The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-24
IN THE FOURTH WARD.
This Was the Big Rattle Ground oA
the Day.

This Was the Big Battle Ground On
the Day.
According to statements of the dele
gates elected Willis will have three-hfths
of the eighteen delegates from the Fourth
ward. In but three Of the precincts was
there any opposition TO the Willis dele
cations. The primaries in the First and
Second precincts were given a start by
one of the Schtffmann supporters, and
while the Republican organizer did not
vote he appeared to take considera bic in
terest in the outcome.
In the Ninth precinct a G l o b report
er was unable to find any primary meet
ing place, although calls were made at
every house in the block between Tenth
and Eleventh street, where the cali said
the primary was to be held In the Tenth
precinct no primaries could be found, but
two men who said they had attended
such a gathering annCUnCed that James
Donneliy Jr., had been @ected.
In the Twelfth precinct there were two
primaries al the start, but after half an
hour the one which started at College
avenue and Wabasha streets was merged
into the one at the Colonnade, which
place was given in the official call. At
8 o'clock j. b. Pewters and 0. B. Rob-
ertson moved the primary from the Col
onnade hotel to WabaSha street and Col
lege avenue, and for half an hour held
forth at that location. Under Instructions
from r. w. Bell the primary then ad-
journed to the ColOnnade, where D. H.
Garter and John Feeley had been taking
in votes since o'clock James COrmican
was installed as one of the judges in
place of d. FL. Carter and the game went
on. The result was that James II. Hick-
ey and W. Ii. Mcdonald, the WhitcoInb
delegates, received AZ votes against q for
o. 3. Robertson and j. 3. Pewters Mr.
RohNrtSO11 la Sf tbut ha
would contest the seats of the Whitcomb
delegation although he was q Whitcomb
man from the start.
In the Eleventh precinct there were two
primaries in the same building. Edwin
Dahl, the Whitcomb delegate, occupied
the rear portion of the building on Thir-
teenth street with Mat Broos and George
Walker as judges and around the corner
on Jackson street James Strain and ).
EfrOn opened a primary with r. w.
Richardson as a Willis delegate. Both
! primaries closed by common agreement
! at $50 and a count of the ballots showed
| that Sc votes had been cast for Dahl and
so for Richardson. Mr. Dahl announced
| that he was going to have the seat in the
| convention as the primaries at which his
| ticket was voted for was the only legal
one, the other having been organized
! after the Willis crowd has been defeated
! in choice for primary officers.
oscar IankenOn was created with haV-
ing started the Willis primary, but this
was denied by Mr.. Tankenon, who said
he had nothing to do with it.
There was, as expected, some skull
dugsery in the Third precinct of the
ward. Although the heelers Of the pre-
cinct had decided the nj At before to hold
the primary elsewhere than at the adver-
tised location, as was shown by the in
structions to the police conspicuously
published in the G l o b yesterday, was
not until a few minutes before yester
day afternoon that a notice was posted
on the McQuillan block entrance stating
that the owner of the building had re-
| fused to permit the primary to be held
there and it was removed to 352 Minne
sofa street.
Here George Armstrong and some 9th
ers organized primary and voted a lot
OF negroes before five o'clock, and VIII u;
JOHN Wagener and some other Democrats
arrived on the ground at the appointed
time, they proceeded to organize priIn-
airy in compliance with the forms of the
law and accepted the votes of qualified
voters. George Nicholson was the dele
gate elected by the regularly organized
| primary.