The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-07
CONVENTION THIS WEEK.
The Democrats VIII Nominate City
Officers on Tuesday.

Officers on Tuesday.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug 6.-The Demo-
cratic city convention will be held next
Tuesday. The convention is to be call
ed to order at Normanna hall at 9
o'clock in the morning, ard the various
aldermanic conventions will be held the
same day.
The primaries will be held the even
ing Of Monday, the polls opening at 8
O'Clock, and closing one hour later The
ratio of representation is one delegate
for each fifty votes cast for A T.
Ankeny for mayor in 1896, giving a total
of 3S4 votes in the convention.
The fight for the mayeralty nomina-
ton is still between Holbrook and
Gray. At the present writing the SEN
tlmert seems to be growing in strength
that Holbrook will be the winner. This
belief is much more pronounced since
Holbrook's retirement from the post
mastership, showing that all his candi-
dacy resided was a little personal exer-
tor upon his part.
It is now thought the Democratic
nomination for city comptroller lies be-
Tafeen r. L. Cox, of the city engineers
department, and Frank J. Jungen, with
the chances favoring the latter. For
city treasurer the choice will probably
lie between F. F. Lenhart the wagon
manufacturer of the East side, and
Jacob Stoft, with Titus MERCK a pos
sibility. Lenhart is picked as a. winner
by the WiseacreS.
Tie contest between Messrs. Webster
and Pratt, for the Republican nomina-
ton, bids fair to be the star attraction
of the municipal campaign, and already
some hard work is being done Mayor
Pratt is after a third term, and that
is one of the arguments which will hurt
him most. Many people are not in
favor of the third term idea and will
support anybody else on an occasion of
that kind. In addition to that, the
mayor has a great weakness in the fact
that, as a candidate for reelection, he
will be called upon to defend the in
efficiency of the police department of
the city, as it is managed by Supt
Smith.
A meeting of the Woman's Council
and the Minneapolis kindergarten as
West hotel this afternoon for the pur-
pose of taking action towards forward
ing the candidacy of Mrs. Jennie C.
Crays on the board of education at
the coming campaign. Mrs. Judge
LELAND occupied the chair, and Mrs.
W. B. Leach acted as secretary.
A committee from the Political
Equality club was also present, and
stated that they had just come from
meeting of that organization, which
had indorsed Prof. w. B. West, Of the
university, for one of the nominations
on the school board, as there were two
to be filed. The committee stated fur
Their that the club would do all in it's
power to further the interest of Mrs.
Crays. the present incumbent The in
dorsement of Prof. West had not been
made in opposition to Mrs. Crays, but
to run as a side candidate to her. Mrs.
L. Torrance addressed the meeting, and
said she did not think the council
should indorse a man for the board
but should use all its strength in fur
therirg the interests of Mrs. Crays
After considerable discussion, the meet
ing decided to work for Mrs. Crays
only at all Of the conventions, and at
tempt to secure her Endorsement by
all the political parties.
Upon motion the chairman appointed
the following committee to adopt means
to place Mrs. Crays' name before the
: convention. Mrs. w S. Pattee. Mrs. A.
e. Higbee. Mrs. w. B. Leach, Mrs.