St. Paul daily globe., 1894-04-03
pOpUlI5Ts THROWN OUT.
THEIR ELEcTi0H-JUBcE LISTS HELD
NOT LEGAL -
BY THE coUNoIL Committee.

Fortune ThreateuS to Mandamusi
Common G ,uncil If His List Is
Not Used-Committee Named
'-mocratic and Republican
Judges-NpDointe Com nittes
on h ri Judge.
The three lists Of names submitted by
the ,ne number of POpulist party COM
mitlees. from whicn judges of election
wer,. to b. selected, were thrown asii y
by tn. special council committee on
election matters yesterday afternoon.
The com ni.tee was in session three
II 'frS. and, after listening to the SpokeS-
men 1T the three factions. each Of who m
.c.'im II 10 bJ the only genuine repre-
sr-nta.ive1 Of the Peoples party. on
moti,h OF Mr.. Lighuuer, all of the LISTS
Were tnruyI out. for the reason that
none o. tn1,n were within the letter of
tai, e., crIon law.
j. C.rniican, who represented the first
list filed oy the PODulistS. with James
Dill ~ as president and P. j. Fortune
aa 5 CIR tary. made the first talk, and,
after reailing tns law under which the
council is given the power to elect
Judges. said that the first list was the
only enuine one. 70 support his argu-
ment he read from the minutes of meet
iugs held on Feb. a. March 10 and 16,
showing that the Peoples party had ap-
pointed city committee of five, consist
ing of Corinican, PrenIergast, Donneliy,
White, Bergstrom, who, with Dillon and
Fortune. Were to meet jointly with the
coun CO nmittee of the party and Sc
lect ii list OF judges.
This Was entirely satisfactory to the
gathering, Mr.. Cormicalr said, and a. A.
Walraf and others, who afterwards
klc Ell ami sent in other lists.
Theodore BredahI. who claimed to ba
secretary OF the second list of Peoples
party, WAS given a chance to explain to
the com nittee, but he yielded the floor
to John w. Pinch, who appeared as
attorney for this faction. Mr. Pinch
said that the Peoples party never had a
city organization, and il WAS question
II any OF the lists submitted could be
legally Considered. The meeting at
which it was claimed the appointment
of city committee had been au-
thorized, he SAID, WAS run by Demo.
Gratis ami Republicans. and not by
representatives of the Peoples party :.
The meeting broke up in row, and the
boilers, headed by Gleason and Bredahl,
to the number of fifty, adjourned to
Odd Fellows hall, where meeting was
held and list Of Peoples party men Sc
lected Us judges. The names on the lis t
submitted by p. j. Fortune, the speaker
said, contained the rankeSt kind of
Democrats, and this was especially true
i'll the First and Seventh wards. He
said that the name of j. G.. Horrigan
was in the First ward list, but at this
MIR. Cormican interrupted and called
the speaker down. Pinch, seeing that
he had ma,le a mistake, corrected him.
self. but insisted that seven of the eig ht
names submitted by tine Fortune list in
the Seventh ward were Democrats.
Ii. A. Wallratf, who said he was chair
man of the county committee of the
Peoples party, having been appointed
as such iu the fall of 1892 spoke in favor
Of the list he had sent in, and said it
waS the only list from Il legally consti.
tuted committee. The list sent in by
the Gleason-Bredahl faction, he said,
was gotten up at the instance of AS
Semblyman w. r. Johnson, who was a
relative of Gleason. He knew this be-
cause Gleason had said that johnson
had told him that if the Democrats
were going to secure control of the
Populist judges another list must be
secured to counteract the first one, and
the Republicans could capture the
second one.
James Dillon said that he was dis
gusted with the whole business. and
politicians and politics in general. He
thought II there were less politics and
more thinking by the people there
would be less hard times.
ASSemblyman Lightner said that
none Of the three lists furnished by the
PopulIStS had been sent in by the
proper representatives of the party. The
| legislature had directed that the three
| parties casting the highest number of
votes were entitled to judges in
each precinct. This was provld-
| ing the local committee of the
parties sent in lists of names
to act as judges. The legislature, how
III.
| fifteen. or even fifty men should meet
| together and constitute themselves a
committee OF any party. The Populsts
| had. according to their own statements,
| cast 4, 600 votes at the last election, and
| 1t was mistaken idea that any small
number OF the party could hold meet
| ing or meetings without public notice,
! aud, acting as committee, select list
OF names representing the party. For
these reasons he was in favor of throw.
ing out the three lists.
The motion to this effect was adopted.
and the committee then went to work
on the Democratic and Republican lists.
Judges were selected in nearly all the
| wards and precincts, and then an ad.
| lOurnment taken TO this afternoon at 8
O'Clock. Aid. Warren said while the
council was not legally bound under the
law to select the third Judge from the
list submitted by the PopulistS, it would
be better to use the names from the
lists in selecting the third judge. A
subcommittee of Aid. Warren and
Zimmerman and Assemblymen Daily
and Lightner was appointed to select
the third judge in each precinct, ana re-
| port TO the general committee.
| L. j. Fortune notified the committee
| just before adjournment was taken,
that the council would be mandamused
If Judges were not selected from the
Populist list submitted by him.
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