Morris tribune., 1890-07-23
Large Number of Delegates
Present.
Every Town in the County,
Except Three, Repre-
Sented.
The Convention Decides to
Nominate a County Ticket.
Convention AdjournS Until
Saturday, August I'd,
When a County Ticket will be
Placed in the Field.

cordance with the call III the TRIBUNE,
a delegate convention of the Stevens
County Farmers Alliance assembled
at the court house in this city.
Secretary Schlattman called the
convention to order and read the call.
On motion, l.. ID. Perkins was cleo
ted chairman, and I. E. Colahan was
elected secretary.
The following committee on Gre
dentials was appointed; TORY,
Church, Joe Ernest, Leayit. VanHorm
While said committe was examin-
ing credentials, Milo Camp, Frank
Smith, Roberts, and others spoke in
favor of making nominations.
C. Sax was of the opinion that
making county nominations would
tend to weaken the legislative ticket;
and looking at the matter in that
light, he was decidedly opposed to
making Alliance nominations for
county officers. Said that the ALI
ance was principally interested in
securing the legislature-the law
making power-as it was to the
legislature that the farmer had to
look for the amelioratiOn of his con-
dition and the lessening of his bur-
dens. He preferred peoples con-
vention to make nominations and
nominations thus made he would sup
port with all his heart.
L. J. Schlattman said that he was
in favor of letting the majority rule,
and if the majority of the members
of the Alliance were in favor of MAX
ing nominations, he would stand by
them. He could not see why 1t
would weaken the legislative ticket
by making county nominations, pro-
vided good men were nominated.
He thought it not best to nominate a
strict Alliance ticket, but rather a
peoples ticket.
Mr.. Sax thought it perfectly
ridiculous for the Alliance party to
nominate peoples ticket.
Logue agreed with Schlattman.
SAID that the Alliance would lose
nothing if ticket was nominated
and even defeated. He did not be.
lieve that it would weaken the legis-
lative ticket by making county nomi-
nations.
Mr.. Sax explained that he was OPP
posed to the Alliance nominating a
peoples ticket, but if the people
would come together in mass conven.
ton and place a peoples ticket in
the field, why, all right.
| The committee on credentials re.
ported the names of II delegates
who were entitled to seats in the con.
vention. Every town in the county.
except Eldorado, Baker and Ever.
glade, was represented. All of the
delegates elected were not present.
however, but there were 60 or more
in attendance.
/ A resolution was offered in relation
to allowing those Alliances not hav.
ing regularly elected delegates pre-
sent, the right to be represented by
members of the A lance who were
present. TO this resolution any
number of amendments were offered
$50 many, in fact, that the proceed
ings became decidedly mixed, making
it impossible for the chairman to de
eide just what was before the conven
ton; but few well-timed and bust
ness-like remarks by Darlington
Phelps Strengthened out the mixed
and tangled mess and the convention
got down to business again.
| A resolution was adopted allowing
delegates present to cast the full vote
which the different Alliances were
entitled to.
| Phelps moved that the Alliance put
a county ticket in the field.
1 Camp, Bragg Col.afthRassTIff Roberts ant
others spoke in favor of the motion
| Finally roll call commenced, dele
gates being requested to answer"yes,
| if in favor of making nominations
and no." if opposed to it. 81 name.
were called, showing IS in favor Of
making nominations, and against it
and it was then decided to dispense
with farther calling of the roll, as il
was perfectly evident that more thar
two-thirds of the delegates present
were in favor of making nominations
Frank Smith moved the convention
proceed to make nominations.
Schlattman, Phelps, Bragg, and
several others objected to making
nominations at that time, as many OF
the delegates had left the convention
on account of school meetings that
were to be he held that evening in
the different towns in the county.
Bragg said that it was not under,
stood in his town that nominations
were to be made by the convention
on that day.
On examining the fcall it was
found that it did not set forth that
nominations would be made at that
time, it having been accidently left
out by the secretary who wrote the
call.
C0lahan expressed himself In the
most earnest manner in favor of max: