The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-01
CANDIDATES AND
DELEGATES AT SEA
Martial Music and Political Comedy
Keep Ticket Makers in
Good HumOr.

Y6SIerday was DuSy day with the Re-
publican candidate makers, and incident
ally with the Republican candidates. Both
We're about an equal distance from the
shore, but the candidates had little the
better Of it, They had still claims left,
while the delegates, hampered by only
two chances to vote on the right side and
nothing doing in either case, were lost
and frankly admitted it.
The only fights left for the convention
to settle were the contests for clerk of
supreme court and auditor Nearly an
even half of the delegates knew they
were to land somewhere, but with the
absence of the usual trades and leader
ship, they were in the air.
The usual air of mystery pervaded the
Republican councils, and with the gray-
ity of men who really had a momentous
duty to perform, the untrammeled dele
gate wandered about allowing himself
to be button-holed, and sagely shaking his
head, affirmed, IT don't know about
that" which was strictly truthful
In the matter of the grandstand, Hal
den and the Duluth delegation had long
way the best of it. The Third regiment
band had arrived on an early morning
train. The next train from Duluth
brought compact band Of able-boded
rooters, who were met at the station
and with martial music conducted. an
imposing array Of real enthusiasm,
through the streets and past the center
of delegate concourse. When the next
train from Duluth arrived there was the
same band, same parade route and an
additional supply of banners and enthu-
siasn.
AS d matter Of fact, no candidate be-
fore the convention has received the
same enthusiastic home support given
Halden. Duluth is out to land it's man
and theentire Eighth district is behind
the Zenith city in its laudable ambition.
The Duluth people presented their their
testimonials Of good faith and while the
vote-getting value of a brass band is
open to grave doubts, the sincerity of
the Range people and their claim that
after fifty years of organization they
think st. Louis county is entitled to a
state officer is not open to contradiction.
At the Merchants and Windsor 1000 del
egateS and 500 Self-appointed strikers
tried to find out where their respective
candidates were billed to alight while the
band played tWo-steps on the streets.
Not to be outdone by the Duluth con-
tingent, the Ray w. Jones people brought
the Minneapolis Flambeau club with
drum and fife accompaniments over as
sort of a third course to the intellectual
feast furnished by It's chief purveyor,
Sherman S. Smith Jones has not a great
deal of opposition, and the drums could
not De releQ upon to make more than
three out of five votes, but, as an evil
dence of good faith, the Flambeau club
secured the center of the stage and sew
eral flashes Of calcium light.
Jacobson furnished his own music while
Michael J. Bowling and James Larson
were the chief actors in a love feast at
the Windsor buffe<. Ed Young, official
candidate of the eternal thirst society,
demonstrated the evils of strong drink
while Volstead, also of the Seventh dis
trict, gazed with fear and trembling upon
the amazing way of practical politics
from the view of candidate.
Iverson had no band but Reese was
aided and abetted by the musical and
persuasive tones of the Schiffmann-
Sheehan orchestra. The music sounded
good to the delegates who wore able to
tear themselves away from the other
concerts. Everett and Gish hay each
leading roles in amateur political melo-
drama and Block starred a short tour
IN farcial reproduction Of official life
AT O'Clock the several amusement bu-
1eaus closed for the night and Judge Gal
lick went home firmly convinced that
at least three votes had been visibly in
fluenced.
In the meantime the governor of Min
nesota, Conde Hamlin, w. C. Master
man, G. G. Whitney and Joseph A.
Wheelock slipped away from the mad
dening whirl and safe in the sacred pre-
clncts of the governors office Wrestled
with a platform which Marshal VIII
liam Grimshaw warranted to be all wool
and yard wide. Today a committee will
take the platform on the mat and fix
1T as nearly like the Michigan article of
expert lodging as may be and allow
LII delegates to indorSe it.