re-
ceived yesterday afternoon that he had
been called to Washington and could not
come. st. Paul will he represented
among the speakers, however. Dan
w. Lawler. the eloquent, will be
here and will speak. There are
others expected from st. Paul
but it is not definitely known who they
will be, so it is impossible to publish
the names. Preparations are on foot to
make it the most enthusiasting meeting
that was ever held within the city of
Minneapolis.
There will be no trouble about getting
the Exposition put into shape to receive
the convention. The Exposition dirict-
Ors seem in mood to do everything to
help along the good work. They met
| yesterday morning and adopted these
resolutions:
Whereas. committee of citizens OH
winch this board OF exposition directors had
the honor TO be represented by q sUbcommit
tee composed of three of our members has
most successfully carried out the trust i'm.
posed on it, and has secured for our city the
honor OF entertaining the national Repub
lican convention in 1892, therefore be il
Resolved That we most heartily congratu.
late said citizens committee on the success
ful endings of their labors. and earnestly
thank them for their hard work and unremIt
ting attention 10 the work imposed on them.
Last night the committee OIL arrange
mentS for the mass meeting held anoth-
er meeting and found it necessary to
make further changes in the pro-
gramme. But a small portion of the
Washington party will arrive this
morning. Blethen, Huhn, McCr0ry and
DOugherty, of st. Paul, will arrive
this morning. They will get t.
Minneapolis at $40. They will be met
at st. Paul by John NJ. Bennett and
Robert JamisOn, and as many more as
care to 90 along. 1t has been decided
to dispense with the band at the depot
There will be an informal reception
and handshakingS. The statement
made above, that the balance of the del
egation will arrive this afternoon, is al
error. They cannot get into Minneap
oils until Friday afternoon.