The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-25
NOW Thu PRIMARIES
THE DEMOCRATS ARE IN SHAPE
FOR THE PRELIMINARY
WORK
AND ARE UNITED AT THAT

Enthusiastic and Harmonious Meet
ing Held Inst Night, When the
List of Judges and Clerks Was
ApprOVed-Since the Republican
Convention Candidates on the
Opposition Ticket Are Numerous.
The Democrats of st. Paul are closing
up the ranks which have been broken
by faCtional differences, and al the
primaries to be held tomorrow evening
united party Will select delegates to
the legislative and county conventions
called for Tuesday at Market hall. The
claim of the Republicans that 1t would
be q Walk-aWay for any ticket they
might nominate has changed greatly
since the convention of Thursday and
the leaders of the grand old party now
realize that they have a tight On hand.
In all the wards the Democrats are
standing shoulder to shoulder ana past
differences have been buried. At no
time has this been more noticeable than
at the meeting held last evening in the
rooms of the Democratic county conn
mittee al Fourth and jackson streets.
Pursuant to call gned by II. w. Bell,
chairman Of the Democratic city COM
mittee, and John L. Townley, chairman
Of the Democratic county cOmmitCee
over 100 representatives from the sew
eral wards were present and ma or-
ity of the members of both committecs
R. w. Bell was unanimously elected
chairman Of the meeting, and B. w.
Hennessey, of the Ninth ward, secre-
taTy. Chairman Bell announced that
the business before the meeting was the
selecting of a list of names to be pre-
sented TO the council, from which one
or more of the judges Of election were
to be appointed and also to prepare
for the primaries to be held Monday
evening. The wards were taken up in
regular order and reports made or lists
submitted in each instance.
In the First ward, William Johnson
announced that he had been out of the
city and was not prepared to submit
list Of names for judges of election. He
understood, however, the matter was
receiving attention and the list when
completed would be submitted to the
chairman Of the county committee.
Lists from the Second, Third, Fourth,
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth
and Eleventh wards were submitted
and read. From the Ninth Wafd~-Ald.
Murphy explained that ward commit
teemen, NJ J. O'RCurke and J. L. Hoff-
man, had removed from the ward and
so far as he knew no list of names for
judges had been selected. He request
ed that Edward Quinlivan and Dennis
Sullivan be named to fill the vacancies
and promised that the selections FOR
Judges would be handed in within a
few days.
George Armstrong inquired if the no.
tees Of primaries in all the wards had
been posted as required by law, and
call of the wards showed that such
had been done in each precinct.
W. P. Murray called attention to the
matter of credentials for the primaries
and Secretary Battley, of the congress
siOna1 committee, was directed to have
the required form of credentials print
ed and ready for the primary precincts
before Monday noon.
Mr.. Bailey called attention to the
tickets which had been printed for the
primaries Monday evening at the direc-
tiOn Of Judge Willis. The wards and
precincts had been printed on tickets
enough TO supply all the city and q
blank space had been left on which
the names Of the delegates could be
written by the vote 8. This had been de-
cided on as being better than to have a
clique of men in each precinct have
tickets printed and would do away with
all talk about States being prepared.
Under the plan suggested by Judge
Willis each VcEer could write the name
of the delegate he desired to vote for.
r. n. Hare of the Sixth ward, offer
ed motion to the effect that the dele
safes elected Monday evening at the
primaries meet at 9 D. M, at the county
committee rooms. This caused consid-
cradle discussion.
Aid. Bantz, of the Eighth ward, OPP
posed the plan for the reason that the
delegates desired to meet in the several
wards, and nothing could be accom-
plished by holding a session at the
committee rooms after the primaries.
The delegates from his ward were to
hold such a meeting, and for this rea-
son would not be at the committee
rooms.
Representatives from the Sixth,
Fourth and Second wards announced
that meeting of the delegates would
be held after the primaries in their
wards.
William Johnson hoped the conven-
ton on Tuesday would be a true Demo-
cratic one, ard saw no reason for the
delegates meeting Monday night. The
delegates to be selected Monday night
would come together at the convention
hall, and that would be the time to
meet each other, and as the gentlemen
from the Sixth ward said, get acquaint-
ed. The best way was to have the
delegates come to the convention unin-