The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-12
HUMPHREY NOMINATED.
The Republican State Convention
Names Candidates.
Humphrey, Felt, Horton, Kellogg and
Wlnans Renominated -Hovey For Au-
dItor and slower For Treasurer
I'D 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 at
4:2o p M, by Henry Booth, chairman of
the State Central Committee. Follow.
ing the precedent there was an opening
prayer by Rev. f. NJ. McCurilan, of this
city. Three-quarters of an hour was
taken up in correcting the roll of dele
gates, and thenitwas, by vote, declared to
be the official roll of the convention. Lew
Finch, of Usage, nominated w. &.
Smith, of Atchison, for temporary chair
man. 7. +. Carver, of Salina, nomi-
mated F. b. Dawes, of Clay. A call of
the roll resulted in the election of w.
r. Smith by vote of 4l2 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. Walick, G. I. Anthony S. w. Ham,
mond, E. Vangundy, R. n. Allen, w.
McMerifield, R W. Easley, ]. B. Benz
ingtol, L. NJ. Pickering of johnson,
G. NJ. Purks, C. R. Mitchell, C NJ.
Harshbarger, A L. March, I. S. Ham,
w. A. Reeder, A. H. Bentley, c. D.
Shredder, f. B. DAVIS, ]. D. Hazen, X.
E Wilcoxson, C. Ii. Eldred, j. I. Hoff-
man, C Dohart P. NJ. Clark, P. @
Bond, w. d. Wider, j. f. Vanbokers,
James Justiss, C. 4. 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 onSresolutions 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 ]. 81. Creighton
the nomination was made py acclama-
ton.
R. n. Allen, of Neosho, placed Gov
ernor L. q. 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, j.
Felt in nomination for Lieutenant
Governor. On motion of A. E. Park, of
Marshall. the nomination was made by
reclamation.
j. 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 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 fer Attorney-Gen-
eral was made unanimous
L. d. 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-
ton in 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 b. Stearnes,
of Lane; Ben Pagan, of Ellis
worth; A. Il. Burtis of Finney;
d. L. Brown, of Cloud; Tell w. Walton,
OF Lincoln; Nick Reitz. of Johnson; R.
]. Whitman, A. S. Thompson, of Rice;
James 7. Richie, of Riley; Z. L. Rush,
OF Rush: L. ]. 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, 25; Stearne, 40;
Pagan, 25; Burtis, 20; Brown, Is; Wal
ton, 22: Reitz. IS: Whitman, 10: Thomp-
son, 40; Richie, IS; Rush, Is; Pettijohn,
IL: Hovey, 103; Waller, 100.
The final ballot resulted: Hovey $50;
Waller, 90.
The convention then adjourned to ten
a. m. Thursday.
SECOND DAY.
TOPEKA, Kan, Sept. Son the reas-
Eembling of the Republican convention
the nomination and balloting for Treas
urer commenced.
Bourbon County presented the name
of j. J. Stewart of that county. ]. 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:
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 on
the roll, was reached, it was almost q
tie between the two candidates Wyan-
dotte gave her fifteen votes for Slower
which gave him majority, tho result
being: Slower, 2S5; Casteen, 272; Sims,
8; necessary to q choice 2s2.
THE PIT ATFoRx
The Republicans OF the State of Kansas,
now assembled In a convention composed
OF more than 500 delegates, each county be-
Ing represented by duly accredited MEM
DerS. declafe their Continual adheranca IN