Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-24
MISSOURI DEMOCRATS.

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The Democratic State convention as
sembled at Sedalia on the 18th inst. The
| opera house, where the convention met,
| was crowded when, at 1920 p. m, DR.. d.
| III. Shields, chairman of the State Central
committee, raped the convention to or
der. He said:
have the honor, as we'll as the pleasure OF
once more calling together convention repre-
! seEting $4,000 good and true Democrats of the
| State of Missouri, and it is great pleasure to-
day to have that honor, because know we
have assembled here with one purpose at
/ heart. The contest is about to begin;
| we are about to enter q National
| contest such as we have never seen in this
country before, and we have now as leader a
| man who has signally proved himself q leader,
| IN the person of Grover Cleveland. We are
| assembled here to-day, think, for the purpose
| of indorsing his splendid administration and
| again putting the banner of Democracy in his
| hands and following him on to victory. All
can say is that with Grover Cleveland at the
| head OF the Democracy, and with Grover Cleve-
lands message as a platform, the Democracy
/ of this country say nothing but victory can or
should perch upon the banner of the party.
Rev. M. M. Davis opened the proceed
ings with prayer.
Mayor Crawford welcomed the delegates
in long, but felicitous speech.
Joshua Ladue, of Henry County, was
chosen as temporary chairman, and after
his speech acknowledging the honor the
work began, the first being the selection
| of committees, which were constituted as
| follows:
| Permanent Organization-First district, C.
| Vogel; Second. Theo Priest; Third, DIR. w.
A. Holden; Fourth, G. H. Jones; Fifth, o. D.
| Williams: Sixth, J. L. Morrison; Seventh,
John Bittinger; Eighth, D. j. Grady: Ninth,
J. N Judd; Tenth, Geo. E. Walker; Eleventh,
E. B. Ewing; Twelfth, ]. B. CAN'T; Thirteenth,
j. w. Cockrell; Fourteenth, Robert L White
| law.
Credentials-First district, Walker Sears;
| Second, John B. Butler; Third, D. j. Tasting:
| Fourth, James Lamar: Fifth o. K Bower;
| Sixth, w. B. Napton; Seventh, S. N. Noonan;
Eighth, w. ]. McSkimming; Ninth, John c.
| Williamson; Tenth, ]. J. Hogan; Eleventh,
| Chas McCrafy: Twelfth. T. j. Bolton; Thir
teenth, E. c. O'Day; Fourteenth, G. II. Wit
! tingham.
Platform-First district, W. o. L. Jewett;
| Second, E. NJ. Harder; Third, ]. B. Thomas;
| Fourth. Chas. F. Boor; Fifth, S. M. Forth;
| Sixth. Squire Turner; Seventh, C. NJ. Lacken;
| Eighth. J. J. Healey: Ninth, Given Campbell;
| Tenth, VIM. Pfister; Eleventh, John A. Hocka-
day; Twelfth, Slas Dooley; Thirteenth, r. A.
| Brown; Fourteenth j. J. Russell.
The convention then took a recess for
two hours. When it reassembled at three
| O'Clock the delegates were in a merry
| mood. They wanted fun, and the creden-
| tials committee not being ready to report,
| speeches were called for, but none were
delivered.
| The report of the credentials committee
was adopted and the committee on per-
manent organization reported General
John A. Hockaday, of Galway County,
| for permanent president and Austin
| Speed, of Boonville, for permanent Sec
rotary. The following assistant secre-
| taries were also selected: w. P. Bently, st.
Louis; T. J. Lingle, Henry County; M. G.
Moran, Buchanan County; J. J. Lane, st.
Louis; William NJ. Settle, st. Francois
County. General Hockaday's speech on
taking the chair was brief, pointed and
vigorous. He Endorsed Cleveland and
tariff reform and was warmly cheered.
DISTRICT DELEGATES.
| The announcement of district delegates
and alternates was next IN order. They
are as follows:
| First District-J. H. Carroll. of Putnam and
JIG Grisley. Scotland. Alternates-I Proctor,
of Morris, and R. B. Giles. of Shelby.
| Second-Dr. E. c. More. of Monroe, and O.
