The Butler weekly times., 1892-07-27
! GOVERNOR STONE.
hGmina:ea On the 18th Ballot
Amidst Great Enthusiasm.

"A Stone Cyclone" Came to Coo! Il e
Atmosphere and Approve
the Choice.
A Strong Ticket Throughout.
For rCoyepnor-WILLIAM j. STONE.
For Lieutenant Govenor-JOHS Il. O'MEARA.
F6r Secretary Of State-A. \. LESUEuE.
For Auditor-JAMES 81. sELBERT.
For Treasurer-Ion. V. STEPHENS.
For Attsrrey Generai-FRANK WALKER
FOR Railroad i1inInissioner-JAMks COW
GILL.
Tor Electors AT Large-CLARLEs b. McAFEE
and Y. ID JHI EMOSD.
jefferson City, Mo, July 20.-1t
IL to be Governor Stone.
SO spoke the Missouri democracy
tLis afternoon after a mighty
struggle.
The eloquent Stone, who comes
cut Of the southwest, has won as
hard battle as ever was fought for
tie governorship by a Missouri
democrat
now 1T WAS DONE.
Amidst uproar from the throats
Of thousand excited men and the
din Of wind storm that came down
upon the capitol from the Galloway
hills was William J. Stone named
for governor by the Missouri demo
Gratis.
No such exciting scene has ever
before been beheld in the states po-
l.tical history. Neither have demo-
Gratis anywhere ever fought to 50
bitter a::fnish to drop Immediately
after the fight was won into SO hap
py and brotherly reunion.
The struggle over the choosing OF
William J. Stone and the love feast
which followed it will long be re,
membered in Missouri.
The men from the kingdom OF
Galloway started the Stone stampede
and a wild stampede it was The
deadlock OF Tuesday night continued
through the earlier morning session
today.
Galloway county was called. Cal
laway had been voting steadily fol
Yeaman as instructed, then the
eight votes of the kingdom had been
changed to Dalton, but in the nine
teenth there came change.
Chairman Fred Bell said: "Caila.
way votes eight for Stone"
TURNED INTO BEDLAM.
The convention was II bedlam i'll
an instant. The Stone men Saw
what was coming. They Went wild
1t was lsany minutes before anyone
could be heard.
Then there was Il dispute over the
vote for Jasper. The Jasper mer
fought among themselves, but two
and one half of their votes that had
been going to Claycomb were given
to Stone. There was small divi
sion of the Stone onslaught when
Jefferson suddenly changed its eight
votes to Gibson. This gave the
faithful Kansas City men about their
last chance to cheer The Stone
avalanche began again it's rush. The
Phelps county delegation turned
from Dalton TO Stone and Pulaski
county contributed two converts.
The uproar grew and grew. Stone
men saw things coming their way.
The desertion OF Dalton by the St.
Louis men settled it. The tenth
ward Of the city cast its two for
Stone, the eleventh followed. The
Stone men began to prance like in
sane people. Their shouts Jared
the roof of the hall
\ huge Nevada man seized the
purple Stone club banner that had
hung over his delegation and carried
it up and down the aisle, stronger
outbursts of cheering followed its
wake.
The thirteent, fifteenth, sixteenth
and seventeenth st. Louis wards de.
serted Dalton for Stone; the TWEEN
tieth followed; the din grew greater
STONE Is NOMINATED.
'Stone, Stone yelled the man
from the southwest. "Stone is nom.
mated" A huge portrait of Stone
was carried to the chairman's high