Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09
THE CONVENTION.
A Good Ticket Named. ALI
Delegates Take Unusual
Interest. Fusion
Defeated.

Chairman Cant. of the Central Com
mittee, called the Peoples party conyen
ton of Barber county to order in the
court house in this city. Temporary
organization was effected by electine
81. s. Lands chairman and Fred Ellis
secretary. Before taking the chair
Mr.. Lands made short speech touch
ing on the duties of the convention, the
growth of silver sentiment and oil edict-
ed complete success for the cause at
the polls in November.
On motion the following committees
were appointed by the chair:
CREDENTIALS.
L. c. Golf, Burd Lacy.
Milt Clements, VIM. Slack.
u. Cummine
ORDER OF BUSINESS.
j j. King, John McGrath.
W. B. Springer, Il. j. Taliaferro,
Louis Downtain.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATIONS.
c. E. HcAle, c. G. Fair,
Ed German, q. Graves,
Harry Tildeu.
RESOLUTIONS.
A. Roessler, j. NJ. Doane,
III. P. Watts, Fl. Walker,
A. b. Jarvis.
After these committees were an
nonnced, y. =. Il. Ewell, of Kiowa. in
behalf of the democratic party of the
county, appeared before the convention
and stated that the democratic conven-
ton then in session had appointed a
committee to cente- with the Populist
convention relative to fusion, and re-
quested that the convention select a
committee to act with the democratic
committee, the purpose of which was
to come together on terms of fusion.
The matter was tabled and motion was
made and carried that the delegates 90
into secret caucus for the purpose of
determining whether or not the fusion
policy should be adopted. The dele
gates went into caucus at about ILLS
and did not come together until about
O'Clock, p. m., adjourning about
half hour for dinner. Since all but del
egates were excluded from the caucus
room we were among those who were
compelled to patiently await the decis-
ion of the majority, and therefore we
cannot say just what took place in the
caucus room; but we are assured that
there was some lively discussion on
both sides and it was evident that all
were enthusiastic for success but there
was wide difference as to what was
the better plan of achieving that sue
cess. Finally the delegates agreed to
ballot on the fusion proposition, and it
so happened that two ballots were nee
essary TO settle the question in it's diff
ferent phases. The first ballot was on
the proposition of fusing with the dem
ocrats on representative as was done
two years ago. The second ballot was
on the prosposition of fusfng On some
other office or offices. The ballots re-
suited:
LIST B. End B.
FOR Fuslon.....- .............--......37 30
The second proposition would have
been adopted had not nineteen of the
delegates who favored fusion on the
first proposition voted against it on the
second. Many of the delegates who
were opposed to giving the democrats
the legislative office were heartily IN ia
yor of giving them one or more other
offices. But neither side was willing to
yield and straight middle of the-roa
ticket was agreed upon. The caucus
dissolved at about 2:15 and the conven-
ton was called to order at O'Clock.
Everything went smoothly from now
on except little difficulty which pre-
sented itself to the committee on Gre
dentials. In Medicine Lodge township
eleven men cast an accumulatiye vote,
centering on two men for delegates.
while thirty-eight men voted for the
full fourteen delegates. The minority
claimed they were entitled to at least
two of the fourteen delegates while
the majority claimed they were entitled
to none at all. Two separate creden-
tials were made out and the committee
spent considerable time in discussing
the merits of the question In it's differ
ent shades. The majority of the com
mittee ruled out the minority represen-
tation while the dissenting member of
the committee brought in a minority
report. The matter was then taken up
by the convention and after some dis
cussion pro and con the majority report
was adopted with about one third of
the delegates voting in favor of the mi
nority report. In other respects the re-
port of the credentials committee was
adopted without opposition.
The committee on permanent organ
iZation recommended that the tempo
rary organization be made permanent
and that Clayton Herr be made assist
ant secretary. The report was unani.
mously adopted.
The following order of business was
reported by the committee and adopted
by the convention:
l. Nomination of County Superir-
teDdent.
2. Nomination of Probate Judge.
8. Nomination of Clerk of the Dis
trict Court.
4. Nomination of County Attorney.
D. Representative.
E. Commissioner 1st
District.