St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-28
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DiSgraeeful Ending Of a
Meeting of the City
Committee.
GENUINE STREET BRAWL.
Result Of an Attempt to Set
tie Seventh Ward Alder
manic Contest.
FLOUR CITY POLITICS.
Eato Of Hohopd CHI op'c SfOpn..
GENUINE STREET BRAWL.
FLOUR CITY POLITICS.
Fate of HaberdaSher'S Store--
Episcopal MiSSionS--Rail-
road Wreck.

The Republican city committee me-
last night at the headquarters in the
Lumber Exchange. the purpose being
10 come to some decision in the Seventh
ward aldermanic contest between Aid.
Woodward and DR.. Colburn. Instead
OF bringing about a "gentleneSs and
heartfelt sympathy between the two
factions, the meeting broke up in a dis
graceful row, the like of which has n OF
been seen since the memorable Donny-
brook fairs Oh the ''auld Sod" The
committee found that it had no juris-
diction in the premises, and when the
meeting concluded and the warning
factions got out into the open air the
trouble began.
A WOodwar admirer remarked
sneerlngly to the Colburn gang: "Col-
burn is not good enough to clean out
my Clubhouse" This was all he said.
Only this and nothing more. 1t was
enough, however. A Colburn man shot
out his fist and landed plump on the
Woodward henchman's nose. 1t was a
vigorous blow and vigorously dealt.
The result was that the recipient of it
bled profuSely. Then followed a gen.
eral scuff1e, and though no one was
hurt, the scene was a %disgraeeful one.
Aid. Woodward will now take the
contest into the courts and in any event
he will run as an independent candi-
date.
The executive committee consisted of
John Goodnow, G. NJ. Reese, G. S.
Cairnes, c. A. Smith, R. B. Thompson.
j.. NJ. Pulliam, S. l.. Trussell. Loyal
Bintliff. Alex Swanson. f. Z. Webster.
j. c. Young, George w. Robinson, E. o.
Parker and E. l.. Leveritt. G. NJ. Rees
was in the chair.
Before going into executive session a
motion was made that as a prerequisite
to the consideration of the contest from
the Seventh ward the parties in ques-
ton should request in writing the com
mittee to arbitrate the case OH the
specifications filed and the case as made
up; second, that they should agree to
abide by the decision of the committee ;
third, that the parties should agree,
each for himself. that the candidate
defeated should Loyalty support the can
didate in favor of whom the committee
should decide.
This was adopted and MesSrs. Web
ster, Cairnes, Pulliam and Trussell
were appointed as a subcommittee to
draft such an agreement. The agree
ment when drafted was adopted and the
committee, together with Messrs. Col
burn, Woodward and Barnes, went into
executive session.
The committee remained in session
for two hours or more, and when they
finally did appear it was reported that
they had failed to gain the consent of
the contestlng parties, and consequently
there was nothing more to be done. The
committee had no further jurisdiction,
and so washed their hands of the whole
affair. There was a loud howl set up
by the supporters of the two candidates,
and when the meeting adjourned Chair
man Goodnow, of the city committee,
found he had his hands full to keep a
free-for-all fight from starting right in
the hall. He made a speech in which
he begged the men to ''disperse peace
fully" No fights were INDUCED in
until the street Vas reached.