The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-09-10
KANSAS REPUBLICANS.
Meeting of the State Convention
at Topeka.
Governor Humphrey Again Heads the
licket-The Contest For Auditor and
Treasurer Somewhat Lively
The Platform.

topeka, Kan. Sept. 4-The Repub
lican State convention met here yester
day with its usual full attendance.
The convention was called to order a
-4:2O o. m, by Henry Booth, chairman o
the State Central Committee. Follow
ing the precedent there was an opening
prayer by Rev. F. NJ. McCurilan. of thi!
-c,ty. Three-quarters of an hour wa:
taken up in correcting the roll OF dele
gates, and then it was, by vote. declared t.
be the official roll of the convention. Lew
Finch. of Usage. nominated w. 4
Smith, of Atchison, for temporary char
man. T. +. Carver, of Salina. nOm
mated F. Il. Dawes, OF Clay. A call OF
the roll resulted in the election of w.
r. Smith by vote of 412 against 145.
Fred Halverson. of Stafford. and j. +.
Holman, of jackson, were elected tenn
porary secretaries.
Committees were appointed and while
they were out number of speakers ad-
dressed the convention.
At the night session the permanent
officers were unanimously selected. as
follows: R. F. Moore, of Butler. chair
man; A. P. Riddle, of Ottawa, secretary;
j. f. Hoagland and Ernest q. Krezdorn.
of Leavenworth, and Miss Minerva
Walker, of Harper. assistant secretaries
In order to prevent delay. the COM
mittee on resolutions being out, Mr.
Cright ton, OF Labette. moved to suspend
the rules and proceed with the nomina-
ton of candidates. which was carried.
j. b. McAffee, of Shawnee. placed AL
bert II. Horton in nomination for Chief
Justice On motion of j. II. Creighton
the nomination was made oy acciama-
ton.
r. N. Allen. of Neosho. placed Gov
ernor L. U. Humphrey in nomination
for Governor, and on motion of Frank
Danford, of Ellis. the nomination was
made by reclamation.
z. J. Kenney, of Neosho. placed A. j.
Felt in nomination for Lieutenant
Governor. On motion of A. Z. Park. of
Marshall. the nomination was made by
exclamation.
]. M. McNay, of Phillips. placed the
name of Mr.. Higgins before the conven-
ton for Secretary of State. On motion
of Frank Danford. of Ellis, the nominal
ton was made unanimous.
On motion of Eli Payne. the two
Offices of Auditor and Treasurer were
passed over.
c. W. Mcdonald. of Cloud. presented
the name of L. b. Kellogg and. on mo-
ton, his nomination for AttOrney-Gen-
eral was made unanimous.
l.. ID. Young. of Mitchell, nominated
George w. Winans for Superintendent
of Public Instruction. and received the
prevailing compliment of unanimous
vote.
Each candidate appeared before the
convention and accepted his nomina-
.tior n brief speech.
Following these came the first contest
of the convention-the nomination for
Auditor of State Fifteen names were
presented to the convention, as follows:
II. J. Bone. of Clark; Oscar Shat
fer, of Crawford; Frank r. Stearnes,
of Lane; Ben Pagan. of Ellis
worth; A. II. Burtis of Finney;
d. L. Brown, of Cloud: Tell W. Walton.
of Lincoln; Nick Reitz of Johnson: r.
J. Whitman, A. S Thompson, of Rice;
James T. Richie. of Riley; E. L. Rush,
of Rush; L. J. Pettijohn. of Stevens:
Charles NJ. Hovey. of Thomas; John L.
Waller. of Wyandotte. Two of these.
Whitman and Waller. are colored men.
The first ballot resulted as follows:
Bone, "a; Shafer. IS: Stearne, 40;
Pagan, %; Burtis. 20; Brown, 1G; Wal
%. pait r..
son, 40: Richie. 43; Rush. 13; Pettijohn.
II; Hovey, 1903; Waller, lO4
The final ballot resulted: Hovey. $50.
Waller, 90.
Adjourned to ten a. m. Thursday.
SECOND DAY.
TOPEKA, Kan, Sept 5.-On the reas-
-sembling of the Republican convention
the nomination and balloting for Treas
urer commenced.
Bourbon County presented the name
OF J. ]. Stewart of that county. j. w.
Hammond, of Coffey County, on behalf
of the Republican farmers of his coun-
ty, presented the name Of Major Will
liam Sims, of Shawnee. which was sec
onded by Rush County. Doniphan
= County named Samuel A. johnson.
Harper County named O. F. Casteen
and Republic County presented the
name of S. G. Slower.
The first ballot resulted as follows:
e Casteen. IA; Stewart. 10; Slower, lO4;
: Sims, S.
The second and third ballots resulted
! in no choice.
On the fourth ballot the contest was
exciting, the race being between Cas-
teen and Slower. AS the counties were
called the result was watched with
much interest the candidates running
together.
When Wyandotte County. the last on
the roll. was reached. 1T was almost a
tie between the two candidates Wyan-
dotte gave her fifteen votes for Slower
which gave him majority. the result
being: Slower. 2S5; Casteen, a7a; Sims,
5; necessary to a choice 2Saa
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans OF the state OF lnsas
row assembled Ia IA convention compcs ed
of more than 500 delegates. each county be
ing represented by duty accredited mem
Oers. declai e their continued adherence to
the cardinal principles of the Nations nj Me-