White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1862-09-25

inform him Of his nomination. and ask
his acceptance Of it; but he seemed dispos-
ed TO dodge the question. Itwas charged
that he intended to stave the matter lf1
until the Convention adjourned. when he
would come oct for Governor, upon .
boilers ticket. But the committee stuck
to him, and finally reported that he ac-
cepted the nomination Internationally.
However, we have since heard that he CT
pressed . discrimination to decline the
nomination. but we have not heard what
conclusion he has arrived at. His hesi-
fancy in accepting. according to his own
statement. wss in consequence Of no plat.
form having yet been adopted. lie would
willingly have accepted the nomination
for Governor, without platoon; but the
Office Of Secretary Of State was SO i'm
portant, that it was not to be thought ol
without q platform. He was afraid il
would be made strictly Republican. which
he could not conscientiously indorse
There were plenty Of Republicans who
wanted the Office. without cosxing Dem
ocrat to take it.
For Auditor Of State. Asa Hairgrove.
of Linn. was nominated over Samuel
Lappin, of Nemaha, g. S. Lambdin, and
Martin Anderson.
For Treasurer. Wm. Spriggs. Of An.
de,son. was successful over Hon. John A.
Wakefield, Of Douglas. Et ~
For Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion, Professor Isaac T. Goodnow. oI
Riley. was nominated; his competitors
being John Francis. Of the Olathe Mirror.
and one or two others. ia." -@la
For Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court, L. D. Bailey was renominated
over Spaulding. of Jefferson. Watson, ol
Lyon, and Mckay. Of Wyandotte.
For Attorney General. Warren w.
Guthrie, of Brown, was the lucky can.
didate. beating G. K. Gilchrist, of Shaw.
nee.
The hardest 6ght was upon Congress,
the candidates being A. G. Wilder. oi
Leavenworth. T. Dwight Thacher and NJ
F. Conway. of Douglas. and w. w. H.
Lawrence, of Franklin. Here Atchison
made another appeal. They said they
had been 'enchred" on Lieutenant Gov
ernor. which they submitted to graceful
ly, but asked as favor and right, that
they have their choice for Congress, which
was NJ. F. Conway. Seven ballots were
had. the last one resulting in the nomins.
tion of Wilder, amid deafening applause.
Speeches were then made BY Messrs.
Carney and Wilder, Col. j. G. Vaughn,
Gen. Lane. and Col. Jennison. At the
winding up. string Of resolutions were
showed in, at the instance of Atchison,
declaring that none of the lands and
money appropriated for railroads in Kan
sas. should be used in constructing any
road contemplated by the Henderson
Amendment. In other words, it was an
Endorsement of the Atchison road. But
they quickly found it necessary to with
draw the resolutions. without pressing
them to vote. or they would have met
with another "euchre."
When the Convention adjourned. gen.
eral good feeling prevailed. There were
doubtless few sore. heads, who may here
after unite with an opposition party.
should one be conjured up. but their num-
Der is few. The ticket will be elected by
a handsome majority. We shall hereaf-
ter speak of the merits of the several can
didates. after ascertaining for certain
whether they have accepted. We don't
want to puff man. and then have him
turn skunk on our hands