Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-09-11
HUMPHREY AGAIN.
Kansas Republicans Renominate
the Chief Executive.
FELT FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
Horton For Chief Justice - McNay For
Secretary of State-KeIlOgg For
AttOrney-GeneraI- HOvey
For Auditor.

| day with its usual full attendance.
The convention was called to order al
4:2O p. m, by Henry Booth, chairman OF
the State Central Committee. Follow
ing the precedent there was an opening
prayer by Rev. T. NJ. McCurilan, of this
city. Three-quarters of an hour was
taken up in correct ng the roll of dele
gates, and then it was, by vote, declared to
be the official roll of the convention. Lew
Finch, of Usage, nominated W. K.
Smith, of Atchison, for temporary chair
man. T. f. Carver, of Salina, nomi-
mated +. T. Dawes, of Clay. A call of
the roll resulted in the election of w.
r Smith by vote of 412 against AS
Mr.. Smith was escorted to the chair by
Mr.. Kicker of WyandOtte; Mr. Hudson,
of Shawnee, and Mr.. Carver, of Atchi-
son.
After returning his thanks for the
honor, he said, speaking of the new
| party: 1--WE are to be con, conted by a
new party, whose only mission is to
sweep over and destroy the fairness Of
this earth, led as it is by demagogues.
We are here to indorse the Blaine
| policy; we are here to indOrse the de-
mands of the soldiers and to further
the great principles of the Republican
party"
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. X.
Hudson, chairman; r. X. Mccartney, B.
| f. Wallick, G. T. Anthony S. W. Ham
mond E. Vangundy, R. N. Allen, W.
McMerifield. R. w. Easley, j. B. Benz
ington, L. NJ. Pickering, L. NJ. Picker
ing, G. NJ. Purks, c. R. Mitchell, c. NJ.
Harshbarger, A. L. March, T. S. Ham,
w. a. Reeder, A. H. Bentley, c. D.
Shredder, F. B. DAVIS, J. D. Hazen, X.
E. Wilcoxson, c. H. Eldred, J. T. Hoff-
man, C. Dohart, P. NJ. Clark, P. Q.
Bond, w. D. Wider, j. T. Vanbokers,
James Justiss, c. T. Triplett, J. C.
Rankin.
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 nominal
ton of candidates. which was carried.
J. b. McAffee, of Shawnee, placed AL
bert H. Horton in nomination for Chief
Justice. On motion of j. II. Creighton
the nomination was made Oy acclama-
ton. Judge Horton responded to the
compliment in a brief speech, accepting
the great honor at the hands of the Re-
publicans, although the Office is not
political one.
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. ]. Kenney, of Neosho, placed A, J.
Felt in nomination for Lieutenant
Governor On motion of A. E. Park, of
Marshall, the nomination was made by
reclamation. At this time Governor
Humphrey was introduced, who in a
few words rendered his grateful &C
Acknowledgements. While anticipating
this result, never doubling, he felt it a
pleasure to tender his thanks for the
honor conferred, which he did not take
to himself as personal.
]. NJ. 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 nomina-
ton was made unanimous.
Lieutenant-GOvernor Felt was intro
duced and responded to the warm greet
ing in few words of gratitude.
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. Il. kellogg, and, on mo-
tion, 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 a unanimous
vote
The dreaded time was at last reached
when the real work was to be started
the nomination of Auditor. Five of the
aspirants had dropped out and only fif-
teen names were presented. as follows:
Il ]. Bone of Clark; Oscar Shat
fer, of Crawford; Frank B. Stearnes
of Lane; Ben Pagan, of Els
worth; A. IL 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.
1t took over an hour to complete the
first ballot which resulted as follows:
Bone, "a: Shafer, %; Stearne, 40;
Pagan, %; Burtis 20; Brown, 1G: Wal
ton, %; Reitz. IS; Whitman, 10; Thomp-
son, 40; Richie, 43; Rush, 13: Pettijohn,
Il; Hovey, 1O3; Waller, 1o4.
The final ballot resulted: Hovey, $50;
Waller, 90.
The convention then adjourned to ten
a m. to-day.
TOPEKA, Kan, Sept. 5.-The Repub-
lican convention yesterday nominated
S. G. Slower, of Republic County, for
Treasurer, which completed the ticket
The following is the platform:
The convention then named the fol-
lowing State Central Committee, after
which adjournment was declared:
1 At large, R f. Moore, of Butler Coun-
tv: First district l. L Terwilliger,
Leavenworth; Second district, S B.
Bourbon; Third district s
S. kirkpatrick, Fredonia; Fourth dis
trict, l. z. Finch, Burlingame; Fifth |