The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-22


should go into politics. Donnelly,
the great demagogue of the state, and
Doc. Fish, the great political scavan-
ger of Minnesota, have also conclud-
ed to enter politics. Nearly every
county office in the district is held by
farmers as they should be. and have
been. The Republican party has al
ways been the party of farmers and
they have it in their power to purify
the party if it is not what it should
be. Two years ago we were able to
show to the world that there was still
God in Israel in one corner of this
state. (Applause.) We then were
under the leadership of John Lind.
Great applause.) We should unite
upon the nominee this year and we
will elect him. Great applause.l
JAbbott, Of Delavan, Geo W Bus
well, of Blue Earth City, and Frank L
James, of Pipestone, were nominated
for secretary Mr.. James was unan-
imously elected, after having been
substituted for S Abbott. Elias
Jacobson was elected assistant secre-
tary.
Geo.W Wilson moved that commit
tee en- credentials of one from each
county be appointed by the chair.
The following committee was
chosen: G Fl Draper, of Faribault,
chairman; A G Wilbur, of Blue Earth;
c L Roos, of Brown; T c Collins, of
Cottonwood; Chris Anderson, of Chip
pewa; A Strom, of Jackson; B f Mil
Ter, of Lac Qui Parle; G w Sites, of
Lincoln; T T Macarthur, of Lyon; W
A Mcdonald, of Martin; Ed Hove
land, of Murray; c Amundson,.o of Mic
ollet; Geo w Wilson, of Mobiles; w
d Brown, of Pipestone; Fl n Bell, of
Redwood; John Kelley, of Rock; A
III Benton, of Watonwan; A G Ben
nett, of Yellow Medicine.
The chair was empowered to ap-
point committees on permanent or
ganization and on resolutions of five
each, which he did as follows: Organ
ization-W G Gresham, of Nicollet; A
j Daley, of Rock; A H Strong, of
Jackson; j B Town, of Mobiles; Geo P
Johnson, of Watonwan. Resolutions
j M Thompson, Of Brown; w d
Smith, of Redwood; Fl G Miller, of
Nicollet;L L Tayler. of Lyon;C L Ben
edict, of Blue Earth.
A motion to adjourn until eleven
o'clock was lost, and the convention
adjourned until one o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention was called to order
at l:2O p. N. The committee on Or
ganlZatlOn recommended that the
temporary organization be made per-
manent. This was unanimously
adopted.
A delay was caused by the absence
of the chairman of the committee on
credentials. He came in at 100 and
presented report showing the fol-
lowing delegates entitled to seats in
the conventions:
BLUE EARTH-Horace Cummins, f
Haskell. L G M Fletcher, A ] Nor
rison, Gaylord Lamb, G L Benedict, II
knott, w E Young, E P Iceberg, Gill
bert Gutterson,L P Hunt,J G Fowler,
A c Wilbur, VIM Mendenhall, James
McBroom, John Johnson.
BRoWN-Albert Blanchard, ] M
Thompson, John G Peterson, Geo w
Harrington, @ A Hagberg, Edwin
Paulson, E G Koch, A Gilman. Chas
l. Roos proxy for E G Koch.
CoTTONwOOD-E G Collins, H 2
Goertz, Henry Hanson, T J Carpen-
ter, Geo L McComber, A E Woodruff.
CHIPPEwA-Elias Jacobson, James
NJ Whitmore, Chas Anderson, Lars T
Saxbey, f c Bell, Frank E Bertly
proxy for ] M Whitmore.
FARIBAULT-M n Leland, Robert
More, j A Armstrong, S Abbott, G
H Cory, A G Dunn. Geo w Boswell, G
Fl Draper, FL P Edwards, J H WEIGH,
S D Hober.
JACKsON-W A Funk, John T
Smith, A II Armstrong, Chas Valen-
tine, II H Dunn, ] w Cowing, G T
Juveland.
LAC QUI PARLE-A Peterson, o G.
Dale, W NJ Mills, N w Holmes, A J
Forsell, H ] Daley, P f jacobson, B f
Miller.
LINCOLN-J A Manchester. GILar-
son, G w Sites, W W Ramsey, F W
Nash.C W Sites proxy for G 1 Larson
and f w Nash.
LYoN-CF Case. D T Macarthur.
John Lloyd, ] F Schultz, L S Tyler, A
n Daniels, A G Bumford, W G Kayser,
G f Case proxy for A n Daniels.
MARTIN-W A Mcdonald, Jas Ten
oner, ] Cowing, TRowley, E B Grant,
August Weinberg, c E Wood, D Hue
Semon.
MURRAY-B M Tow, A III Drueke.
l. Coburn, Ed Halmon, II G Grass, G
w Padgitt. W B Slime proxy for G w
Padgitt.
NICoLLET-J S Carlson, VIC Gesh-
am. M G Hansco me, Andrew Nelson.
A Samelson, G Amundson, J Beck, G
A Rloomharot Or IT n Nr;11.