The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-11
FARGO VOTERS HAVE
A VERY BUSY NIGHT
North Dakota Republicans Are
EIecting National Conven-
ton Delegates.
PROBABLE DELEGATES.

~ EiFSI FAtS%dn0eT MCNenZie y
Second. DIR. H. M. Wheeler
Third. ............L. B. Hanna
Fourth. ...,.....P. j. McCumber
= Fifth. Knauf q
o Sixth. ...............B. Prom
Seventh .....H. C. Hansbrough
T Eighth. ...-....- Maj. Murphy q
80 49, u
with total Democratic, Re
publican, Socialist and scattering-of
only 1900, the Fargo Republican eau
cuses to select delegates to the county
convention, held Monday night, were
attended by total of 100 voters"
said a North Dakota politician at the
Windsor last night, and the result
was the hottest political mixup ever
witnessed in state that has seen
some notable battles in the Republican
ranks.
THE finish gave neither side de-
cisive victory, but the result in the
county at large gives the anti-Ken-
nedy faction in the party a majority
of some twenty-five. The convention
IS to be held Thursday, and the anti
Kennedy crowd claims a working ma
jority Of proportions that will give
them no trouble in controlling the con-
Vention
In the city the eaucuses produced
the liveliest feeling, and when it is
considered that almost so per cent of
the total voting strength Of the city at
its maximum turned out, the closeness
of the contest is remarkable. The Ken
county convention and the anti-Ken-
nedy crowd will have 80 delegates.
While the Kennedy faction won the
city by the margin of half a vote, the
country districts of Cass county went
against them and E. Y. Sarles will
have majority, it is claimed, of about
70 In the county convention when it
meets tomorrow, and the convention
VIII instruct for Sarles and Spaulding.
Kennedy Against Mckenzie.
The fight in Cass county on its sur
face was made by the friends of Con-
gress 6Spalding, who did not want to
divide instructions with SarIes. The
true inWardness of the fight, however,
is SAID to have been a contest between
jim Kennedy, of Fargo, and ALEC"
Mckenzie, of Bismarck, as to who
shall be national committeeman for
North Dakota during the next four
years.
THE Kennedy crowd is said to have
been for Lewis for governor and Han
ma Tor congress early in the game, but
finally pinned its faith to SpaIding
for congress as being the strongest
man with the people, and to have land
ed as supporters of Gov Frank White
for denomination. Sarles had been
at Fargo for week or more before
the caucus and he and his friends claim
that the result of the Cass county con-
Ventlon will practically determine the
issue in North Dakota in his favor.
McKenZ1e's stock for national commit
teeman has also risen many points.
Cass county has the largest dele
cation in the state convention. and
Grand Forks, which is also well I'D
towards the head of the list in number
of delegates, has declared for Cooper
for insurance commissioner and for
Sarles for governor. The primaries in
that county, however, were very light
ly attended.
"Caucuses and county conventions
are being held almost daily in the vari-
Gus counties of North Dakota, and IT is
said that sufficient results Of the pri-
mary gatherings of the Republicans of
the Flickertail state are now known to
indicate with quite a degree of GER
ScAAANJ wiz Will REPRESENT the state IN
the national convention of the party at
Chicago.
North Dakota has adopted the plan
Of making its selection of delegates to
the national convention by judicial dis
tricts. The delegates will gather at
Fargo May IS, and the delegates from
each judicial district will caucus and
Will suggest its choice to the state
convention for its Endorsement Only
once in the political history Of the
state has a state convention rejected
the choice of a district, and this was
one year when the Pembina district
was turned down. The action resulted
in such a storm of protest that 1t has
never since been attempted, and 1t is
highly Improbable that any effort will
be made In the Fargo convention to
| overturn a custom So long established
In the First district it is said that
Alexander Mckenzie will have no on
position and will be the choice of his
district as delegate to Chicago.
DR. III. M. Wheeler, Of Grand Forks,
will represent the Second, or Grand
Forks, district. A three-cornered fight
In his home county was settled in his
favor and he will have no opposition
when the convention meets next We'd
nesday.
ITO L. B. Hanna is conceded the
privilege of representing the Third dis
trIct. lie Is Fargo banker and chair
| man of the Republican state central
committee.
The Fourth district is in doubt.
| Here Porter ]. McCumber, iuniorr
United States senator from North Da-
kota, has a fight on his hands. The
opposition to McCumber is in his home
county of Richland, where faction
has always fought him, and sometimes
successfully. The wise ones in North
Dakota politics, however, express 2. be-
lief that McCumber will win out and
will be allowed a seat beside his COL
league, Senator Hansbrough, in the
Chicago ratification meeting.
John Knauf, a business man of
jamestown, has the call on the place
| assigned to the Fifth judicial district
Knauf has led the fight against Judge
Glaskel for denomination and has
beaten him in their home county. He
= now said to be ambitious to GO to
the Chicago convention. and there is
little or no doubt that the coveted hon.
or is his.
up in the Sixth district, which in
cludes Jud La Moure's Pembina coun-
| ty, b. Prom has the call for the dele
gateship, though Pembina county rec
commended one of Its citizens for the
honor. Prom is a prominent resident
of Milton, Cavalier county, and it Is
claimed for him that he has the place
landed safely.
Senator Hansbrough has no opnosi-
| ton in his home district, the Seventh.