St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-09
MINNEAPOLIS.
EUSTIS SNEAKEO IN.
Nomination of the Union
League Mogul on the
Fifth Ballot.
Other Results of the Repub-
lican City Convention
Held Yesterday.
Aldermanic Contests Reveal
the Street Railways
Nickel-Plated Hand.
Expo Band Tournament Ended
--Undertakers Break
From a Trust.

Fourth ward SAMUEL f. ADAMS
Fifth ward FREDERICK C. HARVEY
Sixth ward JOHN ERICKSON
Seventh ward Two years, W. B. WOODWARD
Seventh ward. -Four years, JOHN A. NoRDEEN
Eighth ward MELVIN GRIMES
Ninth ward JAMES H. BRADIsH
Tenth ward W. MCALLIsTEI
Eleventh ward. .......... JOHN A. BLICHFELDI
Twelfth ward. ...............C. f. Dickinson
Thirteenth ward ALBERT CURRIEI
EQuIvocation wins in Minneapolis Re-
publican politics. A month ago Will
lam Henry Eustis declared emphatic
ally that he would have nothing to do
with the mayorality nomination. Last
Sunday Mr.. Eustis said he would give a
practical answer should the convention
take practical action on his name. Mon
day he repeated the first declaration
that he was not candidate. WedneS-
day, the day of the primaries, he was
out hustlng for votes. Yesterday his
friends made a bold bid for the nomina-
ton and won it. Then Eustis, nominal
ed as plain William III. EustiS, not
civilian Henry" mark that, crocodile
like. almost wept because he felt bound
to accept.
Trading was the characteristic feature
of the convention. Eustis was nomi-
mated by getting Lovell'S votes. Board
man tried to throw his 10 Blethen and
failed. The convention W. S noisy
gathering. too, equally as turbulent as
the late Dem Ocratic congressional con-
vention. And the nomination of Eustis
could not quite be made unanimous.
Alden j. Blethen was brought into the
convention with theatrical display just
before the final ballot, and stationed
where everybody could see him. When
it became certain that Eustis was nomi-
mated, Blethen took his soreness away
from the hall so that he couldn't be
asked to make a speech for EuStiS.
No one ever knew a convention to be
called on time, and the Republicans
were not out TO establish new prece-
dent. After the call had been read, it
took but 4 few minutes to elect Charles
A. Pillsbury chairman and David f.
Simpson secretary. Pillsbury had taken
day off for the special purpose of pre-
siding. and had written a speech for the
occasion. He made fairly good chair
man, but his voice was husky. The
usual motions were made and the usual
two committees were appointed. Then
came a recess for dinner.
There was fight in the committee on
credentials over the delegation from the
.Vyest Hotel Precinct,''
the Third. Mark Hayne, chairman of
the precinct committee. had delegated
j. E. Merritt to call the caucus in the
Hennepin Athletic club. AT that place
Boardman delegation was elected.
Out on Western avenue the opposition.
under James Mac Mullan, garbage con-
tractor, held another caucus and elected
a Lowell delegation. The committee
seated the MacMu lan delegation. The
fight was brought TO the floor of the con-
vention and the Merritt delegation won
the. seats. That swelled Boardman's
heart with hope, but he grew sad later.
The temporary organization was made
permanent.
The committee on resolutions COM
mended the Republican national and
state platforms, and pledged the Re-
publican nomineeS,if elected, to claw
enforcing, economical, buSinesS-lIke adj
minstratlon." The resolutions also
provided for the appointment of three
committees of fifteen members each, to
be composed of one from each ward and
two at large; one committee to nOml-
nate two candidates for the library
board, two for The board of education
anu lOul lOl tiit pain DOdlu. 1Hc It.
port was adopted.
Before proceeding to ballot for a
mayoralty candidate, Ell Torrance pre-.
scented the much-discussed memorial
from the women'S council naming Mrs.
James :. CrayS for q place OH the
library board. Torrance's speech EN-,
phasized the point that this movement
of the women is in the interest of fore
ing the kindergarten system on the pub
lie schools. The convention then de-
cided that each precinct should select
one man to cast the ballots for the pre-
cinct. w. Z. Roberts was Kissed for
saying:
Il have right to deposit my ballot
myself. l will not intrust the casting
of my ballot to one man out of fifty-foul
from the Fifth ward"
A motion to proceed to formal ballot
without nominations was carried and
the roll call for a ballot began, shutting
out the budding orators.
Here Was a Surprise.
The first vote unfolded a surprise
Blethen led the field, and, still more
wonderful, Lowell was but two votes
behind Boardman. The joke of the
mayorality contest was the Odell boom
X. X. Odell had printed ballots headed
by cut of dark horse labeled 2:051
and underneath. For mayor, Rober
r. Odell." Odell made the motion
shutting off nominating speeches, in hi
OWN interest ana induStriously peddle(
his own tickets in all seriousness. Ii,
had two votes on the second and thirt
ballots.
The Blethen men tnrned loose tn
Kansas City COW puncher "yip" on TIL
announcement of the first ballot. The,
yelled a little when the second ballo
showed loss of but one. But Eustls
drawing from Lowell and Boardman