Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-09-15
COUNTY CONVENTION.
THE TICKET.

Representative ....... A. III. Blair.
! County Attorney. ....-....S. NJ. Hutzel.
Clerk of Court .C C. n. Gibson.
| Probate Judge. .. H. CoWlck.
County Superintendent. A. S. Peacock.
Commissioner I'd district w. B. CIPHER.
The Republican County convention of
Trego county for 1894 is now matter of
history. 1t was called to order at the
court house, Tuesday, September II, at
II O'Clock a. IN. by Lee Monroe, chair
man of the county central committee.
The call was read by D. B. Rogers, sec
rotary of the committee.
@. G. Yetter was nominated for tenn
porary chairman and was elected by ac-
clamation. For temporary secretary,
H. Harlan was elected.
Upon motion the following committees
We're appointed:
Credentials-C. G. Ridgway, Ogallah
township; K. W. Rogers, Wilcox; 0.
B. Kessler, Collyer; George Young,
Franklin; NJ. w. Gift, Wa-Keeney; D.
j. Wilson, Glencoe; ]. L. Altman, Riv-
erside.
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Riverside; E. F. Bryant, Wa-Keeney;
H. D. Reid. Collyer.
| Order of Business-A. P Hinshaw,
Wa-Keeney; Eli McCollum, Ogallah;
William Bower, Collyer.
Resolutions-D. B. Rogers, Glencoe;
William Hoobler, Wilcox; Charles
Bell, Franklin.
Upon motion the convention adjourned
until l O'Clock p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
1t was 80 O'Clock before the conyen-
ton got down to work after dinner.
The committee on credentials re-
ported the following delegates entitled
to seats in the convention:
Riverside. L. Altman, w. F. King,
William Estes, o. Joseph.
Glencoe-D. J. Wilson, E. NJ. orion,
D. B. Rogers.
Ogallah-C. G. Yetter, G. G. Ridgway,
7. S. Howe, Eli McCollum, Reuben
Burns.
Wa-Keeney-E. F. Bryant, r. B. For
roster, G. f. Folkers, James Smelling,
Alex Sellers, John Sims, H. Harlan, J.
| E. McColl. F. W. Fisher, A. P. Hinshaw,
NJ. w. Cliff, D. E. Pendegrass, D. L.
McCarty, John Brown.
Wilcox = K. W. Rogers, William
Hoobler, ]. A. Wright, A. J. Gullett.
Collyer H. D. Reid, William Bower,
Jr., A. B. Redmond.
Franklin = A. S. Beason, George
Young, John Hoover.
Upon motion the report was accepted
and the committee discharged.
The committee on permanent organi
cation recommended that the temporary
organization be made permanent. Upon
motion the report was adopted.
Committee on order of business re-
ported the following:
l. Representative.
2. County attorney.
3. Clerk of court.
A. Probate Judge.
5. County Superintendent.
6. Commissioner I'd district.
The secretary read the report of the
committe on resolutions, which was
unanimously adopted;
We, the republicans of Trego county,
Kansas, assembled in convention, offer
our allegiance to the cardinal principles
of our party, as enunciated by the plat
forms heretofore adopted by its national
conventions and by its Kansas State
convention of 1894.
Point with pride to its past achieve
ments and express our confidence that
in the future whenever entrusted with
power it will quickly and efficiently re-
spond to all just and wise demands of
the people and so conduct the affairs of
our government as to best serve the in
terests of our citizens generally with
special favors to none and exact justice
to all.
We favor such national and state leg
islation as will encourage irrigation and
other developments of the natural re-
sources, and therefore we demand that
a portion of the state and county taxes
be expended to retain the stream water
of Western Kansas.
The constant patriotism of our party
is in itself guarantee to the nation that
the interests of its defenders, their
widows and orphans, Will be literally
cared for, and we denounce their cruel
and deliberate betrayal by the present
democratic administration.
We favor the free and unlimited coin
age of the products of the American sill
yer mines at ratio of Is to l with a
, protective levied upon all foreign silver.
, Next in order was the selection OF a
. nominee for representative. FL. Harlan
placed in nomination A. H. Blair. 0. B.
Kessler nominated 9. NJ. Bell.
Before the ballot was taken the chair
appointed Reuben Burns and Otto
Young as tellers.
The result of the ballot was:
Bell. ....-,...-.. 49,. ~
The chair declared Mr.. Blair the NOM
inee.
Next came county attorney. S. NJ.
Hutzel and John A. Nelson were placed
J in nomination. The vote was:
} Nelson. ........... III
The chair declared Mr.. Hutzel the
choice Of the convention.
Next came clerk OF the district court.
C. n. Gibson and o. A. Cortright were
placed before the convention. The bal
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