St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-20

Eghth-We condemn the past fire.
Quent removals from the fire depart
ment of efficient men for political rea-
sons only, and recommend the enact
ment of rigid laws preventing such
removals. except upon charges preferred
and an impartial and careful hearing
| thereon.
| Ninth -. We demand that the city
comptroller forthwith furnish to the
newspapers for publication complete
statement of the financial condition Off
this city and of each of its departments
and of their respective debts. We be-
lieve we can from it draw the lesson
that economy Is necessary and that
unless watched pnblic officers Will
spend all the public money they can get
or borrow. 1t is time for taxpayers to,
call halt.
Ked.HOt Contest
The next on the programme was the
place OF special judge of the municipal
bench. Howe Paige nominated Henry
s. Mead, and G. j. Bartieson offered the
name of the well known attorney. Rob,
ert l.. Penny. The nomination was
seconded by Aid l.. Nj. Rand. of the
Sixth ward, in neatly turned speech
A. ID. Smith glazed in nomination
Elijah Barton. and eulogiZed him to no
small extent. During the secOndlng of
the nominees Alexander Stewart took
occasion to become personal in the case
of MIR. Penny. He began a TRADE Of
abuse, and the convention took eXcep-
ton to it. Hundreds of voices yelled at
him to keep quiet; that lie had no right
to roast man. and that personalities
were unfair.
Aid. Rand asked the convention to
allow the man 10 say what he desired.
for Mr.. Penny'S character was such that
1t could not be asSailed. The cOnven-
ton agreed, and Stewart remarked that
Mr.. Penny III the legislature voted for
measures against laboring men. and
against the anti-Pinkerton bill. If the
convention nominated such man the
laboring men would see to it that he
was defeated. Aid. Rand then asked
the charges. Mr.. Penny did so, and
| stated:
II have heard, with great surprise.
the statement made just now by
speaker upon the platform regarding
the position | took while in the legisla
ture on the so-called anti Pinkerton
bill. There are many people in this
audience who sat in the legislature with
me. and know what said and did, and
know what my record is, and that what
| say now is strictly and absolutely trde.
| NNHS my pSiooNs Wy tuC lCCOlo WI
otherwise, can say that l voted or did
other OF different than shall now state.
"The anti-Pinkerton bill was intro
duced by Mr.. Stockwell, a member of
the legislature from this county. That
anti-PinkertOn bill was uuconstitu.
tional as presented. l opposed the bill
because it was unconstitutional. and it
was defeated in the house of repre-.
sentatives. Then that bill was amended
and came again before the house, and
voted for 1t ana it became law"
Enthusiastic applause followed this
concise statement.
StOckvvelI's Fiery Effort.
When Mr.. Penny had concluded S. A.
Stockwell was called for, ana it was in
a vindictive tone of voice that he said:
made by MIR. Penny. The anti-Pinker-
ton bill was a bill to prevent
using Pinkertons in the state of Mime
sofa, and each and every Democrat.
with the exception of Robert l.. Penny
and one other. voted for it on every
ballot. Mr.. Penny voted against it.
The bill was submitted to the attorney
general OF the state and declared con-
sttutional. The bill was never amended
from the time it was introduced until it
came back from the senate. 1t didn't
come back from the senate amended in
any particular. 1t simply came back
amended i'll slight degree for the pur-
pose OF procuring the vote of particular
senator, whose vote was needed in order
TO pass tine bill. l Will bring the rec
ord of the state legislature before the
convention and prove whereof speak.
that Mr.. Penny did vote against the
antl-Pinkerton bill in every case.
What is more, he voted against what is
ftast ,oIo I,l,
man knows what the 'irou clad" is, and
Mr.. Penny voted against it. Every
member OF the legislature knows it to
be true, and his attitude was antagon-
lstlc to the labOring man during his
service as representative" !
Mead Defeats Penny.
This speech was received by the la
boring men III the convention with
bowls of delight. When 1t came to a
vote there was more confusion, and the
chairman nearly broke his stick in try
ing 10 bring order out of chaos. Neces-
sary for choice on the vote were 1873
votes. and on the first ballot the vote
stood as follows:
Mead. 166; Barton, 76; Penny, 1872
On tile second ballot Mr.. Mead was
nominated, and acknowledged the
honor by few remarks. The vote
stood:
Mead, 202; Barton, 50; Penny, 80.
For Board Nominations,
Mike Whelan, of the Third ward.
made motion to leave the matter of
board nominations to committee, to be
made up from one delegate for each
twelve or major fraction thereof in the
convention, each ward to select its rep.
resentatives. AID Fred Schwartz, of
the Tenth ward, amended the motion,
making 1t one delegate for each ten.
This was carried, and the committee Sc
lected is made up of the following.
named gentlemen:
First Ward-Titus Mareck, Charles
Glueck, Perry Long, M. Hoy.
Second Ward %. G. Merriman, ], ]
Moore.
Third Ward-M. Whelan, M. Gross,
M. Breslauer. Henry Oswald, Hugh
Jennings. r. Reed.
Fourth Ward-Bernard Cloutier, F. G.
Winston, Louis K. Hull, j. f. William.
son, S. X. Child.
Fifth Ward-P. j. Neff. e. A. Quist,
P. 3. Winston, E. A. Hackett.
Sixth Ward-L. NJ. Rand, Harry Lund,
Phil Hartmann, Matt Walsh.
Seventh Ward-H. A. Skunk, Will
lam Blaisdell.
Eighth Ward-E. A.ssvsns. E. W.
Murphy.
I Ninth Ward-N. P. Nelson, James
Todd.
Tenth Ward-F. A. Schwartz. -
Eleventh Ward-Norman w. King,
George G. Parker, j. II. Stair.
Twelfth " ard-G. E. Thompson.
Thirteenth Ward-JOhn Farley.
Is. +. Nelson was added to the COM
mittee as chairman, and he will call a
meeting for next Monday night at the
rooms OF the Hennepin league.
For Justice of Peace.
The North district nominated George
+. Porter for justice OF the peace, He
received 96 votes to John E. Eggers' is.
y. Tester was nominated for Justice
OF peace in the East district by acclanIa-
ton.
The South district selected E. &.
Lynch to run for justice of the peace.