Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-26
THEIR OWN TICKET.
Republicans Who Object to the
Action of the County Committee
MEET AND CHOOSE CANDIDATES
They Also Adopt Platform That Rakes the
Other Fellows.
DETAILS OF THE MORNING MEETING

name is Victory or Aluminium, according to
the outcome. The. "Straightout" Repub'
lican Convention met yesterday and nomi-
mated ticket, three candidates for judge
of Common Pleas No. and one for District
Attorney. In some respects it was rather
unique convention, but Arch Rowand ex-
planned that it was run on Phil Sheridan S
tactics-"never give your plans to the
enemy"-and as Mr.. Rowand had consider
able to say, his explanation was regarded as
ex-cathedra.
In the first place, it was difficult for an
outsider to tell just how many delegates
were present. In addition to the Chairman
and Secretaries there were about 100 men
seated and perhaps so more in front on the
sides of Lafayette Hall, but the roll was
not called, and consequently reporter
could not always tell who was or who was
not delegate.
HOW DELEGATES WERE RECOGNIZED.
Those who.we recognized BY the Chair
had their say, but when an official was
asked the name of a speaker he generally
learned that the Secretary knew his physiog-
nomy but not his name. 1t was
1nslnuated in numerous quarters that the
object of the convention was the election of
eX-Judge Fetterman, and that the rest of the
programme was a side-Show, but the wish
might have been father to the suggestion.
The convention was called to order at 1920
O'Clock A. NJ by W. +. Trimble, who, to save
time and space, it may be said just here
was made Permanent Chairman, as also the
rest of the official force After stating the
object of the convention, Mr.. Trimble added
that in his opinion, there had been no
nomination as yet and it was but right that
the Republican party should have candi-
dates in the field. as the Republican party
was an organization that should be repre-
sented. Certain people had placed certain
candidates in the field, but the people, not
the bosses, had not been consulted, and the
former must be.
The organization was perfected by maxi
ing Chairman, W. F. Trimble, Sixth ward,
Allegheny; Vice Chairman, Captain I. S.
Freeland, Fourteenth ward, Pittsburg; Sec
retar1es, Walter c. Williams; Charles NJ
Johnston, NJ. Fleeson, Peter Moul, Jr., and
David Smith.
NOMINATIONS OF CANDIDATES.
On receiving a renewed lease of power,
Chairman Trimple made second speech to
the purpose and then appointed Alex Gil
1illan, William Hood, DR.. George Forsyth
and William wilkins. A committee on reso-
lutions was appointed and the way was
cleared for nominations.
Arch Rowand nominated Charles S. Fet-
terman, George Y. Burns nominated James
Fitzsimmons, and John Federkell nomi-
mated NJ. A. Woodward, and John K Wal
lace made speech denouncing bossism and
declaring that the ring collar was CALLING to
patriots and that neither ward heelers or
rural roosters could make it fit their necks.
Chairman Trimble informed the conven-
tion that the nomination of N. A. Woodward
was of none effect, as Mr. Woodward had
positively decline to accept.
Robert Morrow, of the Eleventh ward, AL
legheny, nominated l. n. Patterson and
vouched ;or his honesty and legal aualifica-
tions- Arch Rowand had moved the closing
of nominations and the Chair was troubled
id his mind as to which motion had prece-
dence. Rowand finally cut the knot by sug-
gesting that Morrow be allowed to make his
nomina ton, and then Rowand suggested to
the Chair that the convention decide as to
whether Patterson's name should be enter
tanned. For some reason it was not, and
then the nomination of Fetterman, Shafer
and Fitzsimmons were made unanimous.
Mr.. Morrow wasn't altogether satisfied, but
he was in n minority.
Deputy Sheriff Rftchey next nominated L.
X. Porter, of Killbuck township, for District
Attorney, and after it was explained that
this was not the Porter indorsed for the
Judgeship by the regular County Commit
tee, the nomination was confirmed by accla-
nation.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
The Committee on Resolutions next re-
ported the following, which were adopted
amid considerable enthusiasm:
"The straightout Republicans of ALE
gheny county, in convention assembled,
recognize that upon them devolves the ne
cessity of discharging such obligations in
cumbent upon the Republican county organ
iZation as the county executive committee
has unlawfully assumed the right to dis
charge without authority from the people
The honor of the party in this, the banner
Republican county in Pennsylvania, has
been placed in jeopardy, and We, as loyal
Republicans and good citizens, pledge our
selves to its redemption:
1--WE repudiate the action of the county
committee in nominating candidates for the
Judiciary and the District Attorneyship as
a betrayal OF a public trust, an insult to
popular intelligence and a revolutionary
subversion of the rules by which the party
has been governed in this country since its
organization. That action was taken in
conformity with a bargain between C. L.
Magee and William Finn, Republican
dictators on the one hand, and I. j.
O'Leary, Jr., as the agent of the Democracy
on the other. In pursuance thereof, the
Republican voters of the county, one and
ALL were to be committed to the support of
a mongrel ticket; and to insure this result
Magee and Finn forced their agents in the
committee to defeat a resolution calling for
primaries and a nominating convention,
The committee having abandoned its
allegiance to the people in order to obey the
Magee-Flinn-OLearyc clique, stands nullified
by its own act, and we deny its rights to
exercise further the authority which it has
so shamefully abused.
We view with regret the compliance ex-
hibited by Judges Porter and McClung and
District Attorney Burleigh with the lawless
action of the committee. They are in the
field as the candidates of Magee, Finn and
O'Leary and. in no sense as the candidates
of the people. The opportunity to go be-
fore a regular convention was offered them,
but they rejected it preferring to take the
field wearing q ring collar and in the full
consciousness of the fact that, if they hap
pen to be elected by the ring Democratic
combination, they will take office as the
dependents of an INSCRIPTIONS political
corporation, which conntS upon using them
for its own ends.
POSSIBILITIES PROVIDED FOR.
We protest against the division of offices
among a select few, who pass from one lu-
crative place to another in regular success
sion, while new and more useful men are
Systematically barred out. Under this svs-
TEN the possibilities of maladministration
reach maximum. Yet it Is notoriously
known that these possibilities are deliber-
ately provided for and strengthened by slat-
ing candidates ahead, and always keeping
the places of greatest responsibility in the
hands of the same set of machine politicians
"We realize that under the delegate sys-
TEN gross abuses have crept into the man.
agement of elections in Allegheny county:
that, in the manipulation of primaries and
conventions is to be found the root of the
domination exercised by the Magee and
Finn ring; and that, if there is to be per-
manent publication of politics here the
method of choosing candidates must be
radically changed. We are, therefore, in
favor of the substitution of the Crawford
county system, which enables the choice of
candidates directly by the people at the
polls.
1--WE commend the wisdom of the State
Convention in selecting as the Republican
standard bearers in the impending State
campaign General d. Mem Gregg and Cap
tain J. w. Morrison. Messrs. Gregg and |
Morrison are gallant soldiers and upright |
citizens, and the people of this Common