St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-20
WILL NOT Be KENDALL
Judge Searle the Probable
Nominee of the Sixth Dis
trict Convention.
The st. Louis County Man Ap-
parently Hasn't Votes
Enough to Win.
One More to Be Added to tha
Long List Of Snubs to
Duluth.
The City Too Strongly Repub-
liean to Be Awarded the
Candidate.
Special to the Globe.

DULUTH, MINI, July 19.-Uuiutn IS
in the midst of a new and novel expert
ence. For the first time in her marvel
Gus history the city has been DESIGNATED
as the meeting place of political con-
vention composed of delegates largely
drawn from outside her own borders. Of
county conventions, lively and exciting
beyond comparison, she has had more
than her share of these no hos
tile or unappreciative party Or
ganization could deprive her,
but Judging from the manner
in which the Zenith City has been
treated by the Republican party in the
past, the only thing that has pre-
vented the st. Louis county Republican
conventions being taken to st. Cloud,
Fergus Falls, Little Falls, Brainerd or
Moorhead is the unwritten law that
county conventions shall be beld inside
the boundaries OF the county. Here is
a city of $4,000 people, the capital of the
as unfalterng in its allegiance to the
Republican party as even the staid old
Yankee commonwealth of Vermont.
Yet the
Sixth District Convention,
which meets here tomorrow, viii be the
first ever held In the city. Little Falls,
ST. Cloud, Moorhead, Detroit and SINH
lar towns were hOnOred by the old Fifth
district, but Duluth, with her two mag
niicent opera houses, capable of hold
ing the largest state convention that
even the irrepreSSlDle John GoodnoW,
of Minneapolis, could demand, has been
passed by until this year. Not even
a meeting of the congressional COM
mittee of the old Fifth or
new Sixth districts has ever
been held here. and two members OF
the Republican state central committee
have never been known to be within the
borders of the county at the same time.
No candidate for an Office i'll the state
capital OF national capital has ever been
taken from ST. Louis county, and there
are no indications that this rule will be
broken in this year of grace. The con-
fiict that has been fought so bitterly in
every county of the district, between
the adherents of Judge ID. B. Searle,
of st. Cloud. and Hon. II. c. Kendall,
of this city, unless all signs fail, will
end after hard-fought contest in the
convention tomorrow i'll favor of the st.
Cloud man. Duluth and st. Louis coun-
ties will again have notice served upon
them that the Republicans of the Lake
Superior district are so firmly
Welded to the Party
that no consideration need be shown
them. The state convention next week
will repeat the service of this notice, for
while the grand old party can afford to
go to the county of Pope, which gave
Owen a majority close up to thousand
two years ago, for Norwegian to place
at the head of the state ticket; to Chi
sago county Tor Swede for secretary of
state, and so on down the list,
she cannot afford to throw even
crumb to county that has
given Republican majorities year in
and year out since its organization.
OF course, the citizens OF Duluth
this convention is being held here;
a fact that reminds the observer of a
boy with his first pair of red top boots
the boy likes the boots because they
make him look older and more like a
man, and Duluth likes convention be.
cause it givas the appearance at least
that she cuts some figure in the politics
of the state. The boy is mistaken and
so is Duluth, for, while the can
didate of the party will De named
here. he will not be Mr.. Kendall,
Duluth and st. Louis county's choice,
hut Judge Searle, of st. Cloud, who
lives in county that borders on Doug
las, which had the member of congress
for the old Fifth district for six years.
from 1898 until 1889. The convention
will be called to order in the Temple
opera house at 10 O'Clock tomOr-
row morning by Chairman Ben
son, of the congressional committee,
and then the fun will commence
The Searle candidate for temporary
chairman selected at caucus this even
ing is Hon. W. E. Lee. of Todd county.
who will undoubtedly be elected. as a
count of noses was made at the caucus
of the st. Cloud man, which gave him
about 127 delegates outside OF the
contested seats. This is undoubtedly
on reports of the standing of many
delegates by proxy. For example, in
the Searle caucus l.. Fl. McKusick, Of
Pine, arose and declared that he would
vote for Mr.. Searle. and lie felt sure
that the other seven delegates would
do likewise. However, there Is
No Reason to Doubt
that George Searle has amajority OF
the delegates whose seats are uncon-
tested. The temporary SECRETARIES
selected at the caucus are w. T. Ma
comber, of Anoka, and A. G. Bernard,
of Itasca. The caucus OF the Kendall
men at the old st. Louis was the spicy
meeting Of the evening, and was in
tended to convey to the other side an init
nation that unless things were SmOOthed
over there would be bolt in the con-
vention. MIR. kendall made speech,
giving the results of his trip through
the district. He charged that the most
unfair means had been used by his Op-
ponents to wrest certain centers from
him. The contests in all the counties
had been set up by the Searle
men for the purpose of defeating
the honest choice of the people of the
district. Judge Fleming, of Brainerd,
one of the Crow Wing delegation. made
a speech that was really sensational and
calculated to pave the way for bOlting
the convention. The Cass county con
test was discussed, and then the judge
said: '.We Republicans of Crow Wing
are just independent enough to
Vote the Democratic Ticket.
if man is nominated by unfair means,
and / will say further that Judge Searie
will not 90 10 congress from this dis
trict this year, whether he is nominated
or not. You can draw your own con-
clusi6nS from what have said" Lon
Merritt made a plain talk. stating that
Judge Searle had been offered the nom.
ination, but declined. Several others
had been asked to enter the field, bui
had refused. MIR. Kendall had accepted
the candidacy at the request of the
citizens of Duluth, and then Judge
Searle had entered the race. This