Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-03-04
10 4 l'ff DULUTH
Demo cratic State Conven.
w ION VIII Convene
! IL. june 22d

AO'VYA08 oCOVu0t $OL Tue 0eeCl0g or the
democratic state central committee
at st. Paul last week =>Zs~:>
The democratic state convention,
which viii select delegates to the ma
tional convention at St. Louis, will
te held in Duluth on June 22d. The
county conventions, to name the dele
gates to. the state convention, will be
held June 11th.. %-.~
There was large representation
when the state committee met at the
Merchants hotel in St. Paul yesterday
afternoon. After selecting the time
and place Of the convention, Mr..
O'Brien, whose experience in politics,
has not extended over more than forty
years. had the newspaper reporters
excluded. He was unmindfol of tne
fact that they could see through plate
glass and hear through open tran
SONS.
Then Frank A. Day of Fairmont-
at the instigation of Mr.. O'Brien.
who said he was responsible
for the motion-moved that
Mr.. Pyle, 1.-THE editor of
the only democratic daily paper In the
twin cities.'' should be as ed to ad-
dress the meeting. The motion was
carried, and Mr.. Day was appointed
committee to escort Mr.. Pyle to the
sacred precincts. Mr.. Pyle was greeted
with loud acclaim when he entered
the room.
The journalist felicitated himself
and the members Of the committee
upon the fact they had been brought
together, and then delivered short
talk uoon POLITICAL affairs az he had
found them during an eastern trip
He spoke highly of G. F.. Murphy,
the new boss of 'Tammany, who, he
said. was man who proposed to fol-
low up the fruits of victory with &C.
tion for the benefit Of the people; he
spoke of former Mayor Low of New
York as a "chilly proposition" and
extolled Mayor Mcclellan as q man
who would be heard from in politics
before many years had passed.
Then he came to the center. He
asserted that Grover Cleveland was
man who would carry New York and
New Jersey. He had been told 30 by
democrats and republicans of every
walk In life and by men who live in
Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans and
other places. As between Roosevelt
and Cleveland, he believed TIE latter
would lie the winner.
! Mr.. O'Brien then secured the floor
and announ ed that Mr.. Pyle ~'swore
no mans collar and asserted that
while for many years it had been
known who controlled the Globe, un-
der the ''new management all
would be different. NJ. Pyle would
dictate the policy, and the democracy
of the state would have. an organ
worthy of the name
Then the fireworks started. G. E.
Vasaly of Little Falls secured the floor
and asked it he could PROFOUND a few
questions to Mr.. Pyle. He was &C.
corded the opportunity.
IA few years ago. said he. 81
assisted a solicitor of the Globe to
place large number of subscribers
on the list, with the understanding
that the Globe would be an organ of
the democrats of the state. The Globe
repudiated the candidate and platform
and maybe I didn't have trouble
ut would be just as logical for the
twelve apostles to elect Judas Iscariot
as their prince as for Minnesota
delegates to tho national convention to
support ..Grover Cleveland as the
nominee for president.
..''I will ask Mr.. Pyle if he will sup
port the platform adopted and the
candidate nominated at st. LOUIS
Mr.. Pyle took the floor again, but
his reply was far from being a direct
one, and the delegates were left in
doubt as to what stand he would take
if his choice Of. candidates and plat
form, did not receive the recognition
he thought 1t should.
L. A. Rosing. the last democratic
candidate for governor, made q few
remarks. He pleaded for reciprocity.
He took pronounced stand against
Grover Cleveland. -. ...s-s, .:
s'Mr Pyle talks Of meeting the
democrats Of the; east. I think they
were parlor car: democrats, and not
gravel train democrats. He didn't
meet the thinking people, who cast
the votes s-- ~~.
Mr.. Rosing insisted that the men
who had made the fight in 1895 and
1900and were alive to the issues of the
day should be the men to take care of
the fight the democracy has before 1t.
The base of representation will. be
one delegate for each i50 votes cast for
Rrvan in 1910 and tvo at 1aroo from