Wichita eagle., 1888-08-30


thing. He tried to cuss in decent Ian
guage but found his command Of ideas
and language limited.
Samuel Mutt, candidate for state treas
| urer, was called upon, and promised at
! first to not detain the convention long:
| 81 have done all that / could for this party
| 1t took me good while to have sense
enough to vote. Thanking the members
| for this honor will do my level best for
| the success Of the ticket.
The chair announced that delegates
| from the Sixth congressional district would
| meet at the convention hall soon after the
convention adjourned.
| w. J. Nicholson, of MAMA, read the
EAGLE about the COMMITTEES on resolutions
and suggested that the committee had no
resolution on single land tax and did not
90 back to reconsider that part of it.
| He failed to state that the Lamb and
| Black crowd, a minority, would have
brought the matter up in convention had
! they not gone back and used some Oil on
| the troubled waters.
| A fellow who wanted to get his name in
the paper said ''the EAGLE has always been
| a liar and wants TO keep up its reputa-
| ton"
| Carey Smith offered a resolution that
no man be compelled to pay tax on his
debts The resolution was tabled. The
/ chair suggested that the candidates want
/ ed the resolution to be tabled tor the taxes
would have to be made up on minus
capital
! c. H Mody, Jewel county, made a few
| scathing remarks, pumping stamina into
the delegates and trying to get up a revi-
val something On the plan of another man
with name sounding something like his.
The trio on resolutions reported the fol-
| lowing:
! Resolved, That this convention extends
! its sympathy to the bereaved family OF the
! late Hon Alfred Taylor, and that in the
death OF Brother Taylor the cause of
/ humanity has lost an able advocate, and
| the state at large valued and able citizen
! and statesman.
| ?. The entire absence of drinking pro-
| clivitIes in the delegations TO this Union
Labor convention is a living expression OF
their sentiments on true temperance.
! 3. That this convention return Its
sincere thanks to the people of the
city of Wichita for their uniform
courteous treatment and manifest good
| will shown to US during our stay in their
! beautiful city.
/ 1. That our thanks are rendered the
members of the press of the city for their
uniformly fair report of our proceedings,
and for their liberal donation to our cam
paign fund
5. That we heartily thank the president
! and secretaries of this convention for their
] untiring and patient labor, and the impair
tial manner in which they have performed
! their duties.
GEO CAMPBELL, Chairman.
A GaloUata said thar he thOuCht there
was a discrepancy in the platform about
the land tax and wanted to know about
il.
Someone thought it was alright as it
was and called for the convention to adj
journ.
After giving three cheers fol- the national
and state tickets the convention adj
journed.
CONVENTION NOTES
E. B. Cabell of Pratt, the colored gen
tleman who made talk about the union
soldiers relation to the freedom of the
negro. said yesterday the report did not
convey what he intended to say. He
wanted to say that the union soldier who
would say you d Niger l helped free
you" did not fight for principle but for
money but most Of them would not say
that
And it is said on good authority that
Mr. Snow in the committee on resolutions
kicked on the ingalls, effort going in as
part of the platform. He
wanted the following to come up before
the convention as a resolution and worded
as follows: THAT we denounce John J.
ingalls, as traitor unfit to represent the
state of Kansas: for the Republican party
in its endorsement" &c, according to the
tenth clause as adopted, but he went
under.
And Lathrope championed the anti
fusion business before the committee on
resolutions, but no, no, ''we must say
nothing about it," 1t is said the chair
man faithfully observed this point
In the forenoon it was decided
not to have a committee of
three for general resolutions and
and in the afternoon it occurred to him
that brother somebody might overflow
and jump up with the anti or any kind OF
''fusin' so he nicely appointed trio,
George Campbell. H. Snow and Mr.. II.
Utley, OF his own faith and pointers
whose duty it should be to care for the
over production of resolving spirit. The
resolutions must be submitted to them,
and they planted themselves behind the
scenes, and 10 and behold the "fusin "
business came in on little white piece of
paper, but Campbell said, 'No; be quiet"
and his report was silent, much TO the dis
gust of the fellows who wanted
to get the concern pledged some way or
other so all kinds of ''fusin' boys went
down by the grace mainly OF the chairman.
The committee on resolutions had a
serious time with the single land tax bus
mess On the floor of their committee
room was found the following, which is a
pointer in itself:
We demand that unimproved land held
for spec uiation shall be taxed equally as
high as improved lands OF equal natural
value.
We demand that all lands forfeit for I'M
paid taxes shall be sold at auction TO act
ual settlers only, under restrictions SINH
lar TO the United States homestead lands
It was noticed that the above e!ogged
some where in the machine and did not
get out 1t is said Lamb and Block made
strong appeal for the resolutions, but no,
no, the single land tax fellows went along
and were managed in the same way as the
anti "fusin"-ers.
Some one said, why is Utley speaking so
strongly for Hixon's nominotion!
Because the state central Democratic
committee has the written resignation Of
the Democratic candidate and Hixon comes
in on quiet set up fusin, was the posi-
tive reply.
The runor about :. B. Todd taking the
place Of long felt want" on the Demo
cratic ticket for lieutenauI governor, was
L. :.