The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-10

Races II Ticket IN tine Ffeiu--
PoruIists on Hand TO Help Out
The Political Comedy Gets
Coed.
Patrick Demosthenes ScanneN and a
score OF congenial spirits from the
Fourth ward got together in the Mar
ket hail yesterday, and then and there
rciUdorsed William Windyhurst En-
win, the PCpulist nominee for mayor.
They also filed out city ticket com
posed partly of Popuiists, partly of
Scannelliles and with just leaven OF
silver Republicans.
The STAT Of Scaunell has passed into
history. 1t didn't take any Stat to
keep Yesterdays convention in order.
a Stat would have been necessary TO
stir up the feelings of the participants
to pitch that would get them in line
with the fuglemen who gave the Of
flee" for applause at the proper times
and places.
The convention was presided over by
the well known Sixth ward juriSt, H.
H. Wood. and he had not the least
trouble in keeping order. He only made
one speech, and that was when he was
nominated for justice, and he pledged
himself freely to deal gently with the
delegates if ever they came before him
in the role Of litigants.
The personnel of the convention was
remaI ka BILE. 1t was composed for the
greater part of men who had sat IN
the Popul st convention of last Wednes
day The ancient man with the veneer
able beard who had held aloft rod
ard lad down the law of primaries in
the Populist body was delegate from
the Ninth yesterday.
Grant Spicer, whose daily occupa-
ticn has to do with the reading of those
bumps that nature placed on or about
the skull of man that his character
might be read therefrom, was a men,
Der from the Fifth. He was at the
head of the committee on resolutions
In the Populist meeting.
CHICAGO Garden" Johnson, with his
piratical whiskers, was in the fore
front of the First ward delegation.
Dick Bell sat among the aristocrats
in the Seventh ward seats, and just
across the aisle from him sat that stur-
dy friend of the laboring man. Tom
Brady. Pat Scannen sat in the push
from the Fourth and revised the reports
of committees.
Judge Card, patriarchal and very dis
tinctly for the people, was there, and
so were other gentlemen whose emil
nence in local politics and business life
is, because of their modest seeming,
altogether out of proportion to the
great work they have done in behalf
of the suffering people Of this town.
The Populists were there, because
they had been notified that their pres
ence was necessary to fill out the quota
OF. delegates and to give eclat to the
Endorsement Of their nominee for
mayor The others were there because
they had been notified that they were
wanted by Dick Bell. A full list Of
delegates was not to be had for there
are wards in which Mr.. Scannells
memory failed, and it was not possible
to think Of men to put on the delega-
lions.
The primaries were held the evening
before at Scannell headquarters, and
were well attended.
Business had unfortunately inter
fered with the attendance of some of
the delegates. Under the banner of
the Fourth ward delegation, which
banner called for a voting strength
of thirty-four delegates, there wera
gathered seven gentlemen; in the place.
where the banner. of the Seventh in
dictated that there should be some for
ty-five lelee ates, there sat Dick Bell
and eight other pieces of the upper
crust; the gonfalon of the Eighth ward
bore a device that showed a strength
of fOrty-eight members, and nine peo-
pie ratified around in the space.
The routine Of the convention was
not interrupted by any unseemly out
breaks of factionalism. The gentle
men who held the primary had neg
leCted to provide contest to give
flavor to the proceedings. and the only
opposition called out by the nomination
of z. H. Wood for chairman was in
the breast of every other delegate who
thought that Dick might as we'll have
fixed that for him.
Capt. John c. Hardy fixed war
riOr's eye on Dick from the front row
and looked as though he might not
stand much of this trif1ing in the in
terest of the non-titled civilian, when
the prit of the times was military
w H. Elers and William O'Keefe were
made the scribes of the convention,
and then there was a committee on
permanent organization appointed. 1t
was a good joke. but Mr. Scanaell
treated it seriously, and everybody
else kept his face straight, while the
committee was being made up It
consisted of John H. Healey, John c.
Harcy and Duncan Connell They
haven't reported yet.
The real work of the convention. the
fran, iEg of a platform that should pro-
be broad enough and substantial
enough for Mr.. Erwin to perform on
was submitted to Messrs. Patrick De-
narius Scanneil, John c. Hardy. w. H.
Mcdonald, Charles 3. Stanley, Leo
Mccormick and William Johnson.
The labors of the committee were
llghtened in some measure by the fact
that the platform was handed to them
ready made-the result of the midnight
laborS of Mr.. Scannell and tie uatriors