Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-09-20
General E'l!,y's Hosts.
GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.
THE POP GATHERING SATURDAY.
The Historic Kilkenney Fight
Not in 1t To Any
Great Extent.
The Field Of Battle StpeWn
With the Slain.

AS per call, the populists met at
the court house, Saturday, for the
purpose of putting up a Legislative
and county ticket. OF course, "the
office seeks the man." but it ex-
perienced no difficulty in finding
n in this convention. 1t is sur
prising to find so many of these an
didates who are willing, nay anxious,
to leave their business, their families
and enioyments of home and sacrifice
all and assume the duties and re-
sponsibilities of office and all for the
sole purpose of serving the dear
people.
As foreseen for some time, the
convention was one that would Gre
ate strife and dissension in the pop
ulist ranks. Every candidate was
not a delegate but nearly every del
egate was a candidate.
The convention was to be called
TO order at 10 o'clock A. NJ, and
shortly afterwards was by Chairman
Kelley, who was made temporary
chairman with John Robb, temper
airy secretary.
Very little was done before dinner
except organize temporarily and ap-
point the different committees. Dur
ing the dinner recess, the different
candidates were busily laying the
wires that were to bring the plums
to their basket.
After dinner, the convention got
down to business and repudiated
every proposition of so-called reform
that the party has been agitating all
summer. The first was to whether
a candidate should approach a
delegate or not. A canvass was
made and a vote declared for that
privilege; then someone made the
claim that some votes had been left
out, but nothing decisive could be
figured out of a total vote of less
than 800.
The order of business was a gem
and no mistake and developed a
great dark African in the woodpile.
1t has been heralded both far and
near and all the year that the pops
were to reform the methods of nom
mating candidates.. BY their meth
cd every caucus was to have an
election of candidates and those lists
OF candidates were to be compiled
and placed before the convention in
caucus. BY this method, every man
could express his choice and it would
be unnecessary for a candidate to
be in attendance on the convention;
but alas for reform, this procedure
was inimical to the slate and Kelley
very conveniently lost the compiled
lists-not Intentionally of course, but
by accident. After a fruitless search
by Kelley's lieutenants, it was de-
cided the compiled lists had been
lost or stolen and the nominations
had to be made in the old way. And
a very good thing it was too-for
the slate.
Resolutions were next in order
and they were hot shot for every
body except the Omaha and Mitchell
platforms and Senator Kyle's vote for
free wool and a tax on sugar.
The section censuring populist
county officials for employing dep
uties that belong to other parties
was a direct slap at VIM. Atchison,
county clerk, and Treasurer Good
win, the best representatives they
have in the court house. But the
browning bit of selishness cropped
out when the last section of the
resolutions was read. This was to
the effect that no man could have
Office who had not been a populist
more than one year and had not
nd his light under a bushel.
Next, came the consideration OF
Inc slate and the first thing was
state senator. NJ. j. Graves and j.
7. Kelley were put in nomination.
Mr.. Graves, the farmer, was not on
he slate and although his claims to
)arty distinction were ably set forth