The Saint Paul globe., 1904-09-09

Eli S. Warner and his friends have
forced the dominant wing of the Re-
publican state central committee to
capitulate. Warner has won out and
the Republican state central commit
tee has new adjunct in the form of
an executive committee.
Chairman Conde Hamlin, who has, it
is charged, fought the idea of an exec
utive committee ever since the state
central committee was appointed six
weeks ago, fell into line yesterday and
named the committee. Eli Warner is
the Fourth district member.
incidentally it is semi officially de-
clared that the printing of the state
central committee will be divided
among two large printing firms of st.
Paul, instead of going exclusively to
one.
In dividing the printing at the dis
posal of the committee the committee
itself came near to disruption. For
weeks friends of Eli S. Warner, the
active manager of a big printing con-
Germ, favored the idea of an executive
committee to have actual charge of the
Dunn campaign.
Chairman Conde Hamlin was appar-
emily satisfied with conditions as they
then existed. He felt competent to
manage the campaign with the casual
assistance of his fellow committee
men, most of whom reside so far from
st. Paul that they could not cenven-
iently come to town oftener than once
a month. But the friends of Warner
were insistent, and when Joel P. Heat
wole threw his strength to Warner and
n 6nrea 6nl l,ot
tee be named and that Warner be made
a member of it, the chairman capitu-
lated.
The first demand of the insurgents
in the central committee was that
Warner be chairman of the executive
committee. They cited the precedent
of two years ago when Robert Jami-
son was chairman of the central COM
mittee and ]. A. Martin was chairman
of the executive committee, and said
that the unprecedented results of that
campaign were largely due to a divi-
sion of the labors of the canvass among
practical politicians.
Hamlin Couldn't See 1t
The chairman baked at this proposal
and refused to bulge. He held on
hard, and while he lost out on the gen.
eral proposition not to have an eXecu-
tive committee, he won his point
against Warmers chairmanship aspi-
rations, and Mr.. Hamlin is chairman
eX-officio of the executive committee,
with w. E. Verify, secretary of the
general committee, as secretary ex-
offlcio. Eli Warner is, however, the
representative of the Fourth district
on the executive committe, and there
are honorS all around-With divi-
sion of the printing in prospect
me new executive committee was
named by Chairman Hamlin yesterday
at we'll attended meeting of the COM
mittee. held at the Dunn headquarters
in the Manhattan block. The commit
tee was in session but a short time
when the personnel of the executive
committee was announced. 1t was, as
expected, purely Dunn committee,
w. ii. Grimshaw, S. III. Lord nor J. P.
Funk, of LIE Sueur, not finding a place
on the important subcommittee Grim
shaw and Lord are popularity supposed
TO be more friendly to Senator Clapp
than any other candidate on the state
ticket and Funk is the personal repre-
sentative on the central committee of
State Treasurer Block. Kay Todd.
Judge Jaggard's man on the commit
tee, also failed to arrive. The new
committee by districts is: First. Soren
Peterson, Blooming Prairie; Second, E.
L. Smith, Jackson; Third, T. M. Paine,
Glencoe; Fourth, Eli S. Warner, ST.
Paul; Fifth, James A. Peterson. Min
neapolis; Sixth, Nelson D. March.
Iitchfield; Seventh, J. N Tompkins.
Redwood Falls; Eighth, Mile Bunnell.
Duluth, and Ninth, "A. D. Stephens,
Crookston.
The appointment of James A. Peter