The Redwood gazette., 1894-07-19

sun, which caused the sweat to run
down the nose of Chairman Bsrto,
continuously. Mr.. .Barto made an ex-
.cellent chairman. There was no ilk
feeling in the convention. Had there
been the humor which he occasionally
gave vent to, would have driven it
.quicklg away. As it was he frequent
ly brought out lo,Ad peals of laughter.
The Redwood delegation, with JAS.
Larson, as chairman, was on the band
wagon at the start or before the finish
of nearly every successful candidate.
It cast solid Ii votes Sor Albert Berg,
the heavy Chisago candidate for Sec
retary of state from postto finish, and
received that successful candidates
warm thanks. For State auditor, it
appears that S. g. Iyerson, the popu-
lar deputy State treasurer, had an un-
derstanding with Mr.. Dunn, and on
the first ballot ten Redwood county
votes went to Iverson, and only one,
that of r. E. Devereaux went to the
successful candidate. On the second
ballot the delegation gave Mr.. Dunn
four votes and Mr.. Iyerson seven. On
the last vote. which nominated Mr..
Dunn, after Mr.. Iverson withdrew
from the contest Bob. Dunn got the
solid II votes of the Redwood county
delegation. They came at time
when they were needed the most as
Mr.. Dunn and Mr.. Hunt were the on
" two candidates in the field on the
last ballot, and the former had but
a few moro than enough votes to spare
on that ballot. His greatest surprise
was the support. he received from
Hennepin county, where the lumber
men nearly all reside, and where he
expected there would be solid dele
cation against him. But it appears
that Hennepin Republicans took hold
of the fight in his interest, and gave
him 49 out of 1O8 votes on the last
ballot.
The fight for treasurer was an inter-
esting one, ending in Koerner, of Litch-
field, being the successful man. Smith,
of Sleepy Eye, and Block of Nicollet,
we're the other two chief contestants.
The Redwood delegation very wisely
supported Mr.. Smith until he with
drew on the second ballot, when it
cast II votes for Block, of Nicollet.
The fight made by Smith was an ex-
cellent one. 1t appears to have been
managed by Sam Peterson, and his
fine Italian hand appears on the sur
face very prominently. Mr.. Smith
could never have secured the vote he
did had it not been for Sam. Mr..
Block managed his own campaign, and
his political shrewdness is shown in
the vote he secured considerably more
than any of the candidates except
Koerner. His combination was with
Mr.. Dunn against the slate, and this
combination lost him quite number
of votes in the Second, and gained
him as many, if not more in the north.
Mr.. Hunt was enraged because Mr..
Block formed a combination against
him, and Mr.. Smith appeared equally
angry because Mr.. Block was in the
Dunn wagon. Consequently they pre-
vented the Second district from hav-
ing any candidate on the State ticket,
by not getting together and agreeing
upon some one man. Hunt and Smith
both threw their votes to Koerner, and
on the second ballot that excellent
gentleman was named. The ticket
lost nothing by his nomination. Red
woods IL votes were given to Mr..
Block, as they should have been, after
Smith dropped out.
For Clerk of the Supreme Court
the delegation was divided between
Gould, of Winona,and Reese, of Ram
sey, the latter getting the plum.
Helm. of Rock county, in the Second
district, should have been recognized
by all Of the Second district delegates,
as it was the last chance for the Sec
ond congressional district to nominate
q candidate for State Office, but the
Second was not begging very hard.
For Chief Justice Of the Supreme