The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-08
PRIMARIES HELD TONIGHT
DEMOCRATS TO SELECT COUNTY
CONVENTION DELEGATES
Sixth Ward Holds Mass Meeting
OF Voters and Chooses n Ticket
Little Likelihood of Contests in
Any of the Wards-Prospeet OF
Complete Harmony--New Feature
in Party Politics.

IN rarity POI1t1cs.
Primaries will be held tonight for tn,
election of delegates to the county con.
venticn, which will elect delegates to
the state convention of the Democratic
party at Minis apolis.
AS things stand there is no likeli.
nood or contests in any of the wards
eHcept Where some of the precinct lsad
ers may think it is due to themselves
TO interfere. 1t is a part of the new
dlspeEsation in the Democracy that
there Is to be no effort made on fha
Part OF the leaders of factions to at
tempt TO dominate, and the conse-
queEce is prospect of complete har-
mony.
The primaries will be held at the
usual places, and when the convention
Is called to order Thursday morning II
IS clear that there will be no sort of
slate for the organization or the dele
gate ticket. The old leaders will. of
course, De present in the capacity of
delegates from their several wards but
they will not interfere with the run
ming Of the convention, which is Likely
To be unique in that 1t will be Differed
by new men. A set of men who have
not hitherto had a part in state poll
tics will probably be sent to M,nneap-
oils.
There will be 12O delegates chosen bv
the county convention to go to the
state convention, and no one has the
least idea of who will head or be the
delegation. If this does not argue a
new condition of affairs then the efforts
that have been made to create a new
party have gone for no hing Thare are
plenty of candidates for place on the
delegate ticket to Minneapolis, and
there will be some vigorous fighting,
but OH entirely new lines and by new
men.
In only one ward in the city has
there been ticket made for delegates
to the county convention. At Justice
Joseph Smiths Office, on South Robert
street, in the Sixth ward, there was d
meeting held last night that was at
tended by representative Democrats of
the ward, and precinct committeeman
and delegates were selected for sub
mission to the voters in the various
precincts. There is no doubt but that
the delegates selected at last nights
meeting will be selected. The meeting
was presided over by Joseph Smith,
and Frank Baer was secretary The
ticket:
First Precinct-John Sullivan, Joseph
Steiner.
Second Precinct-John Hammis, John Nc
Nalv.
Third Precinct-Aaron Marquis, Max Co.
hen.
Fourth Precinct-John Norman, Thos. Ward.
Fifth Precinct-C. H. Bonn.
Sixth Precinct-John Quincy.
Seventh Precinct-John De Bruyn, R. H.
Hare.
Eighth Precinct-william Kelly. J. V. 1.
Dodd.
Ninth Precinct-James Melady, o. Savard
Tenth Precinct-Dan bearing, Lawrence
Fahey.
Eleventh Precinct-Wm. Burke. Frank
Geise
Twelfth Precinct-Wm sauer, j. H. Fey
ten.
Thirteenth Precfnct-C. S. Roberts, Frank
Baer
Chairman Townley will call the con-
vention at Market hall to order, and
that is all that there is known of what
will come off. 1t is likely, in pursu-
ance of the scheme of reorganization,
that a new man will be elected chair
man.
AS to what will be done at Mime
epolis, except the nomination of John
Lind to head the ticket, is doubtful
There is disposition to postpone ac-
ton on the end of the ticket until
later in the year. when the places
might he filed. If fusion is again pro-
posed. it will have a good many sup
porters, and Lind will not accept, ex-
cept on a fusion basis.
Chairman Townley says that it is
likely that Judge CAVITY will be taken
up by the Republicans, and that there
Is every disposition to act in unison
on the judicial ticket. He does not
know that there are any candidates
for the other places on the ticket
There are people who think that be-
cause there is lack of place seeking,
there will not be any interest demon
strated in the county convention of
irr1ot hn ,~0r,,ar T.nd
that there was not much of fight over
the primaries before the recent city
convention, but there have been few
conventions held in the city that were
so well attended and so thoroughly en-
thusiastic.
The disposition Of men who are look
ing for place on the Democratic coun-
ty ticket to keep away from the dele
gate convention is new feature of
Democratic politics that will be appre-
ciated by the new element among the
workers.