CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-10-14
THE CONVENTION.


Saturday of last week was conven
ton day again for Canon City. Tie
Democrats had another inning and HE
Populists had their first encounter with
the difficult questions of fusion and
nominations.
THE PoPULIsTs.
The Populists met in the coun
court room. j. G. johnson, of Flor
ence, was chosen chairman aud 5. A.
VanBuskirk secretary. After the COM
mittee on Credentials reported, com
mittee on Conference was appointed,
consisting of DIR. /. H. Craven, f. p.
Warner, DR.. Richardson, D. D. Phillips
and Robt. James, after which recess
was taken
When the convention re-convened
long and stormy meeting with a like
committee from the Democratic con
vention made two reports. One by the
majority and the other by the minority
The majority report gave the Demo-
Gratis, Sheriff, Coroner and CommK
sioner, while the min rity report sub
stituted Treasurer for Sheriff for the
Democrats. The minority was voted
down and the majority report was
adopted by IL vote of Al to 30.
On motion an informal ballot was
taken for Sheriff, which resulted:
Seward, (Howard) .......... 5
Houston, Canon.
Squires, (Florence) ).........................23 .23
Blythe, (Cahon) 20
At this jnucture DR. Craven stated
that the Democrats had not yet accept
ed the fusion arrangements 50 the con
yention waited "a little while When Gen.
Maupin appeared from the Democratic
convention and explained that his con
vention had reluctantly accepted the
fusion terms and that they would rather
have had Sheriff than Treasurer Judge
Bradley, who was one of the thirty that
preferred the Treasurer for the Popu
lists, here made a motion.that the com
mittee again be sent out to confer, but
the friends of the candidates for Sheriff
soon suppressed this movement ard
had it declared out of order. With a
view to pacifying the fight upon Sheriff
which had waxed warm, Delegate War
ner, of Florence, arose and offered to
withdraw Mr. Squires from the race if
Sheriff Blythe would withdraw and
allow Florence to select another candi-
date. Mr.. Blythe replied that it was
very easy for Mr.. Squires to withdraw
from something he had never had, but
for himself that he had entered the
race only after much persuasion by
friends, and that now he did not pro-
pose To lay down for anybody He
would let lhe convention settle The
matter. Here Editor Clark, of the
Florence News, Dave Houston and
Alfred Duriee made short talks, each
assuring the convention that he would
make any personal sacrifice il it were
for the good of his party. Very FORUM
ately no sacrifice was asked of either
one. Mr.. Squires then desiring to set
all ofiiceseekers good example, an
nouhced his withdrawal and asked all
his friends to vote for Mr.. James
.otV"oi'. IC VI ot DdiAOt biiONCu ilo
choice, but the next ballot stood:
James Stewart..............-....
NJ 2S
ID. j. Houston. ..............-.-..-....... Z
James Stewart, of Florence, was
declared the nominee for Sheriff.
The other nominations were all made
by acclamatioh They were:
f,n,ptv riarly lfra<f D,,.f...
superintendent of schools. James
Woods
Surveyor, J. II. Freeman.
Coroner, DIR. F. p Blake
The Democrats reported their nomi-
nations as follows:
Treasurer, A. f. Alexander
Assessor, q. p. Nix.
Commissioner, Henry l.. White.
They were nominated in due form
The Cottage Home was selected as
the emblem
THE DEMOCRATS.
The Democratic convention met last
Saturday in the Court House, having
adjourned from October End Frank
McGiIlicnddy acted MS chairman and
M. NJ. Conners secretary. A committee
consisting of j. II. Maupin. w. f. Nix,
Julius McCandless, L. NJ. Chase and
w. Ii. Trout was appointed to confer
with the Populists with the result as
given before. Their nominees we're:
Treasurer. A. F. Alexander.
Assessor. G. r. Nix.