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VOL. X.
THEIR NEW BOSS
tired of Fletcher, Sick of
Gilman, Disgusted
With McGiil,
The Republican Party Turns
to That Darling: of Fash
ion, Merriam, •
And Nominates Him for Gov
ernor, But Not as the
Unanimous Choice.
Rice, Bobleter, Mattson, Clapp,
Collins and Gillflllan
Put Up Again.
The Platform a Puzzle, for It
Is Neither Fish Nor
) Fowl.
McGill Most Thoroughly In
sulted by His Late
Followers.
Scheffer and the Farmers in
Every Way Ignored and
Shut Out.
Gilman Tries an Old Trick,
and With His Usual Luck
Gets Left. t
Scheffer Will Not Run Inde
pendent This or Any
Other Year.
THK TICKET.
Governor W. R. MERRIAM
Lieutenant Governor A. E. RICE
Secretary of State.. HAXS MATTSON
Treasurer JOSEPH BOBLETER
Attorney General. ..MOSES E. CLAPP
Chief Justice JAMES GILFILLAN
Associate Justice L. W. COLLINS
THK BALLOTS.
Her- Me- Schef- Gil
i an. Gill. for. man
first informal ir>s l-w 116 17
.Second informal.. .l6l 145 lit? 17
First formal Kill 138 106 28
Second formal 17* ill US 53
Third formal 212 34 '»<; 110
Fourth formal 270 70 mi
Until the last ballot Rice county cast
eight votes for Clement. Braden re
ceived four votes twice during the bal
loting.
TH X PLATFORM.
On This Frail Structure the Party
Ik to Stead.
"Sin .' a sour o' sixpence,
Bottlef o' rye!
Who cares, with cheap whisky,
If blankets do come high:"
When the campaign's opened,
'I be bum* begin to sing:
"With the tax off alcohol,
Won't we have a Ding!
"We'll keep warm on whisky.
The fellow is a fool
Who'd leave the lax on liquor
< And take it off of wool:''
The Republican party of the state of
Minnesota in convention assembled an
nounces the following declaration of prin
ciples:
The Republicans of Minnesota do cordial
ly ratify the nomination of -that eminent
statesman and tried soldier, Benjamin Har
rison, for president, and of that able and
philanthropic citizen. Levi P. Morton, for
vice president of the United States, and
pledge them such a majority of the electors
of this state as shall easily assure Minne
sota the place that she so" glorlouslv won
for herself in the campaign of 1884 as the
banner Republican state of the North-vest.
It points with pride to its record in
adopting in its platform, and honestly carry
ing into execution, the most practicable
and effectual restraint upon the liquor
traffic which has yet been devised, to the
large reduction in the number of saloons
In towns and cities, and their extinction
in country places and the .-mailer villages,
the better observance of the law and the
marked and general improvement in public
morals winch has followed the adoption of
the high license principle, and pledges it
self to its continued maintenance and en
forcement, and thai no backward steps
shall be taken in the efforts to secure the
most effectual control of the liquor traffic.
It is uncompromisingly in favor of ihe
American system of protection.
It adheres to tin repeated declaration of
state and national platforms, in favor of the
modification, read
justment and re
duction of the tar
iff, and reiterates
the views of the
Republican presi
dents. Garlield and
Arthur, upon the
same subject, as
well as the recom
mendations of the
commission ap
pointed under the
last Republican
administration.
It declared that
all measures of
tariff adjustment
should 1 c framed
and conceived in
a cautious and
conservative spirit, so as not to disturb or im
pair interests which have grown up under
existing revenue laws, and,** far as possible,
to relieve the people from unnecessary taxa
tion upon articles which do not enter Into
competition with American industry. That
in every such measure of revision regard
should be had to such adjustment of the
revenue among the various articles subject to
taxation, as, while providing adequately for
the support of the government, will afford
sufficient protection to those industries
which can be profitably pursued In this coun
try, and which require protection against
foreign competition, and, as far ns i mctica
ble, place on the free list articles of prime
necessity which enter into the ordinary con
sumption of the people.'
It declares its belief that these measures
can best I* conducted under the auspices of
i Bepublican administration In the future as
.ii the past.
It reiterates its former declarations in
favor of an honest administration of civil
service laws and arraigns the Democratic
mrty for the failure to perform Its promises
ii that respect. :•■«'
It points with just pride to the pure and
! can administration of Gov. A. R. McGill,
. i the measures for the protection of the
* ghts of labor.the restraint upon corporate
ncrotichmem upon the rights of the people
chich here characterized the Kepublican ad
ministration of the grovernment, both state
ad national, and which ii pledges itself to
. iiitinne to maintain.
It declares its continued confidence in the
Lifctice and wisdom of the interstate law,
md demands its enforcement.
It denounces the "attempt of the Demo
•ratle party to coerce the senate of the
Juited States into the ratification of the so
alled "fisheries treaty" by the covert threat
>f injury to the growth and prosperity of the
Start-west through the destruction of cer
tain competing railways.
It condemns, the cowardly and vaccinating
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policy of that party in failing to protect a
great American industry from tlie encroach
ment of a rival power, aim its selfish and
dishonest course in refusing and delaying
the admission of the territory of Dakota in
order to maintain and perpetuate Democratic
control of it-- government.
That a due gratitude to the brave defend
ers of the nation demands at all times a lib
eral recognition of the Union soldiers and
sailors of the late war in the election and
equipment of soldiers' homes and liberal
provision for pensions.
The Republican party of Minnesota, mind
fill of its obligations and responsibilities to
the people of the state, hereby declares its
hostility to trusts so called, and to all mo
nopolistic combinations of every form which
seek to limit the production or the price, or
Id any way control ibe commodities oMhe
country, as contrary to the common law,
subversive of good morals and injurious to
the public, and pledge the Republican party
of this state to protect as far as possible the
producer and consumer by legal means from
the evil effects resulting from the practices
herein referred to. - '
It indorses and approves the reform of the
voting system called the Australian system,
and recommends it to the favorable consid
eration of the legislature.
