St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-28
IN THEIR OWN RANKS.
Chairman Campbell Explain s
the Working OF Congress
sional Committees.
Democrats Will Avoid the
Jars Created by the Re-
publicans.
Each District to Be Left to
Work Its Own Saliva
ton.
The Work for the Committee s
Of Very Small Mo-
ment.

The national Democratic committee
in issuing the call for the coming ma
tional convention made no blunderS and
started no conflicts in the various state
organizations. 1t will be remembered
that the Republican national committee
reached out and in the approved style
of that bOSS-ridden organization, gave
the state committees in the states
changed by new eapportionments the
power to appoint new congressional
committees. This action, before I'M
heard of, started trouble in number of
states and in Minnesota especially. The
national Democratic committee did no
such thing. The members of that body
realized the fact that they had no au-
thorlty to step into the party organlZa-
ton in the several states and they did
not do it.
Under the Craig reapportionment act
Minnesota is divided into seven instead
of five congressional districts and seven
conventions will have to be held the
coming summer. The usages of the
party recognize no need of the appoint
ment of new congressional committees.
Every county in the state, with pos
sible exceptions in the Second ard
Seventh districts, have representatives
upon the old committees to whom
fell the work of carrying on the cam
paignS in 1883. These representatives
belong to the congressional committees
in the new districts of which their coun-
ties form part. AS an illustration of
the working out of this rule the old
Fourth district may be taken. The
congressional committee for this dis
trict appointed by Senator Durant, as
chairman of the Saltwater convention,
follows:
Washington county-w. F. Bronson,
Chairman; Michael Keefe, saltwater.
Chisago-J. j. Markham, Rush City.
Pine-James Hurley. Pine City.
kauabec-D. w. Cowen, Mora.
Anoka-T. M. Ryan, Anoka.
Isanti-I. F. Walker. Spencer Brook
Wright. G. Nugent Buffalo; j. j. Cullen,
Monticello.
Hennepin-Joseph Jepson, Claus johnson,
Paul Schmedeman, j. I. Byrnes, q. A. Gala
CHER, Minneapolis.
Ramsey-Hon. C. Il. Lienau, P. W. Locke,
(deceased) r. A first, William Rodger, ST.
Paul.
Ramsey, Washington. Chisago, lsanti
and Kanabec constitute the new
Fourth district, and the gentlemen
who represent them on the
committee named above will make
up. the new committee: In
pm OOpSOl,
Schmedeman, Byrnes and johnson make
up the new committee and will call the
next convention. Pine, AnOka. Wright
and Sherburne are part of the new Sixth
district, and MesSrS. Ryan, Wheaton,
Cullen, Nugent and Hurley will be MEM
bers OF the committee for that district.
The national committee did right in
keeping out of this matter, for had there
been ali order for naming the new COM
mtteeS there might have been cOntus-
ion and trouble, as things now stand
there can be no misunderstanding or
ill-feeling. Chairman Campbell. of the
Democratic state central committee. was
seen in regard to this matter yesterday,
and declared that the state committee
would do nothing i'll the matter. His
views follow:
NO. l don't think the national Democratic
committee made any mistake i'll not delegat-
ing authority to the state central committee
to interfere with the reorganization OF the
congressional committees. Any attempt to
exercise authority in this matter it appears
to me would be a mistake. There is no
necessity for any interference. either on the
part of the national or state committees, at
least SO far as this state IS concerned. There
| if now one or more congressional committee
men in each county, SO that no matter how
| much the congressional districts have been
| changed by the new apportlonment, each
| county has its regularly appointed represent
atives, So that all that will be necessary to do
| will be for those representatives on the com
mittees to get together Ill their pres
| ent districts and complete their or
man The by on affecting DUTY 'heG Of 0ha ahs
| present committees will be to call the con-
| gressional conventions, and even if the COM
| mittees should be somewhat smaller in some
| of the districts than would be desirable to
conduct a campaign, IT will still be large
enough to call the convention when a
reorganization effected by the proper source
of authority. No; the state central com
mite, the North Stars as they are called,
| nor any one else, can have any trouble
about this question because, as / see it. there
is not only no necessity. but no excuse for
| interference, except SO far as we might ad-
| that perhaps the journal thinks that because
| the Republicans had a scrap over this ques
| ton that it follows that the Democrats must
| also have one, but it DOESN'T