The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-23

The peanut politician was in his
glory yesterday. From out the recesses
in the. basement of the court house,
from the law offices and the public
offices there came some hundreds of
the props Of the G.. 0. P, and they
gathered in the Market hall and held
a convention. 1t was such a gather
ing as would make the fathers of the
party weep. 1t was run as a PROPOSE
ton in practical politics. Col Sam
Lowenstein and Mai. George Gerlich
were in the forefront of the serried
ranks of the clamoring mob. They
were supported by such lights of the
part as George Coulter and Harry
Sundberg-the latter acting as inter
prefer for the First ward cohorts. 1t
was noisy, demonstrative and squab-
bling. It lacked head and none paid
the least attention to order. And out
of this political chaos there came a
ticket that is to be submitted to the
people. There were, in fact, two con-
VentionS, but the one so oVerlapped and
ran into the other that it was quite
impossible to tell where the legislative
left off and the county convention be-
gan. The only thing that was clear
about it all was that Market hall was
in the hands of the mob from o'clock
in the morning until after at night.
1t was the most disorderly convention
that has been held in this city for many
a day. If there had been a chairman
with some force of character and pos
sessed of a slat like unto the historic
slat Of Scannell, there might have been
some order injected into the proceed
irgs, but they had no ScanneL and the
lord Of misrule reigned while Billy
Johnson, Ed Rogers, Horace Bigelow
and the rest of them helped the Repub-
lican party to deliver itself Of a ticket.
There were few surprises in the
ticket. Notice had been served on Mike
Fitzgerald that he had no standing
in the party and would have to quit,
and Alex. Lindahl had been notified
that the First ward was not the only
ward in town. That came off early in
the morning. The Seventh ward was
held in reserve ell day with the idea
that it would be effective In landing
one of the judicial nominations for
Judge Bum, and after Mr.. Johnson
and the rest of them had got what they
wanted and had hoisted the dIgnified
delegates from the Seventh into the
air. they just moved away and left
Messrs. Mum, Ingersoll and the other
members of the elect up in the air
without single name on the ticket.
Before the convention met Maj. Lib
by had been induced to listen to reason
and Irish's friends knew that they had
won out Bill Ames' name was men
toned in connection with the shrievalty
nomination, but every one knew that
that was only done for effect.
The one funny feature of the conven-
ton, in the way of failure to win out
with practical politics, was when
Harvey Hall was given the privilege Of
using the Ninth ward for any purpose
he wanted and then he used it to get
left. He swung the Ninth for every
candidate that came up and even de-
livered it for Horace Bigelow, and
when 1t came to naming Hall for the
probate bench they all left him-but
thst immortal thirty-one which he had
been delivering to anybody that needed
them all day. He was in the cOmbina-
tion Of every winner and then was
thrown down himself
At no time after the convention was
called to order was there anything like
order. The delegates moved about on
the floor and made their deals while
Chairman George, discovery of Halls
by the way, made all sorts of futile ef-
forts to get the attention of the crowd.
George knew nothing of parliamentary
usage and his speech of acceptance
was one OF those rare good things only
possible to q man who has never before
welded the gavel. There was a good
deal of squabbling and at no time dur
ing the day was there moment when
some delSgate or candidate did not
have fist under the nose Of some gen.
tleman who did not agree with him.
The Fourth ward went into conven-
ton, as usual, solid, and only once was
there a break. That was when Charlie
Horst in the exuberance of his en-
thusiasm challenged the announcement
of the vote made by Aid. Donahower
on the question of treasurer. Horst
broke over the traces for minute and
said the delegation was not solid. In a