In view of the recent revelations show
ing the abuses to which our immigration
and naturalization laws have been sub
ject, we demand of the national
congress a thorough revision of
those laws: and, in the meantime, a more cf
licicnt execution by the national administra
tion of such laws lis we have, especially that
prohibiting the importation of contract
labor, to the end that the country be better
protected from the pauper and the criminal
classes of the old world, whose coming
throws upon our working people an unjust
and grinding competition. .
That while the Democrats of the South
have, by reason of the disfranchisement of
the blacks, under the constitution of the
United States, the benefit of an unjust and
unequal representation, we are assured by
appeals from various Southern states that iv
many places a free vote and a fair count is
there unknown, and that outrages and op
pression, both physical and political, are
Common, and while condemning all such
acts as subversive of free government and an
outrage upon the rights of these unoffend
lug citizens, we extend to them in common,
with all others of the oppressed, whereso
ever they may be, a cordial welcome to the
free soih free ail ami freedom from outrage,
which are the common property of all citi
zens of our slate.
We heartily sympathise with the Irish
people in their struggle for home rule, and
with those brave leaders whose disinterested
patriotism has brought upon them Buffering
in persons and estate, and shall hail the day
as the dawn of liberty in Ireland, when the
scheme of the grand' old Britisher statesman
for governing Ireland, whose name is a
household word whe ever liberty is known,
shall become a part of the law of the British
empire.
After the adoption of the report Gen. Bar
rett Introduced an entire platform and
moved its adoption as a whole as a part of
the report, striking out all portions covered
i.v ii while the committee approved of
many things in the platform proposed by
him, yet much of th best portion had. In the
opinion ot the committee, been covered more
concisely by the platform reported by the
com mil tee, while other portions required
modifications which Gen. Barrett was un
willing to concede.
'I here was not tire to go through the some
what lengthy document and carefully ex
amine it. even if Its author would have con
sented pi it. It is believed, however, that
every material point is substantially covered
by the report of the committee herewith sub
mitted, leaving to Gen. Barrett liberty to
present his platform in the form of a minor
ity report.
THE FARMERS INSULTED.
The Tillers off the Soil Snubbed
and Their Platform Rejected.
The following minority report of the
committee on resojutions. submitted by
Gen. Barrett, president of the Farmers'
alliance, was rejected:
To the Representatives of the Republicans
of Minnesota, in Convention assembled:
The minority of the committee on resolu
tions, appointed by your honorable body, re
greta the necessity imposed upon it of mak
ing a. separate report. The minority assents
to all that part of the majority report upon
which the paper herewith submitted is silent,
and makes it a part of its own report. A
.sense of responsibility to the people ot this
state, and a just regard to what ii considers
the interests of the Republican party, im
pose upon it the duty of making a separate
report on the Questions of monopolies, mar
kets, control of railways, bonding or licens
ing country elevators' and grain houses, ex
ecutive appointments, the agricultural col
lege, the method of conducting elections and
the tariff. Respectfully submitted,
v. 11. Biimr,
The Republican pnrty has from Its birth
been the party of freedom. Organized to op
pose the extension of slavery. it carried the
country triumpliantly through the great civil
war, prevented the disruption of the Union,
struck from the slave his manacles and In
corporated into the national constitution the
principle that everywhere throughout the
Republic all its citizens should have the
equal protection of the laws. Three hundred
thousand patriots— young men in . the full
vigor of manhood, gave up their lives, a will
ing sacrifice to its principles. Upon the rolls
of Immortality it Inscribed the names of Lin
coln and Grant; upon the pages of history,
Gettysburg and Appomattox In its policy
it was generous as well as just— when it laid
down authority the nation wounds had al
ready heeled.
The representatives of the Republicans of
Minnesota, in convention assembled, renew
their pledges of fealty to the principles so
long illustrated by the history of their party,
and pledge themselves anew to see to it that
the rights of all people are protected from
dangers Incurred because of the weakness
engendered by unthinking ignorance, and
from the hidden perils of purchased legisla
tion, as well as from the open assaults of
power.
Great changes are taking place in the
structure of civilization; new powers, un
known to the founders of our government,
are being rapidly organized creating new
fields for the selfishness of ambition and new
dangers to the liberties of the people. It be
comes patriotic men of all parties— it is espe
cially incumbent upon all true Republicans
that they look the present situation
squarely In the face and prepare to meet it.
Steam and electricity, as applied to loco
motion and the transmission of Intelligence,
have greatly enlarged the powers possible to .
mankind. To permit these forces to be
mainly controlled by a few individuals, is to
place in their hands an organization for sub
jecting the people to their will more effectu
ally than could be accomplished by military
power. Whatever the law can rightly do to
protect the people from this threatened mas
tership ought to be done.
The facility with which corporations create
themselves, and their readiness for combin
ing with each whether under the form
ot trusts, agreements, associations, or any
other name— it will be admitted by all. are
evils of the gravest character. If private in
dividuals should resort to the same or similar
combinations, they would be amenable to the
law against conspiracy. Yet combinations of
corporations, in their effect upon the welfare
of the people, are far more injurious than
any combination of individuals can possi
bly be.
Among the many combinations for unjustly
extorting money from the people there is
none more powerful and unscrupulous, or
more-dangerous to the public welfare, than
the one which exists in our own stale for the
purpose of buying, storing and transporting
wheat and other grains. The effect of this
combination is to divide up territory and
prevent •competition in buying— in short, to
monopolize the market. The railway man
agers' part in ibis conspiracy, without which
it would prove ineffective, is to so operate
the road under his control that the independ
ent buyer shall be at such a disadvantage in
making shipments as to compel him to pay
the price dictated by the combination, or tie.
eventually driven out of business. It also
falls to the railroad manager to so adjust the
rates for transportation that favored persons
and places to which shipments are made
shall nave an advantage over all other per
sons and places. It is a fact that under the
operations of this inlamous conspiracy. in at
least one of the general railway offices of this
Mute, a man has been stationed upon whom
the duty was devolved of daily dictating by
telegraph to the buyer at all stations ou that
road the price to be paid for wheat. If it
shall be said that this was done in the inter
est of and to protect the |>eople. the answer
is made that the people ought to not be
placed in such a condition as to need pro
tection of this kind, -
But the agricultural interests are not the
only interests at stake. There can be nothing
more hateful to the man who believes in the
right of freemen to tax themselves, than the
spectacle, to which we are so often invited
through the columns of the daily press, of
seeing half a score of • men— more or less —
meet in some private office, perhaps in some
distant city, and, after a secret discussion,
proceed to levy upon the traffic and industry
of the whole Northwest in accordance with
the caprice of the moment of their individual
SAINT PAUL, MINN. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1888.--TEN PAGES.
