St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-15

had been held during the recess. The
eleventh ballot, however, showed that
some things had happened in those
eaucuses Before this ballot Lund
withdrew his name, thanking his friends.
Becker county put nine of its eleven
votes into the Eddy column. Clay
gave eleven out of thirteen to
Eddy. No other material changes
occurred till Otter Tail was
reached, when, after a long wait, Chair
man L, E. Adams, of that delegation,
announced its tweuty-three votes as FOR
Eddy. A cheer that almost rent the
roof greeted this announcement. When
the noise subsidized. however, il was
found the delegation was not unani-
nous. but was acting under the unit
rule, previously adopted. According to
the rules of the convention, the Otter
Tail vote was polled, showing twenty
one for Eddy. one for SteenerSon and
one for Feg. This was pretty near as
good as the first announcement, and
again Eddy cheers
Made the Windows Rattle.
1t was noteworthy that the dissenting
votes came from ScandinavianS in the
delegation. who were not at all pleased
with Eddy. Stevens threw four votes
for Eddy. Swift gave its ten solid for
him and Wilkin gave him seven. total
of ninety-seven, which was three more
than majority, and the chair declared
Eddy nominated. The final ballot stood
Eddy 81. Steenerson 50, ssdeld 10.
Feig Is. Mr.. Sorley, Of Norman, moved
that the nomination be made unani-
nous. This was carried. A committee,
consisting of Gundefson, of Doug
las; Lund, of Otter Tail, and
Young, OF Swift, was appointed to
wait on MIR. Eddy and bring him to the
hall. A noteworthy incident occurred
at this point. From every part OF the
hall came calls for "Steenerson! Stee-
nerSon! SteenerSonp' Lets hear from
Polk" "How's Polk?" There was no
response, though Mr. SteenerSon was III
the hall. His delegations sat in sulle n
silence and let the storm of shouts go
on without appearing to hear. The
Feig men, too. sat still and took little
part in the cheering. Mr.. Eddy was
brought to the hall and made
Classical Little Speech
of thanks and congratulations. after
which three cheers were given for
Eddy. Three for Steenerson were pro-
posed by Polk county.
Mr.. Crump, editor of the Glenwood
Herald, was Mr.. Eddy's manager. AS
soon as the nomination came, he slipped
over to the hotel to tell Eddy. and found
him and Steenerson talking. AS soon as
the latter heard the announcement he
stepped away and had nothing more to
say to Eddy. 1t was bitter disapnoint-
ment. Later Steenerson, by some per-
suasion, was induced to take
the platform aud declare his
intention to stand by the ticket,
but 1t was not done with good grace.
Mr.. Feig made hearty speech. He ad-
mitted that his defeat was hard pill to
swallow. but said nobody ever accused
Henry Feig of being sorehead or
kicker. 4. S. Crossfield made an ad-
mirable speech, showing he felt all right
and would honestly work for Eddy, and
Gunderson followed in the same strain.
The speechmaking was brought to a
close by MIR. Comstock, who talked on
national issues. The net result of all
the talking is that the southern part of
the district is reasonably we'll satisfied
with the nomination, but all the north
ern delegates go home disgruntled.