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

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votes of the delegates of any county
be necessary to the choice of its COM
mitteemen
The report was unanimously
adopted and Oh roll call the following
executive committee was selected
Boone county, c. b. Rollins.
Howard county, James Taylor.
Saline county, A. w. Blair.
Cooper county, j. F. Guielich.
Pettis county, P. II. Sangree.
Moniteau county, L. F Hart.
Morgan county, John w. Drumgold
Benton county A. s. MCGOWAN.
Hickory county, E. ID. Blair.
Camper county. Pleas King.
Dallas county, j. P. O'BannOn.
Polk county, j. P. Upton.
NOMINATIONS.
Nominations for congressman were
then declared in order, and the clerk
proceeded to call the roll which went
on uninterruptedly until Pettis county
was reached when Judge w. S.
Shirk rose and said, when kind
friends had for the past
six weeks urged upon him the nomin.
alton for congressman he declined
hoping to have the honor of naming
one who could and would proudly
carry the republican banner to victory
in this district, and he was glad to
say that the time had come when he
could do so. The practice of columbian
oratory in nominating candidates,
before conventions, had, he believed
grown to be irksome and therefore he
would not indulge in it. Suffice it
that it was his privilege to name
man in every way worthy to lead the
party on to victory"
The Judge then in his usual beauti-
full style proceeded to nominate Odin
Guitar, not failing to pay tribute to
his brilliant war record and closing
by saying that when Johnnie Trim
heard the dulcet notes of their sweet
guitar he would at once leave the fight
The role call continued and Morgan
and Moniteau county's delegates sec
onded the nomination ofGeneral Gui-
tar when roll call was finished.
Capt. Smith asked that Benton
county be again called and rising
seconded the nomination briefly as a
veteran of two wars and closed by pre-
senting a resolution from the Benton
county delegation asking the unani-
nous voice of the convention in sup
port of the nomination of General
Guitar. The resolution was adopted
and General Guitar deelaaed the
unanimous choice of the convention
for congress. ...
Judge Shirk moved that commit
tee of three be appointed TO wait upon
General Guitar and inform him OF
the action Of the convention
and request his presence.
The chair named as such committee
w. S. Shirk, of Pettis county; P. ID.
Hastain, Of Benton county, and w.
G. Robertson, of Dallas county. The
committee retired and in a few min.
utes returned accompanied by Gener
al Guitar who was received with wild
applause.
GENERAL GUITAR
took the stand and said In substance:
81 should be false to every sentiment
and instinct of gratitude and man.
hood did l not feel proudly grateful
for the compliment which you have
bestowed upon me to-day. / had de-
sired that the banvass should take q
different turn and that the honor and
the burthen should have fallen
to the lot of my distinguished
friend, Judge w. S. Shirk, who so
gallantly bore your hammer two years
ago, and i sincerely regret that cir
cumstances should have transpired
which render it impossible for him to
do so. / do not deem it necessary to
enter into discussion of the history
of the grand old republican party at
this time for its history is written in
blood and can and will be read by all
future generations until time shall
cease to &c. That history is written
in the events which have transpired
in the last quarter of a century. A
grand concourse of events and achieve
ments such as nowhere else In the
history of the world were ever re-
corded or ever accomplished. Achieve
ments 80 grand in their results that even
those who opposed us then honestly and
sincerely now as honestly and sincerely
admit that we were right and they
were wrong, with those events and
with the recent past you are as famil-
liar, even more so than / am, as ]
have not for many years mingled in