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COMMITTEE HAS
ROD IN PICKLE
Talk of Punishing Counties Which
Cut Dunn Worst by Reducing
Their Delegations.
Such Action Would Revive Fac
tional Feeling Among Re
publicans of the State.
Men's Suits, Raincoats,
Trousers
The basis of representation for the
republican state convention next year
is an important problem. After the
bitter strife and schism of 1904, the re
uniting of warring elements in G. O. P.
ranks Minnesota will be a delicate
proposition. It so happens that the ad
herents of R. C. Dunn will have the first
action to take. They control the state
committee, and in calling the state con
vention they will either present a basis
for harmonious action, or else revive
the bitter factional feeling that split
the party last year.
It is current political talk that the
irreconcilable Dunn men are demand
ing that the counties which slaughtered
the head of the ticket be punished.
They want the delegates to the conven
tion tfesed on the votes cast for Dunn,
and not the Roosevelt vote. It is usual
to base the representation on the presi
dential vote. The 1898 convention call
was based on the McKinley vote of
1896, and the 1900 convention was on
the same basis. The conventions of
1902 and 1904 were based on the vote*
cast for McKinley in 1900. In presi
dential years there was some talk of
basing the call on the vote for gover
nor two years before, but this was not
done because it would mean a smaller
convention, and cut down the represen
tation of many counties. In off years
there was no question about taking the
presidential vote.
The present republican state commit
tee is almost wholly composed of men
who were Dunn partisans all last year.
All but seven or eight of the 33 mem
bers were appointed at the candidate's
dictation. If they think best, they can
"punish" Hennepin and other counties
which went against Dunn by taking the
Dunn vote as the basis.
Probable Number of Delegates.
The convention last year had 1,178
delegates. Based on the Roosevelt vote
at the same ratiothe next conven
tion will have 1,285 delegates. Based
on the Dunn vote the delegates would
number 974.
Hennepin county cast barely half as
many votes for Dunn as. for Roosevelt.
Based on the presidential vote the coun
ty 's delegation would increase from 113
to 131. Based on the Dunn vote it
would drop to 68. Other counties would
also suffer severely. Freeborn county
would have 17 delegates on the Roose
velt and 13 on the Dunn vote Goodhue
would drop from 23 to 18 Nicollet from
12 to 7 Rice from 18 to 12 Chisago
from 15 to 10 Stearns from 16 to 11
Renville from 17 to 12 Pope from 12
to 9 Clay from 14 to 9 Otter Tail from
24 to 15, and Polk from 19 to 14. The
only thing to save them from worse
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Sold
$5 Suits, $2.50.
$8 Suits, $4.
$10 Suits, $5.
$15 Suite, $7.50.
$18 Suits, $9.
$20 Suits, $10.
$10 Outing Suits, $5.
$12 Outing Suits, $6.
$1 Linen Coats, 25c.
$15 Top Coats, $7.50.
$18 Raincoats, $9.
$1 Pants, 50c.
$2 Pants, $1.
$3 Pants, $1.50.
$5 Pants, $2.50.
50c Overalls, 25c.
$2 Odd Vests, 25c.
$25 Overcoats, $12.50.
$50 Overcoats, $20.
punishment is the allowance of five del
egates at large, which are a constant
factor, and which put 415 delegates in
the convention who are not based on
the republican vote at all.
Delegate-at-Large Force.
this There is no hope of changing
system, which was adopted in 1896 to
decrease the importance of the populous
counties. Before that each county had
but one delegate at large, but Tarns
Bixby evolvea the scheme of five dele
gates for each county when the fight
was on for dough 's nomination. It
worked then and has been clung to
ever since, because the outside counties
always control the state committee, and
are not willing to release their advan
tage. So while Hennepin county cast
25 per cent more votes for Roosevelt
than any other congressional district
the state, it will have less delegates
than almost any other district, even
based on the Roosevelt vote. To put it
concretely, Hennepin county cast 14.5
per cent of the Roosevelt vote of Min
nesota, and 11.2 per cent of the Dunn
vote. Yet by the aid of the delegate
at large device Hennepin will be re
stricted to 10.2 per cent of the state
convention delegates, with the conven
tion based on the Roosevelt vote, and
6.9 per cent if it is based on the Dunn
vote. There were 24 counties in the
state where Dunn ran farther behind,
in proportion to the total vote, than he
did in Hennepin, yet none of them
would be as hard hit as Hennepin by
basing their delegates on the Dunn
vote. Their five delegates-at-large would
stay right with them.
