The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-24
DEMOCRATS PRAISE
RAMSEY DELEGATION
Men From ST. Paul Given Cred.
1t for Holding Convention
From Hearst

Ramsey county's seventy eight stall
Wart Democrats who led the fight
against instructions and against
Hearst delegates at large in the Demo-
cratic convention at Duluth. and who
distinguished themselves by their sue
cessful efforts in defeating both prop
ositions, and, in doing so, earned the
everlasting gratitude of the party in
the state, have for the most part
reached St. Paul on their return from
the convention.
Owing to the lack of hotel accom-
medations, numbers of..the delegates
left Duluth at midnight Wednesday
night on the adjournment of the con-
yention, but the great majority re-
mained for a day in Duluth and on
the lake and reached ST. Paul late last
night. To man they are unanimous
that Duluth had entertained the dele
gates individually and the convention
itself in a manner that could not be
excelled.
1t is a model convention city," said
G. ID. O'Brien yesterday on his return
home, "and had the ST. Louis county
delegation made me temporary chair
man l would have ruled that in the
future Duluth should be the perpetual
place for holding our state conven-
tions. The Duluth fellows were short
sighted, however, and unanimously
voted for Maj. Bowler, and they will
now have to concede an occasional
Democratic convention to st. Paul and
Minneapolis"
MIR. -O'Brien expressed the apprecia-
ton of the thousand delegates to the
convention and the four or five hun
dered men who journeyed to Duluth to
witness it's proceedings.
Duluth's commercial bodies had, in
recognition of the first state conven-
tion of either of the great political par
ties being held in their city prepared
for the convention on a scale which
would not have been thought of in
either of the Twin Cities. Committees
had been named to look after the del.
egates upon their arrival in the city
and to see that they were entertained
while in town. Almost every business
man on the streets, Democrat or Re-
publican, had constituted himself a
host to the visitors and it is doubtful
If any other state conventions dele
gates were given such individual at
tention.
The Duluth Commercial club Tues
day night threw open it's hospitable
doors for meeting of the Demo-
cratic state central committee and
spread an elaborate banquet in it's
Edining hall for the committeeman and a
score or more of prominent. state Dem
ocrats at Duluth for the convention
At the close of the convention on
Thursday forenoon \ the Commercial
/ club again entertained the delegates
with steamer excursion on the bay
and st. Louis river. @
80 . Model Convention Hall
The armory proved to be a model
convention hall The big auditorium's
main floor was filled comfortably by
the thousand delegates, while the bal
cony was reserved for visitors, and a
raised platform at-~the rear of the
chairman'S rostrum was reserved for
distinguished Democrats who were not
on the floor Of the convention The
policing of the convention hall was
excellent. Alfred MacCallum, private
secretary to Mayor Cullom, was SER
geant-at-a and performed his du-
ties tactfully yet fully. That the half
dozen big, burly policemen who were
delalled to prevent any serious disor-
der in the hall were called on but once,
and then through a misconception of
he trouble, is complimentary to-his
diplomacy in q position requiring the
exercise of discretion.
Duluth is aagreat city," said D.
Aberle on his return yesterday from
Duluth. "It is well officered and well
administered. It's police force is more
than commonly effective They are
great big StafWart men, with bony hands
and strong arms, but they yield to per-
suasion when the persuader is in the
rlght. That was a fine sergeant at arms
they had at the Duluth convention, and
he did his duty effectively and we'll. But
my point on the ruling of the chair was
well taken-if not by the chair it.
SELF
Arrangements for the press were
perfect. Telegraph and telephone IA
cllltles were installed for the conven-
1ence of the representatives of the
Twin City and Chicago press, and a
battery of typcwriting machines were
at their disposal. w. E.. McEwen. ed
itor of the Labor World, was at the
head of the committee.
TO Ramsey county belongs the
credit for. saving the day at St Louis.'
said Albert Schaller, the Dakota coun-
ty county senator and one Of that
county's sixteen delegates who stood
squarely with Ramsey, Stearns, Blue
Earth and several other big delega-
tlons in defeating Hearst men for dele
gates at large and in preventing in
structions at st. Louis. "Too much
credit cannot be given to the seventy
eight delegates which Ramsey sent to
the convention" continued Schaller
They were the finest body of men that
ever saw representing a single coJri-
ty in a convention, and in acting as a
unit on every proposition for the good
of the state Democracy they have won
the good will of the people of our sec
ton of the state, and 1 think that of
many other parts of the state, who
were not led astray by the inflated
| Hearst boom.
Credit Properly Placed
Especial credit is due to C. ID.
O'Brien and to T. D., O'Brien. Without
those men in the convention hall the
| convention would have surely been
dominated by Hearst. The formers
speech, in which he rebuked the
Hearst leaders for their apparent ef-
| fort to steal the convention by forcing
through a prepared slate unquestiona-
bly, saved the day for the conservatives.
His speech paved the way for Lind's
appearance on the floor of the conven-
/ ton, and Lind's manly stand, in which
he placed himself in his true light as
a Democrat seeking only his party's
good and its triumph at the polls show
ed the wavering delegates where to
land in the finalvoting. t. d. O'Brien's
work in the convention, his insistence
in demanding roll CALL his refutation
of the charges against him and his as
sociates at the critical moment, and
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