The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-04
WILL BIZ ON STICKERS
HOW THE INDEPENDENT DEMOC-
RACY HOPES TO GET 23O
VOTES TUESDAY
ANOTHER MASS CONVENTION


Office in the washburn building
There Were Eight Persons
Present-Three of Them Were
Nominated for Office and Hope
to Poll One Per Cent of the Vote.
The Independent Democrats alias
''the Hy Fuller faction held another
mass convention" last night in Room
No. 300, Washburn building. The at.
tendance was larger than at the pre-,
Vious convention" Hy Fuller having
seven supporters around him, instead
of three as formerly. The assemblage,
numbering eight persons all told, taxed
the capacity of Brown & Hollands law
office, and extra chairs had to be pro-
vided for those arriving after the pres
tdent and secretary Ct the convention"
Chas. R. Robins presided and o. ].
Cook attended to the minutes. Group
ed around these gentlemen when the
meeting opened We're -Messrs. Hy Full
Ter, A. J. birmingham, Otto K. SaueI
and j. c. Devereux.
THE first business of this conven-
tion," said the chairman, with sweep,
ing glance at an imaginary crowd, lis
the nomination of candidates fofothe Of
fees Of county treasurer, county aus
ditor and sheriff"
1t was explained that that Atlg-5st
body known the world over as the
Independent Democrats of Ramsey
county would nominate only three cam
didates for the present. AT the other
mass convention" seven had been
placed upon the Hy Fuller ticket, but,
since the court had given Hy knock
down blow. and as there was no time
to waste, the number was reduced to
three
It was not quite o'clock and two
of the eight delegates had yet to ar
rive, when the remaining sextette nom,
mated the following candidates, to be
styled independent Democrats" For
Sheriff, Otto K. Sauer; for county treas
urer, A. j. Birmingham; for county
auditor, J. G. DevereuX. AS soon as Mr.,
Sauer's nomination had been accom-,
plished with eclat, that gentleman un.
burdened his coatpockets OF mass Of
campaign cards, and distributed them
freely among the Crowd" which, by
this time. had been increased from six
to eight. The delegates" promised
faithfully to use their best influence
to scatter Mr. Sauer's literature broad
cast among their friends.
Mr.. Devereux, the candidate for coun-
ty auditor, who is an elderly gentle
man with a bacl1woods expression Of
countenance announced, with touching
modesty, that he would consider him
self 'in the hands of his friends" Each
man present pledged his vote and influ-
ence.
Before the adjournment, which oc-
Cured about thirty minutes after the
Convention had been called to order,
Otto Sauer, Independent Democratic
candidate for sheriff, produced the fol-
lowing resolution, which was adopted
with all possible haste:
he
instituted by certain candidates Of the
Democratic party of Ramsey county
against the ticket of the Independent
Democratic party at the coming cleo
ton has resulted in depriving US Of our
legal place on the county ballot; and,
whereas, such action strikes at the
freedom of elections and the freedom OF
the ballot, it Is hereby resolved that we
as a party, unqualifiedly condemn such
action on the part Of any party or can
dldate for public office in this county,
and we do earnestly request all Inde-
pendent Democrats to show their dis
approval of such outrages at the polls
by standing by the ticket Of the INDIE
pendent Democrat party nominated by
This mass meeting Of our party, and
thereby further show their approval
of the excellent principles Of said par
~, of the principle of municipal con-
troll, indesendent of party or organiza-
ton"
The chairman announced that the
names of the Independent Democrat
candidates would be printed on stick
ers," which latter would be distributed
by the delegates among their friends.
Electors would attach the ''stickers'' to
the ballots on Nov. 8, and in this in
genious way Otto K. sauer, A. j. Burn
ingham and j. c. Devereux would
head the polls for their offices next
Tues day.
After the adjournment the delegates
told The G ! O b that the Independents
did not really expect to carry tnything;
all they want is representation at the
ballot box. This gentleman said that
his party looked for per cent Of the
votes, and 1 per cent would be sufti-
cient to fill them with torchlight en-
thusiasm.
: The entire convention" proceedings
lasted a half hour. The permanent
headquarters of the executive commit
tee are at Room 1913, Germania Life
building.