The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-06
COMMITTEE MEETING.
Dates Set for the Selection OF Delegates to the
Various Conventions.


The Republican county central commit
tee met yesterday afternoon in the Office of
County Attorney Morris. There are about
forty members of the committee but for
some eeason, presumably the inclemency
of the weather, only about nine of them
were present At 2 o'clock Chairman
Morris, county attorney, called the meeting
to order and in the absence of Mr.. Hazen.
the secretary, Otto Eckstein acted in that
capacity. The committeeman present
were Joe Henley, p. A. Rohrbaugh, John
Adams, Constable Mercer, Mr.. Naf:sger,
w. 5. Morris, Otto Eckstein, c. V. Fergu-
son and one gentleman from the country
districts whose name was not learned.
The first business on hand was the fill
ing of the vacancies in the committee
committeeman of the First ward
and the committeeman of North
Garden Plain. The chairman
named A J. Wyatt and William Heisell
respectively for the places and upon mo-
ton the nominations were confirmed.
Upon motion March 10 was selected as the
date for the convention to elect delegates
at large to the National Republican con-
vention; the congressional convention and
to elect delegates from Seventh congress
ional district to the National convention.
Upon motion, June II was the day set for
| to elect delegates 10 the state convention
and also the day set for the county nom
mating convention. Upon motion, also,
June 10 was the day set for the convention
to nominate a candidate for county com
missioner and candidate for representa-
tive and the Fifth ward the place set for
these conventions. The basis of repre-
sentation was fixed the same as it was last
year with the exception that
| the representation be based upon the vote
of G. Reed for judge instead of upon the
vote of Colonel Hallowell for congress.
1t was also decided that it be optional
with the voters to select separate delegates
for the commissioner and representative
conventions or to permit the delegates to
the other conventions TO act in that
capacity. 1t required long time to de-
eide upon the basis of representation and
many speeches were made before the ques-
| ton was settled.
About the time the convention was
about to adjourn Judge Wall entered the
| hall and asked permission to make few
remarks. Permission being granted. he
stated that in his opinion the committee
had made grievous mistakei in not electine
| the delegates to all the conventions at once
and stated that he could see no reason
why set of delegates should be elected
to the kinsley or the Hutchinson
or the Kingman conventions three months
earlier than the date set for the selection
of delegates to the state convention. He
thought that there was no general knowl
edge Of the fact that the committee would
decide upon the dates of electing delegate:
to the various conventions or the repre-
sentation Of the members of the committee
would not be so exceedingly small. He
himself, had only heard of the meeting q
few minutes before and he WAS sure other:
were equally ignorant. He appealed tt
them eloquently as Republican to recon
slider their action and gave reasons why i
would strengthen the party to elect dele
gates to all the conventions at the same
time. Otto Eckstein moved to reconsider
but John Adams objected. Joe Henly
County Attorney Morris and Coloue
Rohrbaugh also objected and the motor
was declared out of order.