The conventional basis for apportion
ment of delegates by counties, since
1896, is five at large for each county,
and one for every 250 votes or major
fraction thereof, cast for the republican
candidate for president. The following
table shows the number of delegates
each county had in the state conven
tions last year, the number it would
have on the Roosevelt basis, and the
number it would have based on the
Dunn vote:
FIRST DISTRICT.
Hennepin
1902 Con Roosevelt
vention. Vote.
Dodge 11 11
FillmcTO 20 18
Freeborn 17 17
Houston 12 11
Mower 17 it,
Olmsted 16 10
Steele 12
Wabasha ...t 13 14
Waseca 12 12
Winona 18 20
Totals 148 148
SECCND DISTRICT,
Blue Earth 20
Brown 12
Cottonwood 10
Faribault 17
Jackson 12
Martin 12
Murray 10
Nobles 12
Pipestone 9
Rock 10
Watonwan 11
50c White Unlaundered Shirts, 19c.
Monarch, Cluetts, Elgin and Giiffin makes.
$1 and $1.50 Negligees, 69c.
Men's high giade negligee shirts. All up-to-date
patterns.
$1 Negligees, 25c.
Odds and ends of negligees, plam white and fancy
stiff bosoms, high grade makes.
Night Shirts, 39c.
Men's muslin, cambric and outing flannel night
shirts, 75c and $1.00 values.
50c Boys' Shirts, 25c.
Boys' negligee and stiff bosom shirts.
$1 Shirts, 80c.
75c Outing Shirts, 25c.
Men's outing,shirts with soft collar. Percales, mad
ras and flannel.
50c Underwear, 29c.
Men's wool fleeced, camel's hair and ribbed shirts
and drawers.
75c Underwear, 39c.
Men's plain and fancy balbnggan and mercerized
cotton underwear.
$1 and $1.25 Underwear, 48c.
Odds and ends of men's all wool underwear.
Benton 8
Cass 9
Ciow Wing 12
Douglas 13
Hubbard 9
Meeker 1$
Monison 13
Sherburne Stearns
Todd Wadena
Totals
Dunn
Vote
9
15
13 11 12
.13
11 12 10
16
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19 13
11 16 lb
14 11 12 1U 10 11
Totals 135 1
THIRD DISTRICT.
Carver 12
Dakota 13
Goodhue 25
Le Sueur 13
McLeod 12
Nicollet 12
Rice 17
Scott 9
Sibley 12
Totals 125
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98
FOTIRTH DISTRICT.
Chisago 14
Ramsey 67
Washington 17
*$ Totals 98
50c Underwear, 19c. *#&{-
Men's plain and fancy undershirts. "**-*J
FIFTH DISTRICT. 113 181
SIXTH DISTRICT.
10 10
14 14 11 14 1* 10 16 17 10 18
Totals 158
11
10
9
10 12
8
11 13
8
14
9
15 14
9
Wiight 48
Totals 142
Big Stone 9
Chippewa 11
Grant 9
Kandiyohi 14
Lac qui Parle 13
Lincoln 8
Lyon 12
Pope' 12
Redwood 14
Renville 16
Stevens 9
Swift 11
Traverse 8
Yellow Medicine 12
123
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
10 12 10 15 13 10
15 12 14 17
10 12
9
13
9
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11 12
8
9 7
10
172 133
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Aitkin 9
Anoka 11
Carlton 9
Cook Isanti 11
Itasca 8
Kanabec 8
Lake 8
MUle Lees 9
Pine 9
St. Louis 40
10 31
11
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11 12
8 7
11 12
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Totals 127
NINTH DISTRICT.
Becker 12
Beltrami 10
Clearwater 7
Clay 13
Kittson 9
Marshall 11
Norman 11
Otter Tail 19
Polk 16
Red Lake 8
Roseau 8
Wilkin 8
12
13
9
14
9
12 12 24 19
11
9 9
132 153
BY DISTRICTS.
1902 Roosevelt Dunn Differ
Basis. Vote. Vote.
First 148 148 122
Second 135 140 112
Third 125 127 98
Fourth 98 110 79
Fifth 113 131 68
Sixth 142 159 123
Seventh. 158 172 133
Eighth 127 145 123
Ninth 132 153 116
ence.
26 28
29 31
Totals 1,178 1,285 974 311 1,17 8 1,28 5
Leaving Off Delegates at Large.
