The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-02
WILL Dave WIN?
Overmyer's Fight to Be Deter
mined Tomorrow
By the Kansas Democratic State
Convention.
DELEGATES COMING IN
Martins Leadership JeOpards
OYermyer Seriously.
Gossip of the Convention Among
the Delegates.

The advance guard Of the Democrats
who viii meet in state convention to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock arrived
today There viii probably be about
400 delegates here Of the 473 who are
entitled to seats.
Secretary w. H. L. Pepperill says
that he has heard from sixty-five cOun-
ties which viii send delegations. and
his list viii be increased tonight when
the delegations arrive. All the rooms
at the Throop, which is headquarters,
have been engaged and many Will stop
at other hotels.
The selection of delegates to the ma
tiOnal convention is the only thing to
be done, but it Will not be accomplished
without trouble. The Shawnee county
delegates who are lighting Overmyer
are receiving much sympathy from
other portions of the state
Very few have anything against
Overmyer, but as they cOncede that ex-
Senator Martin is TO be at the head of
the delegation they object to the other
delegate large being taken from To-
peka- 1t is not fair" said Secretary
Pepperil to a Journal reporter. The
Fifth district has given up on two Occa-
sions and we are getting tired of it.
We do not object to Overmyer, but
there is no use taking both delegates
from Topeka when there are so many
other good Democrats anxious to go.'
Tom DOlans the Washington gold
standard advocate who turned down
Joe Lowe at the county convention,
would like to go to the national con-
ventiOn If he can go uninstructed, but it
is not likely that he viii be allowed to
do So The convention will undOubt-
edly be for free silver and viii say so
and Mr.. DOlan viii probably be allowed
to stay at home
The fifth district has a second can
didate in the person Of 81 w. Branden
burg of Frankfort Marshall county
and he IS not so particular as Mr. DOlan
and is willing to go to the convention
under Instructions
The Fifth district will probably unite
on one of these two men, but whether
or not they viii receive any other sup
port remains to be seen.
James F'ylIe of Colby would also like
to 20 as a delegate at large and he is
expecting the support of the Sixth dis
trict. He is not particular about in
structiOns and Will go tO the national
convention if he is given a chance, no
matter what the conditions laid down
by the state convention
A. II. Atwood of LeavenwOrth is also
a candidate and he expects the support
of eastern Democrats.
lit is evident that Mr.. Overmyer viii
not have very smooth sailing in the con
ventfOn unless some truce is patched up
tonight before the convention meets
Tom Fitch the postmaster at Wichi-
ta is q delegate. and he came today
ITO see how the land lays" he said.
Fitch travels on his good looks to
some extent, and he is always a prom
inent figure at Democratic conventions
He hunting Tor the com DlnarlOn
today, but at a late hour had failed to
find it. Democrats are great people to
make combinations, and Fitch came
early SO he could get in on the ground
floor.
Il was sent up here instructed for
/ free silver is to L. said Postmaster
Fitch with a disgusted air. II suppose
I there is nothing for me to do but to
vote FOR free silver VVhv some old fell
I low fn our convention introduced res
/ olution instructing against sending fed
eral Office holders to the convention,
/ but fortunately 1t did not pass
Mr.. Fitch is not particular abOSt the
! delegateS at large He is willing to
make some kind of a combination. and
I in that combination Mr. Overmyer
/ will probably not be consulted, for like
/ other Wichita people Mr. Fitch thinks
/ that Topeka always gets more than its
share of the good things.
Some of the delegates are wearing
/ button upon which there appears the
4 picture of very fierce yellow bull dog
! Secretary Pepperin explains that the
/ button means that the delegates would
/ rather vote for a yellow dog than a
/ Republican" which is the old Republi-
I can motto reversed.
Ex-Gov. Click is not a delegate. but
/ he is moving about among his Demo-
/ cratic friends. and when he gets a good
] opportunity to say a good word for
/ OVermyer. he does SO. He says Overny-
/ er should be sent to the national con
vention because he would make an ex-
I celent spokesman for the delegation.
4 The Cleveland administration Demo-
| Gratis still hone that free silver may be
| turned down in the state convention,
! but they are hoping against hope The
/ free silver faction is confident of an
easy victory, and unless something un-
/ foreseen happens. they viii carry the
dav without a serious struggle.
The most enthusiastic advocate Of
I Sound money who has arrived is VIM
F. Sapp of Galena. 1--WE viii never
surrender without a fight" said he
/ "and / do not know but it VIII trans
/ pire that the tide which seems to be
/ against US now viii turn the other way
/ and sound money viii carry the day
I only say that this may be the way it
/ will turn out"
Mr. Sapp was the straight Demo-
/ cratic candidate for congress in the
Third district two years ago but this
year he is not running for Office He al
ways makes himself heard, however,
whether he is a candidate or not. Mr..
Sapp says he VIII be candidate for
delegate if sound money wins.
E. E. Murphy of LeavenwOrth came
in at noon today He. with the other
eighteen delegates from Leavenworth
county is looking after the candidacy
Of Mr. Atwood for delegate-at-large
and he says they hope to carry their
man through.
J. G.. Johnson Of Peabody came this
afternoon. He is one of the outside del
egates that is in favor of Overmyer for
delegate-at-large He is also in favor
Of free silver at the present ratio.
Frank Webster, the Chesterfield Of
Kansas Democracy is not after any
thing. He is busy on plans to beat Har-