St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-26

rapidly as possible when, about noon,
President Goodnow called the meeting
to order. The only matter that prom
ised any discord was the election Of a
president, and it subsequently devel-
oped that Eli Warner, Of ST.. Paul, had
a walkaway for the place.
A committee on credentials and one
on resolutions were appointed and dur
ing the recess the Ramsey county dele
cation held caucus. This was the
best fun Of the day. o. B. Lewis name
was Withdrawn from the presidential
canvass, but it was indicated that he
would accept the secretaryship, if
given him. 1t was stated, however,
that Hennepin county would have a
candidate for secretary, and Ramsey
must take either president or nothing
Mr.. Warner stated that he would not
go before the convention unless backed
by the united strength of the county.
Sam Lowenstein said there was some
opposition to Mr.. Warner in the Sew
enth ward, but subsequently qualified
it, saying that 1t only arose from the
fact that the Sixth ward had a can
didate for mayor, and the Seventh had
the same. The Seventh would like to
put the presidency in the Sixth, in
order that it could not be charged that
the Seventh was taking everything.
But no blood was shed, for Mr. Lewis
climbed upon a counter and declined
to be a candidate under any circum-
stances.
Then Mr.. Warner wanted to know if
Lewis was still going to be candidate
for secretary. Lewis said he would not
Then Sam Lowenstein moved that the
delegation vote as unit for Warner,
which aroused some bad blood, but
when the delegation came into the con-
vention it stood by the unit rule and
Warner
. o. B. Lewis was indorsed for county
committeeman and Maj Espy as dele
gate at large to Milwaukee. That was
half the battle. The selection of dis
trict delegates, however, was a hot con-
test. Name after name was chosen
until the field was as large as a sub
urban handicap list, but finally w. w.
Dunn, E. T. Chamberlain, Sam Kell-
erman and Fred Richter were chosen
for delegates and B. P. Gray, Carl Tay-
lor, Mic Flynn and George Nash for al
ternates.
The main convention meanwhile had
listened to the report of the committee
on credentials to the effect that there
were present from the First district
representatives of II clubs, So votes;
Second, 130 votes; Third, so votes;
Fourth, 375 votes; Fifth, 1876 votes;
SlXLH, 100 NOISS, dilu OSNcIlIls 0U votes.
Total, 80.
The committee on resolutions had
been urged to make it Short and pre-
sented only this:
Resolved, That the State League of Repub-
lican Clubs pledge their fealty and loyal sup
port to the principles of the Republican party,
and again pledge united efforts to
secure the election of the candidates nomi-
mated by the Republican convention.
w. t. Coe, of the club at the state
university club, made the report. Ex-
Gov. Ramsey greeted the delegates
amid enthusiastic applause.
Robert G. Evans added to the cool
ness of the meeting, when called upon
for speech, by making happily lit
tie talk about Republican victory, but
entirely ignoring the name of Mime
sota's idol, William Mckinley. He
said, however, that he would be on
the stump this fall for the nominee
Fred c. Stevens, secretary, reported
that the league had not continued the
precinct organization during the year
but had worked in harmony with the