The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-10
BEARDSLEY FOR CONGRESS-
FOURTH DISTRICT POPS De
CLINED TO FUSE ON WILLIS


ers Held at Forest Lake Yester-
day Nominated Local School
Teacher for the Place Now Held
by Fred @. Stevens-More Oppo-
sition to Eustis.
N. s. Beardsley, of st. Paul. whose
political activity has made his name
familiar in certain circles in the city,
was yesterday nominated for congress
by the Populists Of the Fourth district
at their meeting at Forest Lake, Chisa-
go county.
The convention was held in Leon
House hall
Isant1 and Kanabac counties were I'M
represented, Chisago and Washington
sent two each, and Ramsey twenty
three.
r. H. McGee was elected aus tempo
rary chairman and G. H. Stevens, Of
st. Paul. secretary. They were also Sc
lected as permanent officers, although
Mr.. MCGEE requested that some one
else be named ais chairman.
The committees appointed were: Gre
dentials. Peter Max, w. F. Drury, F.
A: Harris, of Ramsey; s. B. Howell, Of
Washington: I. M. Banta, Chisago.
resolutions, E. w. Bonham, N. 8.
Beardsley, A. Ostrander. Permanent
organization, Chris Christensen. Henry
Luhnsen. A. L. Vromberg.
Part OF the report of the committee
On resolutions was to the effect that
the Ramsey county committee, having
declined to participate in calling a dele
gate convention or to provide for Sc
Letting a delegate in the regular way
for this convention, steps should be
NV hn cfcfo fy~o1 -
reorganize the committee of that
county.
Mr.. Blees wanted to eliminate this
portion of the report. claiming that the
convention had no power to act in the
premises. Peter Max, E. w. Bonham,
J. Hardy, J. c. Hanley and c. H.
Stevens favored adopting the entire re-
port. The report of the committee was
adopted without change
On an informal ballot to nominate a
candidate, N. S. Beardsley received fif-
teer votes, Stephen w. Powell ten, R.
H. MCGEE two. When motion was
made to declare Mr.. Beardsley the nom
inee, Mr.. Hanley wanted Mr.. Beardsley
to declare that he would stick through
out the campaign. Mr.. Beardsley de-
clared that there would be no with
drawaL. The nomination was made
unanimous by rising vote.
The congressional nominee Is a teach
er by profession and has for some time
been prominent in the politics of the
First ward.
number Of the prominent local
Populists insist that the convention Of
yesterday has no legal standing, in
had never been regularly elected, no
primaries and county convention hav-
ing been held here.
The Ramsey county central commit
tee refused to call a convention to elect
delegates to the convention yesterday,
as it was not given time to comply
with theslaw 1t may determine to call
new convention, or it may let the
matter go by default. One of the most
active Populists of the city said last
night that the convention of yesterday
YVES but a ruse of the Republicans to
divide the vote against them.
The dafections of the Swedes and the
old soldiers from the prospective vote
for William Henry Eustis are worrying
the Republicans not a little. And well
they may.
If these were the only elements that
had lost confidence in the Republican
nominee, he might keep stiff uppr lip
and brass it out" as the saying is, but
such is not the case. New sources of
weakness are developing daily. g..
Organized labor has it in for the
former mayor of Minneapolis because
Of his duplicity during the differences
between the packers and millers union
and the Washburn-Crosby FIGURING
Mill company few years ago.
The millers were tenants Of his, in
his Office building, but so persuasive
was his voice in behalf of arbitration
that the strikers complied with his re-
quest that arbitration be resorted to.
William Henry was very active in the
matter, sacrificing an entire Sunday
afternoon to the settlement of the ques-
ton in a way satisfactory to his ten
ants, if it was not to his political con-
StituentS.
These men are for the most part poor,
and 1t is possible that William Henry
thinks that their SURFACES are not
worth considering, but he will be re-
minded when the votes are counted
that the American voter has q long
memory, and he has not yet forgotten
the inaugural address Of this same VIII
liam Henry, who urged the reduction
of the burden on the taxpayers of the
city.
1t was a very pretty speech and was
roundly applauded by those who heard
it But within his term of Office the
reduction made by the Holman-like
objection to the construction of sewers
water mains and other improvements
that were really needed were far more
than offset by the saddling on the tax
payers Of the burden Of paying for the
old Bracket property, which enabled
one of William Henry's old political
friends not only to keep his head above
the trough of bankruptcy but permit
ted him to engage in gigantic opera
tons on the Klondike.
It is such incidents as these in the
Of n;o of M,~ &c fIaf 10
ing remembered and the voters of Min
nesota, familiar as they are with the
general facts of an administration that
was repudiated not alone by the more
orderly elements Of his city, but by his
own political party as well, will hesi-
tate, no doubt, before they vote for the
experimental test in the governors
chair of a man whose unique concep-
tons Of the privileges of the respective
branches of government are not like
anything elsewhere known.
The people of this state do not want
the chief executive of this state to
make fish Of one offense and fowl Of
another for there are laws on the stat
ute books which have been placed there
in the face of the most strenuous cor
porate opposition.
The farmers, the laboring men, the
miners, the realty owners, all alike are
interested In the anarchiStic theory Of
the man who deemed it his privilege as
mayor to set aside for the time being
ordinances that did not conform to his
personal beliefs and policy" and al
ready the reports from the outlying
counties indicate that they are going
to round up an old time majority FOR
John Lind, pledged personally and by
his party to the enforcement Of the
laws without fear or favor and the
turning out Of the corrupt ring Of Re
nO1jficiano which