The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-29
GOT STEPPED UPON
u0RRILL'S HENCHMEy GET IT IN
THE NECK ON IFE WEST SIDE

They Tried To Put up a Little Game on the
Good People of Wichita but Got BeautI-
fully Loft-AIi of Them Were There, In
Guiding Wi lam the whitewashed and
CHARLES the Inpeached-The Loyal Re
pubIicanS Didn't do Thing to Them
The Iirst Ward has Two Tickets-Har-
nlony Eeisns in the sixth
Their is some promise of a lively
fight This afternoon at the primaries.
The is no particular issue to fight
over out. Of course, interest always
attaches to primaries of this nature
and everybody has an ambition to be
either directly or indirectly concerned
in TIE initial steps of great Repubi-
can victory 10 be consumated IN No
vember
The only place in the city so far as
heard from that there was any issue
in al all was IN the Fifth ward where
al The lackeys Of the present state ad-
ADMINISTRATION reside. They had the au-
dscffv there To try and elect an ad-
rnfniS.ratfon set Of delegates and, of
course. they got stepped on like snakes.
Tho Urauiraity of the people OF Wien
tia is so pronounced that the metropol-
iau police coJerie thought, by a little
sly work. 10 hold a caucus and elect
delegate Of an administrati ton odor to
the county convention. The true ana
tried Republicans Of the ward heard
about il. went TO the caucus and skin
ned the administration crowd like cat
fish. " They nominated delegates VINO
are in harmony with the ieterests OF
the Peerless Princess and who hate
the Norrill-Dawes bipeds 5 cordially
- his satanic majesty hates the holy
water. OF the administration nOtablAs
present there We're noticed William the
WhitevaShed. Charles the Impeached,
Seth the Buddhist, Rudolph the Tricky.
and other lesser NOrrillists. They sat
in mute silence while the good people
knocked their little scheme into d
cooked hat.
The meeting at the First ward was
not the result OF any defined issue.
They claimed that the meeting that Sc
lected ticket the previous night did
not represent the full sentiment ana
citizenship of the ward. They, there
fore, put ~ an opposition ticket.
The Republicans Of the Sixth ward
met a their spacious hall, corner Ida
and Douglas avenues. pursuant 70 call
uf committee. order was restored in
the audience by TIE gentle rap of the
Gavel in the hand % the committee
man r.. 2. Faris After briefly stat
ing the object of the meeting, John
VI. Martin was chosen chairman and
! n Caldwell secretary.
on motion the chair appointed 2. w
Shafer "A committee 10 report the names
IF delegation 10 be elected delegates
10 a.ten' the county convention. In
half an 0our they reported the follow
ing delegation, which was unanimously
adopted:
During the re tirement Of the commit
tee red hot Republican speeches we're
made ny Gus \. Miller, r. p. F'arris
j. II. Rice and others, and 1t was
universally agreed that the long desir-
ed harmony in the Sixth ward had fin
ally been restored. ard that all would
present . solid front for the success Of
Repub,ican principles.
The following are the tickets named
SO far:
Ski, yvard-Delegates: T.. p. Far
rius. George TrOwe. William Haggerty,
w A Merrill. Gus Miller. J. p. Cald-
wei john Martin. j. L. Patterson. A.
O.. Sha!fer. Ben Wilson, 4. ". Reynolds
L " Wibking; alternales: Frank
liasSe~ty. w. NJ. McClain. VI. II. Clark
r. n Macy. Il. W. King, john Bettes,
W u. Shaw, =. W. Bottger, II. W.
Friend. j. H. Alexander, r. d. Fouts,
J. II Mercer.
First ward-last nights ticket-Dele-
gates: J. Busenbark, Paul Brown, G.
Reckmeyer. George Grimes, W. f.
Walker. Ben Eaton. A. Smith, John :.
Beckwith O. 4. Heron, Phil Hyde, A
Bruhn. Thode Brown, j. Hughes, +. a.
GacIzs ubach. Fred Buckley, Ren Rey-
nclds, W Lille. Tom Covill, Tom Shaw
G. W. Crawford.
First ward Thursday nights meet
ing-Delagates: J. X. Sawyer, Frank
Oliver. :. b. Herman, John s. Beck
vita. A {. Husey. J. r. Devier. a. j.
Myatt. c. y. Whi5beck, J. Z. Bellew,
Y. 4 La FayOn. John Busenbark, J.
II. Cole, Ben Eaton. Fred Buckley. f.
w Swah. u. +. Fuller. r s. Burt. F.
L. Ack rman. Park Massey. G. w.
Crawford. Alternates- Reynolds.
John HugginS, J. 4. Graham, William
Lille. Joe |orwin, Thomas Shaw, Tom
Gown, John KuobIauch, O. c. Heron,
J. L. Il King. /. g Young. George r.
Stew arr. Antoine Bruhn, Phil Hyde. r..
l.. Wallace George Grimes. w. w Dill.
c. NJ. Jones Jim Bentley, John An
drews.
Fifth ward Delega ties: J. :. Leland
Judson Shreye. Dale Snively. Robert
Holden. Harry Gotham, Oliver Hatfield
J. II. Taylor. 4 =. Simison. c. b. Will
son. Loui Stippich. Alternates-F. r.
Ferguson, Charles Lindsay.R. +. Hays
Edward Sites. Louis KilliOn. J. ". Hol-
finger, Adam kuoGloch, Rudolph Hat
field Frank Brooks. ". +. Mosley.