Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-09
NOTES.

The boys all looked little tired
this morning.
Capt. Fisher wanted a cushion or
his chair. He got it.
Bob Luekett got in a little late but
looked as fresh as daisy.
A gigantic chestnut gong should
be put into the convention hall.
Somebody will have to get hot ii
the collar before a nomination can be
made.
Everybody thinks the other fellow
and his friends should be "magna ami
NOUS"
Chairman Walker comes pretty
near saying the right thing at the
right time.
Homer Murray, Of Pike, has more
cheek than all the other delegates
combined.
Fisher, of Rails, wants to know
who is "afraid of the people" He
thinks he found out.
The discussion on Fishers resolu-
ton showed that every one is in favor
of making a nomination.
Chairman Walker thinks the dele
gates can get any thing and every
thing they want in Mexico.
FL. A. Gass has E. C. Waters
proxy. Waters had to 60 home on
account of sickness in his family.
Room 81 at the Central Ringo did
not appear to suit some of the con-
sulting committee. Thereby hangs a
tale.
Capt. Fisher, Of Rails. thinks the
convention should visit each town in
the district, and stay a week at a
place.
The boys don't throw their votes
around so loosely In complimenting
as they did before Robinson came
near being the nominee.
Everybody wanted to know if
something had not been done last
night. The answer was invariably,
nothing that could hear Of"
When the people elect man a
delegate to convention he should
attend and perform his duties unless
kept away on account of sickness or
other good reasons.
A motion might be made most any
time to call the ballot being cast the
hundred thousandth. The record
could thus be beaten and lots OF
time and breath saved.
To see the delegates mapping and
reading during the balloting you
might think there was danger of some
one being slipped up on and a nomi-
nation made, but you could notice
they all had their ears open and like
an experienced musician could detect
any jar in the regular monotony OF
the music from the different mouth
pieces of the delegations.
NIGHT SESSION.
In answer to the resolution passed
by the convention yesterday after
noon the candidates appeared to
release their delegates.
Hon. J. E. Hutton first came be-
fore the convention amidst deafening
applause, showing that the sympa-
thies of the audience were enlisted in
his behalf. He freely released his
delegation and said that he was op-
posed to its being bound up by in
structions in the first place. He
pointed with pride TO his past record
in the party and in the Forty-Ninth
Congress and hoped that his actions
while member of that honorable
body had been of such character as
to warrant the Democracy of the
Seventh District in again selecting
him as their standard bearer. He
spoke in glowing terms of the present
administration and expressed himself
as anxious for q nomination to be
made. Hutton is q polished talker
and his remarks were thoroughly
Democratic and well received.
R. FL. Norton appeared and in a
very neat speech thanked the eight
delegates from Franklin and the del
egates from st. Charles and Lincoln
for their support, and urged them to
go to work earnestly to make nomi-
nation. He released them from any
alliance to him and pledged his sup
port and that of his friends for the
nominee, whoever he may be.
Judge Robinson congratulated the
chairman, secretaries and delegates
on the good feeling that has animat-
ed and accompanied all the actions OF
the convention. He cheerfully and
cordially released all delegates voting
for him from their obligations to him,
thanked them for their support and
assured them there would be no tinge
of regret from him il they nominated
some one else in the interest of har-
mony.
Major Dalton made an earnest
speech, setting forth his ideas of the
proper manner in which the canvass
should have been conducted. He
urged harmony and united action
and released his delegates from any
instructions in his favor. He asked
them to let their first object be te
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