St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-26
TICALLY A THING OF THE
PAST.
REPUBLICAN PARTY WHIP
TOOK THE LIFE OUT OF THE MEM
BERs OF THAT PERsUA-
SION.
TALK WITH CHAIRMAN scANNELL.
Judges for the Democratic Primaries
May Not BE Announced Until
the Last Minute.

Inc committee of eighty has not been
heard from for some time past. The
last step taken was to appoint q COM
mfttee of four consisting of George r.
Finch. e. o. Zimmerman, T. D. O'Brian
and w. G. Robertson, whose duty il
would be to select two men from every
election district In the city who should
he added to the committee of eighty
In order to make it more representa-
tive body. As soon as this work could
be accomplished the plan proposed was
that the chairman should appoint from
the enlarged committee a committee of
twenty two--two from each ward, one
Democrat and one RepublicaE-wh
only duty It would be to name a COM
plete city ticket and submit the names
to the large committee for approval.
Thus far, 1t would seem that little
progress has been made. The Commit
tee of four have not completed their
work. Messrs. O'Brien and Robertson
have not taken any action.
Mr. O'Brien, when seen yesterday,
said. I'VE have not done anything
yet. AS matter of fact the committee
or eighty is practically thing Of the
past The bottom has dropped out of
1t. or, as the G o b e has aptly put it.
the Republican members have obeyed
the crack of the party whip. / do not
lCok for ans independent nomina tions
from the committee OF eighty, or as re-
sultlng from that movement"
Perhaps the list won't be ready un-
til the morning of the primaries" was
the reply given yesterday by P j.
Scannell, chairman of the Democratic
city committee, when asked ny the
G b If the names of the primary
judges would soon be announced.
Its big job" Mr.. Scannell sighed.
Ito make a satisfactory selection of
judges for each Of the lis primaries.
They have to be the right sort Of men,
of course, and then we have to be sure
that they will be on hand. That cant
be told always until almost the day the
primaries are held. The judges will be
selected by the special committee OF
three appointed by our meeting at the
Clarendon hotel. The committee con-
sists of Frank j. Huber, our secretary,
cial committee will be assisted by the
various ward committeeman.
THE first thing to do, though. will
be to fix on locations for the polling
places. These polling places, according
to the new law, must be announced at
least SIX days before April 6, when the
primaries are to be held. We won't be
able to give out the polling places this
week, anyway.
But, at any rate, the primaries this
year ought to satisfy everybody. The
arrangement is very dierent than
when we had only seventeen primary
polling places in the city. Now there
are 115. They are handy to every
mans home, and If any sore heads are
not satisfied with the delegates chosen,
or with the action of the convention,
they can't say the primaries were fixed
up so voter couldn't get a chance to
express his choice for delegates. We
intend to put UP a ticket that will COM
mand the confidence of the community.
What we want is good, clean, honest
business men on the ticket, and l
think We'll have 'em. OF course diff
ferent sort of man may creep in on the
ticket. That sometimes happens. But
Wen do our best to avoid anybody that
| isn't good, clean, honest business
man."