The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08
SEATING OF CONTESTED DELE
CATIONS CLIMAX OF LONG
CONTEST.
ClAPP AND NELSON ENDORSED
PLATFORM ALSO COMMENDS MA
TlONAL ADMINISTRATION
AND VAN SAINT.
THE TICKET.

Princeton.
For Lieutenant Governor-Ray w.
Jones of Minneapolis.
For Secretary of State - Peter E.
Hansen of Litchfeld.
For State Treasurer - Julius H.
Block of st. Peter.
For Attorney General-E. T. Young
of Appleton.
Fol Justices of the Supreme Court
Calvin l.. Brown of Morris. Charles l..
Lewis of Duluth, Charles B.. Elliott of
Minneapolis, Edwin A. Jaggard of ST.
Paul.
For Railroad and Warehouse Com
missioners-Ira B. Mills of Moorhead,
W. e. Young of Mankato.
st. Paul, July 8. The Republican
state convention nominated Robert G.
Dunn of Princeton for governor by &C
clamation.
The motion to make the nomination
by reclamation was made by James A.
Martin of St. Cloud, the manager of
the campaign Of Judge Loren w. Col
Inns of st. Cloud for the nomination.
And thus ended one of the hardest
fought contests in the political history
of Minnesota.
Held Three Sessions.
The second days session of the %
vention was Gale dto order by Senator
Moses E. Clapp at $50 o'clock yester-
day morning, and on being informed
by the temporary chairman that the
committee on credentials had not
passed on all the credentials, the dele
gates voted tc adjourn until 2 o'clock
in the afternoon.
The committee on credentials had
not finished its work when the after
noon session convened at 2:15 o'clock,
read the report of the committee on
resolutions the delegates were enter
tanned by addresses by Congressman
J. Adam Bede of Duluth n Repre-
sentative w. 1. Nolan and William
Henry Eustis of Minneapolis.
Credentials Report.
It was then announced that the Gre
dentials committee was ready to re-
port. The majority Of the committee
reported for seating the Collins dele
gates from Hennepin, and the minority
reported in favor OF seating the Dunn
delegates. On a motion to substitute
the minority recommendation as to
Hennepin for the majority recon-
mendation the convention by a vote of
622 IL to $40 IL decided in favor Of
seating the Dunn delegates. This was
the climax of the long contest for the
gubernatorial nomination, n the vote
left no doubt that Dunn would be the
nominee of the convention.
The other contests were then rapid
w disposed of. The Collins delegates
from Beltrami and Ramsey were seat
ed and the Dunn delegates from An
Okla, Benton, Cass, Clearwater, Red
Lake, Roseau, S%herburne and TRAY
erse were given seats in the conven-
ton.
The report Of the committee OF per-
manent organization was presented by
Hitler H. Horton of st. Paul. The tenn
porary organization vas made perma-
nent, Senator Clapp chairman, and C.
w. Johnson Of Minneapolis secretary.
The convention proceeded immediate
ly to the nominations. After two a n
didates for the supreme bench had
been placed before the convention it
was decided to adjourn to $3.50 in the
evening, to continue the framing of
the state ticket.
Candidates Are Named.
The convention, when it assembled
last evening, began Immediately the
work Of selecting the state ticket, and
under the rule made by the state GEN.
trail committee the places o nthe su-
preme bench were first taken up
Senator Clapp announced that three
candidates were to be named for JUS
tees of the supreme court for the term
beginning Jan. l, 1906, succeeding
Justices Brown, Lovely and Lewis, and
one candidate for the term beginning
Jan. 1, 1905, succeeding Justice Doug
las, who was appointed when Judge
Collins resigned.