The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-04-17
STATE CONVENTION APRIL IS
Names Of Delegates Who Have Been
Selected In Second District to
State Convention.
From Fridav's Daily.

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ty-two delegates from this state and
they will be instructed for him and
/ him only. He will have the state
convention and every district conven-
ton by. overwhelming majorities. There
will not be enough delegates opposed
to him in the conventions to make a
noise. The victory is complete, as
great as the Taft men had ever dared
to predict, practically unanimous.
The hopes of the La Toilette people
were shattered. Their hopes of
strength in the Fifth congressional dis
trict, Hennepin having gone glimmer-
ing at the primaries Tuesday night,
they still talked of strength in the
Seventh and Ninth, yet every county
in both districts that had reported last
night was for Taft.
Program for Thursday.
When the state convention meets at
Minneapolis next Thursday it will elect
F. B. Kellogg of st. Paul, w. w.
Heffelfnger of Minneapolis and f. b.
Hawkins of Duluth as three of the
four delegates at large. The fourth
will come from either the First or Sec
ond district w. B. Parsons of Vino
ma will have the Endorsement of his
district Two districts in the Second
instructed for Senator F. f. Putnam
and one for Frank Hunt of Mankato.
Cottonwood county instructed its dele
gates not to vote for any one for dele
gate at large who was connected in
any manner with the steel trust"
In the First district every county re-
ported Taft instructions except two
which reported Endorsements without
instructions. Senator A. S. Campbell
of Austin and DR.. ]. Fl. Adair of Owa-
tonna were Endorsed for district dele
gates and will be the choice.
Betz or Somerville.
In the Second district there are
three counties to hear from, one for
Taft without instructions and the rest
instructed for him. T. c.. Collins of
Window will be one of the delegates
and the other will be either +. w. Betz
of Fairmont or George II. Somerville
of Sleepy Eye. ...
In the Third there are three to re-
port, five instructed and one for Taft
without instructions, c. NJ. Buck of
Faribault and G. J. Bradley of Nor
wood received several Endorsements for
district delegates and will probably be
elected.
The Fourth and Fifth districts went
solid with Taft instructions. The
Fourth instructed for w. B. Webster
and G., II. Sullivan for delegates and
the Fifth elected w. II. Eustis and
Otto f. Greeley as delegates.
Eight districts in the Sixth instruc-
ted for Taft, one Endorsed him without
instructions, one elected Taft men, one
gave no instructions, one has not
reported. Senator c. j. Gunderson OF
Alexandria and Senator S. F. Alder
man of Brainard were Endorsed by sew
eral counties for delegates and prob
ably will be elected.
The following is list of delegates
elected in the Second congressional
district, who will attend the state
conventions:
Blue Earth county-George w. Scher-
err r. B. Taylor, F. w. Hunt, Gustav
Widell, S. B. Wilson, G. w. Eichstaedt,
f. NJ. Zuel Paul D. Neff, Ed. Mutt,
John T. Lewis, J. w. Heritage, A. ID.
Crane, George Strong. T. w. Fox, A.
L. Cummins, Brent Robinson, A. c.
Engelbriston, Oscar Healy, John Nor
row.
Brown County-W. w. Smith, r.
NJ. West, H. B. Robinson, J. j. Grimes,
Christ Jensen, B. II. Deters, Joseph
A. Eckstein, DR.. j. p Graft, w. J.l
julius. S. D. Peterson, A. r. Eggens-
perger, Nels Anderson.
Cottonwood County.-A. NJ. Olson, q.
P. Schmit, J. I. Johnson, L. A. Duroc,
J. Fl. Dickman, F. r. Weiser, ID.
Remple, r. C.. Asquith, d. Esau
Faribault County-F. f. Putnam, J.
w. Vance, A. c. Dunn, J. A. Arm
strong, F. P. Brown, John Bett, n. A.
Odell. Fl. w. Buschow, R. L. Mork,
John Gehl, Fl. HI. Taylor, f. Weber,
f. b. Adamson, f. f. Stewart, f. A.
Mairs.
Goodhue County.-F. w. Reichert,
Jens X. Grondahl, William Ericsson,
w. C. Krise, d. c. Sheldon, A. j. Ro-
chue, Nels Stageberg, A. II. Tongen,
o. j. Wing, Frank Baker, j. II. Box
rud, c. A. Rucker, n. j. Bang, Henry
z. Bollnm, C. w. Gress, P. Y. Allen,
p. P. Finstad, Charles .Edstrom, F. n.
Peterson.
Jackson County.-Sam Dahl, i. f..
Lemmers, A. Fildness, Jens Quinby,
Charles Winser, w. G.. MalchOw, ID. II.
Luneberg. A. NJ. st. John, John Fred
rickson, f. T. Smith, o. +. Ditson, ID.
l.. Riley, Andrew Opperud.
Martini County.-E. c. DEAN. F. W.
Betz, b. F. Taylor, William M. Hay,
Frank E. Wade, William Doty, w.
A. Hinton, Z. f.. Lane, F. H. Sperry,
DIR. c. c. McFadden, Paul c. Cooper,
r. w. Stewart, Fred Dorenof.
Murray County.-C. f. Weld, J. ].
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