HOW REPUBLICAN BOSSES PROTECT LABOR BY THE TARIFF.
Labor Committee.— We have come, sir. to request that you do not
reduce our wages. We have labored diligently for your interests during
the last ten years, and our poorly furnished homes evidence the fact that
our wages during all that time have furnished us a bare living for our
families. You have grown rich and the goods made by our hands are
found in every market in the world.
Protected Manufacturer.— Ungrateful men! Have not we manu
facturers spent our money like water to carry elections and control con
gress in order to keep up a high protective tariff, to protect you from
the pauper labor of Europe? Do you see that ship coming into port? There
are 1,000 brawny-armed men in that vessel who will take your places, un
less you submit to the reduction. You can retire, I have no time to
waste on you. .....
Thus were the members of the labor committee given an object les
son, and when the scales fell from their eyes they saw clearly that the
so-called "protection to American labor," was merely a glittering bait to
catch votes. . ___
notions of what is expedient for the interests
of the corporations which they for the time
happen to represent Their levies are made
with little or no regard to the service ren
dered. Weak communities are often doubly
taxed, while their more powerful rivals are
served at less than actual cost.
A state which submits to such a condition
Is badly governed; a community who will not
protest nt each an injustice will sooner or
later become helpless: a political party
which shall dare, under such conditions, to
ignore the wrongs to which the people are
subjected Is unworthy of confidence.
The Republican party of Minnesota, true
to its traditions, will not be found wanting In
this contest for the rights of the people. To
their fellow-Republicans of the great state of
lowa they send congratulations and greet
ing, pledging themselves with them, to pros
ecute this contest against the aggressions of
corporate powers to a complete and final
victory. .' •-• "' -
There can be no true liberty w*ere the pub
lic highways are obstructed, or where they
are not open to all the people oR equal terms.
There can be no real freedom where the mar
kets are not free; nor can a regulated or
licensed market be a free market. A people
are not free who will submit to be taxed
without their consent. There can be neither
freedom nor safety in a republic where the
burdens of government are made to bear
more heavily upon the weak than upon the
powerful. The Injury to the people are not
less because government operates indirectly
upon its citizens through agents, or by means
of organisms which it has created or per
mitted under Its laws to be created. Rail
ways or public highways. That all citizens
of the state may have their use upon equal
and reasonable "terms we demand that all laws
for their control be rigorously executed, and
that the following proposition, where not al- ,
ready In the statutes, shall be enacted into j
law, "and faithfully enforced by the exec- j
utive power: *
The smallest village must have the use of |
the railway tracks on the same terras as the .
lnrgest city; the humblest individual the
same rights as the millionaire. There must |
be no discrimination in favor of or against
persons or places. Rates on railroads should
be so adjusted as to provide for operating
nnd maintaining expenses, and in addition
thereto a reasonable rate of interest on the
actual cost of the roads and equipments,
not to exceed in the state nt large,ln our judg
ment, an average of $'J0.0<,0 per mile for
simile track roads. Bulnth. St. Paul, Minne
apolis ami all other points In the state must
be reached at the same rate per ton per mile
that Chicago Is reached per ton per mile,
with reasonable terminal nud trar.fer
charges In addition to the mileage charges.
The shipper must have the right to choose
his market and the route to reach that
market.
Free passes and all other forms of free
transportation should be prohibited. The
constitution of the state should be so amend
ed thai railway property be taxed as other
property is taxed, we denounce the present
mode of paying a gross sum Into the state
treasury in lieu of all taxes as Inequitable
and unfair to the people of the sections
through which the jails extend, and demand
that laws be enacted requiring railway prop
erty to pay Its just proportions of state, city,
county, town. school 'and all other taxes.
Where exemption from taxation exists as a
chartered right that fact should be consid
ered in making rates.
The existing law which requires all railway
companies to permit connections to be made
at nil regular stations with tracks running to
private grain and other warehouses must be
maintained and faithfully enforced.
The practice of permitting railway corpora
tions to ignore and violate all laws which
they may choose to question in court cannot
be permitted. We insist, therefore, that the
governor, tbe railway commissioners aud the
attorney general use the authority with
wnich they are invested to prosecute to the
fullest extent every violation of law, and es
pecially for the. open, continual and defiant
violation of the traffic law now on the statute
books. We pledge the Republican parly to
the people of this state that if they shall con
tinue to intrust it with power, there shall be
enacted into laws for the control of railways
such penalties as will make It for the Interest
of every agent or person responsible for rail
way action to see to It that the laws are im
plicitly obeyed.
We protest against any system of bonded
or licensed elevators or grain houses, which
does not permit any and all persons to buy,
ship or deal iv grain and other farm products
without giving a bond or taking out a license.
The number of dealers must not be limited
by either stale or railway regulation. To per
mit wheat to be stored in bonded warehouses
and then transferred to the mill and ground
into flour is a gross fraud upon the man who
has wheat to store. It is getting possession of
his property, giving a receipt therefor, con
verting the property to the warehouseman's
own use and nt the same time compelling
the wheat seller to pay for service not rend
ered.
Railways must furnish to all the same fa
cilities for shipping grain, which they per
mit to the most favored. v Cars must be fur
nished to shippers, producers as well as
dealers, on demand.
