The representative., 1900-04-05
A DOUBLE HEADER.

Mfd-ROad State Convention Must De-
eide Which Is the Dog and Which Is
the Tail.
last Tuesday held two county conven-
tions and elected two sets of delegates
to the state convention of April 5.
Each convention elected three dele
gates, six in all, to the state conven-
ton, whereas Hennepin county is only
entitled to three delegates.
1t is expected that the state conven-
ton will be called upon to determine
which is it, which three delegates
rightfullly represent Hennepin county,
or, r,Figuratively speaking, which is dog
and which is tail. -
An election contest seems to be on,
and whether mountaineers will figure
in it's settlement according to Kentucky
customs is not yet certain.
The causes of the complications we're
as follows:
BY an oversight the call for county
primaries, published in the Representa-
tive March 8, omitted to name the hour
for holding the county convention and
this omission furnished opportunity for
factional activity, perhaps we might say
offensive partisanship, we would hardly
want 20 say political skullduggery. In
event of no hour being named for such a
political convention, few if any preced-
ents could be found for calling the con-
vention earlier than, 10 O'Clock, and it
certainly would be a. very unusual pro-
ceeding to transact the entire business
of convention tand adjourn sine die
at quarter before 10 o'clock.
Anti-breakfast. conventions, we be-
lieve, are not destined to become exceed
ingly popular with Pppulists, and seem
open to the same objection as all other
snap Judgments. Populists believe in
an open field a fair fight and majority
rule, which can never be realized where
few early birds gobble everything in
sight and hastily adjourn to the shad-
ows. ..
pin county's early risers, with singular
unanimity as to time and purpose,
came together at the early hour Of
o'clock, a. m., quickly organized, with
S. M. Fairchild as chairman, and after
a rapid shuttle of credentials by viva
voce vote, H. B. Fay, S. M. Fairchild
and G.. w. Day we're declared delegates
to the state convention and at 9:45 u.
m. this early convention had caught it's
catch and flown, adjourned without day.
(Mr. Day was not present, took no part
in the proceedings and the honors were
forced upon him nolens volens.)
At few minutes before 10 O'Clock
other delegates began to assemble, be-
lieving 10 o'clock the proper hour and
never suspected snap judgement had
already been taken against them.
Learning at the Representative office
the action of the ante-breakfast conven-
ton, and that they were barred from the
play, organization was effected and ad-
journment taken to 2 o'clock p. m.
During adjournment inquiry was
made as to the whyness of the how, sew
eral of the ante-breakfast delegates were
asked to participates in the after din
ner exercises, all of whom, except one,
refused the invitation.
With snap judgment taken by SO
few POpulists at the early morning ses-
sion the majority of Hennepin county
Midroaders were unwilling to brook
such spirit of unfairness, and at 2
o'clock proceeded to elect as delegates
to the state convention Capt A. H. Mel
son, Judge ]. A. Temple and E. A..
Twitchell.
Snaps often prove bad investment.
POpulists admire fairness even in poll
tics. Both conventions were character
lied by perfect harmony, not one word
Of wrangling, and it's to be regretted
that both conventions could not be
made one. The Representative does not