St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-29
HIGHT ON THE PLOT
MATCHED BY SCANNELL AND 9TH
ERS TO SWINDLE THE DEMO-
CRATIC PARTY.
INJUNCTION is ASKED FOR
TO PREVENT THEIR NAMES REINC,
PLACED ON THE CITY
TICKET,
AFFIDAvITs OF REPUTABLE MEN
Show the Underhanded Way I'm
Which the Preparations Were
Carried On.

AS had been intimated for some days previ-
Gus, proceedings were begun In the district
| court yesterday to restrain City Clerk Jensen
from placing on the official ballots the names
| of the candidates Of the Scannell faction, or
| the name Democrat where it stands alone,
! and an order was secured from Judge Kelly
| directing the city clerk to appear before him
at IL O'Clock this forenoon and show cause
why the ballot should not be SO corrected.
The application was signed by Thomas ].
McDermott, Robert A. Smith, Charles E.
Fiandrau, R. W. Johnson, j. ]. Parker ].
F. Franzen and F. w. NJ Cutcheon, and the
attorneys are Jared How and Norman Fetter.
The application recites that the Democratic
: city central committee has always, according
to the custom of the party, had the manage
ment of its affairs including the power to is
sue calls for primary elections and conven-
tions to nominate candidates for the various
municipal officers; that the central commit
tee appointed by the convention in 1894 held
no meeting since May of that year until last
month, when Patrick D. Scannell, R. W. Bell,
Frank ]. Huber and divers other persons
conspired to represent that they constituted
majority of said committee, and were there
fore authorized to call and regulate the
convention, and did issue a call for the same.
1t is alleged that the persons issuing this
call were not members of the Democratic
central committee, and were not authorized
to take any such action, and that the primar-
les and convention were, therefore, illegal and
fraudulent; that it was the design of Scan
nell, Bell and Huber to prevent the election
to the convention Of any person except those
who would be under their control and di-
rection, and for the purpose of preventing the
free choice Of delegates by the members of
the Democratic party of St. Paul, they wrong
fully, and in violation of the provisions of
chapter 276 of the Laws of 1885, failed to have
posted or published notices of the places at
which the primaries were to be held their
purpose being to prevent the holding of such
primaries.
1t is further recited that Scannell, Bell and
Huber had intended to procure affidavits and
Gel ltificates of election by means of which
they could pretend that certain persons were
elected as delegates to the convention, where
as, in fact, no primary election was held in
rs per cent of the election districts, and there
fore the convention was not composed of
duly elected delegates, and at said conven-
Bell, Huber and their associates, that all of
the members of the Democratic party who
were not in sympathy with their designs and
intentions were excluded and prevented from
taking part, and that thereupon more than
one-half of the Democrats who had
sembled and all of those who had been elect
ed left the hall, refused to take any further
part in the convention, and assembled there
after and on the same day in the Globe
building then and there in the interests of
decency, good government and law and
der, proceeded to organize themselves
political convention and to place in nomina-
tion candidates to be voted for at the munic-
ipal election, and in order to distinguish
themselves from
ANY UNLAWFUL COMBINATION,
assumed the name of the Democrat-C Citizens
party; that the men composing said conven-
ton were and are representative members of
the Democratic party, and are fully recog-
nized by the Democratic state central COM
| mittee of the state of Minnesota that every
ward and precinct fully represented at
said convention, and that more than SO per
cent Of the members of the Democratic party
of the city of St. Paul now recognize and be-
lieve said Democrat-Citizens' convention did
! truly and in fact represent the views and
wishes of the Democrats and Democratic par
| ty of the city, and that the nominees of
said convention Of said Democratic Citizens
| party are supported by and will be voted for
by more than SO per cent of all the qualified
| Democratic electors residing in said city, and
that said Democrat-Citiz convention, and
the nominees of said convention, are support
ed by and represent at least so per cent of
the qualified electors of the city.
That, notwithstanding all the previous facts,
| Scannell, Bell and Huber still wrongfully
and unlawfully claim to represent the Demo-
cratic party of the city, and have proceeded
| to associate with themselves certain other per-
sons in fraudulent and unlawful conspiracy,
and have caused to be filed with the city clerk
pretended certificates of nomination of divers
| and sundry candidates for the respective Of
| fes to be filed, which certificates are certified
| by said Scannell as pretended chairman of
! the pretended convention assumed to be held
and by Anthony H. Miller as pretended secre-
| tary of that convention, or by r. W. Bell
and Anthony H. Miller as pretended chairman
and secretary, respectively of the fraudulent
and pretended Democratic city committee, and
| that the said city clerk has assumed to accept
such false and fraudulent certificates of
nomination as lawful and fully authorized,
and has placel the names of such pretended
/ candidates upon the official ballot, with the
|
appear upon said official ballot and 1t does
so appear, that said candidates 50 falsely and
ffaudulently certified to be duly nominated
are the proper and authorized candidates of
| the Democratic party.
That unless said official ballot be amended
and corrected by striking off each and all of
these pretended candidates. great harm and
| irreparable injury will be done to the proper
candidates of said Democratic party under the
! name of the Democrat-Citizens' party, and
! great and irreparable injury will be done to
many qualified electors in the city fer the
reason that many such electors desiring to
vote for the reputable and properly authorized
candidates of the Democratic party, and who
would otherwise vote for the nominees of
said Democrat-Citizens' party, will be misled
| by the designation of the candidates pretend
| ed to be nominated by Scannell and his as
sociates, as Democrat and failing to under
stand the distinction upon the ballot between
| the candidates of said Seannell and his as
sociates and the candidates of the Demorcat-
Citizens party, will unintentionally and un-
knowingly vote for the candidate Of Scannel
/ and his said associates. -
| The names of the candidates whose names
have been certified by Scannell are then
given, and the court is asked to make an
order directing the city clerk to correct the
ballot by having all these names not else