The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-26

publican or Addicks party. His follow
ing now accept the title of Addicksites
without being affronted.
Two State Tickets.
AS a result of the defeat of the Adj
dicks party at st. Louis the Republic
cans had two state tickets in the field,
and the Democrats elected a member
of congress and a governor. The DEM
ocrats also captured the general as
sembly, and Richard r. Kenney was
sent to the senate.
In the campaign of 1898 the two Re-
publican organizations got together in
a fashion and elected DR.. L. Heisler
! Ball as state treasurer, with one or
two other candidates, and a Republi-
can member of congress. The Repub-
leans had control of the legislature of
1899, but Addfcks was again short of
enough votes to elect. The legislative
membership had been now increased
to f1fty-tWo members, as against thirty
before.
There were 113 ballots taken without
result. Addicks raised his strength to
tWenty-one with the help of three
Democratic votes on the last day of
the session. When these three men
had delivered the goods the crowd
forced its way on the floor of the hall
of representatives and there were
I'LL CoIlS VI UOuIIy IdTI1 10 the Cnr6G
men who had cut loose from THEN
party.
It was supposed that Addicks had
other Democrats in reserve, but the
situation became so threatening that no
more ballots were taken, and the ses-
sion came to an end amid great con-
fusion.
But Addicks kept at the work, and
when the summer of 1900 came around
he sent another delegation headed by
himself, to attend the Republican ma
tonal convention in Philadelphia The
Regular Republicans sent their delega-
ton, but the convention decided to re-
verse the action at st. Louis four years
before and seated the Addicks men,
and made Addicks national commit
teeman.
Compromise Agreed Upon.
1t was then announced that Addicks
had declared he would elect two Unit
ed States senators at the session of
the legislature in the following Janu-
uary. The two organizations named
state tickets and for a time it appeared
as If the state would be thrown to
the Democrats.
After much pulling and hauling
compromise was agreed upon and the
nominations were divided.
The entire Republican ticket was
elected and Mckinley and Roosevelt re-
ceived the greatest majority ever roll
ed up for a presidential ticket in the
state. The general assembly was
again divided, though, and when it met
in January, 1901, it was found that Ad-
dicks was several votes short of enough
to elect. The old fight was renewed
with vigor and one ballot only was
taken each day for senators. Addicks
was the candidate for both the long
and the short terms, while the regular
Republicans put up the names of
dozen men. The most that Addicks
could secure was twenty-five votes,
while the Democrats had twenty three
and the seven regular Republicans
stood in a group by themselves.
Addicks' Methods.
Last year candidates for state treas
urer and the state auditor were agreed
upon by both Republican conventions,
and they have just been reelected, but
DR.. Ball, who was renominated for con-
gress by the regular Republicans was
rejected by the Unions. They put up
William Michael Byrne, at the de-
mand of Addicks, and thus it came
to pass that a Democrat is to go to
the next house from this state
Byrne's vote was more than 1900
in the state, as against a few more
than 5000 for Ball.