The inequality caused by the dele
gate-at-large system is shown by com
paring the foregoing table with the one
following, showing the number of dele
gates each district would have if based
upon the vote only:
Delegates on Delegates on
District Roosevelt vote Dunn vote
only
First 98
Second 85
Third 82
Fourth 95
Fifth 126
Sixth 99
Seventh 102
Eighth 90
Ninth 93
only
72 57 53 64 63 63 63 68
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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURHA^V
MOUTH
Entire Stock of the Stuve Clothing Company, of La Crosse
Unusually High Grade Merchandise, Such as Hirsh, Wickwire & Co. and Sam Peck Clothing, Monarch, Cluettt Griffon Shirts, etc.
Totals 870 559
It is very doubtful whether the state
committee will agree to the revenge
program. While most of its members
were strong Dunn men, they are not all
dwelling on past sore spots. There are
a number of broad-minded, loyal party
men on the committee,, who are anxious decide in favor of golden grain belt.
and on Sale Tuesday Morning in the Great Basement Salesroom
Price and
Bought of Joseph Boschert, Cashier of the National Bank of La Crosse, Wis,, Trustee of the Stuve Clothing Co., their entire stock ot Men's and
Boys' Clothing, Furnishings and Hats, at forty-two cents on the dollar. The same, will be sold by us on the same basis not for profit, but solely as an
advertisement for our GREAT BASEMENT SALESROOM. This means* to you HIGH GRADE and dependable merchandise at LESS THAN
ONE-HALF its actual value. We intend this sale shall eclipse all our former .efforts. Sale opens Tuesday, 8 a. m. sharp. The following prices will
fully substantiate our statement without any further comment. Come early for choice.
Furnishings
25c.
Great Plymouth Clothing' House, Nicollet and
Enlarged Second Floor for WomenThree Elevators. Main Floor for Men and BoysBasement Salesroom for Everybody.
above all to see old scores wiped out,
and an era of good feeling setting in.
They realize that to penalize the coun
ties where disaffection against the state
ticket was strongest last year, would
be to stir up resentment and prolong
factional feeling. It is quite likely that
when the committee meets it will reject
the punishment idea, and call the con
vention on the usual basis.
There may be some objection to the
size of a convention based on the
Roosevelt vote. This can be obviated
by changing the ratio to one for every
300 votes.
TWO SUICIDES
Marshalltown Woman Takes Acid and
Young Merchant Hangs Himself.
Special to The Journal.
Marshalltown, Iowa, May 22.E. B. Wil
bur, a young man from Grundy Center,
who completed a deal for the purchase of
a grocery store here Saturday, committed
suicide last night fn the basement of the
store by hanging. His suicide is a great
mystery, as he was in good shape finan
cially and his home life was pleasant. His
mother and sister live in Des Moines, but
he had been in business in Grundy Center.
May Gower, aged 31, committed suicide
last night. She buried her husband three
weeks ago and her mother recently and
being grief-stricken took carbolic acid.
She was a daughter of Robert Ramsdell
of Tama.
WESTERN MINERS MEET.
Salt Lake City. May 22 The national
convention of the Western Federation of
Miners began its first session here this
morning, with President Charles H. Meyer
in the chair and 300 delegates in atten
dance.
A New Form of Eyeglass Insurance.
The propensity of rimless eyeglasses
to cause annoyance and expense through
accidental breakage has teen lessened
seventy-five per cent by the application
of the "Last ik mounting," which E.
B. Meyrowitz, the prominent optician
at 604 Nicollet avenue, has just intro
duced.
By a simple, though ingenious device,
consisting of a soft rubber cushion
which lines the lens holes and extends
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the direct contact of metal and glass
is obviated. When a pair of glasses
is dropped the rigidity of the entire
mounting and lenses is bound to cause
a fracture at the drilled hole where
the glass is weakest. The "Lastik"
so cushions these parts as to permit
wearers of rimless glasses to pick them
up whole four times out of five after
an accident. The "Last ik Mounting"
is now being shown at the Meyrowitz
store.
Fair Play.
The practice of Collier's Weekly to
allow any man who has anything worth
saying to say it in its columns is cer
tainly fair. #When
10c Handkerchief, 5c.
Men's handkerchiefs, plain white and white initialr,
fancy borders, blue and bandana, 10c values, 5c 6
15c Boys' Fancy Web Suspenders, 7c.
Men's 35c Suspenders, 15c.
Men's suspenders, fancy webb, cross back and lea
ther ends, also police and firemen's suspenders.
Men's Leather Belts, 10c.
$1 Silk Neckwear, 39c.
Men's spring neckwear, fine assortment of pat
terns.
15c Half Hose, 5c.
Men's hosein plain black and drop stitch, 15c
values, 5c
20c Half Hose, 9c.
