The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-16

OfStCQ QsE 1tBC ENEk1ssOisN0sfS
of Ramsey County and Adopt
ed After a Protest.
While the white dove of peace how
cred over the assemblage Of Repub-
lieans gathered at Federation hall yes
terday to select delegates to the con-
gressional district and state conven-
tions, the bird knew better than to
light. The harmony that was appar-
ent to a casual observer was merely
a covering to the real situation, and
it only needed a spark to light the
magazine and blow the dove and
everything else into limitless space.
The convention chase A !. w. Lyman,
president of the Lincoln club, as Its
chairman, and Oscar Hallam made the
motion by which Lyman was nominal
ed. 1t was the graceful thing, for
Ha1lam had been a candidate for the
place a few moments before he was on
his feet to place Lyman in nomination.
The reason for this sudden withdrawal
was said by the Collins men in the
convention to be desire on their part
to avoid a contest; the Dunn men said
that they had counted noses and SO
had the Collins men, and the result was
that Hallam quietly got out of the way
for Lyman, who was the choice Of the
Dunn men from the start. Theodore
Gronewald acted as secretary.
Resolutions Cause Trouble.
Then the resolutions proved subject
for some objection. Oar F. Reese Of
fered the resolutions, and he admitted
they were written by United States
Marshal w. II. Grimshaw, Of Mime
apolis. The resolutions were so YER
bose that they were almost absurd, and
they lost nothing in the reading
Reese's sonorous voice played with the
adjectlves employed by the writer un-
til every one was laughing when he
should have been bowling with enthu-
siasm for Roosevelt, whom the resolu-
tions put on pedestal, and the dele
gates to the Chicago convention were
instructed in iron-elad terms. to, vote
for him. Thomas Cochrane offered a
vigorous protest to the Minneapolis
federal officials resolutions and the at
tempt by a county convention to In
struct delegates at-1arge from the state
to the national convention, but he was
silenced after an effort and the pro-
gramme as mapped out went through
without further interruption.
4 Instructed for Rogers and Kellogg
e.
/ The convention, as was q foregone
conclusion, instructed its delegates to
vote in the district convention for b
G.. Rogers and f. B. Kellogg as dis
trict delegates to the Chicago conven-
ton, to give the places as alternates to
Washington and Chisago counties and
instructed its delegates to the state
convention to vote for Senator'S Nelson
and Clapp, Gov. Van SAINT and Thomas
Lowry as delegates large from Min
nesota.
Then Oar Reese offered the resolu-
tons. In prefacing their reading, he
said they were written by Marshal
Grimshaw Grimshaw Is federal Of
ficer. and the recent declaration from
President Roosevelt ordering his sub
ordinates to keep their hands off the
conventions was evidently taken for
what it is worth. They declare: I'VE
unuualifiedly, unequivocally and ire
vocably indorse the administration OF
Theodore Roosevelt" and I'VE instruct
our delegates to the national conven-
ton to vote for President Roosevelt
continuously until he is nominated"
Questions Right to Instruct.
Thomas Cochrane said he favored
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struct delegates at large how to vote
He thought that was more properly
the work of the state convention which
elected them. He also objected to the
source Of the resolutions. Reese ex-
plained what the resolutions really
meant. and he was asked to read them
a second time. Then the delegates
Joined in cries of mol" when Coch-
rane moved to strike out the part OF
the resolutions which instructed the
state delegates how to vote. and Reese
read the resolutions a third time.
After hearing the final sentence and
getting it's import extracted from the
yerbiage, Cochrane withdrew his OBJ
iections. and the resolutions as intro
dueed were adopted. A substitution
of "Ramsey'' had in the meanwhile
been made for "Hennepin" in the reso-
lutions as originally presented.
Convention Delegates.
Delegates were then chosen for the
district and state conventions. the
chairman of each ward delegation sub
hitting the necessary lists of names.
There are a total of Sixty-three dele
gates for each convention, with four
delegates at large. There was some
trouble in selecting the latter, but
finally Chairman Lyman, with the as
sistance of many suggestions from the
managers of the rival factions, agreed
on a list. The following are the dele
gates to the congressional convention,
which will meet at Federation hall this
morning at 10 o'clock:
Congressional Convention.
First Ward-J W Finehout, "A. Porter
son. J. w. Mcmillan, James Pearson,
Dave Hammergren, Christ Elnoahi, u l..
Wagner. c.. ]. Nelson.
Second Ward-W. w. Dunn, Charles
Temmie, Charles Lindeke, 8. D. Downs,
T n Haglund,' Rudolph Paul.
Third Ward-E. O. Wergedahl, H. j.
Smith, Ben Calmenson.
Fourth Ward-F. j. Obst, J. j. Conlin,
C. R. Parker. w. j. Bazilie, ]. w Mason,
T. Fifth IF IVA Ward-D. c. Murray, E. vanish,
H w Richow, NJ. J. Wiley. I. ]. Grone-
Sixth ward-C. w. Douglas. George F.
Dix. Frank Haskell, A. H. Volkmeier.
a Seventh Ward-E. G. Rogers. F. B.
Kellogg G. L. Caldwell, S. P. Spates, L.
G. Fenton, o. L. Taylor, George A Nash,
Thomas Cochran, Fred 8. Bryant.