The Mankato free press., 1894-09-14
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"oJ . hoNO' uCiC dIC uOU UllIcc luOIc
honest, conscientious, intelligent
men than these-Martin Pratt, III. G.
Howard and Thos. O'ConnOr. The
speaker gave each one a fine Send-off
He asked the convention to nominate
these men for the legislature by ac-
clamatiOn.
j. G. Graham nominated w. L.
Comstock, of Mankato, and wanted
the convention to proceed to ballot.
Mr.. O'Connor asked that Sin the in
terest of harmony" his motion be put
to the convention first.
Mr.. Graham raised an objection,
but the chair ruled this to be out of
order. Mr.. Graham got around the
ruling by putting his motion as an
amendment.
Mr.. Latourell moved that the three
names be withdrawn, and that every
thing be turned into Mankato.
Mr.. Stroebel nominated Joseph
Dobie, but the latter declined in
favor of Mr.. Pratt.
| Mr.. Graham said that as it was the
intention to turn the meeting into a
Populist convention he had nothing
more to say.
After good deal of wrangling
among the delegates, the chair finally
ruled that ballot would be neces-
sary, as there were more than three
names presented
| Mr.. COmStOck undertook to state
his opinion, but was ruled out of Or
der as he was not a delegate.
Mr.. O'Connor moved that an infor-
NAL ballot be taken for three repre-
! isentatives on one ballot.
Mr.. Graham moved to amend so
that one name be balloted on at a
time.
Mr.. Stroebel charged Mr. O'Connor
with trying to run things to suit him
self against the interest of the party.
He got off some swear words when the
chair wrapped him to order.
w. HI. Pfeffer charged that an en-
deavor was being made to run cut
throat game on the convention, and
wanted fair play.
The amendment by Mr.. Graham
was voted down overwhelmingly, and
Mr.. O'COnnOr's motion was carried.
The ballot resulted as follows:
Martin Pratt, SS.
HI. @. Howard, 81.
ThOs. O'COnnOr, IS
w. l.. Comstock, 46.
l.. Cook, l.
Joseph Dobie, L.
E. D. Cornish, l.
| Thos. Hayes, 1.
DR.. J. A. Hielscher, 1.
| On motion, the informal ballot was
unanimously made formal, and
Messrs. Pratt, Howard and OConnor
were declared nominated.
One prominent delegate, leaving
the room, shouted back, "Gentlemen.
you have nominated a hell of ticket:
you can't elect it,"
The delegates from the second and
fourth commissioner districts with
drew to select candidates for county
commissioner.
In the second district John
MahOwald was renominated by ac-
clamation.
In the fourth district a ballot was
taken and resulted as follows:
e. d. Cornish, 3.
A. S. Cole, 4.
VIM. w. Mobiles, 9.
The convention endorsed the nomi-
nations of Mr.. Mahowald and Mr..
Mobiles.
On motion of Chas. O'Connor. the
chair was authorized to appoint at
his leisure county committee to be
composed of one from each township
and ward in the county.
The convention adjourned at six
o'clock. A large part of the dele
gates went home mad all through.
There were several causes for this,
the first being the turning down of G.
I'll. DietZ for county treasurer, which
was slap in the face to the south
eastern part of the county. Next
was the breaking of the promises
made to Henry Robel four years ago,
and which no one denied. Mr.. RObel
Immediately announced his intention
to run as an Independent candidate
for sheriff, and received many pro-
misses ofsupport.
But the hardest thing of all impos-
ed upon the self-respecting and true
hearted Democrats was the ignOmin-
ious surrender to the Populists and
the endorsement of their candidates
for the legislature, involving the ruth
less sacrifice of the Democratic candi-
dates. The other blunders acted as
cold shower baths on the convention,
but this one had the effect of a regular
sleet storm. Many of the delegates
left abruptly and declared that they
would not support such a mongrel
ticket. The swearing train was filled
to the doors, and the delegates left
for their homes in all parts of the
county taking with them the seeds
of diScOrd.