The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-08-11


principle. pre1udcial TO tile interests OF the
state the welfare oil the conycts and injustice
TO honest labor, we demand Its Glseontlhuancs
at the expiration oi the present contracts, AM
that tho legislature prohibit any future con-
tracts and provide for the employment by the
state and for the state of all convicts and per-
SONS confined III the penal and reformatory In
stitutions Of this state.
The method of appointing the state CEN
tral committee occasioncd some dispute,
but after long wrangle the chairman CUT
the knot BY declaring an amendment pro-
Vidng iar the appointment OF live men,
bers ut large by the chairman and two from
each congressional district carried. An
effort was made prior to the adjournment
for supper to have the matter reconsidered,
but a motion to adjourn cut off the effort
G. ]. Buell. tried 10 introduce resolution
he seemed to think Important, but ]. J.
McCatferty sat down upon the single tax
man and the convention adjourned till s
o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
The ball was started at $50 by motion
to nominate lieutenant governor, but
Mr.. DAutremont oil st. Louis was not in
clined to abandon the effort to have the vote
on the motion to appoint state conf
mittee reconsidered. He objected to the
metho proposed and would not be sup
pressed. lie proposed that the committee
be selected in this manner: One committee
man froLl each judicial district one each
selected by the counties OF Ramsey AMI
Henneps5A and the chairman to select five
committeeman at large. He obtained re-
consideration and offered his plan as sub
stltute for the original motion. The sub
stitute was accepted by Mr.. Stevens, the
mover of the original motion, and was
adopted with one dissenting vote.
Nominations for lieutenant governor
were now called for, and Aitkin county
yielded to st. Louis county ]. Adam Bede
of Duluth took the platform and nomi-
/ L
"a suburb of Duluth" He made ali eX-
ceedinely humorous speech regarding the
real and alleged history OF the Democratic
party. He referred to the armies OF the
North and South during the war by saying:
They were all Democrats on one side and
all Democrats on the her. He declared
that the Republican party with "honest
ballot and po itical purity" in its mouth
| could vote fifty Indians with one suit of
clothes. lie told the story OF the Borneo
| monkeys fishing for crabs and using their
tails rs bait.
1.-The Republican party has baited its tail
with KDute Nelson and is dragging it over the
prairies hoping to catch the farmer vote. But
the Republican party Will not do any thing for
the farmer that the monkey will not do for the
| crab"
When Mr.. Bede concluded delegate
| proposed three cheers for him and they
were gwen with vim. Carried away by
| the hunior OF the speech another delegate
| rose 0lu pJOpOSeu Ll1ab~ NIL I1dW HI 3 DC
| nominated by acclamation, and amid
| laughter and cheers the convention carried
| the motion.
Mr.. Hawkins was called to the platform
| and made brief stereotyped speech, thank
ing the convention for the honor it had be-
| slowed upon him.
IE SECRETARY OF STATE.
Nominations for secretary of state were
| called for, and Anoka yielded to Ramsey
1 ~ NT0tl tod
Martin of Hennepin, who is the nominee
OF the Peoples party. He declared that
| Mr.. Martin had no love for the anarchistic
doctrines Of the Peoples party.
When he had finished q Hennepin
| delegate wanted to know how it came that
a Ramsey county delegate nominated a
Hennepin man. Ramsey county delega-
ton promptly repudiated Mr.. Martin,
| and Senator Craven of Carver
said that unless Martin would pledge
himself to support the Democratic ticket
| from top to bottom and work TOR Daniel
| W. LaWler and not for Ignatius Donnelly
| he could not be the Democratic nominee.
w. z. Murray of Ramsey nominated
| Peter Nelson of Goodhue county and
| Washington county seconded the nomina-
ton. Mr.. McCafferty demanded to have
Martin produced and declared the conven-
| ton wanted the whole of its ticket to be
/ composed of Democrats.
| The roll was called on the nominations.
and when Meeker was reached and Martin
| had only received one vote the further
reading Of the roll was dispensed with
| Martin was withdrawn and Nelson declared
the unanimous choice of the convention.
| THE OTHER OFFICERS.
For state treasurer, Frank Nocollin, Jo-
seph Leicht OF Winona and II. c. Bull of
| Wright We're presented, but before the roll
| call WAS completed Nicoliin and Bull were
withdrawn and LeiChts nomination was
| made unanimous.
For attorney general John G. Netheway
OF Washington county; ". Logan Breck kep- :.
| ridge OF OlnIsted and ]. l.. Mcdonald of
Ramsey, the last named being the Peoples
party candidate, were presented, bat be ore
the roll call was completed Netheway's
nomination was made unanimous.
1t was decided to nominate three candi-
dates for justices o; the supreme court, one
at time. Hon S. T. Champlin Blue
Earth, in a few feeling words, placed Dan
iel Buck of Mankato in nomination.
Hon. Mort Wilkinson seconded the nom-
ination OF Daniel Buck.
Secretary Johnson moved that the nom-
nations of Buck Canty and Mitchell lie
made by acclamatiOn.
After considerable discussion this was
carried.
This concluded the business of the con-
vention with the exception OF the selection
presidential electors, and the DELEGATES
went into caucus by congressional dlstf Gus
to make selections.
| PRESIDENTIAL ELEqToRs.
ATLAS the chairman succeeded in bring
ing the remnants of the convention to order
once more and the oongresso al districts
reported the following electors:
First district, d. r. p. Hibbs, Albert Lea;
Second, A. L. Sackctr, st. Peter; Third, S.
N. Jones' Gaylord; Fourth, J. 7. Barron,
Saltwater; Fifth, J. G. Oswald. Minneap-
oils; Sixth, William Quinn Wright county;
Seventh, Martin Shea, Otter Tail.
The chair appointed F. Nelson of Henne-
pin and Il. A. Smith OF Ramsey electors at
large.
THE NEW COMMITTEE.
The chairman then announced the new
state central committee as follows:
| Owen Austin, Hastings: Dan Aberle, St. Paul;
Chris II. Heffron, Rochester; John Coleman
Anoka; r. o. Craig, Jan 4sville; ]. G. Wise Man
kato; c. A. Moody, Benton; George Dutait
Chaska; NJ. Mullen. New Ulm; J. ID. Sheedy,
Austin; Morris Thomas, Duluth; ]. NJ. Spicer,
| Wilmhr; James Manning Washington; Four
teenth, James D. o 'Brien CrooKston; Fifteenth.
Hampstead, Werner Brainerd; Sixteelith, Charles
Cater, Grant countyi Hennepin county, Lars NJ.
Rand; Ramsey county. Crawford Livingston,
A vote of thanks 10 the chairman. secre-
tary and exposition management was
passed and the convention adjourned.