Men's fancy black hose, with embroidered fronts
and also black with white feet, 20c values, 0
Children's 15c Hose, 5c.
Child's hoseheavy ribbed.
Boys' Shirts, 39o.
Boys' negligee shirts with and without collars, 50c
and 75c values, 39c-
$2 and $3 All Wool Sweaters, 98c.
Norman Hapgood
took occasion to call Thomas Lawson a
liar and several other things in Col
lier's, the magazine immediately al
lowed Lawson to reply. In the last
number Lawson freely criticises not
only Norman Hapgood, but even the
publishers of Collier's itself. We are
willing to allow the public the same
freedom in testing and criticising
golden grain belt beer. Come to the
brewery, see how ifis made, taste the
beer itself, apply any tests you like
and we are absolutely certain you will
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i^r all wool sweaters in plaiA ^nd fancy colors,
|fl and $3.00 values, 98c-
PRESIDENT'S EYE
ON IMMIGRATION
Roosevelt Will Call Attention of
Congress and People to
Problem.
Chicago, May 22.Walter Wellman
in a Washington special to the Eecord
Herald says:
"President Eoosevelt has taken up
the immigration question and is pre
paring to 'call it to the attention of
congress and the country. The presi
dent believes that one of the most
serious problems now confronting the
American people is hew to deal with
the hordes of undesirable immigrants
Europe is pouring upon, our shores.
"During the fiscal year which ends
June 30 next all immigration records
will be broken. In those twelve
months well on toward a million steer
age passengers will have arrived in the
United States, looking for homes or
work. The greatest number arriving
in any previous year was 857,046, dur
ing the twelve months ending June 30,
1903. For 1904 the total was 812,870,
and for 1905 it will be between 900,000
and 1,000,000.
Figures Are Appalling.
"These are appalling figures. Thev
are the more appalling when they are
analyzed and their significance more
fully understood.
''They mean that in a single year
there pours into the country a multi
tude of humble people equal to or
greater than the present population of
any one of eighteen states of the union.
"It means that if all these newcom
ers, poor of purse and most of them
poorer yet in qualifications for citizen
ship, were to assemble in one place
they would alone make a city exceeded
in population by only New York, Chi
cago and Philadelphia.
"It means that to every eighty men,
women and children the "United
States at the beginning of the year
one is to be added during the twelve
month from the steerage of the trans
atlantic steamships.
Increase of Laborers.
"It means an increase of about 20
per cent in the number of men in the
United States whose means of liveli
hood is such that they are officially
classed as "laborers" in the census
reportsand this 20 per cent increase
in a single year is reached by reckon
ing that only about one-halx of the
new arrivals will join the ranks of
workers at the bottom of the indus
trial ladder.
"In view of these amazing facts, it
is not surprising to learn that Presi
dent Koosevelt has upon his desk a
collection of reports bearing upon im
migration which he is carefully study
ing with the intention of urging con
sideration of the problem upon con
gress at an early day. In the opinion
of the president and his advisers, 1 his
is a problem with which the national
lawmakers and the American people
must wrestle, and that speedily."
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Basement
Salesroom
he Plymouth
10c
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Boys' Suits
$2 Suits, 69c.
$3 Suits, $1.19.
$5 Suits, $1.89.
$8 Suits, $2.95.
$6 Long Pant Suits, $1.50.
$10 Long Pant Suits, $2.95.
$12 Long Pant Suits, $3.95.
50c Wash Suits, 15c
50c Knee Pants, 15c.
25o Waists, 10c
Men's Hats
Soft and Btiff hats, black, brown and pearl hats
worth up to $2.00, all sizes, at the unheard-of price,
Soft and stiff hats, pearl, brown and black, 19c.
Black stiff and soft hats, negligee
and Alpine shapes, good, stocky, all
fur hats, $1.19.
Men's straw hats, sailor and Panama
jhapes, smooth braids, worth 75c and
la.oo, at 10c.
DREGS OF EUROPE
SENT TO AMERICA
Arrest of Marcus Braun Draws
Attention to Old World's
Flood of Criminals.
New York Sun Special Service.
New York, May 22.The arrest of
Marcus Braun, the secret United States
immigration agent in Budapest, is giv
ing the officials of the state department
no little concern. The case is develop
ing features of grave international im
portance.
The state department has been made
aware that the arrest of Braun is but
the culmination of a long series of an
tagonistic operations in which he was
trailed over the continent for months
by spies acting in the interests of sever
al foreign governments, which make a
practice of flooding th United States
with the criminal population of Europe.
