Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-09-16
TOR. OFFICE.
TIE DEMOCRATS HOLD A WILD
. COUNTY CONVENTION.
Hot Fight for the Treasury, County
Commissioners and Judge of
Probate Offices.

+ The big Democratic pow-wow and
county convention was held today
in the court house. 1t was expected
that a wildly hilarious and very
exciting scene would follow the
gathering Of the Free Trade
advocates, and the expectations
were fully realized. An intimation
OF the fun that was to be uncorked
in the afternoon was received at the
morning session, although but little
more was done to meet and adjourn
until o'clock this afternoon.
Nearly all OF the present Office
office holders Of the party carried
self satisfied smiles around with
them. The wheels and cogs OF the
| machine" having special bearing
upon their future, had been well oiled
and looked Of ter, and there was no
fear OF a breakdown or hitch, when
work was commenced, as far as they
were concerned. With others it was
different. Before the convention was
called to order delegates We're
|button-holded; taken off into quiet
corners, or secret recesses and even
into vaults where the situation was
hurriedly talked over, and any
breaks or weakness in the ranks
attended to.
During the noon adjournment q
lot of hard work was put in by all
contest On their hands. In the
treasurship JOS. Meyer, who holds
the ofIite by appointment has an
iopponent in S. P. Casey. Both
forgot to eat dinner and both were
equally confident of the nomination,
j. Simmons and D. Trettle are
fighting for the office OF Judge OF
Probate. The four candidates are
: figh ting a sort Of cross fight.
There seems to be good chance
OF County Commissioner N. Greve]
he represents there are eleven dele.
gates, but six OF them reside on the
west side OF the river and it is
thought that they will select one
from their midst. In Little Falls
district Peter Medved is practically
out Of the race, rs the result Of Sat
urday nights caucus. In Dennis
Shcedy's district there are four dele
gates and he claims but two, whil
O'Donnelly-say he has the sam,
9 number solid. This will result in tn
/ nomination being thrown into tn
. convention which will insur
Scheedy's denomination.
a contest has arisen in the sheriff
. atty, Henry Bentfield, coming out t.
oppose Houde, the present incumb
e ent, but it is not likely to amount t,
/. much as Houde has things solid.
! It was just 1895 o'clock when T. W
r Lyons raped with the butt of pen
Gil upon the table and informed thos
present that the Democratic count
convention was in session. He the
;, proceeded to read the call, afte
d which it was announced that til
S selection OF temporary officers wa
# in order. Chairman Lyon had hare
, y cease speaking before Mr.. Cobe wa
on his feet and placed John Wetzel i
nomination for temporary chairma al
There was no opposition to Nj
Wetzel, SO he was declared in Office
II CODE again got the floor, before We
j. eel had time to make his inaugurt
e. ton speech to move an adjournmeI
- until 2 O'Clock, but subsidized whe
told he was out of order.
10 Chairman Wetzel thanked the col
E vention for the honor that had bee
es conferred upon him, and pledge
IS himself to be fair and impartial in a
T. his rulings.
i CODE again "bobbed up serenely
with his motion to adjourn, forget
- ing that the temporary organizatio
u had not been completed, as no seer
or tary had been elected. George L;
ot fond wished to do all the bushes
d (. possible before adjournment and t
20 appoint what committees WEI
necessary, but did not insist on tt
point. The motion of Cobe then pr
IL vailed and the convention adjourne
10 after having been in session exactl
y five minutes.
Sc AS soon us the meeting was Gale
IT. to order matters got boiling ho
~ The first thing done was the appoin
" ment OF Eugene Bowers as temper;
ry secretary. On motion. OF Geore
Lafond the following COMMITTEES
were appointed:
Committee on credentials, Cha
- Mcmillan, N. Barbeau, Frank Boehl
- Geo. SchemmelhOrn, I. E. Staples.
Id Resolutions: William Harrison
l. John Stumpf, F.. P. Farrow, Ma
d Bievens and Matt Poster z.
nt Permanent organizations: ]
= Titzam, Alex. Wochnik, VIM. Gre1
!. - John Hamlin, Dan O'Donnel.
~ An adjournment of twenty minut.
It was then taken to allow the con
10 mittees time to report.
,el The committee on credentials we
III the first to report. The follDwin
delegates We're allowed seats: Cit
= OF Little Falls: f. r. @Farrow, Gle,
!, LafOnd, /. e. Staples, John Wetze
n Alex. Wochnik, John Hamlin,. Pet
/ Creek os. Borosh, Nicken Keennal
n Green Prnirie-Chas. d. Gedne,
i Clough-John Kempnick; Buckma1l-
) Matt Poster, Matt Zinner; Calhoun
NJ. III. Lynch, J.. Casey; Morrill, G.
= Chiefly; Belle PrairieN. Gravel, 10
ot| Doucette; town OF Little Falls
ISL NJ. Harrison: RipleyN. Barbea1
d Phil MOAN; Swan River----C Kari
q owski, D. O 'DonnelI; Two Rivers