The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-21
WHEN CHARLESA. TOWNE
DEFEATED 0. D. KINNEY
Held Monday July 1884, Was Historic
Event-Politca Map of st. Louis County Was Changed
and Courthouse Scrubbed Top to Bottom.

Baker, R. G. Mckinley, c. E. Lovett,
Aug. Lofgren, H. H. Salmon.
A committee to name delegates to
the legislative committee included
Geo. R. Laybourn, J. C. Jackson, J.
B. Ellis, Bert Marshall and ]. H.
Norton.
The convention then adjourned
until p. m.
It was 1885 p. m. when chairman
Cant called the delegates to order.
The air was filled with expectancy,
tobacco smoke and the odor of per-
spring delegates.
Delegates to the republican state
convention were selected as follows,
viz:
O. P. stearns, M. O. Hall, c. S.
Doolittle, J. G.. Hammond, J. w.
Reynolds, E. G.. Swanstrom, j. A.
Gray, Samuel Meniece, DR.. Vespa-
sian Smith, c. Tremblay, J. G. Nc
Grew,'F. w. Lonegren, R. c. Nit
chell, H. c. Kendall, A. H. Burke,
Frank Burke, Jr., P. J. Borgstrom,
Anthony johnson, J. B. Cotton, Bert
Marshall, H. w. Pearson, J. H. La
Vague, DR.. Stuart Bates, Joseph Sell
wood, James Dingwall, J. w. Falk,
John Gulbranson J. H. Armstrong,
Paul Sharvy, Thomas Clark, Gustav
Swenson.
On report of the committee, legis-
lative delegates were named as fol-
lows, viz:
G.. E. Arbury, L. M. Willcuts, John
G. Cohoe, G. Tremblay, Fred Davis,
H. H. Salmon, John Owens, G. w.
Hoyt, James LeMaighan, A. N. Hop
kins, J. H. Nordby, Bert Marshall,
E. A. Schulze, e. D. Baker, R. G.
Mckinley, L. H. Whipple, O. W..
Baldwin, J. E. Myers, William Getty,
w.. B. Peck, H. R. Spencer. c. F.
Johnson, w. A. Cant, J. G. Jackson,
H. T. Dinham, o. Hills.
Nominations for county officers
then were announced as being in
order. On motion of J. A. Boggs the
order of business was adopted and
nominations for clerk of the court
called for.
J. B. Cotton nominated D. j. Sin
clair, the incumbent at that time.
| J. G.. Jackson put up John Owens.
J. H. Norton named Capt. J. R. Ran
dali G. S. Stephenson presented the
name of w. N. Shepard. The con-
vention had 1913 delegates, therefore
IS votes were necessary to a
choice.
Three ballots we're required to
nominate John Owens who received
an even majority Of 65 votes at
about 9 p. M, after which he de-
livered a rousing speech of thanks.
Judge Carey brought out L. H.
Whipple for treasurer. James A.
Boggs put up J. P. Johnson. G. E.
Lovett presented E. J. Crossett who
then held the office. Mr.. Nolte
named w. B. Welles.
L. H. Whipple won out by 67 votes
on the first ballot, Johnson receiving
38 votes, Crossett II and Welles II.
J. w. Reynolds named George E.
Arbury for county attorney. c. S.
Stephenson presented John E
Davies. j. H. Norton put up R. P.
Edison. J. B. Cotton brought out
w. C. McAdam.
Arbury was nominated on the first
ballot by rs votes, Davies receiving
AZ votes, Edison and McAdam 2.
Paul Sharvy, then sheriff, having
received the double cross, as we'll as
being linked up with the losing Kin
ney faction, refused to let his name
go before the convention for renom-
nation. w. w. Butchart was nom
mated by someone not now Of rec
ord and H. C. Kendall was pre-
! scented by the ubiquitous w. E.
Wright. H. M. Myers had G. E.
Lovett for a sponsor. E. M. Patter.
son was put up by G. F. johnson
and Matt Noble by Mr.. Niles.
The nomination went to w. W.
Butchart on the second ballot by a
vote of 50.
! Next came a spirited tussle for
auditor in which Odin Halden led
| 0dCu IluSs Ou Luc 1dSI UoAAOI 1CCOAV-
ing 90 votes as.against Is for Geo.
N. LaVaque, IA for Olaf Stenson
and 8 for John H. Nordby. Halden,
Stenson and Nordby were Sons of
Norway.
Louis A. Larson nominated G. J.
Dahl for register of deeds. John H.
Norton put up Peter J. Borgstrom.
Borgstrom received 50 votes and
! Dahl 81, q total of 100 votes. This
was two more votes than delegates
in the convention. A wrangle fol-
lowed but, at about 2 a. M, chair
man Cant handed down his famous
decision to the effect that 100 votes
in an 1913 vote convention did not
make the ballot void and that the
ballot as cast was a legal one. The
decision was accepted without dis
pute and still stands.
| Phineas Aver was not slated for
denomination as judge OF probate,
but the popular old Yankee won out
by a vote of SO as against H. R.
Tinkham with s26 votes and j. D,
Holmes with IA.
| w. H. Stultz received the nomina-
ton for county superintendent OF
schools by 68 votes. Ogilvie received