The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-03-26

dict, B. G. Taylor, G. o. Carlson, J.
B. Richards, W. F. Jones.
Sixth Ward-J. G. Fowler, John
Polchow, Evan Hughes, VIM. Barnard
Fred Schwan.
The repor. was adopted.
DR.. Webster moved that the tenn
porary organization be made per.
manent, and this was carried.
j. E. Reynolds moved that the con.
vention proceed to the nomination OF
a candidate for mayor, and this was
carried.
j.. G. Fowler started to nominal.
Judge Shissler for municipal judge,
when Mr.. Reyno dis raised point OF
order that only the nomination of a
mayor was in order.
G. L. Benedict named Louis A. Lin
der for mayor in neat speech. No
other nominations were made, and on
Mr.. Benedict's motion the nomination
was made by reclamation, unani-
mously.
Mr.. Reynolds moved that a COM
mittee of three be appointed to
notify Mr. Under of his nomination
and to bring him before the conven-
tion. This was carried, and the chair
appointed Messrs. Reynolds, j. B.
Richards and Evan Hughes as such
committee. While the committee
was gone, recess was taken.
Mr.. Under was received with
applause on his arrival. Mr.. Reynolds
introduced him to the chair as the
next mayor of Mankato. The chair
introduced him to the convention as
the next mayor.
Mr.. Under said that this was the
first political convention that he had
ever been in, and he hardly knew
what was expected of him. He
thanked the convention for the honor
and said that he would accept the
He pledged himself, if
elected, to conduct the affairs of the
office according to his best ability and
understanding (Applause.)
On the report of the Fourth ward
delegation, Henry APPEL was substitute
ed as delegate for L. Lampert, who
was absent, there being no objection.
J. G. Fowler named Judge Shissler
for municipal judge, with few
remarks. Sheriff
Bowen named VIM. F. Hughes.
Sheriff Bowen, Mr.. Hertzog and P.
w. Pitcher were appointed tellers,
and formal ballot resulted as
follows:
hughes. Ia
Judge Shissler was called for, and
said that he had been sick for two
weeks, but that he believed that the
healing agency. had now arrived. He
never felt better than now in all his
life. He might have made mistakes
during his term of office, but said that
they were mistakes of the head and
not of the heart. He believed that
he was better fitted now for the duties
Of the position than ever before. He
thanked the convention from the
bottom Of his heart.
On the recommendation of the
Second ward delegation, Mic Klein
schmidt was elected to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the absence of Frank
SkuSe.
S. B. Wilson was, on motion of Robt.
unanimously nominated for
special judge, and thanked the con-
vention.
G. H. Higgs named VIM. H. Shepard
for city treasurer, and j. G.. Fowle
named Q. 2. Williams, both making
mplimentary remarks. A formal
ballot resulted as follows:
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B. G. Taylor named A. G. Matter
for city recorder; j. G. Fowler named
Perry Rutan; G. L. Benedict named
Frank E. Turrittin; and Joseph Man
ierfeld named A. j. Veigel. Each
made few complimentary remarks
his favorite.
Q An informal ballot resulted as fol-
ows:
Veigel. -. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS %
hdOOCI ........ IL
SuUdu IL
L uIIlOOIu.
A formal ballot was then taken, re-
sulting as follows:
cIScl. Il
hdyIeI ..-........ 1o
urTlUUIu
The second formal ballot resulted:
V 0lSel. ~
......... II
NuUdu IL
Mr.. Veigel was called for and pro-
missed to give his whole time to the
office if elected, and try to give salts
faction in every way.
The following nominations for al
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