Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-03
NEBRASKA Drawn AND BRAIN.
The Labor Party's State Convention
at Lincoln.
ITS DELEGATES TO CINCINNATI,
A Good Attendance Considering the
Time OF YeRr-Au Address by
Jesse ~Harper-Tbe Republican
Primaries-City Briefs.
LINCOLN BunnAu OF rnr OMAHA BEE,

Fitzgerald's hall in this city yesterday under
the call for the purpose of selecting eight
delegates to the national union labor conven-
tiou at Cincinnati. The attendance, owing
TO the season Of the year and the fact that
but the election Of delegates was the business
before it, was light, only some twenty coun-
ties being represented. Among the delegates
present were S. M. Davis of Adams county,
II. II. Wood of Cass county, William Blakely,
N. d. Hubbard, j. Burrows of Gage county,
l. u. Chamberlain of Polk county, c.. A. b.
cock, X. A. Tomlinson of Richardson county,
!. N. Leonard Of Lancaster county, C. NJ.
Clark Of Seward county, c.. L. Watkins, A..
G. Lead of Red Willow county, c.. A. Whit
ford Of Washington county and D.. N. Nc
Cord of Valley county.
Among those from out of the state in at
tendance was Jesse Harper Of Illinois, well
known all over the west as a farmers advo-
cate and man of ability. MIR. Harper is en-
route home from Colorado, and Just prior to
coming to Lincoln and this convention he was
at Wymore, where he addressed a very
large audience in the opera house
on the mission of the new party. Colonel
Vincent. of Kansas, is also attending the con-
v%ention. He is engaged in the auxiliary
business, and runs the only house in the
west that furnishes anti-monopoly patents to
country publishers.
Jesse Harper, shortly after the morning
session opened, addressed the convention in
n speech that was earnest and eloquent and
was enthusiastically received by the dele
gates. He said that free trade, protection,
transportation, money and corporations were
the questions before the American people to-
day. Prohibition and the Sunday question
were entirely secondary. OF the questions
cited the first five were material ones, inter
esting every man, woman and child The
last two were moral ones. These could be
reached, he declared, by the solution of The
greater ones. He instanced that if the bur-
dens of the people are heavy and oppressive,
| people lose in moral force through discourage
ments and trouble. Tighten the burdens of
| the world, he declared, and the people are
INSPIRED to become better men and women.
These topics, he declared, would be the sub
iect of his talk that would follow in the
evening.
1,he convention organized by selecting
William Blakely of Gage county as chair
man, and HI. M. Goltry of Washington county
as secretary. J. Burrows Of Gage county
was appointed a committee on credentials,
who reported the delegates by counties that
were in attendance. Before adjourning to
the afternoon session a delegate stated that
the meeting and address of Jesse Harper was
not advertised, that the public should know
of his presence in the city and they would
hear him. In q very short time money was
raised to secure a hall for the evening and a
committee was appointed to proceed without
delay in advertising the meeting. Adjourn
ment was then taken at noon.
At the afternoon session of the convention
the discussion was protracted on the build
ing of a PLATFORM, a majority prcferring to
leave the question of a platform on state
matters until the convention is held to nomi-
nate a state union labor ticket. The discus
sion led to the adoption of one resolution, re-
affirming the conventions belief in the union
labor party as it stands upon the platform
at Cincinnati a year ago. The resolution
further favored the placing Of a slate union
labor ticket in the field at an early day, and
also a complete legislative ticket to be voted
for at the fall election.
The following delegates were elected to
the national convention at Cincinnati:
At large, j. Burrows Of Gage county, Allen
Root of Douglas county; First district, H..
H. Wood of Cass, N. D. Hubbard of Gage;
Second district, j, D Chamberlain of Polk,
S. +; Miller OF Red Willow; Third district,
Washington. The convention then ad-
%iourned, and in the evening a meeting was
held at Bohannon's hall, addressed by Jesse
Harper.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES.
The republican primaries for the county
| convention to be held to-day were in pro-
gress yesterday afternoon. The tickets in
the different wards agreed upon by the eau
cuses were meeting with apparently no OPP
position, and but little interest was manifest,
showing that a light vote was polled. Tie
delegates voted for were as fnliGTSs:
First Ward-F. p. Roggen, W. w. Wilson,
n. Z. Brock, W. G. Lane, E. b. Stephenson,
H. b. Vail, Joseph O'Pelt, Thomas Lancas,
ter, S. II. Palmer, G.. S. Herdman, Oliver
Maggurd, Jacob Frankferter, Joseph Epps,
Ed. Flaherty, William Vented, FIN. Fowler,
W. A. johnson, Peter kaufman, Lawrence
Carr, Charles Coyne.
Second Wards. M. Melick, e. r. Sizer,
A. g.. Hastings, John Fraas, J. L: Caldwell,
J. L. Wright, D. c. Van Dyn, /; w. Billings
Ames, Frank Kokesh, S. +. Watkins, Henry
Veith, Henry Whitman, Jacob Roche, w. II.
Woodland, A. w. Scott.
Third Ward. M. Raymond, Patrick
H. Woodland, Frank r Waters, r. s. Yung,
l.. L. Lindsay, w. J.. Marshall, Il. Il. Moore,
ii. II. Dean, Joseph Burns, Fritz Wester-
man, w. H, Prltchard, H. Woltemade, John
II. POWELL, l.; G; Burr, L. ). Byers, A. 2.
Hargreaves, r. +. Barnes, II. M. Bushnell,
II. G. Munger, Henry Logan.
Fourth Ward-W. G. Griffith, j. ID Knight,
G. II. Gere, j. B. Archibald, j. Is. Wright,
e; 1. Hal, J.; H; Harley, Phelps Paine, J; l..
worthy, Henry Schaal, j. H. Kramer, o. w.
Webster, w. M. Gillispie, j. b. STROBE, j. r..
Haggard, X. b. Graham, w. 5. Hamilton, j.
w. Lansing, X. H. Townley, j, w. McDon-
aid, S. McConiga, John Doolittle, II, H. Oak
Fifth Wards. J. Alexander, j. II. Nc
Clay, c.. E. Magoon, M. i. Aitken, G.. j. Ernsh,
j, w. perclVal, j. l.. COhOfn, Jerome Snainp,
w. IL. Carter, o. L. Goodell, S.. Il. Cochran,
A. ID. Kitchen, Captain a. Bax, g. A. Krea-
mer, John Snyder, Joseph McGraw, A. Is.
Beach, L.. r.. Young, Lerne Meyer, Brad p.
Cook.
Sixth Ward-J. f. Philpot, Harry Shartzcl,
G. A. Pogue, w. W.. Carder, Walter Hoge,
c. +, Smith, ii. S. Reed, S. A, Savage, III.
NJ. Rice.
The convention will meet at Bohannon's
hall and will be called TO order at 2 p. IN.
The work will he short, as under the call it
simply provides for the selection Of twenty
five delegates to the state convention at
Omaha and twenty five delegates TO the dis
trict convention at Ashland.
CITY BRIEFS.
Attorney General Leese returned from a
visit TO Union Pacific records in the Douglas
county court house yesterday.
Senator Van Wyck was in Lincoln yester-
day, returning TO his home on the morning
train. After corn planting he will fill a num-
Der of engagements, speaking at different
points in the state.
The election OF General Mcbride as presi-
dent of the board of trade seems TO be re-
garded as in every way fitting and proper. The
city has no more active and earnest worker
for its interests than Mr.. Mcbride, and he
will do his work well.
The West Lincoln hacking hOuSp has been