St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-21
sEARLE IS NOMINATED.
The St. Cloud Man Takes the Plum
Without Difficulty.

NVuOuC D1IlCulCy.
When the convention took a recess
! for dinner, it was to meet again at
o'clock. but it was not until $50 that
Chairman Lee opened the afternoon
session. The committee on credentials
devoted nearly the entire afternoon to
wrestling with the four contests before
the convention. In two OF these, Cass
and Beltrami, the Searle side of the case
was not presented and the regular or
Kendall delegates were given seats
! without objection. This was as pre-
dicted by the Kendall men, the contests
having no ground whatever to stand
upon, and were instituted simply for
the purpose of keeping two Kendall
/ men Off of the committee ON credentials.
| The other two contests were fights for
| blood. and the Searle men won, the
| Rines delegation being seated from
| Mile Lacs and the Potter delega-
tion from Aitkin. These were set
tied by straight division be-
tween the two sides, Pine, Cook
Crow Wing, st. Louis and Lake voting
no, and the other eleven counties voting
aye. The report was presented to the
| committee upon its reassembling by
Senator W. p. Allen, of Carlton, and it
was adopted without struggle. "ThiS
programme was laid out at the Spald-
ing caucus last evening"" remarked
Judge Flemminy.
The temporary organization was made
permanent, and Hon. Frank E. Searle,
of st. Cloud, read this platform:
The Republicans of the Sixth congress
sional district of Minnesota, in convention
assembled, hereby heartily ratify and ap-
prove the nominees of the national Repub-
lican convention held at Minneapolis and
the truly Republican and American platform
there adopted, and we hereby pledge the Re-
pubicans OF this district to hearty support of
said ticket and to the nominee of this con-
vention
AS our platform in this contest we adopt
the platform of the national Republican
convention, and in addition thereto this con-
vention recognizes that all the people of this
district are vitally interested in the ports of
Duluth and Two Harbors, the natural outlets
for all the products OF It's industry to the
markets of the world. and i'll the magnificent
waterway by which these product find cheap
transportation TO other states and to
foreign lands. We demand of our
representative in congress jealous
ual deepening and improvement of the har-
bors of Minnesota lake ports and the chan
nels to the Atlantic ocean, to the end that at
the earliest possible time the commerce of
terrupted through American waters and
canals from Duluth to the sea, that the
cheaper transportation thus obtained may be
ADDED value to the farms of Northern Mime
sofa, and richer rewards for the labor
employed IN its mines and workshops
Owing to the great mining, manufacturing,
industrial and agricultural interests of this
district of such large and varied resources
and of the commerce of our great lakes we
declare this question to be paramount to
every other that concerns us and of equal
Importance to every part of the district
RECOGNIZING the conspicuous ability and un-
wavering fidelity TO our interests of our men,
Der of the United States senate. Hon. c. X.
Davis, we gratefully tender him our full ap-
probation OF his services and resolve that In
that capacity should be continued.
Nominations for congressman were
declared in order, ,and there was pause
as though both sides were afraid 10
come to the front. Finally Delegate w.
Ii. Smallwood, of Duluth, arose and
said: "They are waiting to hear from
the banner county of the district" and
Mr. Smallwood made himself heard.
He declared that st. Louis county
would give a larger majority than ever
if Mr.. Kendall.were nominated. c. F.
name of Judge Searle. Editor
Hendrix boasted that with Searle
Stearns county would go Republican.
1t was left for Judge Fleming, of |
Brainerd, to add little spice to the pro-
ceedings. II cannot believe" said he,
THAT the Republicans are about to per- |
petrate so great an outrage upon this |
city as to refuse her candidate. | say |
she is entitled to this nomination OH the |
ground of the eternal fitness of things, |
upon the broad ground of right and JUS |
tice between man and man,
The ballot came next, aud resulted |
in Searie's nomination by vote of l42
for the st. Cloud man to "a for Kendall. |
No attempt was made to make the |
nomination unanimous, and the next /
move of the machine came in the form
OF motion 10 authorize the chairman
to appoint a congressional committee |
made up of one member from each sena
torial district or fraction thereof and |
those at large. This irritated the Ken
dali men. and though adhered to by the
Stearns county delegation, was voted |
down by 127 to SO, and each county |
given the right to select member with
none at large. G. s. Benson, of st.
Cloud, wanted Judge Searle to be |
brought before the convention, and |
moved the appointment of a committee |
to go after HIM. This had barely been |
appointed when Senator Daugherty |
moved to adjourn, and his motion
carried.