The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-10
THE CHILD IS BORN.
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dozen souabbles and uproarious rioting,
but at Sherman everything stopped
short Mr.. Anderson cast the five
votes of the township for Boone
and Immediately three Germans delegates
and about thirty able bodied Amidon men
who had thirty pairs of magnificent lungs
were on their feet prote sting and all
shouting at the same time. of course
Governor Glenn pounded the table with
his soose-necked cane for ten minutes be-
fore he could get order, 1t was then
learned that the three Germans wanted TO
vote fer Amidon, but Mr.. Anderson stated
that the five delegates from the township
had written instructionsSSo vote for Boone
first. last and all The time The
janele was terrible and finally the
chair WAS asked to decide on the
question whether the instructions were
binding and he decided they were unless
the convention would order otherwise.
Great excitement followed this and the in
structions were called for. They could not
be produced and Sherman township was
passed over The result of Ishis ballot was
that no one received majority vote.
Judge Shields withdrew from the race and
another ballot was ordered When Sher-
man township was reached again the
same question came up and the
same fight followed Mr.. Anderson
however, had the written instructions
in his hand, and the votes of Sherman
were counted for Boone. During the
wrangIe Governor Glenn got hot because
he couldn't get order, and likened the del
egates to flock of geese, although herd
of bowling Dervishes would be nicer
comparison. He finally told them that If
thew did not come to order he would de-
cline to preside further over the conven-
ton and let the fact go abroad to the
world that Democrats had no respect
for their chairman. Ed O'Bryan
came TO the rescue of the veteran Demo
crat and succeeded in throwing oil on the
troubled waters When order was re-
stored the third ballot was taken, with the
following result: Boone 6S16, Amidon 1917
and Blake z; necessary to choice 63.
When the vote was announced some en-
thusiastic Democrats picked Boone up and
bore him on their shoulders to the plat
form, when he made short speech. In
the first bollot Amidon lacked only 24
votes of getting the nomination.
On motion a committee of nine was
ordered TO be appointed by the chair, three
from each district, Co constitute central
committee, after which the convention
WAS adjourned.
THE FIGHT ON COMMISSIONER.
The delegates of the commissioner dis
trict went into convention Immediately
after the adjournment of the larger con-
vention, and Immediately appointed COM
mittee of ten to meet a like conference
committee from the Alliance to arrive
at an agreement on commissioner.
The both committees met in the
old common pleas court, with Will
Glenn as chairman. The Alliance
insisted on getting the commissioner and
so did the Democrats. 1t seemed lmpos-
sible to agree but finally the two commit
tees went into consultation singly, and
when they met again an understanding
was arrived at to the effect that the DEM
ocrats agreed to nominate Caleb Shaw if
the Alliance would agree to indorse him,
aud if that failed the Alliance would agree
with the Democrats on Cyrus Willis. The
Alliance committee went back to their
district convention and reported, but Mr..
Shaw WAS not acceptable and the Alliance
regularly nominated Cyrus Willis.
1t then began to dawn on the Dem
ocrats that the Alliance was play
ing them for suckers, for Willis
not only turned out to be an Alliance
man, but delegate in the Populist con-
vention. John Carney and Jim Brown
made red-hot speeches, expressing their
WEAKNESS at the Alliance tactics, and the
Democratic district convention proceeded
at once to nominate a commissioner
Perry Allen, Bony Smith, Caleb Shaw
and Matt Bush were placed in nomina-
lion, and, after two ballots being taken,
Bush was nominated. In the meantime
the report went back to the Alliance
convention that the Democrats had
rejected their man and were then
nominating a straight Democratic
candidate. The whole Alliance conven-
tion burst ont in storm of Indignation
and swore by all that is good and holy that
the Democrats could 90 to thunder, that
they were tired of them anyway aud that
u straight Alliance man should be nomi-
mated. Judge Campbell then heard that
the Democrats had nominated Bush, and
having also heard that Bush was a pretty
good sort of an Alliance man he proposed
that he be Endorsed. Another man
slyly said that Bush may not be
in Alliance man now, but that he
will be about election time and for
three years thereafter. The word was
slipped around among the indignant dele
gates that Bush was rip-snorting A Iii.
snce man, and Immediately Mr.. Willis,
who had already been nominated, was
ruthlessly stripped of his honorS and Bush
nominated practically by reclamation.
The Alliance demonstrated themselves to
he too smart for the Democrats for Bush
Is as rank an Alliance man as Jerry Smp-
son, although not half dozen Demo-
Gratis know it.
His nomination was the scheme of the
Alliance, and when the Democrats thought
they were travelling squarely in the mid
Tile of the road they were really in very
c.everly contrived Alliance trap. 1t was
70 cleverly contrived that at first not more
han dozen members of the Alliance
were IN the secret. The ticket gives no
general satisfaction at all. ana there is
40 question n 5 TO its certain defeat.
DIED Al OXFORD.
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