Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-11
HUMPHREY NOMINATED.
Tho Republican State Convention
Names Candidates. a
Humphrey, FAt. Horton, Kellogg and
WInans observation-disclosures For Au-
Siftor and Stover For Treasurer
Tho Platform.

TOPEKA, Kan. Sept 4-The Repub-
1ican State convention met here yester-
day with its usual full attendance.
The convention was called to order at
4:aO p M, by Henry Booth, chairman Of
the State Central Committee. Follow
ing the precederft there was an opening
prayer by Rev. =. NJ. McCurilan. of this
city. Three-querters of an houf was
taken up in correcting the roll OF Sdele-
gates, and then it was, by vote. declared to
be the official roll of the convention.: Lew
Finch, of Usage, nominated W. r.
Smith, of AtchisDn, for temporary chair
man. T. F. Carver, of Salina. nomi-
mated F. b. Dawes, OF Clay A call of
the roll resulted in the election Of w.
R. Smith by a vote of 412 against 145.
Fred Halverson, OF Stafford, and J. E.
Holman, of Jackson, were elected tenn
porary secretaries.
The chairman announced the com
mittee on resolutions as follows: j. K.
Hudson, chairman; R. K. Mccartney. B.
F. Wallick, G. T. Anthony. S. w. Ham
mon8 E. Vangundy, r. N. Allen, w.
McMerifield. R w. Easley, ]. B. Benz
ington, L. M. Pickering of Johnson,
G. M. Purks, c. R. Mitchell, c. NJ.
Harshbarger, A. L. March, T. s. Ham,
w. A. Reeder,' A. 81. Bentley, c. D.
Shredder, F. oB. DAVIS. ]. D. Hazen. X.
E. Wilcoxson, C. II. Eldred, j. T. Hoff
man, C. Dohart P. Nj. Clark. p. @
Bond, w. D. Wider, j. F. Vanbokers,
James Justiss, C. 7. Triplett ]. c.
Ranlsin.
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. E. Hoagland and Ernest g. Krezdorn,
of Leavenworth, and Miss Minerva
Walker, of Harper assistant secretaries.
In order to prevent delay. the COM
mittee on resolutions being out, Mr..
Creighton, 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 81. Horton in nomination for Chief
Justice. On motion of j. Fl. Creighton
the nomination. was made Dy acclama-
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.
E. j. Kenney, of Neosho placed A, ].
Felt in Domination for Lieutenant
Governor. On motion of A. E. Park, Of
Marshall the nomina ton was made by
reclamation.
J. NJ McNays of Phillips. placed the
name of Mr.. Higgins before the conven-
ton for Secretary of State. On motion
of Frank Danford, of Ellis, the nomina-
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. y. kellogg, and, on mo-
ton, his nomination for Attorney-Gen-
Oral was made unanimous.
L. ID. Youog. of Mitchell, nominated
George w. Winans for Superintendent
of Public Instruction, and received the
prevailing compliment of a unanimous
vote.
Each candidate appeared before the
convention and accepted his nomina-
ton in brief speech.
Following these came the first contest
Of the convention-the nomination for
&uditor of State. Fifteen names were
presented to the convention, as follows:
II. ]. Bone. of Clark; Oscar Shat
ffer of Crawford; Frank B. Stearnes,
Of Lane; Bea Pagan, of Ellis
worth; u. 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 L. Richie, Of Riley; E. L. Rush,
of Rush; L. j. Pettiiohn. 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. 25; Stearne, 40
Pagan, 25; Burtis, 20; Brown, 16; Wal
ton, %; Reitz. 45; Whitman, 10; Thomp-
son. 40; Richie, 43; Rush, Is; Pettijohn,
Il; Hovey, 1O3: Waller, 1O4.
The final ballot resulted: Hovey, 450
Waller, 90.
The convention then adjourned to ten
a. m. Thursday.
SECOND DAY.
TOPEKA, Kan, Sept. Son the reas.
sembling of the Republican convention
the nomination and balloting for Treas.
urer commenced.
Bourbon County presented the name
of j. 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 viii.
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:
Casteen. IA; Stewart ITO; Slower, 104;
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 or
the roll, was reached. it was almost q
tie between the two candidates Wyan
dotte gave her fifteen votes for Slower
which gave him q majority, the result,
being: Slower. 2S5; Casteen, 272; Sims,
s; necessary to a choice 2S2-
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans Of the State of Kansas
now assembled In q convention composed
of more than 500 delegates, each county Be