The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-12
CHARLES B. CHENEY.
a Staff Corrssoondant.

GIom Staff Correspondent.
Jamestown, N. D., July 12.-The or
ganlzation slate was all framed up, and
delegates, at clock yesterday after
noon. It was the quickest time on
record. 1t usually takes until the wee
small hours Of the morning to settle
all the details.
The slate was agreed to by the lead
ers in the afternoon, and the word was
come in and ''sign up For two hours
there was a constant stream of dele
gates into the room where Chairman
J.. B. Hanna and Secretary Jewell Of
the state committee held the list They
were assisted by J. w. Foley, secretary
to Governor Sarles and author of the
famous "fonetic'' poems of boyhood.
On account of the unit rule every dele
gate was asked to sign for himself, and
they came to the scratch without hesi-
tation.
The slate which they agreed to sup
port in today's convention is given
above. .... "a
stockwell's Men Balky. @ts
The only possible break in this slate
was with reference to Stockwell. With
two exsseptions;,, the seventeen delegates
opposed to sarles, and they were un-
willing to sign the slate. Word was
sent that if they did not sign, Stock
well would have to be dropped and
some other name substituted for state
superintendent.
The Ward county delegation was in
clined to be ugly because Alfred Blais-
dell was switched from lieutenant gov
ernor to secretary Of state, and some
threatened to kick over the traces. Part
of them signed, and the delegation was
asked to, pick a candidate for railroad
commissioner to succeed J. Christianson
Of McHenry county, who lost his county
late in the afternoon and agreed on
John W. Moore Of Bowbells. At the
last minute, however, Westby Of Pierce
county was substituted The Ward
county men have not signed Individual
ly, and part may break away.
The Marshall men from the fourth
judicial: dis trict signed without a MUIR
impression on Walsh and Ward, and
three from Eddy county came into the
insurgept camp quite unexpectedly. De-
velopments Of the day were to some ex-
tent favorable to the insurgents, and
the. organization is working on closer
margin than it had expected.
to Sign, and Wells had not reported up
to 5 o'clock. Basing their figures on
additional signers from Wells. Penn
bina and Walsh. the machine leaders
last evening estimated minimum Of
800 votes for the slate in the conven-
tion.
May Name Fisk Yet.
The slate. seems to have made fruit
less the effort to name Judge Fisk of
Fargo to Judge Young's place on the
night that Judge Engerud of Fargo, the
other associate justice, had given it
out that he would resign in the event
of Knauf's nomination. 1t was also
rumored that Knauf, who comes at the
end of the ticket, will be thrown down
for Fisk at the last minute, and that
he has only been included because it
crat on the slate.
johnson Leads Insurgents.
NJ. N. Johnson of Petersburg, for.
mer congressman, will receive the votes
of the insurgents for governor:
B. F. Spalding of Fargo, George B
Winship of Grand Forks, H. T. Hedge
sen of Morton, and other leaders of the
insurgent movement who are directing
affairs here, are not candidates for Of
fee, and about the only man the insur
gents could unite on for governor, who
was we'll enough known, was M. N
johnson: The reason the others were
not eligible is that they renounced all
aspirations to office when they started
the movement last fall They did sc
in order to kill the argument that il
was merely a gang of "outs' hungry
for office, and claiming to be reform
ers
NJ N. johnson says they are bound tc
win next time. They will force a di
rect primary law thru the Legislature
next winter, and get the issue before
the voters direct. They will not bolt
this year, but will take their medicine
and support the ticket. .-... Z"
Governor Davidson of Wisconsin SEN
the insurgents telegram of sympathy
which was read at their caucus Tues
day night. He congratulated them OF
the great showing they had made il
such short time, and told them it hat
taken ten years to win in Wisconsin
With such start they were sure O
ultimate victory. :.... -.g
Delegates Beribboned.
There are some lively scenes on th
streets of Jamestown. Regulars and in
surgents get into joint debates FIRE
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