The news boy., 1896-06-13
OUR CONVENTIONS.
Scott County has Disposed of
All of them for this
Xpar-

scott county has Disposed OF
All of them for this
| Year.
Last Saturday the different pre-
cincts of the county selected dele
gates to the county convention held
here Monday, to select. delegates to
the State, Judicial, Congressional
and Senatorial conventions.
The conventions were called at a
time when every farmer was up to
his ears in his harvest field, and the
''heelers" of the towns had little
opposition. The work was princi-
pally in the interest of Marshall for
State senator and, being a Scott
county man, he carried it.
The delegates from Sikeston,
Blodgett, Diehlstadt, Oran and Com
merce (1S) were instructed for Mr..
Marshall, while Morley, Benton,
New Hamburg and Kelso (13) were
uninstructed. Oh the uninstructed,
nine were O'Bannon men, while
three of the remaining four were not
friendly to Marshall-although DR..
O'Bannon had never visited the
county in the interest of his cam
paign.
DR.. Frazer, of Commerce, was
chosen chairman and Albert Engle,
of Sikeston, secretary. The oppo-
sition to Marshall saw they were in
the minority and made no fight. The
"railroading' process began and in a
few moments the whole thing was
over. No man was considered Sin
it, unless he was ''wid de push. /"
Old and respected citizens, such as
Judge Albrecht, Lou Martin and
| Squire Schoen were heavily sat down
upon, while couple of young up
starts, who were acting as mouth
pieces for the push, were in high
clover. 1t was convention that,
from all appearances, seemed to be
Il red-hot free silver crowd, but be-
| hind it all were some very strong
gold standard influences, and several
men were present as delegates who
are known to be opposed to the white
metal--unless they, like Marshall,
changed their views very recently.
| The editor happened to be on the
committee on resolutions and re-
| quested Mr.. Gresham, of Sikeston,
to draft them. Mr.. Gresham asked
the editor for suggestions and we
suggested, among other things, that
we denounce the financial policy of
the Cleveland Administration. Mr..
Gresham hesitated a moment and
then said, II don't know whether
that would suit or not" The ad.
mission was little surprise to the
editor and he replied, Thought you
| had free silver crowd up here. y
, Mr.. Gresham discoved the hole he
was in and, after some little SQUAD
{ BILE, the denunciation of the Admins
, tration was inserted. This occurred
in the Newsboy office-and w. R.
Scherer of Blodgett was present.
| The resolutions indorsed the State
! administration and that 'Lon V.
Stephens is their choice, and that ol
the delegates elected to the State
, convention, for governor After
, the delegates had beed selected Judge
: Albrecht moved to instruct the dele
gates direct for Stephens. Mr..
a Gresham moved to adjourn. This
got the minority little warmed uI
t and a lively debate was about tc
take place, when Joe Parrott, Of
Morley, produced and read off his cut
. and dried list of delegates to the
. judicial convention. 1t seems that
Joe was selected to carry out that
part OF the program, but the ina
, chine" had been working so swiftly
that he could not succeed in getting
< in word edgeways. 1t is useless t.
add that Mr.. PARROTS men were
elected-although not delegate il
the convention could have named
them two seconds after they were
S read off; nor could Mr.. Parrott
. without looking at his paper.
However, as soon as this question
r was disposed of Judge Albrecht ant
Mr.. Gresham both. bobbed up a.
about the same time, but as Mr.
Gresham was LITTLE more alert will
! his mouth than the judge, succeeded
in again getting in his motion to ad
4 journ. A lively debate followed il
t which Lou Martin, of Morley, VIII,
: had come uninstructed, but who hat
!, voted for Mr.. Marshall ''in the in
I terest Of harmony" took part. I,
got SO warm that Mr.. Gresham con
lcluded TO withdraw his motion t,