The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-08-22
|ONLY FOUR WEIGH IN.
Candidates for the Democratic
Congressional Nomination.
ALL ARE DESERVING PARTY MEN.
Their Names Are Young, WOOdsOn,
Farr and COwherd.
LII ARE DESERVING PARTY MEN.

FROM the Kansas lily Times, August 10.
There will be no dark horses in the
race for the democratic nomination for
congressional is, unless there should
be a deadlock in the convention. The
congressional committee practically shut
out the dusky steedS yesterday by decid-
ing that no delegation can be voted on
at the primaries unless it is filed with
the committee by 4 o'clock Thursday
afternoon.
The committee spent a portion of the
forenoon and all the afternoon yesterday
discussing the holding of the primaries
In the city. The committee had invited
the candidates to meet with il, and four
ayowed candidates-Judge VIM Young,
or Lafayette county; Blake l.. WoOdson,
rims =. Farr and VIM. 5. Cowherd-
were all present. The matter of meet
ing the expenses which the holding of
the primaries will incur caused the first
discussion. This will, OF course, have
to be borne by the candidates, and Mai.
WOodson said that he did not think it
quite fair that the expense should all be
borne by the four who had declared
themselves If any man was to be per
mitted to put delegations in the field.
lie added that it was by nc means a
sure thing that the nomination would
go to any of the four. He looked right
at James Gibson while he was talking,
ana when he had finished Judge Gibson
arose, and in the most positive terms
announced that he had never been. was
not and would not be a candidate for
the nomination.
If the certificate of election was placed
in my hands" said he. This removed
another possibility, and the big four
received b statement with smiles.
The candidates were given a chance
70 see II they could agree upon a list of
judges and clerks, but Mr.. Farr had
prepared a list; and he wanted his own
men, so it was finally decided that each
candidate shall submit a list of judges
n clerks to h committee before 2
O'Clock this afternoon, and that If the
men named are suitable they will be
appointed by the committee. The COM
mittee concluded that the men who bear
the cost of h primaries are the ones
who should have the delegates, SO it
decided that all delegations must be filed
by 4 O'Clock Thursday, and that the
man who files each delegation must pay
Whatever expense is asserted against
hin by the committee, Of course, any
one filing a delegation is entitled to
name a Judge aud a clerk, but those
must be submitted before 2
0clock today, otherwise he will have to
be content with the judges and clerks
named by the men filing the other dele
cations.
The question as to whether the candi-
dates should be allowed to print their
own tickets or not was discussed at
length, but it was finally decided
that the committee should print the
tickets, and that all the delegations
printed together upon the official
ballot. The voting by ballot will be
only IN fourteen wards, it Icing decided
yesterday that the delegates in the out
town precincts shall be chosen at
mass meeting, to be held at z O'Clock
next Friday.
The committee will meet this after
noon at 2 O'Clock in the Office of Chair
Il. l.. Yeager, in the New York
Life building. to receive the names of
the judges and clerks and finally agree
upon the polling places. This matter
was discussed yesterday, and suitable
places were suggested for some of the
wards and townships, but the list was
not put in shape for the issuance of a
call. The committee will also try to
figure out today what the cost of filing a
shall be.
At the committee meeting yesterday
morning, Maj. Woodson suggested that
the people vote directly upon the candI-
dates at the county primaries, and that
the delegates be named by the county
the delegates from each
being instructed to vote for the
who had received the highest
number of votes in that ward. He
suggested that in case it became neces-
sary the delegation could, after voting
irst for the high man, then change its
vote to the second highest man. This
did not meet with favor. Jas.
Gibson, Judge Young and Mr.. COwherd
spoke against it. and when Joe Shan
ION proposed it in the form of a motion
did not even get a second.
Judge Young will submit a list of
Judges and clerks today, as well as the
Kansas City candidates, and will try to
AIRY some of the Kansas City wards,
n at least to make q showing here.
some of the candidates will not put a
icket in the field in every ward-as, for
Instance, Mr.. Farr stated YESTERDAY that
IN most wards there will be
t least three, and in some four, sets of 7
l6lepat6S presented to the voters.