The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-24


and something would happen O'Con-
nors influence among the delegates
| ne knows personally hundreds of them
his convincing arguments in favor of
an uninstructed delegation, and his
1 genuine political sagacity were ele-
ments in the Duluth convention that
cannot be overlooked when credit is
pelng given for effective work looking
towards results"
The movement to make O'Connor ma
uonal committeeman for Minnesota
was started Immediately after the ad-
| Journment of the convention last night
and the suggestion found favor with
delegates from many parts of the state
Inc recent Democratic landslide in ST.
Paul had brought Mr.. O'Connor- into
| renewed prominence in every town
where there are Democrats, and mem
uon or his name as a possible candi-
GATE Tor national committeeman
brought out scores of hearty seconds
from men who admire him for his po-
litical skill and loyalty to his party.
Defeat Of Frank Zins
There was but one rift in the lutte of
Satisfaction for the anti Hearst DEM
ocrats when the convention had ad-
Journed, and that was the defeat of
FRANK Zins, of Stearns, as a candidate
/ Tor delegate at large. Zins had been
|
cause of an uninstructed delegation in
his own county and through the north
| ern part of the state. He had been
given clear field for delegate at large
| by the withdrawal of A. c. Weiss. of
Duluth, and Alexander McKinnon, of
| Crookston, but was defeated by H. L.
Buck, of Winona, by the margin of
tWenty-four votes. Mr.. Buck, who is
| not for Parker and possibly not for
/ TKvi6n
throughout the state, gained as chair
man Of the state central committee for
the past two years, and his election is
due, no doubt, to his acquaintance and
| personal popularity and not because of
ms expression of choice for presiden-
| tial nominee.
Il had rather almost anything had
happened than to lose Zins in the shuf-
| he,' said r. T. O'Connor, and he ex-
pressed the general sentiment of the
| anti-Hearst element
Congressman John Lind, from the
| vote received as a candidate for dele
| gate at large, has lost none of his
strength with Minnesota Democrats,
| for he received SO votes more than his
nearest associate on his own ticket
! {. d. O'Brien-76 more than Buck. 95
more than Bennett and 166 in excess
| OF the vote given Pike. Then. too the
influence of the former governor and
| that OF l.. A. RoSing, who had been
active in the PRED convention campaign,
doubtless was of material benefit to
the conservatives ticket before the
convention for delegates at large.
There was talk at Duluth after the
| convention that contesting delegation
| might go to ST. Louis from the Sixth
district. The anti-Hearst delegates, it
was said, did not participate in the dis
trlct convention, and their claim is that
1T was irregular because of the eXclu-
sion from the state convention of the
Cass county delegation. The anti
Hearst men say that with Cass they
would have majority of the delegates
In the district. They declare that the
votes of StearnS, Crow Wing, Meeker
Cass, Sherburne, Hubbard and Wa
dena give them total of seventy four
votes, as against siXty-nine cast for
| the Hearst candidates. Charles H.
Dart, former state senator from Meek
er, and Dr. Werner Hemstead, Of Grow
Wing, are spoken of in connection with
delegateships in case the dissatisfied
element determines to assert itself
| Charles E. Vasaly, of Morrison, and S.
| ]. Mealey, of Wright, are the delegates
chosen at the Duluth convention of the
| Sixth district.
The result in the Third district was
something Of a surprise. There J. w.
| Cravens, of LIE Sueur, and H. H. Gress,
| OF Mortified, were chosen as delegates.
| 1t is said that at a conference of rep
| sentatives of the district in the fore
noon before the convention had been
organized by the Hearst men, a ma
| jority of the delegates had declared
for Harry Weiss, the LIE Sueur banker,
as one of the delegates. When the con-
| VentlOn had organized Weiss became
| frightened and withdrew from the field,
and the result was that Cravens was
chosen in his place, after a number of
| ballots had been taken. d. A. Adams,
| of Hutchinson, was his rival candi-
date.
| Had Weiss remained in the fight to
! the finish he would have been chosen
and would have gone to st. Louis with
clean majority of the delegates of his
way of thinking on the presidential
| question. His friends were much dis
appointed at his withdrawal, especially
| in view Of the result in the big con-
vention.
Hearst Plank Is Lost
The original draft of the report of the
committee on resolutions included an
| unreserved conmital of Minnesotas S
| delegates to the ST. Louis convention
to Hearst. Copies of the report of the
committee We're given out to the news
papers in anticipation of the adoption
| of the report in It's entirety, but when
| the convention escaped from the Lar
rabee leash, and three of the four men
who will constitute Minnesota's big
four in the national convention were
found to be against the New York con-
| greSsman, the Hearst managers at Du-
luth were willing to listen to reason.
c. D. O'Brien walked over to the ST.
Louis delegation and confronted
Charles D'Autremont, their leader, but
personal friend Of the St. Paul man,
though they were radically apart on
| the question that tore the convention
asunder
Don't try to put that Hearst resolu-
ton through this convention, Charley"
O'Brien said to him, for if you make
the attempt you will precipitate a fight
here that will be memorable. We've got
the votes now to prevent their adoption
and we will call upon them to turn the
resolutions down.
D'Autremont conferred with some of
his associates. 1t was pointed out that
it was better to make no effort to in
struct than to offer the resolution and
lose on the floor of the convention, and
the Hearst men then, and there decided
that they would make no attempt to
force resolutions on the convention. In
line with the decision, when Chairman
T. T. Hudson read his report, there was
no reference to Hearst in the resolu-
tions. Had there been there would
have been a bear fight for the anti
Hearst men had absolute control of the
convention that five hours earlier had
vOted for HearSt'S candidate for tenn