We demand the separation of the Agri
cultural College fund from the state uni
versity, and the establishment of an indus
trial school where an education can be ob
tained at an expense which shall place it
within the reach of the sons and daughters
of citizens iv the humble walks of life. Be
lieving that economy la schools is- poor
economy, nnd with funds and property al
ready on hand, estimated at a million dollars
value, we favor the establishment of a school
second to none in the country— an institu
tion where agriculture shall be taught to all
who enter it. but where also they may obtain
the highest education in every branch of
learning.
All appointments by the executive shall be
made for fitness, and not to pay political
debts.
The safety of the republic depends upon
the purity of the ballot box. Every voter
should condsider the elective franchise as a
sacred trust to be exercised with honesty and |
Intelligence. He should be** protected 'from
espionage or undue influence while deposit .
ing his ballot. We. therefore, favor* the
adoption of radical changes in the method of
conducting elections, and recommend the
trial of ihe Australian system, or some simi
lar method.
While we ratify the nominations of Har
rison and Morton as our candidates for presi
dent and vice president, and will support
them at the polls in November, and while we,
in the main, approve the platform adopted
by the last Republican convention, we,
nevertheless, protest against the doctrine of
high protection, and demand a judicious and
radical reduction in the present tariff. We
are opposed to free whisky and tobacco,
while we are compelled to pay high taxes on
sugar aud lumber.
THE EPITOME.
The Truth of the Day Told in a
Graphic Manner.
For the first time in its history the
.Republican party of Minnesota has de
dined to renominate a governor who
asked for a renomination. Without
logical reasons for doing so, this was
the action of the Republicans who met
in St. Paul yesterday to nominate a
state ticket. What fruit this affront to
Gov. McGill will bear; what seeds of
unharmony it has sown ; what further
division it lias promoted in a failing
parly remain to be seen. Bad blood
was engendered, schisms were encour
aged and a respectable and honest por
tion of the party deliberately insulted;
its claims and standing disregarded and
the votes its represents shut out from
representation in the platform and nom
inations.
One thing the convention did do. It
revolutionized the management of the
natty in this state. In one fell swoop
Merriam's nomination (whether he is
elected or not) crushed Loren Fletcher,
snubbed John S. Pillsbury, slapped R.
B. Langdon and discharged lrom the
railroad commissioir. and governor's po
tion a crew who for twenty years have
more or less controlled the affairs of
state. I~3£t
It is said that when he received the
news, Gov. McGill wept. The proceed
ings were sufficient to make any one
of the defeated weep. To ' 'reject Mc-
Gill and then to renominate the entire
state ticket that ran with him two
years ago, was enough to produce tears,
The new ring is in; the old out. „T he
credit of the victory belongs to no one
so far as can be known, but to the Mer
riam managers themselves. To Flynn,
of Morrison, Baker, of Blue Earth,
Buckman, of Benton, Steenerson, of
Polk, and others. Those named were
prominently connected with the man
agement of Merriam's light. They kept
their force so well togetheriand foiled
by parliamentary tactics so many at
tempts to outwit them, that as long as
their vote did not decrease, defeat
was practically impossible. The Mc-
Gill men were" sore; the Gilman men
sore and the Scheffer faction prepared
to organize an independent movement
and run a state ticket of its own.
The platform is high tax; the nomi
nee high tax. The shibboleth of the
campaign "Free whisky, tobacco and
corporation rule."
COLE'S DOCUMENT.
A Mass of Contradiction That
Will Cause Amusement.
The delegates were promptly in their
seats at 10 o'efock yesterday morning
and the report of the committee on plat
form presented by Gen. Cole. At the
close of the report Gen. Cole stated that
Gen. Barrett introduced a platform in
the committee, which was not adopted
by them because every material point
was substantially covered by the report.
Gen. Barrett, if he chose, could present
his platform as a minority report.
H. A. Steenerson, of Polk, moved the
adoption of the committee's report,
which was at once agreed to.
H. B. Willis, of Ramsey— l now move we
proceed with the regular order of business,
which is the nomination of candidates for
state offices.
potter's joy.
This was assented to.
A. Barto, of Steams, rose in the body :
of delegates to speak, but was shouted
to. to mount to the platform. This he
eventually did, and said:
The first two positions named in the call
are the positions of chief justice of the su
preme court of Minnesota and an associate
judge. It is one of the happy things that we, .
Republicans, can place the judiciary ever
above party of any faction or clique. LCneera.]
I move that James Giliillan be the nominee-,
of this convention for chief justice of the i
supreme court, and the name of L. W. Col
lins for associate justice. [Loud cheers.]
The nominations were made unani
mously..: ' j.v'j : *
The Chairman— The next business Is the
nomination of candidates for governor.
Little notice was taken of this, the
delegates engaging in general conversa
tion. - .".-xv ■•*.' '"■■■•
C. A. Hammandson, of Nicollet,
gested, as most of the "speakers ex
hausted themselves Wednesday, that
the ballot for governer should be pro
ceeded with. :\h
Loud cries of "No! No!"; . _-j
N. J. Hodgson, of Ramsey, moved
that the nominating speeches be limited'
to fifteen minutes. :
Chorus— Five, five, five.
11. J. Hodgson— No; ten minutes, gentle
men. » . -V.. " ->
This was adopted, and once more dele
gates lapsed into general . conversation/
The- chairman several times called for
order, and asked for nominations, --x-v"!
C. S. Lohman, of Ramsey— move the roll
C. S. Lohman, of Ramsey— l move the roll
of counties be called, and anyone who hai
anything to say on the nominations of can
didates could then do so. -'„ "• X~
Loud cries— No, no, no.
_ The motion was lost, cries of "ballot,' :
were made, and the chairman declared
if nominating speeches were not made
that course should be adopted. * •
W. Fuller, of Morrison, moved that ;■
formal ballot should be taken.
SCHEFFER PRESENTED. ,
Gen. Jennison Makes a Defense
a of Himself. -^
This brought Gen. S. P. Jennison to
his feet.
"How does it happen." he s«iid, "that wo
have passed by the period of nominating
■speeches?"
. The Chairman— No one will make any.
A Voice— There are no nominees. [Laugh
ter.]
Gen. Jennison— there is no other person
who desires to speak, I would like to occupy
a few moments of your time. [Cheers.]-
The Chairman— Hut I must put this motion,
that wo take a formal ballot.
The convention quickly voted it down.
Gin. Jennison— Mr. Chairman-
Cries— "Platform, platform."
The chairman thumped the table and
pleaded for order.
Gen. Jennison expressed his deter
mination to speak from the floor, and
said:
I have heard it said that if I attacked Gov.
McGill here to-day there has been resurrected
some documents from the auditor's office
which would show that I held In 1882 the
offices of governor's private secretary and
secretary of the board of Impeachment, and
drew salaries for both. Why, I supposed
everybody In the state knew that. [Laughter.]
The governor wauled me. and the senate that
had elected me to that office in 1881 wanted
me. I filled both offices, performed the du
ties of both, and if I did not draw the salary
of both I am mistaken. [Laughter and
cheers.] And now you can judge from that
my estimation — —
A Delegate— would like to call the gentle
man to order. I understand we are
The Chalrmau— gentleman from Good
hue has the floor.
Gen. Jennison— ask the people to con
sider litis. It is proposed that we enter this
campaign under pretty nearly the same
auspices of two years. I ask you If it is not
perilous to do that? It Is not a question of
men. No one of these candidates is of more
importance, or of so much importance as the
success of the Republican ticket.
The nominee of two years ago, freight
ed ■as he was —we won't say
what burdens, but some burdens— lowered
the He publican majority of two years pre
vious from 42,000 to 2,600. We have got
that to start from, and if we start under the
same auspices is not there danger that we
run it a good ways the other way, because we
have got nothing to act upon. [Cheers.] I
should have thought that my experienced
political friends from Hennepin county
would have acted more judiciously. I am
astonished — I am profoundly astonished—
that they should have given it the complex
ion that it has to-day, because they cannot
now avoid starting under the same auspices.
ft was a blunder, gentlemen, It was a bad
blunder. Even the kids of your county
would have known more than to have made
it. ' [Cheers.] We ought not merely to make
a good nomination here, we
A Delegate— l rise to a point of order. I
understood the order of business now is the
nomination of a candidate and not speeches
in opposition to any man. . v. :V
General Jennison— wish to be heard on
the point of order? ■:-•■■■ ~
The Chairman— The chair will decide that
the gentleman from Goodhue has a large lat
itude. [Laughter.]
Gen. Jennison— main thing Is not to
praise and laud and give taffy to anybody; it
is to present the question of candidates with
the view of the best success of the Repub
lican party. [Cheers.] I desire to say that I
bear upon Jmy breast a piece of silk, which
will indicate that I am friendly to the nomi
nation of Albert Scheffer. [Cheers, loud and
prolonged.] Gen. Jenuis'on proceeded to
refer •to Mr. Scheffer's attitude ■ upou low
license and high license two years ago,
Mdlugl Two years ago was two years ago.
and ail of us have learned something— a good
deal, I hope— ln that time; and whatever Mr.
Scheffer was two years ago you know what he
is to-day: Exactly what all the rest of us are.
He has said in the Winona Kepublican that
he neither should act officially nor personally,
if he could do so, to disturb the present situa
tion of that quesiion in the state. [Cheers.]
-Gen. Jennison wound up by saying
that lie was one of the men badly left in
the Chicago platform. He was in favor
of lower taxation, but desired to walk
with the Republican party, and for that
reason urged the nomination of Hon.
Albert Scheffer. [Loud cheers.] -
Gen. T. 11. Barrett, of Stevens, here
asked if he could submit a minority re
port to that presented by the committee
on resolutions.
The chairman replied it was too late,
the report had been adopted.
Gen. Barrett— Very well. I'll second the
nomination of Albert Scheffer. [Loud
cheers.]
The general proceeded to . read a
lengthy document, detailing the "glori
ous heritage" of the Republican party,
following this up with a denunciation
of the unscrupulous combination of rail
road and wheat managers in that state.
"It Is a fact," he added, "that under the
operation of this infamous conspiracy iv oue
of the general railway offices of this state
a man has been stationed upon whom the
duty was Involved of detailing by telegraph
to the agents of all stations, on that route the
price to be paid for wheat.
"The farmers' interest of this state have
nominated and do nominate Albert Scheffer.
If It shall be ratified by this convention, we
believe that Minnesota will be Republican by
50.000 majority. [Loud cheers.] If this
convention shall ratify what we believe to
be tbe demands of the agricultural interests
of the state, this platform will receive the
unanimous support of all men who have
hitherto claimed to be Republicans. [Cheers.]
If you reject our. candidate and reject our
platform, the future is all uncertain. [Cries
of 'lib, oh,' hisses aud cheers.]"
i W. O. Brower, of Ramsey, startled
the convention by ascending the plat
form and crying:
• "Do you understand that the nominee of
this convention who goes out from here to
day, has to be elected from polls which
have to be made up from the firesides of this
state?"
The delegates appeared dv m founded
on hearing this, and general quietude
reigned as Mr. Brower proceeded to
eloquently second Mr. Scheffer's nom
ination, stating that if he was nom
inated Ramsey county alone would
give 10,000 majority and the state from
SO, OOO to 40,000. Mr. Scheffer was an
. honorable gentleman, against whose
•'name there was not one single stain,
personally or politically. They knew
•he would redeem every congressional
district in the state. [Cheers.]
I John G. Nelson, of Otter Tail, said:
| On behalf of the laborers and tillers of the
soil in Otter Tail county, I second the nom
ination of Mr. Scheffer. If the convention
would only accept, he will resist the charg
ing columns of the enemy and whirl 'them
to the four zephyrs... [Laughter and ap
plause.] • _ -*
'■■ H. J. Hodgson, of Ramsey, said, in
•every action, emotion and impulse Mr.
Scheffer was pre-eminently a man of the
•people. [Cheers.] He was the only
'candidate who had been tested by Dem
ocrats, having been led to the top of the
[mountain by a leading light of that
; party, who said:
"All these things that thou seest shalt be
thine if thou wilt but bow down and worship
me." But Mr. Scheffer refused, saying: "Get
thee behind me. Satan." [Loud laughter and
cheers.]
J. S. Lohman, of Ramsey, also sup
ported Mr. Scheffer's nomination, stat
ing his name was honored and respected
at home and entitled to recognition ab
road. [Cheers.]
• G. P. Johnson, of Watonwan— Mr. Chair
man: Albert Scheffer is a delegate to this
Convention, and I wish to ask him, will he
support the nominee ot this convention?
t MANFULLY ANSWERED. . '
Scheffer Meet* a Cowardly Attack
With a Rebuke.
"* Amidst the wildest tumult and en
thusiasm. Mr. Scheffer rose and as
cended the platform. The .* cheering
was renewed again and again. He said:
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen: I am no
In the habit of mincing words. I believe
thai : those who know me best will give me
•ledit for that [Loud cheers ] • When I
published to the people of the state these
.ords: "That I would support any honest
Republican honestly nominated," I meant
.vbat I said and nothing more, Loud cheer
ing.] I ask you. Republicans of Minnesota,
Jo you propose to nominate . a
rascal by unfair means? If not.
I have already answered your
■uestlon. Renewed cheers.] I believe in
the honesty of the Republican voters of this
-lute. [Cheers.] When the question was
lirst put to me— "Would I do this and would
ido that, I refused to answer. I refused to
nnswer this question when it was put before
me by a representative of a newspaper pub
lished In this city that for five months had
purposely vilified and misrepresented me
before the people. . [Cheers, loud and con
tinued.] I want you to know, my friends, I
have had no avenue to express myself; no
vehicle for the expression of my thoughts;
and while you all agree— while all you that
1; now me best call me a very good-hearted
man, I do tell 'you this, and
you may as well know it now,
I carry in this breast considerable spunk
when the time comes; and when It was said
in advance the refusal to answer certain
questions will be taken as an answer in the
affirmative, I stood upon my manhood, and
1 don't propose to have my teeth pried open
with a crowbar. [Loud cheering.] It Is
true, my friends, that I have not always
voted with you. You might as well know
also that I come from old Abolition stock.
My father died a few months after the war
was over, and it was his last request that he
be taken from his sick bed so ihat he should
cast his last ballot for the Republican
party, that had broken their shackles
off 4,000,000 slaves. [Loud cheers.]
And I tell you, further, that when It came to
choose between the general— man, I will
say; the word general is too soft— it
came to choose between the man that 1 con
sidered the father of the Republican party—
the man that I have always called the second
Benjamin Franklin
of this county—
I had to choose
Whether I should
'cast my ballot for the
patriot soldier Grant,
or the father of the
future of the Re
publican party, as I
considered Horace
Greeley, I did what
many of you did, I
cast "it for old Horace
Greeley on account
ot his Republican
ism, and on no other
account. [Cheers.l
Now, gentlemen. 1
will admit It is hardly
fair that I should
stand before you
here seemingly
pleading my own
'RAH roil OILMAN'! case. lOIU IlOt Cif.cn.
to be called upon to make any remarks, but
the question "What 1 will do under certain
contingencies" has been asked so often, that
I thought it was all right for me to respond.
It may be there will be no other choice, my
friends. Suppose you should agree on me.
why I would have to support myself, I ex
pect. [Laughter and applause.] You would
not expect a man to go against nimseit,.
would you? [Laughter.! But I wish to say
further, modest as 1 am, and I claim a great
amount of modesty. lam as pround as the
Spaniard on the 'other side. I want you
to know, my friends, I will not bow ray head
before this convention. Even in order to re
ceive a nomination. I am too proud rcr
that. [Cheers.] Every American citizen
has a right to throw his name to the winds
as a candidate, but you, the representatives
of the people, have the same right to discard
them: and lei me confess right here.it you
should choose another I will think just as
much of myself and just as much of you.
We will not quarrel on that point. All I wish
you to do is to consider what may be best for
the party. Nominate a man. whoever he
may be. that will sweep this state as it never
has* been swept before, and then we will all
be haDpy. [A voice: "That sit," and cheers.]
1 thank you for your kind -attention.; lam
glad you gave me the opportunity to answer
a much-mooted question. I now leave you
to your deliberations. will have nothing
further to say. [Loud and prolonged cheers. J
M'GIIiLi'S NAME .
Offered by Capt. Castle in a Brief
Speech.
A Sibley county delegate seconded
Mr. Scheffer's nomination, when Capt.
Castle, of Ramsey, mounted the chair
and caught the chairman's eye. He
said:
Representing the sober second thought,!
present for nomination the governor of Min
nesota. Andrew R. McGill. [Cheers.] I fully
agree with every word which has been ut
tered In praise and compliment of one of the
best friends 1 have on earth, and the man by
whose almost princely maguamiiuty I have
the right to stand upon this floor as a repre
sentative of a minority of the Republicans
of Ramsey county." Capt Castle began an
argument why Mr. McGill should be renomi
nated in accordance with the long line of
precedents which bad been carried on in the
state. "Gov. McGill," the captain inter
poltated, "is not infallible, it is true. There
are oulv four infallible men that 1 know of,
and they are Gen.S. B.Jenuison.G. C. Potter,
Ignatius Donuellv and myself. [Laughter.]
Another thiug, it is 2,0:)0 years ago since
miracles were performed— when five loaves
and two small fishes were made to feed
5.000 men and women. And," Capt. Castle
slyly added, "it was Impossible for Gov. Mc-
Gill with fifteen offices at his disposal to sat
isfy 1,500 claims, or, under existing laws, to
supply every county in the state, including
Goodhue, with a state institution." [Laugh
ter and applause.]
