The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-29
The Democratic State Convention and
its Nominees.

Its Nominees.
The Convention of the Democratic party
of Kansas, called to take into consideration
the welfare of the Democracy, and, eff
deemed expedient,'' to nominate candidates
| for the State Offices under the Wyandotte
Constitution, and delegates to the Charles
ton Convention next year, assembled at
Lawrence, on Tuesday last, the 25th inst.
Mr.. G. H. Fairchild, of Atchison, was
chosen the permanent President, and P. B.
Ayers, of Linn, Secretary.
| Two sets of delegates presented them
selves from Wyandotte county-both claim
ing to be regularly elected one headed by
the defunct mail agent. E. R. Smith, and
the other representing the interests of Blu
chanan's Attorney General, A. G. Davis.
| The Committee on Credentials reported in
favor of the Buchanan & Davis delegates,
and the report was adopted. They also re-
ported that where counties were unrepre-
scented in the Convention, the delegates from
the adjoining counties should be allowed to
cast the votes of those unrepresented coun-
ties which was also adopted. This rule
was afterwards varied to meet the exigen-
cies of the case, SO that the vote of unrep-
resented counties was cast by any person
who sided with the dominant party in the
Convention.
There were FORTY counties provided for
in the call of the committee, and of this
number but seventeen were legally represen-
ted in the Convention-the votes of all but
two of the balance being cast by outsiders
without credentials, and who had never even
seen the counties for which they were voting.
We give few instances of chow the thing
worked P. T. Colby, Buchanan's U. S.
Marshal, who lives in Wyandotte county,
cast the vote of Nemaho county, at least one
hundred miles distant from his place of res
idence. w. H. Petrikin, an ottache of the
Lecompton Land Office, cast the three votes
of Jackson county. G. w. Blair, Gov. Me-
dary's -in-law, and a resident of Fort
Scott, cast the vote of Allen, Dorm, McGee,
Wilson, Madison, and Woodson counties.
T. NJ. Williams, a notorious sot of Fort
Scott, cast the vote of Anderson county,
w. w. Herbert, of junction City-brother
of the P. T Herbert who shot the Irish
waiter at Washington few years since.
cast the votes of Clay, Davis, Dickinson and
Waubonsee counties. j. E. Jones, of Fort
Scott, and VIM. Gambrel, of Leavenworth,
cast the votes of Marshall and Washington
counties. A. G. Otis, of Atchison, cast
the vote of Brown county. Mr.. Bailey, of
Lecompton, cast the four votes of Jefferson
county. Mr.. Ratliff, of Council Grove, cast
the votes of Chase and Butler Mr.. Jones, of
Coffey, cast the votes of Usage and Brock
enridge. And in this way taOe'aty-oae coun-
ties of the Territory were represented in the
Convention Of course with such 'tmake-
up'' the Convention could be nothing but
farce.
The first business done was to resolve
not to send delegates to the Democratic Con-
vention to be held at Charleston next year,
on the ground that this would commit the
Democratic party of Kansas to sanction her
admittance into the Union under the Wy
andotte Constitution, which shows unmis-
takably that the Administration Domocra
cy intend to oppose our admission into the
Union the coming winter. The next thing
was to re-affirm the Tecumseh platform
| Nominations for the State offices were then
in order.
Gov. Medary, III. B. Denman, of Leaven-
worth, and c.. K. Holiday, of Topeka, were
the candidates for Governor. The result
showed that doughfaceism was decidly at a
discount. and that none but straight-out-
ers could receive important nominations
Medary received 43 votes; Denman, g.;
Holiday, TEN! Holiday had to yield to
his masters. and Medary was declared NOM
mated. The Governor attempted to make a
speech about his nomination, but only got
so far as to declare that he had made peace
in Kansas when all others had failed, when
he broke down and quit in the midst of
three faint cheers for the s'next Governor of
Kansas - Facetious fellows, those Dem
ocrats
| Col. John P. Slough, of Leavenworth.
was then nominated by acclansation for Lieu
tenant Governor. Slough is the individual
who was once expelled from the Ohio Leg
islature for conduct 'unbecoming gentle
man." We are of the opinion that this
fact will operate so much against Slough in
the present canvass that he will fail of cleo
toni
| Judge Williams, of Fort Scott, was then
nominated for Chief Justice, over G. W.
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