The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-15
PUT UP NO TICKET
HANDFUL OF PROHIBS GATEEB IN
ANNUAL COUNTY CONVENTION.
Great Party Could Muster Up Only Twenty
Three Persons, Three Of Whom were
Women and One a Man from Oklahoma
1t was a Lonesome Looking Crowd and
They We're luminous for Davie Dale
Bill Campbell Trying to Make
Jurors Of the Remainder of the Party
Will Meet 4 gain in Two Weeks.

Will Meet Again in Two Weeks.
The great Prohibition party of Sedg-
wick county met in annual convention
Yesterday in the Sedgwick block
J. A. Allen. a fine, fat old man was
chairman and T. B. Lawrence. an ex-
ceeding lank and lean brother. was sec
rotary. both Of them finely illustrated
that familiary picture before and af-
ter taking"
The convention was held in the Board
Of Trade hall and as they sat there one
could not help drawing an maginaary
picture Of crankism sitting on the ruins
of enterprise-the sixteenth century on
the lap OF the ninteenth century pro-
gress.
4 sdueamish crew, determined to
crush Wichita, shot off their mouths
where once the very rafters rang with
with prophecies of the future greatness
for the Peerless Princess-clothed in the
embellishments of fine oratory. 1t was
sad looking TO draw the comparison
suggested by the meeting, but il is an
indication of what is to come if men of
broad brains and ambitious pride are
TO be RELOCATED to the rear of pin-headed
Puritans.
There were twenty men and three wo-
men in that convention and one of the
man was a carpet Dagger from Okla
homa They sat in straight chairs
around the chairman, appearing in the
vast hall like a cluster of fly specks on
the foretop jibsail Of Lord Dunrayen' s
Valkyrie.
Chairman Allen looked lonesome as
his eyes watched the door of the hall
for some more of the faithful, but they
came not. Bill Tiger had the re-
mainder of the party up at the court
house trying to slip them into the jury
box to try Little Jack" for selling
"pilliwink' or "burgoo" or whatever
the recent name for it is.
They all sat around waiting for some
body to talk but as no one else cleared
his throat for action the man from Ok
lahoma moved that the convention adj
journ for two weeks at which time 1t
should assemble again to nominate a
county ticket. This motion met with
favor but the chair thought that Okla
homa had no parliamentary right to
participate in a Kansas convention.
The result was that it was agreed that
if a Kansas member of the convention
made the motion it would be accepted.
The spirit moved a Kansas man TO make
the motion and ii was passed
Among the distinguished members Of
the convention was ex-Policeman Chas.
Guyer, who, it is said, would not OBJ
ject to be chief of police under Bill Tiger
regime. Charlie Thought last year
that the Prohibitionists were going to
win and he accepted the nomination
for clerk of the district court. OF the
5000 votes cast at that election he got
between 200 and 500. Singing under
his defeat he counseled the convention
yesterday to make no nominations as
there is very little pleasure in being the
star actor at political sacrifice. 9th
ers thought different and the final agree
ment was to take two weeks more for
delibera ton before nominatinS are
made.
There will be no judicial convention
held a. it is agreed among them to vote
for Dave Dale. Dave was not present
at yesterdays convention, but he was
in convenient place to see and shake
hands with the leaders. Besides he
had one or two of his friends in the
ante room who expressed his wishes to
the Prohibs. one Of which was that he
did not want to be publically nominated
by them as it would hurt his chances
with the other voters. The Prohibs
caught onto the cue very nicely and
hence made no arrangements for jul
dicial convention.
No" said one of them, To a reporter
for the Eagle. I'VE made no arrange
ments for judicial convention. but We
will have our candidate nevertheless.
and we will vote for him TO a man. We
have the police judge and attorney gen.
eral now and we must and will have
the district judge. This is fight to a
finish and we will make the fight of
the full machinery of the law. In this
fight we must put on the foX's skin in
stead of the lions and when the cleo
ton is over we will have the judge"
VIII itsbe Dale?''
There is one thing certain, IL will not
be Hatton."