St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-03
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The Precinct Primary Plan
Evolves an Endless Tan
gle Of Contests.
A TERRIFIC ROW BREWING.
Warner Defeats Lightner in
the Seventh, and Silk
Stockings
WILL Wall IN THE MIRE
OF a Figurative Free-for-All
Fight in the Legislative
Convention.
A TERRIFIC ROW BREWING
WILL Wall IN THE MIRl

The precinct primary plan turned out
to be bad mess of fish as applied by
the Republicans yesterday. The re-
turns are far from being complete, and
never will be complete. There are
charges of irregularity in many pre-
cincts, and any number of contests. 1t
is not possible that the machine candi.
dates can doctor up the del.
egations to prevent all of the
contests. Several delegations gave
notices of contests last night to
Secretary E. E. Mcdonald, who had
been put in charge to receive the re-
turns. Other members of the COM
mittee never went near the committee
room, knowing that there would be
trouble and no end of it. The secretary
said that he would work all night
Strengthening out the returns in the
hope that he would be ready tor the
conventions this morning. If all the
contests and disputes that are promised
materialize in the conventions this
morning there will be fun and fighting.
Secretary Mcdonald was disgusted
last night with the precinct primary
experiment, SO were many others. Mr..
Mcdonald said it would not surprise
him if the conventions last for two
days, as there will be endless work for
the committees OH credentials in both
the legislative aud county conventions.
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delegation from the Seventh ward. On
the face OF the returns. Eli S. Warner
has sixteen delegates to twelve for Mr.
Lightuer for representative. There is
a contest in the Fifth precinct of the
ward, where the judges returned 90
votes for Mr.. Warner and 65 for Mr..
Lightner. This precinct elects four
delegates. There are charges of illegal
voting. and the fight will be carried into
the convention. Ii this delegation can
be changed, it will change the result of
of the ward.
The legislative convention is scheduled
to meet in Market hall at 8 a. NJ. and
the county convention at the same place
an hour latter. 1t is hardly possible
that the legislative convention will be
out of the way before noon.
Owing to the fact that only part of
the delegations were reported to the
committee last night, it is not possible
to indicate who will be nominated for
county Offices in today's convention.
There are some surprises in store. The
various precincts instructed delegations
to vote for various favorites. Chapel is
probably defeated for sheriff. NJ. n.
Goss carried the Sixth ward presumably
for auditor. but this is merely
blind to turn the delega-
tion over to Chapel. John H. Harris
carried the Third ward solid, and
has a large number of delegates from
other wards. George Warren has the
Fifth ward at his back for sheriff. The
ticket will vary somewhat from the
representation in the GLOBE yester-
day. There will be long contests over
some of the offices at least, growing out
of number of instructed delegations
for various persons for the same office.
The convention will last all day, even
if the legislative convention should be
gotten out of the way early.
The lists of delegates to the two con-
ventionS are far from being complete
because there were many failures to re-
port delegations to the county commit
tee. 1t is possible that some of the pre-
cincss were held back to be doctored up.
as they were in the convention that Sc
lected delegates to the state convention.
The selection OF precinct committee
men was not general,as some of the pre-
cincts opposed the Lincoln club idea
of selecting precinct committeeman. A
partial list of delegates to each conven-
ton and of The precinct committeeman
follows:
Following are the delegates to the
county convention: