The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-10-21


thus giving the benefit Of Democratic
and Greenback votes, 20 which be has
constantly appealed, and giving those
counties in which for business or per-
s0nai reasons ne had 3 larger vote than
other Republicans q greater represent
tati0n than be was properly entitled 90.
In this way he was probably able to
elect several more delegates, Of the
number fixed. than would have other
wise been possible. While these were
clever schemes in his interest they Of
course did not constitute sufficient rea-
sons against the legality Of the conyen-
ton, and certainly none, 70 which his
friends could take exceptions. Mr..
Anderson had already four times been
elected to congress. IL there had been
any wide spread popular uprising Tor
his denomination to a fifth term as the
incumbent he ought to have gone into
that convention with a clear ana de-
oided majority. That he never had.
On the organization, man known TO
be opposed TO his denomination was
chosen president. On the FIRST ballot
he had but 80 votes, when he needed
80, aud the highest vote he ever reeeiy-
ed lacked four votes Of giving him a
denomination by bare majority. The
people Of the 5th district in the dele
gates they sent to ConcOrdia, clearly
and Enthusiastically decided against him.
Here, then the regular Republican
convention, called and organized on a
basis made by him and his friends,
declared that he should not be the Re
publican nominee. He entered that
convention as a candidate. His friends,
many Of them wealthy and influential,
tried to secure the necessary votes but
utterly failed. No fair man, and
above all, no sincere Republican, enters
a convention. tries to win, and then
bolt because he fails. II must be re-
membered that it did not rest there.
One Of the strongest supporters Of Mr..
Anderson, as was his duty TO the party,
when Judge Wilson received Al votes
to Hon. John A. AndersOn's IS, moved
TO make the nomination Of Judge Will
son unanimous. This motion, put by
the secretary Of the convention
passed without a dissenting voice.
There was no thought Of boiling
then. These active managers for
Anderson in that convention we're
shreWd politicians. Most Of them
for years versed in the arts Of cOnyen-
lions. No charge Of fraud was thought
of. No charge that the Cloud county
or any other delegation had misrepre-
sented their constituents. They sim
ply did what they then thought the
SQUARE and honorable thing. A new
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chosen according to the universal Gus
tom. AS one representative was ehOs-
en- from every county, and as these
men were named by the county dele
gates. it happened that i've of the ten
were former friends Of Anderson, and
five who had been opposed to him.
That committee met and organized.
The convention adjourned sine die, and
up to that moment the Republican par
ty Of the 9Th district was harmonious.
How and where did this bolt begin?
Who instigated II. A careful examina-
ton of all the correspondence on the
subject will trace it very close to Mr..
Anderson himself. Long before the
convention met, in fact, it had been
coyertly suggested that if Mr.. Ander-
son was not nominated he would bolt.
This had been used to force bis renOmi-
nation in more thar one case before
Shortly after the COncOrdia COnven-
ton, one of the leading political friends
and advisers of Mr.. Anderson, &. W.
Martin, Of Junction City, in an editor
ial in his paper headed: "a Mass Con-
ventiOn said: 1.-THE demand is uni
yersal that John A. Anderson must be
an Independent candidate for Congress.
It embOdies a resolution" purpOrting
to have been adopted at Topeka July
sth, a week after this COncOrdia Con-
vention adjourned. George calls the
small party Of men who thus started
the bali Of discOrd, "a meeting of the
representative men Of the Fifth Con-
gressIOnal District Why they should
have met at Topeka, or why they
should have met at all to inaugurate
this universal demand he does not
state. ANY half dozen disappointed
men may meet in a room four stories
high and pass a resolution. The reso-
luton says:
"ResolUed, That a call for a mass
meeting of Republicans and others, who
disapprOye Of the action Of the COncOr-
dia Convention in composing the de-
feat of Hon. John A. Anderson, in OPP
position TO the instructions given by
the people; and by a series of frauds
which make the action Of the C0nven-
ton 10 be not binding upon the party;
said mass convention to be held st
Clay Center, July %, 1886, at p. m"
G. II. NICHOLS, Chairman,
c. a. CAMPBELL, Secretary"
This was a bolt, pure and simple,
AGAINST the action Of the regular Re
publican convention. Il proposed 10
call 3 gathering Of disgruntled Repub-
liOans, and all others who we're inter.
ostnd IN taariur tho RnnuhIinart marty