G. Young, of Carroll Alternates-E. G. De-
laney. of Charlton, and J. Y. johnson, OF Liv-
ingston.
Third-O. ]. Chapman, of Caldwell. and Clin-
ton Tillery, of Clay. Alternates-J. C. Wilson,
of Harrison, and John Stanberry, of Clay.
Fourth-Samuel B. Green, OF Buchanan, and
B. P. C. Wilson, of Platt. Alternates-O. ].
Hurley, OF Andrew, and H. F. Stapel Of Atchi-
son.
Fifth. C. Tarsney, of Jackson, and ]. d.
Shewalter. of Lafayette. Alternates-J. A.
Paxton, of Jackson, and E. Macon, of john
son.
Sixth-James A. Johnson, of Cooper, and J.
B. Jackson, of Pettis. Alternates-J. H.
Childers, of Hickory, and w. w. Garth, of
Boone
Seventh-James ]. Jones, OF Franklin, and
Cash Blackburn, of Audrain. Alternates-O. w.
Graham Of Montp0merv and Tom GINNING
ham, of Audrain.
Eighth-John B. O'Meara St. Louis and
Patrick O'Malley, ST. Louis. Alternates-
Frederick Young and Charles Costello, Of st.
Louis
Ninth-G. w. Allen, of ST. Louis. and Charles
w. Knapp, of ST. Louis. Alternates-Henry
keevil and Edward Butler, of Louis.
Tenth-Jasper N Burks, of ST. Francois. and
I. C. Terry, OF South ST. Louis. Alternates-
Jas. F. Greene, Of Jefferson, and H. johnson,
of ST. Louis.
Eleventh.. J. Nichols, of Galloway, and
Henry E. Warren, of Pulaski. Alternates-
Thomas B. Gibson, of -, and F. M. Bull
lielt, Laclede.
Twelfth-E G. Thurman, of Barton, and R.
B. Rally. of Barton. Alternates-W. E. Shell
den, of ST. Clair and M H. Mcclure, of Dade.
differentiation G. Teele, of Lawrence, and
o. H. Travis, of Greene. Alternates-W. A.
Wear. of Barry, and H. c. Pepper, OF Melon
aid
Fourteenth-B. T. Pitts, of Howell, and Jos.
T. Wilson, of Mississippi. Alternates-R. P.
Lisle, of Butler and L. o. Healy, of Douglas.
The convention adopted the report as an
nounced.
Observation-Disclosures.
The convention then proceeded to NOM
mate delegates t-large. The names of
Senator George G.. Vest, Edwin L. Martin.
of Kansas City; D. H. Shields, David w.
Caruth, VIM. II. Phelps, of Carthage;
Silas Woodson, of st. Joseph; John
O'Day Ed Robb, of Perry; Lon V. Steph-
ems, of Boonville, and Nat c. Dryden, Of
Troy, were severally presented to the con-
vention.
At $3.50 D. m. the nominating speeches,
which were strictly limited to ten minutes,
were concluded, and vote by counties
was taken. The whole number of votes
cast was 1856, and it required 1914 to nomi-
nate. The first ballot resulted as follows:
D. W. Caruth, 496; John O'Day, ass; Ed
win L. Martin, 461; Nat c. Dryden, 400;
w. H. Phelps, 800; d. H. Shields, 1874; Lon
V. Stephens, 232; Sllas Woodson, 269: Ed
Robb, 80.
Caruth, O'Day, Martin and Dryden were
declared elected, amid great enthusiasm,
and Phelps, Stephens, Woodson and Robb
were elected alternates by reclamation.
PLATFORM.
W. o. L. Jewett of Shelby, reported the
following platform: We, the committee
on resolutions and platform, report the
following:
rive. the Democracy of the State of Missouri,
in convention assembled. declare that we in
dorsc unqualhedly the honest, courageous and
economical administration of Grover Cleveland
and hereby instruct delegates to the Ma
tional convention to vote as unit for his re-
nomination and also to vote for platform en-
bodying the principles of tariff reform set