The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-15
Slate GIVEN AN AWFUL RAP;
UNFAIR TACTICS ARE CHARGED;
RIFT IN THE DEMOCRATIC Lutte
From Saturdays Daily.

1 FROM saturday J)any.
The democratic county convention
was called to order this forenoon a
the city hall by c. o. Daley in tn
absence of Chairman A. r. Pfau, Jr
and Harry w. Nolk, the secretary o
the committee. read the call. The pur
pose of the convention was to choOs
| fifteen delegates to the democratic
state conventin at st. Paul May Ia
and to designate member of thu
state central committee.
A good deal of difficulty was hat
in getting anybody to serve as chair
man. \ c. O. Daley, George Keith, II
Zimmerman Jr., Frank Simon of Ma
pleton, T., B. Murtaugh of Madison
Lake. Finally Mr.. Daley was elect
ed and accepted. Mr.. Volk was re
elected secretary.
The following committee on creden
tials was appointed: George Keith
Frank Simon, T. B. Murtaugh, Nj. j
Ryan and F. H. Griffin.
The resolutions committee consisted
of S. d. Works, A. J.. Neigel, Manuel
Mace, Fred Alderman and H. A. Pat
terson. ..
Robert Madigan, Adolph Lille and
Henry Pagel were appointed com
mittee OH permanent organization.
Senator Works moved that where
no primaries were held any persons
present from there consult with the
credentials committee and fill in the
delegations, and this was carried.
Adjournment was taken until one
o'clock this afternoon, to allow the
committees to prepare their reports
and some delegations to arrive.
List OF Delegates.
The committee on credentials pre-
pared the following list of those en-
titled to seats in the conventions:
Mankato-First Wards. B. Martin,
G. A. Diebach, Joseph Hampl, Philip
Hodapp, Dan Coughlan, J. A. Williams,
f. Stein, F. Kiffe ST., +. j. Mettler.
\ Second Ward-Nic Petersen, ]. P.
Theissen, Ed. Cousandier, H. f. Leon
ard, Fred Mahowald, Henry Fricke,
Joseph Stahl, George A. Albert, T. NJ.
Cou9hlan, Conrad Mayer, III. Himmel-
man Jr.
Third Ward-J. C. Thro, M. L. Fail
lenstein, f. j. Hoerr, Charles L. Tay-
lor, August Zimmerman, Clement
Schroeder, George Copp, M. w. AL
worth, E. J. Zimmerman.
Roemer, A. r. Pau Jr., C. o. Daley,
w. l.. Comstock, III. A. Patterson, An
drew Anderson, r. E. Brown, NJ. r.
Abbott.
! Fifth Ward-John C. Wise, S. D..
Works, c. III. Griebel, P. H. Jordan,
Hans Jorgensen, H. S. Alleman, Thomas
Sixth Ward-A. Lille, Jacob Hoy, c..
A. Mailman, Dighton Little.
Mankato Township4-A. l.. Veigel,
John j. Miller. George Hodapp, William
Witrock, j. H. Swickhart, George W..
Haigh.
Mcpherson = Hubert Bruels, John
Shea, Fred FrantZ.
st. Clair-Charles OConnor, H. Sher
lock- s
Jamestown-R Robert Madigan, J. j..
J. A. Miller, A. Baynes.
Garden City-Frank Fairchilds, A.
NJ. Kendall, w. Chutes, ID. L. Camp
bell
Decoria-F. Wilder, Martin Bowe,
George Painter, S. j. Mace.
Lime = Matt .Borgmeier, August
NJ. l.. Wildes.
Sterling-W. w. Taylor, Ole X. Oh
son, f. E. Alderman, George c. Keith.
Danville-J. d. Sullivan, L. P. kauff-
man, j. p. Beck.
Pleasant Mound-A. NJ. Schneeberger,
John Albright, j. E. Urban.
Good Thunder. H. Griffin, Ed.
Flynn, Matt Duff.
Rapidan-W. J. McDufy, F. Bosin,
F. Bosin Jr., w. A. Just, Charles
George Yaeger.
Mapleton Village = Henry Pagel,
James p. Emerson, Joseph H. Dobie,
Jacob Busch, Frank X. Simon, Al,
bert Krengel.
Madison Lake-T. B. Murtaugh,
Louis J. Elder, p J. McGrath.
NIapleton Township = John Raben-
horst, A. j. Knight, Charles f. Jones.
LeRay-E. Renstrom, August Loef-
fer, NJ. J. Ryan, Joseph Stagmeier.
John Mcnamara.
Vernon Center Township Charles
Fleming, G. Z. Francis.
Afternoon Session.
This afternoon the first thing done
by the convention was to receive the
report of the committee on creden-
tials,. which was adopted. The Com
mercial club room was well filled with
delegates, but the proceedings were
almost drowned out by the noise of
4 load of coal being unloaded just
under the open windows, not to men
ton the roar of the street cars, the
,hoo choo of the automobiles and the
rumble of traffic over the brick pave
ment.
A recommendation that the dele
gates present cast the full vote of the