Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-20
GREEN OF BUFFALO IS CHOSEN
Sixth District POpulists Pick the Judge as
Their Congressional Candidate,
TWENTY SEVEN BALLOTS WERE TAKEN
Candidates Numerous and Adhercnts
Pertinn cious, So that II Deadlock
of Four Hours Followed the
First Effort to Nominate.

CRAWFORD, Neb.. Aug. 2O.-(Special
Telegran)-At 1900 midnight W L. Green
Of Kearney Buffalo county was nominated
for congress by the populists Of the Sixth
congressional district. after struggle
lasting five hours Twenty-seven ballots
were taken. the vote on the last one being
Green 7412; Stewart, 27; Gaunt. 4S1s. Sew
eral efforts TO stampede the convention to
Harrington, Westover and other dark horses
failed.
Upwards OF 100 delegates representing
145 votes, presented themselves at the pop
ulist Sixth district congressional convention
yesterday morning. They were met at the
different trains by the Alliance Artisan
band citizens committee and fife and
drum band, composed of leading republicans.
The convention did not convene as such until
o'clock p m. The forenoon was occupied
in speechmaking and lobbying
Judge Hamer of Kearney. a republican.
was called upon, and he ably defended the
republican cause, without talking direct
politics. The convention was called to or.
der by Chairman Stockham, and was opened
| by an Impressive prayer by Rev. Mr.. Glass
ner of Crawford followed by an address
of welcome from Mayor Hobson. which was
responded to by Judge Westover of Rush
vile, IN behalf of the delegates. Senator J.
II. Darner OF Dawson county and Inspector
| Clark of Dawes were made temporary chair
man and clerk respectively. This organiza-
tion was afterwards made permanent
Senator Darner gave a lengthy address
finding particular fault with the mode of
administering justice in the United States
instancing the fact that the poor fellow
who stole a picked pigs foot in Chicago
to appease his hunger was put in the
pententary, while the man whom he stole
1t from had been stealing thousands of
dollars worth of water from the city and
never will be arrested or prosecuted. He
blamed the republican party for this and
was cheered Justify.
After the election OF congressional COM
mtteemen for the different counties it was
decided to permit the delegates from each
county, as the counties were called TO sim
ply name its candidate for congress If any.
without any speech. and that the candidate
named should address the convention for
twenty minutes. The following candidates
were then named and paraded before the
delegates: w. L. Green of Buffalo county.
J. L. knight of Custer county. H. L. Stew
art of Dawes, j. H. Darner of Dawson Judge
Meetz of Keya Paha, J. T Gaunt of Lincoln.
Ed L. Heath of Sheridan, l. n Harbaugh
of Dawes and H. F. Rhodes of Valley
Each made a short address. Balloting
commenced at O'Clock and for four hours
there was deadlock; the first ballot stood:
Greene, 511R; Stewart II; Darner, 1O1k
Meetz, 10; Gaunt, IA Heath, 9; Harbaugh, o;
Rhodes. 80. knight withdrew.
On the fifteenth ballot the vote was:
Greene, SPY; Stewart Al; Gaunt, 25.
recess was then taken for fifteen
minutes which was used to good advantage
by Greenes forces, for afterward, on the
sixteenth ballot, NJ. F. Harrington of ONein
was rung in with a vote of 26lA, mostly
from Stewart's former votes. On the twenty
fourth ballot the Holt county delegation an
nounced that Mr., Harrington was not present
and that his name was not used
with his consent, and that he
would net accept the nomination If ten
dered him. Holt county had been giving
its vote generally for Stewart until Har-
rington's name was sprung, when it voted
for him After the twenty-fourth ballot
it voted for Gaunt and on the twenty-seventh
jumped to Green giving him the nomina,
tion. The twenty-siXth ballot stood: Green
6lR: Stewart. 90; Gaunt, 4l1a The twenty
seventh and last ballot stood: Greene 7415 A;
Stewart, %; Gaunt, 4Sl2 and was taken
ten minutes before the departure of the
B. M. train, at 1910 q. m
The nomination of Judge Green was
made unanimous, and, after a few minutes
speech, the convention adjourned and the
delegates hurried to the train.