St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-15

day. The congressional district cOnven-
ZION Will assemble at 3 p. m. A candi-
date for congress will be put in the field
and other business will be transacted.
frof. L. 5. Reimestad. candidate for
congress In the Fifth district, Prof. J. l..
Nydahl. and others will make addresses.
lhc;Augsburg quartette,O of Minneapolis,
which has Just returned frCm a tri-
umphal tour of parts OF this state and
Iowa In the Interest Of the cause, will
enliven the occasion with their songs in
both the English and Norwegian
languages. Among those spoken of in
connection with the congressional NOM
ination are Prof. George S. Innis. of
Hamline university, DIR. c. b. Marshall,
OF Saltwater, and Rev. ID. Morgan. OF
this city, Who ran for the same Office
two years ago.
The County convention will open at
8 O'Clock. County and Legislative tickets
will be nominated ana the remainder Of
the time Will be devoted to speech max
Ing and publication over the steady
growth that the Prohibition!sts declare
has been made by their party. Prof.
Reimestad and the Augsburg quartette
will he present in the evening also.
Local leaders predict one of the largest
conventions held in many a day.
Fourth Ward Teutons.
The Fourth Ward German-Amerlcan
Democratic club held all interesting
meeting last night at their hail on st.
Peter street. DR.. Schrader. president
OF the Central German-A nerican club,
delivered scholarly and forcible adj
dress, setting forth the needs OF party
purity in the primaries, and the union
of those of the Democratic faith. He
also paid high compliment to DR.. c.
Williams, and desired his nomination as
senator for the Twenty.sxth district.
The address was delivered in the Ger
man language, DR.. Williams next ad-
dressed the meeting in German, in
which he advocated the selection of
representative men for Office, and point
ed out some of the benefits that will ac-
crue 10y selecting careful and conscien-
tious men to represent the people.
John ). erode. candidate for county
treasurer, also spoke. Anton Miesen,
who desires the Democratic nomination
for sheriff. was present, and assisted in
cutting a luscious watermelon.
John Hagenmlller, Albert Wentick,
Mr.. Schlick and Mr. Stroud were sug-
gested as suitable gentlemen to be rec
commended to the county committee for
primary judges.
Cochran an Aggressive Candidate.
The fight for the Democratic nomina-
ton for the Legislature in the Fourth
ward is between witt K. Cochran and
JIG. Donnelly. MI. Cochran represents the
younger. aggressive, progressive intelli-
gent Democrats of which Lawler, Pierce
Butler and Tom OBJ rien are the type
In his professional duties in the courts
and councils of St. Paul Mr.. Cochran
has made thorough study of municipal
affairs and with the needs and interests
of the city he is thoroughly conversant.
The Fourth is the most important ward
in tile city. II comprises the greatest
part of the business houses and COM
mercial interests of st. Paul, and its in
terests are practically those of the en-
tire city. Eor eight years MIR. Cochran
has resided in the Fourth ward. His
newspaper duties have brought him in
contact with every leading business man
of the ward. Every matter of impor-
lance 10 the ward and city that has hap
pened in that time has come under his
notice. and the interests of the ward
and city will be safe in his hands if he
is nominated, for his election is sure.
Mr.. Cochran is an able, aggressive,
forceful writer and is one of the bright
est newspaper men in the West.
Lincoln Club Will Fix 1t.
fhe Ramsey county Republican COM
mittee Will hold another meeting at
O'Clock this afternoon in an annex of
the, state central committee rooms in
the Endicott block. 1t is probable that
the date of the county convention will
not be fixed at this meeting, but that
that matter will be turned over 10 the
Lincoln club, with full power to-
arrange date and conduct the cam
paign according to the plan already
forced on the Republicans by the state
house ring. 1t is said by Republicans
that they have decided to call their
county convention two days after the
date fixed for the Democratic county
convention. The Lincoln club will be
ready to fix the date for their county
convention after the Democrats have
called their convention.
Sins Charged to Ancestors.
The Peoples Party Central Club of
the Eighth Ward met last evening at
Brandt hall, corner of University and
Western avenues. for the purpose of
listening to Messrs. Clark and Joy, of
Minneapolis. declaim against the horri-
bic wickedness of the two old parties.
But their expected feast was marred by
the non-appearance of both gentlemen,
and after waiting until 10 o'clock the
chairman SAID he guessed they
wouldn't come" So, to pass the time,
one or two local Demosthenes came to
the platform and spoke of the frightful
evils of the day, that the Peoples party
alone was equal to cope with. Before
adiUurning the club decided to meet the
other clubs of the ward at the hall OH
Monday evening and march in body
to the Owen ratification meeting at
Market hall, headed by bass drum and
a fife, or anything else they could find
that would make plenty of racket,as one
member aptly put 1t. Twenty members
were present and about ten outsiders,
who were invited to join the club, the