The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12

shown at the convention this after
noon. Scarcely half OF the delegates
elected were present and most of the
towns had no representation what
ever. The chairman of the cOnyen-
sion was not delegate and produced
no written proxy, but after being
elected, his name was substituted for
a delegate by the consent OF those
who knew about it.
1t is not known how the delegates
elected stand on the money question,
or how many Of them will go to ST..
Paul. One delegate stated after adj
tournament that he knew that some of
those elected are free silver men.
Just twenty-five minutes after the
time stated in the call, the conven-
tion was called to order by Chairman
Henry Zimmerman Of the county
committee, who reversed the order Of
things by calling for the election of a
secretary before reading the official
call. Dr. j. A. HielScher was elected
secretary.
After the reading of the call, the
chair announced that a credential
committee was next in order. A mo-
tion for committee of three was car
ried, and the chair selected Ed. Dunn,
0. T. Mobiles and Hugh Quinn. The
committee retired and found the fol-
lowing entitled to seats in the con-
yentiOn:
VERNON CENTER-E. T. Champlin,
o. r. Mobiles
MAPLEToN-H. NJ. Quinn, J. L.
Kohler, Casper Shimmele, James Nc
Laughlin,
MCPHERSON Geo. B. Caldwell,
Chas. O'Connor, D. f. Rasdall. A. M.
Quinn, Isaac Otrey.
JAMESTOWN Robt. Madigan, 2.
M. Lyons, Pat Byrnes, Patrick Baynes.
LIE RAY. d. MANS, Ed. Dunn, S.
B. Eddy.
First ward -Adolph Deebach, J. D..
Duane, Lorenz Henline, S. B. Martin,
Joseph Schlingerman.
Second ward-J. A. Hielscher, Mic
Petersen, j. @. Thro, Peter Krost,
Henry Fricke, Chas. Macbeth, Peter
Huettl, Joseph Bienapf, H. Leonard.
Third ward John Krost, Chas. T..
Taylor, John Lulsdorf, M. L. Fallen
stein. Il. Robel, II. Zimmerman,
Martin Walzer
Fourth ward-John Klein, P. K.
Wiser, A. Anderson, L. Patterson.
Fifth ward-John G. Wise, Jr.,
Jean A. Flittie, A. G. Meyer.
Sixth ward-Chas f. Mailman.
MADISON LAKE-Wm. Durrin, T..
B. Murtaugh, Lewis Pitcher.
GARDEN CrTY-Wm. Schultz, T. A.
Edgerton.
SOUTH BEND-C. HOenel.
While the committee was out, some
body spoke to Chairman Zimmerman
about the chairmanship, thinking
that the convention should have a
show in filling the office. Mr..
Zimmerman modestly announced that
there was mistake that he intended
to let the convention fill the chair and
not act Gear.
e. T. Cnamplain stood up and NOV
ed that Mr.. Zimmerman be chairman,
and put the motion, which carried.
The report of the credentials COM
mittee was then received and adopted.
On motion of J. A. Flittie, the tenn
porary organization was made perma-
nent.
E. T. Champlain had a resolution in
his pocket which he pulled out at this
point and wanted to proceed in a
Democratic way, which he said the
resolution provided for. The
resolution was that three dele
gates to the state convention be
chosen from each commissioner dis
trict, and three at large from Man
kato, giving the city six. Nobody OBJ
jected, and the resolution went
through.
The commissioner districts then
caucused, and selected the following
names:
First district = +. B. Murtaugh,
Madison Lake; P. NJ. Lyons, James
town; Chas. O'Connor, St. Clair.
Second district j. @. Wise Jr., H.
Zimmerman Jr., DR.. j. A. Hielscher,
Peter Huettl, e. Petersen, J. A. Fit
tie.
Third district-L. Lepman, South
Bend; VIM. Cole, Lake Crystal; Sever
Kelley, Lincoln.
Fourth district-Wm. Mobiles, Gar.
den City; e. T. Champlain, Vernon;
Claude Cooper, Amboy.
Fifth district-H. M. Quinn, Maple.
ton; j. G. Graham, Good Thunder: @.
I'll. DietZ, Mapleton.
The reports were adopted and the
delegates elected
The Fifth district delegates could
not find third man who would go,