St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-02
COODNOW GETS HOT.
The Capital City Secures the
State Republican Con-
Vention.
Minneapolis Makes a Bold Bid
to Secure the
Prize.
Convention to Be in July and
the Apportionment
Fixed.
Republican State Committee
Wrangle at Length Over
Details.

The Republican state central commit
tee meeting yesterday partook largely
of the characteristics of what is styled
in common parlance 4 beer garden. 1t
was held in the parlor of the Windsor
hotel, and, while there was a deal OF
business accomplished, nothing was
really effected without struggle, for
the recalcitrant element was out III full
strength, as if on dress parade. Mime
apolis came down radiant with the hope
of defeating the aspirations of ST. Paul
to secure the nominating convention,
and humble pie was what they took
home with them. St. Paul won hands
downs so easily. it should be remarked,
that the indomitable John Good
now, in all his austere great
ness and fortitude, serving as
a teller when the vote was cast
to elect the convention city. refused to
announce the result, but, SEEING the
other hOru of the dilemma. moved that
ST. Paul be unanimously elected as the
place of holding the state nominating
convention. And there were other Is
sues that the members Of the committee
were divided upon. The question of
the date of the convention, and then the
basis of apportionment, were the themes
of interminabIe fights. John GoodnOw
and Senator Clough crossed swords
upon the latter issue, and the struggle
that ensued was intensely interesting
and bitter. To most MinnesOtians 1t is
unnecessary to explain that the senator
won the battle. There were odds Of
Three 10 One
that he would, despite the fact that
GOOdnOW had made a long stride to-
wards popularity earlier in the meeting
by numerically scoring the Pioneer
Press.
There were four candidates for the
convention, namely, st. Paul. Mime
apolis, Winona and Fergus Falls. st.
Paul'S interests were, by seeming com
mon consent, left to the advocacy of
Col. Wright and Capt. Braden. They
appeared before the committee soon
after the same had been called 10 order
by Chairman HeatwOle, the astute edi-
tor of the Mortified organ of the party.
These two gentlemen made brief ad-
dresses. and the question was dropped
for a time for the discussion of other
problems that appeared to the commit
teemen to be more pertinent to the in
tereSts of the party. There were axes
ana axes TO grind. and there were plenty
of strong and willing hands Oh the
Crank while the experts stood over the
stone with their little weapons to
sharpen.
The only thing above all others that
agilaIed John GOodnOw was the queer
story published in the Pioneer Press of
yesterday relative to the alleged at
tempts of the Minneapolis citizens
committee TO bride the state central
committee with tickets to the national
convention. These. itWaS charged by
the paper in question, were the very
questionable tactics employed by the
Mill City SchemerS to get the state con-
ventlon away from st. Paul. GOOdnOW
had the paper inshis hand when he Sc
cured the floor His burning wrath
was flashed in his eyes, as he said:
''Mr. Chairman, want to make an expla-
nation in justice to the Minneapolis citizens
Committee"
proceeded declare unequivocally
that the tickets that are to be allowed
to the members of the state central
committee. were it not for the villainouS
and slanderOuS attacks upon the Mime
apOliS citizens committee, would have
been delivered at the meeting. Mr..
GoodnOw had not the gall, he pursued,
to face the committee and ask for those
favOrS, and, therefore, he had come tc
St. Paul as much in doubt as to just
what would be done for the committee
as did the members from the remotest
corners OF the state. So he pursued at
great length. Meanwhile, working up
his passions, he pulled out the ObnoX-
iOus paper and read the story of Mime
apOlis' dishCnor, and proceeded to de
nouuce it as a dastardIy attempt TO dis
organize the Republican party.
Part of the speech was probably pro-
vOked by an exclamation by Senator
TaWney. When some one asked how
many tickets to the national convention
would likely be at the disposal of the
committee, Mr.. Tawney intimated that
they would be nightly limited, as most
OF them had been sold to defIay
Convention Expenses.
This was too much for Goodnow's 10y
atty for the Flour City. He sprang to
his feet to deny that single ticket had
been or would be sold. He said the i'm
preston had gone ont from a dastardly
attack of a disreputable Republican
paper, and then he asserted with all his
VigOr and force that it is the aim of that
paper 10 disrupt the party.
This is an article he cried, holding up
the paper. that might be expected in a low
down Democratic paper but that so-called
Republican paper should descend to such
dirty things is beyond comprehension, and it
can be explained only upon the hypothesis
that it is the policy of the paper to tear up
tie Republican party"
Chairman HeatwOle took a spirited
whIl at the question. He did not be-
lieve it right for the committee to criti-
else the attitude of the citizens com
mittee. He personally knew that pro-
visions were being made to accOmmo-
date the state central committee, and he
felt that Minneapolis is acting very
generously throughout.
Senator ClOugh pronounced that every
member Of the committee will be sup
piled with four or five tickets when the
distribution is made, and John Good
now explained that 10 tickets whatever
have been issued as yet.
MI, HeatWOle said he knew that all
the Republican editors of the state had
been provided fol, and it was then added
that some Democratic editors had also
been recipients of favors. This propo-
sition seemed to be surprise to Mr..
Heatwole, who felt like offering an
apology for the departure from the pal
pable plan. He suggested that this
ulSHI UdhC UCtIi tOlG IuIOuSu ~ IO-
rance of the politics of the editors
making application for seats.
But the explanations so voluminously
offered failed to placate the members of
the committee, and there was grumbling
Oh every hand. Each member wanted
tickets to distribute among friends, and
that straightway, and no one seemed
willing to brook another days delay.
They held that the tickets should have
been presented 10 each at the meeting,
but Senator Clough again urged that no
tickets had been
Actually Given Out,
but that each might safely count on four
OF five. They must wait, however, until
Monday evening, in Minneapolis, when
they will be supplied.
Seeing that it would be impossible to
force the delivery summarily by further
acerbIties, the committee. by common
consent, took up other phases of the Oh
ject of the gathering. 1t was agreed
that the distribution of the national
convention tickets should occur in Min
naonolic an1 the president and Secre-