The Butler weekly times., 1894-03-29
MAJOR SALMON TALKS.
He Tells How The Democratic
Convention Was Fixed For
May Is
He Does Not Believe Ex-Governor
francis Had Anything to DO
With 1t.

He Does NOT beHtNe rA-uoNeIhoE
Fraue,s Had Anything to do
With 1t.
Clinton, Mo, March 9.-Major
Harvey ". Salmon OF this city, chair
man of the Democratic State Execu
tive Committee, was seen to-day and
his attention was called to the crit
cism of Lieutenant Cover John B.
o Meara and others upon the State
Committee for it's action for fixing
so early date-May l5-for the
meeting of the State Convention,
and he was asked to give his version
of the matter. He said.
II have read that a mythical Con
gresham at Washington has been
made to say about the action of the
committee and care nothing for it
but with Lieutenant Governor
O'Meara the matter is quite differ
ent.
"He is trusted Democratic State
official and | am astonished that he
should join i'll a wholesale denuncia-
ton of the members of the commit
tee and insinuate things which as
an intelligent man, he should know
had no foundation in fact"
Have you any objection to stat
ing what caused the committee to
fix such an early date for the meet,
ing of the convention,
''Oh, no. In the first place the
date is not as early as it has been
made ito appear. Four years ago
the convention met at St. Joseph on
the 11th of June, SO you see that
this year the date is only three weeks
earlier. One thing that prompted
the committee to choose the date
specified is the fact that in many
counties the county ticket will be
put in the field weeks before the
meeting of the state Convention. In
this county, for instance the ticket
will be nominated April 7. And !
may as we'll say another thing that
had an influence was the Growing OF
the Republicans over the result OF
the recent special elections in New
York and Pennsylvania, and the
boasts of that party that they will
have ma ority in the next House
of Representatives caused the com
mittee to put on its war paint and
begin preparations for battle.
"What thave you to say to the
charge that Ex-Governor Feancit
manipulated the committee and ..hao
an early convention fixed in order te
take snap judgement on the farmers
who will be putting in their crops?'
II have already shown you thai
the date of the convention is not ex
traordinarily early, and have tole
you what. in my judgment. caused
the committee to promptly begi1
the work of organization. Now, a.
to Governor Francis part in the
matter, I simply want to say as far
as I know Or believe he had no NOR,
to do with it than Tom Reed hat
in forming the Ten Commandments
This talk about the convention
being fixed at date when the farm
l er will be busily engaged putting il
their crops and they will therefor
be unable to attend, is the meres
nonsense The Missouri farmer
are always busy from the time tn
planting season in the spring begin
until small grain is harvested an,
corn laid by, and then again, th
planting season begins in Dunkli
Pemiscot, and other southern cour
ties two or three weeks earlier tha
in Atchison, Nodaway and othe
q counties in the northwestern porto
= of the state, and no date could b
! fixed which would suit all section
of the state alike.
= "As to locating the convention
,. Kansas City, 1 will say that the Sci
\ timent of the committee seemed I
!. be that inasmuch rs the Democra,
:. of Kansas City had made such ga
, liant fight for the ticket in 1892, the
were entitled to what ever recopn