Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-17
SOLIDLY FOR FREE SILVER
Pottawattamie County Democrats Come Out
for Bryans Cause.
CONVENTION HARMONIOUS ON tn; ISSUE
Delegates TO Dcs Moines Chosen with
Very Little Effort and Cleveland
Denounced with Great Nigor
I'm the Resolutions.

The democrats OF Pottawattamie county
were represented by less than half the num-
Der OF delegates that should have constituted
their county convention yesterday. II way
noticeable that all OF the precincts that were
not represented were located in townships
which have no towns or villages, and is
explained by the fact that the farmers are
all too busy in their fields TO spend time
voting on resolutions and doing political
work in which they have but slight interest.
But the delegates who were patriotic enough
to respond to the call Of the county chair
man made comfortably large crowd for a
close room on a scorching hot day. The con-
vention was for the purpose OF naming
delegates to represent the county in the
state convention at Des Moines next
Wednesday,
The delegates assembled ia the south
room OF the county court house at IL O. clock.
when the convention was ready to be called
to order there were scarcely a sufficient
number Of delegates present to fill the Of
fees and do the necessary committee work.
The old wheel horses Of the party who never
miss a convention looked over the array OF
empty seats and sighed. John T. Hazen.
A .
called the convention to order and named
s. b. Wadsworth temporary chairman. Mr..
| Waisworth made some remarks about the
| Frightening commercial prospects all over
| the world and the evidences OF returning
! prosperity to this country and declared
| that all that was needed now was little
| free silver and confidence. He predicted
| that the democrats would start in a new at
| tempt to get both by carrying the election
! in Iowa this fall.
! After n E. Tyrell was made secretary, a
| motion was made and carried making the
temporary organization permanent The
| credentials committee appointed by the
| chair was composed OF A c. Graham, R. c.
Williams, r. T. Hart, Adam Ring and
! Uriah Mclean. The chair was instructed
! by vote to name a committee to fix up the
resolutions that were to be adopted and a
| committee to name twentyeight delegates
| to Des Moines. The committees were:
Resolutiors-J. W. Hempsted, J. j. Shea
| Rosco Barton, ]. NJ. Kelley and John f,
| Huntington.
Delegates-L A. Devine, Dr. Toby, W
/ Crow, T. S. Campbell and j. p. Stuhr.
! These committees retired to make up their
reports. and although there was ample time
| before dinner for speech or two none OF
the members of the convention felt in
clined to make the effort, and the conven-
tion adjourned until = o'clock.
FUSION COUNTY COMMITTEE.
When the convention reconvened the com
mittees were not ready to report, and W
| H. Ware, chairman of the county executive
committee, submitted report recommend
! ing that the county central committee for
the coming year be composed OF the follow
ing named democrats and free silver re-
publicans:
Belknap-w. D. Rodgers, Oakland
Boomer-T j. Smith, Reels.
Carson-George 5. Dye. Carson
| Crescsnt-Warren Hough, Crescent City.
Grove-John Hardwg, Wheeler.
Hazel Dell-Thomas Leonard, Council
| Bluffs.
Keg Creek-H. F. Saar, Council Bluffs.
| Knox-Roscce Barton, Avoca
| Layton-J. b. Johansen, Walnut.
Lewis-R. c. Williams Council Bluffs.
Lincoln-J. c. Blacksby, Walnut.
Macedonia-S. Dye, Macedonia.
| Minden-J. w. Crow, Minden.
| Neola-J f. Hemsworth- Neola.
Norwalk-A. Q. Wyland. Underwood,
Rockford-J D. Lake. Loveiand,
Silver Creek-M. McKinzie, Living Springs
XaIeYaTG WayGY;a1G 1 YyeyS \ Tanda0t aaasoGS GriswoIa
Wright. R. Black.
York-uriah McLea Nicola:
Waterman; Second ward. Emil Schurz. J. ]
| Stewart; Third ward. ]. r. Dietrich, William
ots r9nTth Ffth ward 9a4 obfaf Pste,
Eagan; Sixth ward, P. ID. Burke, John NJ
| Lewis.
There was only one voice in the conven-
tion raised against the adoption of this re-
| port and the gentleman who owned it had
| such an impedIment in his speech that no
body could understand his objections.
The committee to select delegates TO the
| state convention appeared and submitted the
following names: j: n Gasady, IT, J. j.
| Shea, w. c. James. s. b. Wadsworth F. a.
.Bixby, NJ. C. Christensen. Emil Schurz, A.
w. Wyman, L. A. Casper. U. H. White. D
Macrae. ]. B. Atkins, W. H. Ware, John P
| Weaver OF Council Bluffs. S. D. Tobey and
| John F. Huntington of Oakland, Fremont
| Benjamin. R. S. Hart, r. Barton, J. T. HaZen
| Of Avoca s. Dye, C. f. Hammack OF Mac
| donia, George Howard, Thomas Fenlon and
| T. s. Campbell OF Nicola, w. ]. Mcdonald OF
Minden, NJ. Mckenzie of Living Springs ant
James O'Neal OF Hancock.
/, There was no objection to these men going
TO Des Moines, and the convention expressed
| its willingness to have them go by unani-
nous vote with the exception Of the gentle
man who had an impediment in his speech
! He had been voting no on every proposition
| and grew tired at this juncture and bolted
| the convention,
WHERE THEY STAND.
The committee on resolutions appeared with
| neatly typewriter report which was
adopted without dissent 1t declares:
We reattirm and adopt the platform
| true democracy.
| " e cdll attention OF the people TO the faci
| that although a congress, republican in both
| branches. has now been in session for more
| than three months no laws have been passed
| and autocrat Reed continues to meet ad
| icurn and do nothing. That charges nave
| been publicly made that senator's have
| speculated In sugar stock while having under
| advisement the law regulating the tarlff OF
| the product That public justice has been
| made a mockery by the so-caled im.rson-
ment of Chapman. That American citizens
are being murdered in Cuba and the ad-
ministration sits idly by Ignoring the
promises in the ST, Louis platform That the
! speculatols in Wal, street run this admins
| tration as they did the last.
Resolved, That we as democrats denounce
| Grover Cleveland as an apostate and his
| theories heresies.
| We denounce the setting up OF a single
! gold standard as the policy of arl.tOcrats and
| despots, unjust TO our wealth producers and
dangerous to our free institutions.
We rejoice that the financial policy OF
| Cleveland was emphatically repudiatei at
| the Chicago convention, and later at the
polls when 6 500.0o0 democrats reaffirmed
| their confidence in Jeffersonian democracy
as defined by the Chicago platform and ex-
emplhed in the person and character OF W.
j. Bryan.
We denounce the e1travagance and corrup-
tion OF the last legislature in this state and
the steals OF the so-callsd state house ring.
Resolved, That We condemn the republican
party Of Iowa for Its dupicity and hypocrisy
in legislating upon the temperance question.
While IL has recsded from its champion
shiD of prohibition ID has failed to enact any