Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-10-10
HOW IT HAPPENED.
A Mysterious Telegram from
Topeka.
Which Changed Fifteen Votes
in as Many Seconds.
WHO SENT 1T?
The Harvey County Republi-
cans want to know
Why a Judicial Contest Should
be Settled f ON Topeka.
HADSOME ONE SEEN CY?
Reno County Republicans to
Support
Mat Simpson for Appellate
Judge Next Year.
HADSOME ONE SEEN CY?
Reno County Republicans to
Support
Mat Simpson for Appellate
Judge Next Year.
Newton Republican, Get .. ,O5.

Newton Republican, Get 2. '05.
Judge F. l.. Martin of Hutchinson,
was made the nominee of the Rebup-
lican judicial convention at Hutchin-
son last evening after casting over 300
ballots. The vote on the final ballot
stood 80 for Martin and Is for A. L..
Greene, the candidate from Harvey
county The delegates from this
county stood by their candidate from
start w finish.
The convention adjourned yesterday
afternoon shortly after 5 O'Clock with
out having made nomination. The
delegates met again at 1880 o'clock
and commenced bal!Oting. During
the first part of the evening recess OF
about thirty minutes had Deen taken
and ballOtiDg resumed. when tele-
gram MAS handed to chairman of the
Mcpherson county forces. There was
hurried consultation among the dele
yates from Mcpherson and whisper
| ing to few Of the leaders Of the Reno
county men. Then mOtiOn was
made and carried for twenty minutes
for le.ess, during which time the
members of the convention from Nc
PhersOn and Reno concluded the deal
that had evidently been cut and dried
long before.
The telegram was evidently from
Topeka from Judge Milligan, who was
trere watching tue decision OF the
supreme court in regard to the legal
ity of the present law establishing the
new judicial districts. The SUPPOSE
ton is mat had he learned that the
law had been declared demonstrations
al or that would in all probability be
the dec sion. Then it was that the
deal could be cODsummated with salts
faction to both Reno and Mcpherson.
The plan is as follows: Reno was to get
the nomination for judge this year il
the COUNTY would promise its support
for Simpson tor the Appellate court
next Year. If the law redistricting
the state was unconstitutional, then
McPherfOn Was in reality out Of the
district, but by deceing the members
fir III Harvey until they could make
the nom nation, then Harvey out OF
courtesy would move to make the
nomination luminous and the whole
thing wuuld be cinched, as a unani-
NOUS nomination would be a nomi-
nation, whether Mcpherson had d
right there or not.
After the twenty minutes recess
ballot or two were taken for the fun
of tile hing and then the entire vote
of Mcpherson county went to Martin,
making his vote thirty to Greene's iif-
teen. G. L. Branine Of Harvey moved
that. the nomination be made unani'
nous and the nomination was carried.
Throughout the contest the dele
gates from Harvey have refrained
from any skull-duggery or trickery
and have it to their credit that they
went to Hutchinson with purpose
that was ia the right and stuck to ii
through thick and thin. If the nom
nation was taken from them by I'M
fair means, it is nothing to their dis
credit. If they made the mistake of
making the nomination unanimous
through ignorance of the true state OF
affairs, they will at least have the con-
ISOLATION that they were magnanimouS
even in defeat, and that that defeat
was possible only by resort on the
part of Reno and Mcpherson to unfair
means.