St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-25

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Like a Scheme.
The joint council committee on cleo
ton matters, consisting of seven Re-
publicans and two Democrats, met in
the council chamber yesterday after
noon. The object of the session waste
select two Republican judges in each, of
the us polling places, and. although this
action was not taken, step in the right
direction was made.
The law under which the coming city
election will be held provides that thirty
days before the election the common
council shall appoint three Judges. for
each polling. place. The trio ar. to be 3.
selected from lists filed by the local
committees Of the three parties casting
the largest number OF votes at the last
preceding general election.
At the meeting of the board OF alder
men last Tuesday evening the lists from
the Democratic and Populist parties
were handed in. AT the assembly meet
ing Thursday night the Republican list
was presented, and accompanying this
another list from the Peoples party.
The aforementioned list was signed by
Theodore Bredhali, and stated that the
list was the only genuine Populist list
Of judges.
|, The three lists were referred to the
Joint committee from which to make
selections, and yesterday afternoon as
the time set for the selections to be
made. Aid. Copeland acted as chair
man, and proceeded to read the com
muncations accompanying the three
lists received. This being done, he
read from newspaper clipping a pro-
test signed by A. III. Wallraff, who also
claimed to be secretary of the only gem
uine Peoples party. The tale unfolded
by Wallrath was that the party which
he represented was TO hold meeting on
next Monday night, and would at that
time select list of judges who would
be the duly accredited representatives
Of tue Peoples party.
Aid. Conley said the first thing neces-
sary was to ascertain which of the three
lists of PopuliSts was to be used in
selecting the third judge, 1t being con-
ceded that the Democratic and Repub-
lican lists were all right.
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that the council. thirty days before the
election, should meet and appoint three
Judges, one from each OF the three
parties casting the largest number of
votes at the last general election. The
Populist party, which, under the law,
was entitled to send in list, had re.
turned two, and third was coming.
Which OF the three was to be cons
sldered the correct one was question
His idea was to adjourn the meeting
until April 2. and at that time have the
three Populist factions come in and
demonstrate which of the lists was the
''only and genuine one." The law said
the appointment of judges should be-
made thirty days before election, and
he raised the point that if such selection
was made by the council before the
time mentioned in the law the appoint
ment would be clearly illegal. This
idea seemed to strike the majority Of .
the committee favorably, and an adj
Journment was taken to April 2 at 3
p. NJ, ~
One of the members of the committee
said after the adjournment that there
was no doubt that the Populists could
not bring evidence to show that there
was any local committee of the party in
the city, and the result would be that
the council would have to select the
three Judges in, each precinct without
paying any attention to the Populist
lists. This seemed 10 be the conclusion
reached by all of the Republican men,
bers or the council. and the probablli.
ties are that the third judge will in
each instance be selected from the
names suggested by the Republican
city committee.