The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-07


test in the Eighth district the chair il
unable to decide as to who is entitled
to seats from that district in this con
vention. The chair will, however. fine
way to cut the gordian knot and the
chair to do so rules that the Eighth
district is not entitled Il
member on the com
mittee on credentials until Its
disputes are settled"
This decision was received with the
widest applause and when order was
restored the secretary called
The Ninth district, the chairman
of which responded by saying,
Under the ruling of the chair we
have no member as we have a con.
test, but the Ninth district has nc
fault to find with the ruling of the
chair"
tenth district" called he sec.
rotary then began the worst scene OF
all that had been witnessed. Mem,
bers sprang from their seats and
waved their hats struggling to be
heard amid the cries of "Older,
''sit down" "there is a contest,
"there is no contest" "appeal
from the decision of the chair etc.
Finally order was restored, the district
was passed and the committee was
completed as follows:
Eleventh District. T. Moore.
Twelfth District-T. B. Howell.
Thirteenth District. w. Lans.
ing.
Fourteenth DISTRICT. r. Rhodes.
On motion the convention adjourn
ed till 2.30 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
After the long line of delegates had
filed into their seats and the chairman
had called the convention to order, a
motion was offered by DR.. III. III.
Folmsbee, of Davies county, that the
convention call upon Mrs. Anna Sneed
Cairns, of St. Louis, who was here by
the invitation of the state executive
committee to deliver an address.
The motion was carried and Mrs.
Cairns after being introduced, thanked
the committee for the honor
conferred upon her and
then presented a resolution which
had been adopted by the state execu-
tive committee when requesting her
TO be present at this convention and
which embodied the question of sub
hitting prohibition to a vote of the
people. Mrs. Gains stated that thi.
is the live question of the state of
Missouri to-day and the people were
clamoring for it to be heard. She
spoke of people coming twenty and
thirty miles to hear this question
discussed by the followers of prohibi-
ton and their deep and abiding in
terest in it. She told of the anxiety
which the prohibitionists felt in re-
gard to this question OF submission
and their desire to carry it before a
jury of the people. The republican
party claimed to be the party of prin-
ciple and it was for it to say whether
a party founded on principle would
dare to shove this question back. Four
times has the Legislature kept the people
from voting on this question and why
not let the people speak, why not take
the question out of party politics and
submit it to grand jury Ofthe peo-
pie. The democratic convention was
silent on this question and its mis-
takes gives the republicans their
chance. Mrs. Cairns paid her re-
spects to Senator Vest and said he
was throwing himself against buzz
saw when he asserted that he was not
IN favor of prohibition.
She hoped the republicans would not
-epeat the mistakes of the democrats
but give the people voice.
Mrs. Cairns was loudly applauded
md on motion the convention rendered
Ter a vote of thanks. After she had
Ter taken seat a call was made for
JOHN MILTON TURNER,
he colored orator, who responded in
N address of some length in which he
poke of the days when as a
'oor slave boy his peculiar
urroundings seemed to forbid the as
,irations of American manhood and
f the struggles he was obliged to put
orth to gam recognition. He took
Up the history of the republican party
nd said while he thought that some
lines the republican party had not
'een so close to principle as it might
ave been, yet when he looked about
or another party which was better,
e was unable 10 find it. He
hen spoke Of the war and the
ays when the democracy clamored
hat it was a fratricidal war and of