The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-06-14
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STEAM ROLLER;;DULUTH

Duluth, June 7.-Bryan's new con.
verts in Minnesota made an effort to
stampede the Duluth convention to
put in second choice instructions fol
him. They were long on eloquence
but when the matter came to vote
they proved to be a mere handful and
the original resolutions, instructing
the delegates to vote as unit for
Woodrow Wilson until he is nominal
ed, or until two-thirds of the dele
gates agree that his nomination is
impossible, went through with only a
feeble mo" against them.
This was the only fight that de.
veloped in the convention. The coun.
try delegates, aided by Hennepin and
ST. Louis counties, had the steam
roller out ready to fiatten Dan Lawler
and his Ramsey county friends, but
Dan stepped gracefully out of it's path.
way. His name was not mentioned
for delegate at large and when six
others had been nominated he moved
that the secretary cast the unanimous
ballot of the convention for the men
named.
Unanimous Vote the Rule.
The rest of the resolutions, includ-
ing the one endorsing F. B. Lynch for
another term as national committee
man, went through on a unanimous
vote, as did all the nominations for
presidential electors, district delegates
and all alternates.
The resolutions as presented by the
committee and adopted declare for the
initiative, referendum and recall, not
excepting judges; pay eloquent tribute
to the late Governor Johnson and to
w. ]. Bryan; praise the Democratic
house and condemn President Taft
for vetoing the wooden and other tariff
bills; condemn the state senate for
pigeonholing the income tax resolu-
ton and urge the approval of the pro-
posed amendments for the income tax
and for the direct election of United
States senators. The committee had
some debate over the resolutions, but
its report was unanimous.
The election of delegates went
smoothly. The delegates at large
were nominated with some speech.
making, but the names of the district
delegates simply were reported by the
districts and approved quickly. The
alternates and presidential electors
also were chosen quickly.
Settlement of Contests.
The credentials committee decided
to seat the delegation headed by H.
l.. Buck of Winona, throwing out the
delegation headed by l.. l.. Brown.
The committee also recon nended
that w. H. Williams, Clark's manager,
and T. H. Austin of Minneapolis, who
came with proxies, not be seated on
the ground that they had proxies from
men outside of the wards in which
they live.
The delegates at large are: Con
O'Brien, Brainerd; A. G. Weiss, Du
luth; H. F. Weis, lie Sueur; H. L..
Buck, Winona; T. ]. Knox, Jackson;
S. A. StOckwell, Minneapolis.
The district delegates are:
First district. F. Meighen, Albert
Lea; Tom eastman, OwatOnna.
Second-L. l.. Champlain, Mankato;
s. B. Nelson, Luverne.
Third-H. H. Bonniwell, Hutchin-
son; P. H. O'Keefs, South ST. Paul
Fourth-R. T. O'Connor, Otto Brem-
er, st. Paul.
Fifth-E. A. Purdy, J. F.. William
son, Minneapolis.
Sixth. ID. Kowalkowski, st. Cloud;
Joseph Wolfe, Staples.
Seventh. r. Keeke, North Red
wood; Julius Thorson, Benson.
Eighth-Alfred Jacques, Duluth; G.
M. King. Deer River.
Ninth-M. ]. Daley, Perham; Martin
O'Brien, Crookston.