W. EL Kustis, of Hennepin, seconded
McGill's nomination, urging that his ad
ministration had decided first, that high
license and local option had come to
stay, and that the state of Minnesota
was on all Kepublican principles from
this time assuredly Republican as was
the state of Pennsylvania. [Cheers.]
AGAINST McGILL.
Messrs. Fletcher and Pillsbury
Appeared to Enjoy It.
Gen. Jennison's attack on McGill and
Hennepin county tickeled Pillsbury,
Langdon and Fletcher hugely. They
•LANGDOX. ii-.**-.:.'
sat at the end of the aisle at the head
of which he stood. When he told them
that even the "kids" of Hennepin would
laugh at the candidate they had foisted
upon the party two years ago, Pillsbury
smiled, ami Fletcher, putting his hand
to his ear to catch the words, , let the
ghost of a smile float across his weather
beaten countenance. . Col. Hooker
looked very sober, and Eugene Hoy
shook I*# head. ; Jennison was not bit
ter, and the tenor of his remarks was
scarcely above the tone of the
editorials which for months he
has aimed at McGill. Weight was
given to his wores by the fact that he
stood on the floor as the representative
of a county having a Bepublican ma
jority of 2,200, and " which was practi
cally pledged to reduce . that majority
1,500 if. McGii was nominated. Behind
him as well stood the shadow of D. S.
Hall, "of St. Paul, nominee for congress
in the Third district, who for weeks
preached the doctrine that McGill's
nomination meant his defeat, and the
success of Scheffer his own success.
■'Make no mistake," plead the gen
eral and held his band up high. The
THE PRIZE MR. MERRIAM DREW.
words rang from wall to wall and back
to their source.
"Make no mistake." Ah, how could
they help making a mistake. Warnings
were useless.
BANKER BILLY
Duly Placed Before the Conven
tion as a Candidate.
H. Steenerson, of Polk county, at first
startled the delegates with the gravity
of his demeanor. He said:
"I do not come here to flatter, to instruct or
amuse you, but I am here a delegate, feeling
and realizing the great responsibility upon
me." Having relieved his mind from the
burden of these weighty thoughts, Mr. Steen
erson continued to suite that on two occa
sions Republicans of that state barely
escaped defeat in their electoral tickets— first
in 1869, when ("en. Austin was candidate,
and again in 1880 when Mr. McGill was their
representative. He did not think that it was
the fault so much of either Mr. Austin or of
Mr. McGill; it was largely attributable to the
manner in which politicians of St. Paul or
Minneapolis fixed the nomination. The
farmers were little heeded, and hence they
refused their support to the candidates nom
inated. [Cheers.] Farmers did not believe
in having the man who appointed a wheat
Inspector the member of some wheat firm In
Minneapolis. ICheers.] "The man 1 have
to nominate," proceeded Mr. Steenerson in a
sepulchral tone of voice, "is not a man who
walks about the Merchants hotel with a cat
like tread or with coat tails down to the floor.
He is a man who has no political debts to
pay. and is not under the control of any rail
road or wheat corporation. The name of the
man I have to present is the lion. William K.
Merriam." Loud and reiterated cheers.]
J. H. Baker, of
Blue E.iiith, on
behalf of a large
number of Repub
licans of Bepub
lican counties in
Southern Minne
sota, he rose to
second the nomin
ation of Mr. Mer
riam. He followed
this up with kindly
words for Gov. Mc-
Gill and Mr. Schef-
Jfer, continuing:
* "I. come to you to
day because there is a
deep-seated connection, far reaching ami
profound in this state, that we are in danger
and upon the ragged edge of that danger.
Why have we to-day the extraordinary spec
tacle for the first time of the representatives
of Republicans of this state, sent up by In
telligent constituents, to find some man who
is not a vote-looser, but a vote-getter* I have
the plea-sure In. presenting a man to-day who
combines, in his own person, all the
requisites for attracting to him the energy
and the inspiration which is necessary to
conduct our canvass to a triumphant success,
William K. Merriam. [Loud cheers.]
* Mr. Baker dilated upon the fact that
his nominee was a typical Minnesotian,
having been reared under its skies and
brought up on its porridge. He was the
very impersonation of the state, and
posessed transcendant executive abili
ties. If nominated, they would not be
waiting three weeks after the poll to
find out who was governor. [Cheers.]
A. Barto, of Steams, also supported
Mr. Merriam's nomination, because he
was a man who combined not only the
wisdom of the old man, but the nerve
and pluck and energy of the young man.
[Loud cheers.]
The Chairman— The next business in order
will be a bailot.
THE FIRST BALLOT.
Merriam Had a Lead Over All His
Competitors.
Just at 11:57, Chairman Gibbs, all of
the nominating speeches having been
made, declared:
The convention will now proceed to ballot
for governor. —..,,,
In quick succession Messrs. Willis,
Hodgson and Knox were made tellers,
the ballot declared to be an informal
one, and the roll call ordered. The del
egations voted as they saw fit— the chair
man casting the whole vote for some;
in others the delegates voting each for
himself.
The roll-call was tedious. I took fif
teen minutes to get down the alphabeti
cal list to Hennepin county, and twenty
to readh Murray. Gen. Cole cast the
vote of Rice -county, and Col. Hooker
did it for Hennepin; J. H. Mahler did it
for Ramsey. St. Louis county cast its
vote individually, Frank Burke lead
ing off. . „
• Senator Burkhardt deposited the five
votes of Wabasha: S. I). Crump led off
Waseca, and Stordock put in the three
of Wilkin.
The roll-call took just thirty minutes.
Cuss county was the only one not vot
ing.
The counting of the votes took thirty
hiinuleS.
Just before the result of the poll was
declared, the McGill men were confident
that they would have the lead on the
first ballot. This .the Merriam mana
gers disputed, asserting that they would
receive at the least 157 votes and proba
bly more. The result verified their as
sertions, and from* that moment McGill
stock declined. The second informal
ballot, taken 1 also before dinner, gave
Merriam a gain of three votes, and still
further depressed McGill stock. At 1
o'clock a recess was taken until 3. Be
tween each ballot the following little
parliamentary practice would take
place : 'V
Mr. Barto— l move that we proceed in the
regular order. . -
Chairman Gibbs— Th3 secretary will now
proceed to call the roll.
