The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-01

There Will Not De u DeleSate to the ION
ventfon Against Him SO Far as Can be
Observation-Disclosures of the Admins
tration Left at Home Everywhere
Home Rule and Wichita was the Battle
Cry Every where, and 1t Won, of Course
Great Interest Tsken--Fu.I List OF the
Delegates Chosen.
Primary elections were held all over
the county yesterday and they were
so mixed that it is hard to tell any
thing about them. There was only
one thing plain and that is that the
friends who want Colonel Murdoch to
be a delegate al large 10 the st. Louis
convention swept every township, ward
and voting precinct by practically
unanimous vote
There was something decidedly fun
ny about the city primaries. There
was A fight in three wards and no.
body could hardly tell what the boys
were fighting over. If there were
any grounds at all for fight they
were purely personal or fractional and
did not concern any general local issue
Every man who aspired to be can
didate was pronounced in favor OF
home rule. The great expected fight
was TO be held in the Fourth ward.
There was really not much of a fight
there but the boys got an idea into
their heads that there was. and they
watched the polls like hawks and grab
bed every man that wanted to vote TO
see whether he was right.
One ticket in the Fourth ward was
headed by r. r. Vermilion and the
other was headed by Howard Case.
These were the visible heads of the
ticket.
The boys who were working for the
Nermilion ticket circulated che report
that the Howard Case ticket was en-
dorsed by George Douglass and that re-
port was fatal. even though the boys
on the other side denied il vigorously.
The fact is that both tickets were en-
Enthusiastically right and the real diff
ference between the boys was a little
personal matter said to have arisen
out of the last Republican convention.
There was no bad blood in the fight
and both sides stand exactly where
they stood yesterday morning except
that one side beat the other in a pre-
liminary skirmiSh in which there was
no particular issue concerning the pri-
mary cause of the trouble. The affair
only demonstrated that there are as
many enthusiastic Republicans in the
Fourth ward as there were before the
late unpleasantness and all of them
are for Wichita and home rule.
The fight in the first ward was awful
funny There was no fight there at
al only a hard scramble among the
boys as TO which side would get in the
most tickets. There is no way of de-
nominating the two tickets that were
in the field except that one of them
was red and the other one yellow. The
red ticket was nominated Thursday
night and the yellow ticket Friday
night Most of the people on the red
ticket were on the yellow ticket also
and they fought against themselves
with a vengeance that was perspiring.
Take for instance Paul Brown. Paul
was delegate on the yellow ticket and
worked like a beaver against himself
all day. He succeeded in beating him
self by A large majority.
The hot fight of the day was in the
Second ward There. too, there SEEM
ed 10 be no general local issue. But
goodness how they did sweat to get
their men TO the polls and vote them.
White winged doves lowered all day
over the Third ward primaries. There
was only one ticket in the field there.
The thing was so harmonious that eV-
eryone who voted had to pay ten cents
for the purpose of liquidating the ex-
0enses. This was much more success
full than the practice of paying men TO
vote. but it did. not encourage a very
large turnout. The people did not
run over one another TO vote at the
Third ward primaries and the little
--11 oh, a hot 1frosf
repeaters or fioaters from other wards.
Down in the Sixth ward the most
intense brotherly love prevailed among
the politicians and voters. Usually
the Sixth ward boys have a little fight
on hands but this time everything was
serene.
Harmony also prevailed in the Fifth
ward. The fighters over there are de-
cidedly decile this year. They voted
right, felt good and are smiling
The following is a complete list OF
All the delegates and alternates elect
Cd and defeated. in the city.
First ward, elected-Delegate Jno.
s. Beckwith, A. c. Husey. J. r. Devier,
\. J. Wyatt, c. a. Whitbeck. J. F. Bel
lew Frank Oliver, Y. A. La Fayne,
John Busenbark. J. H. Cole, Ben Eaton,
:. E. Herman. Fred Buckley, f. W.
J.. Alderman. Park Massey, J. X. Saw
yer, G. W. Crawford; alternates, O. c.
Heron, J. r. II. King, \. g. Young.
George Z. Stewart, Antoine Bruhn. Phil
Hyde. Il. r. Wallace, George Grimes,
w W. Dill. c. VI. Jones, Jim Bentley,
John Andrews, Ben Reynolds, John
higgins. !. Z. Graham. William Lille
Joe COrwin, Thomas Shaw, Tom Co
viii. John Knoblauch.
First ward defeated-Delesate W
r. Walker, G.. Grimes, II. +. Goode. q.
w. Crawford, Paul Brown, John Busen-
bark. Q. c. Heron, Thomas Covill. &.
Reckmeyer. J. J. Hughes, Thode Brown.
T. =. Gackenbach. Fred Buckley. Phil
Hyde. Ben Reynolds. Thomas Shaw. W.
Lille. H. Owens. c. W. Root. 4. Bruhn:
alJernates: \. J. Myatt. J. :. Beckwith
r Oliver. L. Bellew, f. Burt, George
Morgan. D. E. Fuller, c. A. Whitbeck.
Ben Eaton. P. Massey. +. Root. A c.
Fusey. q. Berdine. Q. Smith. r. b. Wal
lace. a c. Young. l.. II. Jones. T. W.
Swah. J. X. Sawyer. +. Alderman.
Majority for winnig ticket. Il.
Second ward elected-DeleSate ".
+. Stanley. W. s. Corbett, T. c. Wilson.
John Doran. c. +. Hatton. W. p. Nc
Nair. Fiulay Ross, J. q. Mccall. sam
Williams, G. E. Harris. William Whit
ted c. E. Sharpe. James Jackson. NJ Il.
DIVER. \. II. Jackman, Eearl Blake. T.
II. Alley. William Johnson, Gus Ander-
con, {. l.. Adams, Henry James; alter
mates; c. II. Luling, c. ". BristOw,