The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-29

st. Paul and Minneapolis and they
held conventions outside the halls Of
ficially designated as convention halls
In no less than eight Minnesota
| counties there We're two sets of con-
ventions doing business at the same
time. while in almost every county
convention of the state there was
red-hot floor convention.
Same Story in the Country
Reports from the country tell the
same story with but slight variations;
it was the strong hard rule of the ma
jority with small question of how that
majority was obtained.
The total of delegates who will pre-
sent credentials from rival conventions
is twice 233, and when it is remember
ed that in the recent notable factionai
fight in Wisconsin Republican state
politics there were but I02 delegates
with rival claims to seats, 1t is easily
seen how serious is the situation for
Minnesota Republican politicians to
meet.
In Wisconsin there were contests from
seven counties; in Minnesota eight
contests were reported last night, but
the two biggest counties in the state.
Ramsey and Hennepin, were included
in the list, the former with sixty
seven and the later with 113 delegates
entitled to seats in the convention.
In Benton county, which has been
claimed by the rival candidates ever
since the primaries were held, on
Tuesday of last week, there were two
conventions, the Dunn men leaving
the hall to the Collins crowd; and
both electing a. full set of delegates
Benton is entitled to nine.
Beltrami county, also bone of con-
tention for the past week, wasn't sat
isfied with one convention, and held
two. Each faction claims that it had
a majority of the delegates entitled
to seats and that the other faction is
nothing less than bolter.
In Cass county a bolt was expected.
There two rival county committees
had been at work ever since the state
convention at Minneapolis in March,
and it was almost a foregone conclu-
sion that the old Collins committee
would hold a convention and that the
Dunn committee would do nothing
less.
The same situation prevailed in
Roseau county, the old committee
having been displaced by the recogni-
ton of the Collins committee at the
last meeting of the state committee.
Albert Berg, who is at the head of
the new committee, is for Eddy first,
but will go to Collins on a second
choice-proyided he and his delegation
have the opportunity to vote. County
Attorney Medicraft, who is the Dunn
representative in the county, will
bring down a Dunn delegation and will
demand admission to the convention.
Little is known in st. Paul of the
Traverse county contest. Judge Col
Inns headquarters has been advised
the county went for him, but T he
G b correspondent at Wheaton in
Inmates that the Collins men bolted
the convention because of an arbi-
trary ruling by the chairman
Up to Ramsey and Hennepin
1t is the Ramsey and Hennepin con-
testing delegations, however, that are
expected to swing the convention one
way or the other, and to dictate the
nomination of a Republican candidate
for governor. r. c.. Dunn's managers
were claiming last night that their
candidate had enough votes to nomi-
nate him without any appeal to the
delegations from the Twin Cities Z h e