NO RECESS., •"■
Chances for Fine Work Summar
'■ ily Cut Off. ..•:•'
An attempt was made to adjourn after
Merriam's nomination: : sߣ&mm%mW§M.
Capt, A. H. Reed— l move this convention
take a recess until 3 o'clock.
. This was received
with loud cries *in the
j negative, and the chair
\ man had to pound the
table heavily before
order was restored.
The chair put the mo
tion, J. H. Baker
shouting, "Vote it
•^down, boys." They
J» lid vote it down.
,L 'J. H. Baker— l move we
at once take a formal bal
lot. :; . ;
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feebly •• heard to cry: "Gentlemen, do
let us have order." Some degree ''of
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order was secured, the motion being;
put and carried.
The Chairman— shall now proceed to
take a formal ballot.
11. J. Hodgson— Mr. Chairman, I rise to
make a motion
The Chairman— Let's have order, gentle*
men.
H. J. Hodgson— l move that In taking the
next ballot the comities be called, and that*
the chairman of each delegation announce
the vote of his delegates, and if any man—
J. II Baker— l rise to a point of order. My
point of order is this: that the convention is
acting under an order of the convention, and .
that is to proceed with a ballot, and nothing
else is in order. -■.*
General chorus— right.
The Chairman— The convention will pro
ceed as it thinks fit.
Flynn, of Morrison, moved that no
persons except officials, newspaper men
and ladies be upon the platform while
the ballot was being taken.
This was quieted with shouts of
"That's right," and the motion was
adopted with lightning rapidity. .- .-
Eventually the convention assumed
something like decorum, and Capt.
Castle was allowed to raise his question
of privilege, which was this:
"There are 450 votes in this convention.
Does It require a majority of the whole 450,
or a majority of the votes actually cast on
that ballotr" *-.*- Xv-
The Chairman— chair will state that
half a majority of the votes cast in any one
ballot will nominate a candidate.
dipt. Castle— That satisfies me. and cries of
"That's right."
J. M. D. Croft, of Dakota— l think it a dis
grace «:r -:
J. 11. Baker— Mr. Chairman, I rise to a
point of order
The convention here lapsed into a
state of chaos. Mr. Craft attempted to
speak, but the ehairmad called him to
order, and order being restored the sec
retary proceeded to call the roll for the
first Informal ballot.
MERRIAM GAINS.
He Defeated the Combines in One
X :.■.;■,.■ Decisive Round.
The dinner recess brought no pros
pects of gains for either McGill or
Scheffer, but Gilman began to loom up
and hopes to center on his nomination.
Rumors afloat that Ramsey county
would vote for McGill on the first for
mal ballot were emphatically denied by
Mr. Aburte. Oilman's son made his ap
pearance on the floor and the managers
of the old Cassius began to pull the
wires he had laid. --.?•-
On the start the McGill men had a
surprise for the convention. Mr. Hodg
son and Mr. Lorrenstein presented a
resolution demanding that the voting
he viva voce and that the secret ballot
be dispensed with.
Gen. Jenneson— By what right do
they propose to enforce this gag law?
A. Barto— have a regnlar order of busi
ness and this motion is out of order. I move
that we proceed .
Mr. Grimshaw— l move that the rules be
suspended nud this motion prevail.
Cries of "Question."
The ut mo s t
confusion pre
vailed, and the
chair could not
preserve order.
Gen. Baker— l
move that this mo.
tion be laid on the
table.
The general's
motion was sec
onded and on its
passage a roll
call demanded
and ordered.
The motion was laid on the table by a
vole of 240 to 200.
• This victory for the Merriam men was
secured by Oilman aiding them to de
feat the McGill move. Just after the
result was announced Sam Peterson, of
Brown, slipped up to young Oilman and
whispered.
"How does that suit you?"
"First vote.'.' replied the junior, "I
wanted it defeated." - ..-,
The Oilman delegates voted almost
solidly. with Merriam.
The chair ordered the first formal bal
lot to be taken, which a was done, and
showed further Merriam gains.
Mr. Grimshaw— l move that we take a
recess for thirty minutes. [Cries of "No."
"No."]
Gibbs— The motion Is out of order. Pro
ceed with the roll call for the second formal
ballot.
The ballot had progressed to the call
for Lincoln county when Mr. Grimshaw
shouted:
"Hennepin county will vote for the nomi
nation of C. A. Gilman." [Cheers.]
The Hennepin delegation had been
out caucusing. The loss to McGill on
the third formal ballot had convinced
them that McGill was beaten. The gov
ernor's best friends conceded that, and
only asked now that what strength he
had left be used to secure the nomina
tion of a candidate satisfactory to him
and his friends. • • .*-
In their caucus the Hennepin dele
gates, after listening to Messrs.. Grim
shaw, Hooker and Pillsbury, unani
mously agreed to drop the name of Mc-
Gill. A vote was then taken, which
stood 34 for C. A. Oilman and 4 for W.
W. Braden. -
Standing thus the , delegation came
back to the floor and so voted. Among
those voting for Braden was ex-Gov.
Pillsbury.
Tne Ramsey county delegation still
voted solidly for Scheffer: Otter Tail
still voted for Scheffer. The Blue Earth
delegation stood 7 for Merriam and 2
for Scheffer. '.'■ * : ::?£?£ A- r :~ -.
McGILiL. WITHDRAWS.
His Name Is Taken Out of the
Race.
Before the last ballot it was evident
that to cling to McGill longer was folly.
The Hennepin
delegation had
another - caucus,
and it was a hot
one/ A very de
termined effort
was made to have
it declare for
Merriam as a
unit, but it
would not work.
Before the caucus
adjourned a vote
was taken, which
stood thirty-one
for Gilman and
seven for Merriam. After the delega
:x Continued on Sixth Fuse.