St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-13
A GAME OF FREEzE-OUT
PLAYED ON THE DELEGATES FROM
CUTSiDs COUNTIES.
HENNEplN COUNTY. OF COURSE,

Laid Claim to and Got the Four
Judges Fight Made Against
Belden and for Mr.. Latham,
Which Did Not win - Plenty
Pledges and Promises-sud-
den Death of Senator March.
The Fourth judicial district nominate
ing convention was held yesterday
afternoon In the Union League rooms.
and, as was predicted, Hennepin county
walked away with the whole cake. Phe
three outside counties, Anoka, IsaDti
and Wright. got nothing for their pains
but lot of promises. Hennepin county
was represented by forty-one delegates,
Wright by nine, Anoka by seven, lsaiiti
by six. The meeting was called to order
shortly after O'Clock, with Fred n.
Hendricks as chairman and Frank Hub
achek as secretary. The craftsmanship
WAS offered 10 at least dozen of the
outside delegates, but they all declined
the responsibility that would follow.
So far as Judges Russell, Jamison and
Elliot were concerned, the convention
was harmonious, but when 1t came to
selecting the mar to fill the fourth place
the gentlemen from the outside came to
the front with the modest request that
they be allowed to have the say. They
had seen in the newspapers and "heern
tell on" that man had already been
selected for the place, but inasmuch as
it was so unfair thing to do, they did
not believe the delegates from Henne-
nj hoA 1.h ,tl, ,hfNl1,
pie, all Of which went to show that they
did not know the men from Hennepin.
w. E. Culkin, county attorney of
Wright county, placed in nomination
the name or Henry Z. Latham, of How
ard Lake, for the fourth judgeship. Mr..
Culkin made very pretty speech In
nominating Mr.. Latham, bat the speech
did not count. II. s. Plummer. OF
Anoka. seconded the nomination, aud
j. j. Woolley, of Wright county, said he
hoped fair play would prevail. He had
been present at the convention which
nominated the judges. and he protested
against the manner la which Mr.. Belden
had been nominated. Several 9th +
speeches were made in supporting the
nomination of Mr.. Latham, and incl
dentally there was something said about
Judge Hicks. 1t was the universal SELL
uON0t6I, luWL IlO ROIl6
way of the righteous, ami what little
boom there started for him died very
quickly.
A. Ii. Hall nominated Henry B. Bel
den, and after a discussion which
allowed Granville s. Pease. of Anoka.
to throw in a little sarcasm, vote was
taken, and Mr.. Belden was the victor
by ballot of IS to MIR. Latham's %.
Mr.. Belden was declared the nominee.
and the various outside counties Joined
i'll the asking that he BIZ declared the
unanimous choice of the convention. o.;
AS compromise the convention
adopted resolution which sets forth
that the legislature will be petitioaed
for one or more judges, and that in the
event one or more is granted, Hennepin
county Is to support man from the
outside. No matter whether the out
side counties agree upon man or not,
Hennepin county is to see to it that
some man from outside the city is
elected. 1t was at first proposed 20
have Hennepin county pledge sup
port to MIR. Latham, bnt it was decided
that it would be advisable to leave the
name of the man out of the resolution
for obvious reasons. With this pledge
of support for the fifth judge, the dele
gates from the three counties left the
convention happy enough under the cir
cumStanceS. t..la