St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-13
COUNTY CONVENTION.
The mo Indorsement"n RuIe En-
forced by the POpalists.

Shortly after 3 o'clock Jonas Howe
called the county convention to order.
Some candidates from the other parties,
prominent among them being A. Solder
StrOm, Republican nominee for county
treasurer, were in the room to secure
Endorsements. Jonas Howe read the
call. James j. Dynan was elected CHAIR
man and w. II. LIE Van secretary. Al
though the same delegates that sat i'm
the congressional convention formed
the county convention, a report from
credentials committee was deemed
necessary. Then the resolutions adopt
ed by the congressional convention were
readopted and the convention began to
get ready for the nominations.
But before nominations could be
made, A. S. Edwards moved that the
convention go into executive session for
ten minutes. Hector McLain was the
only man in the outfit who raised his
voice against secret session work. All
the others were afraid OF the eye of the
public. Edwards mQtiOn prevailed, and
the candidates, spectators and reporters
were driven into the outer room. The
secret session was held for this reason:
Some of the Populists favored the
postponement of the nomination OF a
county ticket for three weeks or a
month. Their idea was to ascertain the
feeling of the public toward the Peo-
pies party by noticing the reception
accorded the congressional nominee,
S. Nj. owen. Then. provided MIR. owen
were not too flagrantly abused, the
PopuliSts could meet and nominate a
sandwich ticket, indorSing the best
men OH both the Republican aud Demo-
cratic tickets. In this way the Popu-
lists could show that they hold the
balance of power, they expecting, of
course. that none but candidates in
dorsed by the PopulIsts would be
elected. The harmony of the Populists
was demonstrated right there in that
secret session. The doors were closed
for ten minutes, and remained closed
for one and half hours. All that time
the fight was hot, and the question was
decided by close vote. The supporters
of the straight Populist ticket, to he
nominated Oh the spot, won.
Nominations began. George E. Ledg-
erwoOd was named by gentleman
named O'Leary. Tom Lucas didn't want
Democrat, so he nominated Paul FOn-
tame, cross OF Prohibition on Republi-
can. Tom Lucas was also named, and.
of course, he said something about his
having been abused so much. Ledger
woods nominator insisted upon a bal
lot. And here the harmony" of the
convention was again manifested.
Ledgerwood received IA votes, Lucas
%, and Fontaine 80. Fontaine was nom-
mated.
For clerk of courts, Hector Mel ain
named g. n. Dickey, the Republican
nominee, and hot words were passed.
w. r. Dobbyn declined, Dickey was
withdrawn, and Amos johnson was
nominated for clerk of courts by accla-
nation.
Sylvester Kelliher. secretary of the
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen. was
nominated for county treasurer without
opposition. In the same way Charles
T. Grove, of Independence, was named
for sheriff.
An attempt to nominate James X.
Corrigan tor judge of probate was
stopped. The shibboleth, mo indorse-
ments," prevailed. Sumner Laid was
nominated for judge of probate. The
place of county surveyor was left va
cant in spite of Herman Ash's effort for
James E. Egan.
Ash's nomination of j. j. Heinrich
for register of deeds was also futile,