During the last -fiscal year undesir
able immigrants arrived at the rate of
two a minutethousands of criminals,
dissolute women and infested baggage.
Attack on Braun.
Braun entered his room in the Hun-
fast
jarian Hof in Budapest on the 10th of
April and discovered a Hungarian
detective tampering with his mail. Nat
urally there was a fight, Braun endeav
oring to protect the sanctity of his per
sonal property, and the detective try
ing to do what he was sent to do. name
ly, to inform himself of the extent of
Braun's investigations of the shameful
collusion of the foreign authorities
with the enforced immigration of crim
inals to this country.
Braun was arrested on the following
day and fined $10 as a salve to the dig
nity of the gendarmerie. He protested
to the department of commerce and la
bor, and now the state department has
taken up the case.
The state of affairs in the foreign
emigration centers of Europe, as out
lined by Braun in his last report to the
department of commerce and labor,
may well cause concern both at home
ana abroad. The gist of emigration
conditions abroad, as outlined by Mr.
Braun in his report, is as follows:
Organized Unloading.
Tens of thousands of foreigners are
permitted to emigrate to this country
without the fumigation of their bag
gage, as provided by law.
The organized gangs of crooks who
connive at this evasion stamp the emi
grants' belongings -with counterfeit
government labels, and a counterfeit
United States consular stamp, indicat
ing that their baggage has been prop
erly fumigated.
These counterfeits are accepted at
Ellis Island, and luggage from Euro
pean centers scourged jdtb. bubonic
plague, cholera, trachoma, smallpox and
the germs of deadly fevers, are permit
ted to enter our ports daily,
For this counterfeiting service the
Italian gangs in particular, charge 5
lire, or $1.
^\fc Criminals Sent Here. LPilR
In several of the European countries
it is the custom to promise convicted
"All Orders by Mail
Given Prompt Attention.
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Men's and boys' straw hats, Panama,
Bailor, yacht and soft roll brim sail
ors 19c.
Jervas Manillas, split and Canton
braids, fishing straws, Malay brass,
boys' and men's, 5c.
criminals immunity from punishment if
they will emigrate to this country, or if
their relatives will send them here.
All these things have been brought
out in the reports of Mr. Braun to the
department of commerce. He has shown
Commissioner Sargent that one out of
every ten immigrants to this country
is either criminal or is otherwise unde
sirable.
Mr. Braun has also shown Commis
sioner Sargent that if every penal of
fender in jails in this country were re
leased tomorrow the jails could bo.
refilled to their utmost capacity by the
criminals sent to this country by the of
ficial brooms of European governments.'
$90,000 DIAMOND
THEFT IN GOTHAM
Gems Cut from World-Famous
Excelsior Stone Vanish from
Tiffany's.
New York, May 22.Three diamonds
cut from the world-famous Excelsior
stone and valued in the aggregate at
$90,000 have disappeared from Tif
fany's. Satisfied that they were stolen
by some person in their employ, but
mystified by the strange circumstances
connected with the theft and the ab
sence of clues, the company has set In
motion the detective forces of two con
tinents in its endeavors to recover the
precious gems.
In all ten diamonds were cut from
the Excelsior last fall, shortly after its
fish
mrchase by the company from an Eng
syndicate. The stone was found
at Jagerfontein, South Africa, in 1893,
and in the rough weighed 971 carats.
It was the largest diamond that has
ever been cut up, and the total value
of the ten stones taken from it was
$500,000. Five of the diamonds were
sold to well-known New York people
last Christmas Of the remaining five,
the company now has only two.
Of the three diamonds, the largest,
which weighs 31 carats, is valued at
$50,000. Another of 24 carats is wortn
$25,000. The smallest one. weighing 20
carats, would bring $15,000. All are
pear-shaped and absolutely pure white.
Their brilliancy is remarkable. Each
one is flawless.
J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas W. Law
ton, the Astors, the Vanderbilts ami
other wealthy people handled and ad
mired them when the firm decided first
to sell the ten stones in one set. Tho
price asked for the ten stones, $560,-
000, proved a stumbling block to thls
plan, so the diamonds were disposed of
separately.
PACKERS PLEASED
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Antitrust Law of Montana Held Uncon
stitutional by District Judge.
Helena, Mont., May 22.On the ground,
that the antitrust law in Montana is un*
constitutional. Judge Henry Smith in
district court sustained the demurrer to
the Information in the criminal proceed
ings instituted against five packing
houses. M. S. Gunn of Helena, represent
ing the defendants, presented ths de
murrer. The state will appeal.
