The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-07-06
FOR STATE CONVENTION.
Lafayette County Democratic Com
mittee Unanimously Request the
State Committee to Call 1t.

Lafayette county democracy went on
record Monday through the central COM
mittee for a state convention. The
meeting of the central committee was
looked forward to with great interest.
That there vas a large majority Of the
democrats of the county favoring a con-
vention no one could deny, but it was
not known how the committeeman
looked at the matter. OF the eight
members seven were present. Cooper,
of Middleton township, could not
attend.
Wilson, Lee. McNeill and Lewis. all
were enthusiastically in favor of the
convention. Judge Harrison personally
was against it, but he had a petition In
his pocket signed by sO2 Ia majority OF
his constituents asking him to vote for
a convention. Tyree, of Washington
township, was against h convention,
and felt that a large part of his people
did not want it. A vOluminous petition
was in his pocket, too, and it gave him
no little trouble.
Lewis said his constituents nearly all
wanted a convention. He had no petit
ton, O was Wilson, Lee or Mcneil
worried with that which the convention
holds so sacred-a petition.
When the convention convened Chair.
man Wilson stated the object of his
call. This Immediately invoked q dis
c~ussion, in which all the members took
q part. Tyree wanted the convention
movement referred to the townships
So did Harrison and Handley, but the
other four members thought the senti.
ment for a convention was too strong tC
90 to all that trouble, and this idea was
given up.
Lee, of Odessa, then offered the
following resolutions:
Resolved, BY the Democratic Execu'
tive Committee Of Lafayette county,
duly assembled by call of Its chairman
that 1t is the sense of this committe,
that a large majority Of the democratic
voters Of this county favor holding
soon, o State Convention in Missouri
for the purpose of considering tn
financial question therefore, the chair
man of this committee In authorized
and directed to sign and return to Hon
G. C. Mafittt, chairman Of Democratic
State Central Committee, the petition
sent by him to county chairmen, ant
in said petition to request said Chairman
to said State Committee 70
the purpose Of reconsidering the matte
of holding a State Convention.
Resolved, That we request Hon
Bernard Corrigan, member of tn
Democratic State Central COMMITTEE
from the Fifth congressional district
when said COMMITTEES meets, to cast hi
vote for holding a State Convention Oh
August 18th, 1895. ssses
Resolved, That the chairman ant
secretary Of this COMMITTEES furnish
copies of these resolutions to the chair
man and secretary of the Democratic
State Central Committee and to tn
member of said committee from tn
Fifth congressional district; also to tn
Post Dispatch, St. Louis Republic ant
Kansas City Times.
After some debate, in which Harrison
said he would rather resign than v0t'
for them, and that he would not vot'
against them, the question was put b.
the chairman. Wilson, Lee, Lewis and
McNeill voted for the resolutions. Tyre
voted against them and Harrison ant
Handley refused to vote. The chairman
announced that the resolutions ha(
carried and ordered the secretary to 81
record it.
Ubon motion of Judge Harrison
seconded by Tyree, the vote was mad
unanimous.
The committee then adjourned sim
die.