The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-29
BOY STATESMEN SPURNED
SAM LOWENSTEIN KICKS ON
BEARDLESS YOUTHS

engagements for the Coming ne
publican County Convention
Monkey md Parrot Time at the
Session of the G. o. P.'s Executive
Committees.
II am not man to mince my words"
said Col. Sam Lowenstein. land maybe
l said what 1 meant too strongly. 1
am not looking for trouble.
1t was at the meeting of the Repub-
lican city and county committees at
Hitler Horizons office yesterday after
noon that the colonel admitted that he
had been too haSty. His haste had
been demonstrated in a previous speech
in which he had evinced a desire to
throw the members of the committee
which conducted the last campaign off
the high bridge, or to take some equally
high handed proceeding as a means of
getting rid of them. The meeting was
characterized by that measure of unity
that the Republican organization seems
TO thrive on. And after all the row
there was no difficulty in making an
arrange inert for the cal ing of the coun-
~ convention. The result was another
practical victory for the Van SAINT ele-
nent, which is the principal part of the
Clough machine and which is as likely
to be for Clough as for Van SAINT, in
case the governor concludes that he
wants another term.
The county convention for the cleo
ton of delegates to the state conven-
ton was called for June %, and the
primaries will be held on the preced-
ing day.
It was generally understood that
there would be an effort made on the
part of the younger element of the par
ty, which was represented on the COM
mittee during the city campaign, to
control up to the fall election, and W.
H. Lightner and some other members
of the old county committee did not
want to make any contention. In the
absence of Mr.. Lightner there could be
no question as to the presiding officer,
and Mr.. Horton took the chair. The
first business that came before the
meeting was the reading of the resig-
nations of Mr.. Lightner and Percy God
frey and the second the ejectment Of
The Gle b e reporter. This last bust
ness did not take much time and might
have been unanimous but for the posi-
ton of w. r. Johnson, who did not
think that there was any business to
be done that might not be gone through
with before all the world. Mr. Johnson
was incontinently sat down upon.
Mr.. Lightner wanted to resign in the
interest of general harmony and Mr..
Godfrey wanted to let go in the interest
of P. ]. Bigue. Both designations were
laid upon the table.
Col. LowenStein was a member Of the
old committee and he was of the num-
Der that thought the old committee
should do business during the city fight.
The colonel had his eye on the board
of public works and when the city COM
mfttee was named by Chairman Nc
Donald after the city convention and he
was left out, he made some protest
about the placing of top politicians on
lIS1t ,iy,cr
MesSrs. Griggs and Selb and some
others of the juniors. When the restg-
nations were before the committee, and
even after they had been laid upon the
table, Col. Lowenstein protested. He
could not see the necessity for admin
istering rebuff to the wheel horses of
The Republican party. The county COM
mittee consisted of Messrs. Warner,
Lightner, Mabon, Bryant, Kiefer, Low
enstein, Elmquist Zollman and God
frey, and there was nothing to support
the proposition that these men could
p be dispensed with. He would not sub
NIT to being turned out by boys with
out whiskers who had never done any
thing for the party. This was the talk
that he qualified by an apology later.
The colonel's remarks, however, STIR
red up a spirit Of opposition in the city
committee. and they made a grand
stand play. One member got up and
stand in the way of any gentleman
who thought he had not been sufficient
ly recognized. He would resign. MIR.
Sharood, the prop of the party in the
First ward, said that he also would re
sign. Then Frank Griggs said he was
willing to quit, and in minute Secre-
tary Selb was busy trying to keep track
of the designations of the immortal
nine that conducted the Kiefer cam
paign.
Chairman Horton interfered then and
said that this wholesale reSigning was
a habit that was not justified by the
traditions of the party, and that they,
the designations, would not be accept
ed. In the very heated debate that fol-
lowed there We're haif-dozen speak
ers at once, and an outsider would have
thought that there was no possible
chance for the Republican party in
this town ever getting together.
Threats were made to take the res
ignations of Lightner and Godfrey from
the table and accept them and elect
Hitler Horton chairman of the whole
committee, and counter threats We're
made by the old county committeeman
TO turn Mr. Horton down, if he was
named, and elect either Filter or F'itz-
gerald. Mr.. Fitzgerald sat in the back
ground and smoked a pipe through it
all, but occasionally cut in long enough
TO declare that he was not a candi-
date
VFinally a proposition was got before
the body to provide for combined ac-
ton in the call that was to be issued.
The executive committee of the city
committee was the stronger end of the
split. but they used their strength
sparingly and permitted a resolution TO
pass providing that the call should be
issued by the officers of both commit
tees
The session behind closed doors lasted
couple of hours. but no further ac-
ton was taken than to agree to the
armistice under which recognition is
granted to both bodies.
= The call provides for the holding of
primaries on June % and a county con-
vention on June 80 for the election of
delegates to the state convention, which
is called here for June go The basis
Of representation in the county con-
vention will be one vote for every fifty
votes or major fraction thereof cast for
President Mckinley at the last general
election. The apportonment and per-
= tinent part of the call follows-and it
is worthy of note that the officers of
the city committee head the call:
Precincts. 12945 67S 10 Ii - 10 "A *
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