The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-24
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Minneapolis, Mimi, May LIRE
publican delegates from the various
counties of Minnesota met i'm state
convention i'm the Minneapolis Arm.
DRY today. The conventions action
was favorable to Colonel Roosevelt.
He was strongly Endorsed.
The Roosevelt men were i'm com
plete control of the republican state
convention, the old guard having Civ.
Ell up the fight early i'm the day.
Chairman f. r.. Smith did not even
call the convention to order, dele
eating this honor to Assistant Sec
rotary of State Larson. n tr
Frank B. Kellogg has withdrawn
for reelection as state committee
man and |. A. Caswell of Anoka,
state manager for Roosevelt, will
succeed him.. fr"
Haycraft Temporary Chairman.
State Senator Haycraft acted as
temporary and permanent chairman
and his mention of Roosevelt arous
ed great applause. '"-'
The slate for delegates at-large To
the national convention includes ia
cob r. Jacobson, Madison; Senator
G. l.. Hanson, Ada; o. ]. Larson,
Duluth; Milton ID. Purdy, Minneapo-
lis: Senator M. e. Clapp. st. Paul.
The convention unanimously in
dorsed ]. A. Caswell as Minnesota's
member of the republican national
committee late this afternoon. The
election is made by the republican
national convention meeting i'm Chi
cago in June. ." -.
Baltimore, May 16.-Maryland's
democratic state convention was call
ed to order here today, with the
Clark delegates in control. Clark won
over Wilson in the state primaries
held ten days ago, and tOday's con-
vention is for the purpose Of ratify-
ing the popular vote and adopting
platform.
Clark Favorite in Iowa. .,
Burlington, Ia. May 16.-To the
tune of the "houn dog song the
Clark delegates, assembled here this
morning confident that they will be
in full control of today's state demo
cratic convention. Representative
Jameson, who has been in charge
of Speaker Clark's campaign in this
state predicts that on the first bal
lot Clark will have better than two
thirds majority. The fight in Iowa
has been between Clark and Wilson.
The convention will have 1902 votes,
but has far more delegatess, as In
many counties double and triple
delegations were named. Iowa will
send twenty-six delegates to the
Baltimore convention. q. ..
West Virginia For Roosevelt.
Huntington, w. Va, May 16-West
Virginia's six delegates at large to
the national Republican convention
at Chicago will be named by the
state convention opened here today,
and will probably be favorable to
Col. Roosevelt. In addition, the con-
vention today will nominate candi-
dates for judge of the supreme court
of appeals 1t is expected that one
of the first moves in the event of a
Roosevelt victory will be the depos-
ing of former Senator Nathan B.
Scott as national committeeman
Little Rock, Ark, May 16.-Con-
gressional district conventions to
nominate republican candidates for
congress and elect delegates to the
republican national convention will
be held today in the First Arkan-
sas district at Paragould; the
Second district. at Newport; and the
Fourth district, at Mena. The Sixth
district convention will be held at
Pine Bluff on Saturday. Conven-
tions have already been held in all
tho ntbar districts of hrkansas