The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
THEY HAVE AGREED
AN EARLY COUNTY CONVENTION
TO BE CALLED.
Colonel HallOwell and Mr.. DonoIass
Will Submit Their Claims to
the Republicans OF the
County and Abide
by the Result.

Colonel James r. Hallowell and Hon
George L. Douglass, the two Sedgwick
county aspirants for the nomination fol-
congressman-at-large on the Republican
ticket, have arrived at an understanding
Yesterday both gentlemen came together
and had conference that lasted three
hours.
1t was mutually agreed between them
to submit their claims for the support of
the Sedgwick county delegation to the
Republicans of the county, and to abide
bv the result in the interest of harmony.
Whichever one fails to get the support OF
the delegation from this county is to with.
draw from the race and to Loyalty support
the claims of the other before the
people of the state and their representa-
tives in the state convention.
Pursuant to the agreement J. H. Nc
Call, chairman of the county committee,
will be requested to call the committee
together for the purpose of agreeing upon
the time to call the county convention.
The committee will probably meet next
Saturday and they viii! probably call the
convention to be held some time about
the middle of February.
Both parties and their personal adheT-
ents seem to be very well pleased with the
treaty. and the general impression among
them is that it will serve to enhance the
licans of the county.
The following is the correspondence that
passed between both gentlemen and that
led to their mutual agreement.
WICHITA, Kan, Jan. IL, 1894.
Hon. Geo. l.. Douglass. City.
My DEAR SIR-You are a candidate for
congress, and being candidate myself
for the same position and both of us being
willing 10 submit our claims, so far as our
own county of Sedgwick is concerned, to
the Republicans of this county, and the
time being indefinite as to the holding of
the state convention SO that we might hold
our primaries in this county, and believ-
ing AS l do. that the party of our choice is
much bigger than any individual member
Of it, and more than individual ambition,
and believing that contest carried Oh be-
tween your friends and my friends until
such time as primaries can tie held regu
larly under the call of the state central
committee will engender more or less bad
feeling. and that it is your duty as well as
my own to avoid such feeling, respect
fully submit to you the following PROPOSE
ton:
That we agree to select a given number
of Republicans each. To illustrate, you
select thirty five, will select thirty five,
making seventy in the aggregate, allow
these men TO select live additional Ones
making seventy-five. These gentle
men to meet, and you to have such time as
may be agreed upon to present your cause
to the arbitrators. and l to have an equal
amount of time to present my claim. af-
ter which the arbitrators shall vote, by
secret ballot, for you or for me, and who
ever receives the highest number of votes
shall be considered Sedgwick county's can
didate for the position that you and l are
contesting for, as far as the differences be-
tween you and myself are concerned.
i do not enter into minute detail as to
this arrangement, but if you should look
favorably upon the proposition that can
be arranged by you and myself, or by
some friends that we may designate. |
merely use the number as l do to illus
trate what may be done.
/ make this suggestion in the very best
of faith and with AN earnest desire to avoid
contention in the ranks of the Republi
party and to prevent the engeudering of
bad feeling between your pirtisans and
my friends.
An early reply TO this will greatly
Obllge. Very Respect fully Yours,
j. r. HALLOWELL.