Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-07
FUSION is COMPLETE
SILVER FORCES AGAIN UNITE
ON A TICKET.
Fred White for Governor. IL. A. Plum
mer for Lieutenant Governor, and
kinne for the Supreme Court.


mer for Lieutenant Governor. and
Kinne for the Supreme Court.
Dies MONIES, June 24.-The demo
cratic state convention was called to
order by Chairman Healy, who
announced Fred Z. White, of keokulS
county, as temporary chairman, and
S. w. Mercer, of Johnson county, as
secretary. Mr.. White addressed the
convention, his address being received
with great enthusiasm. The conven-
tion authorized the state central com
mlttee to act as Il conference commit
tee to meet with similar committees
appointed by the populist and silver
republican conventions.
Permanent organization was effected
with j. NJ. Parsons. of Rock Rapids, as
chairman, the other temporary officers
being made permanent. After a short
address, the conference committee
reported that an agreement had been
reached by which the nominations
would be divided as follows: Governor
and supreme judges to the democrats:
lieutenant governor and state super
intendent TO the free silver repu blicans;
| railroad commissioner to the populists.
Nomination of candidates being in
order a large number of candidates
were placed in nomination. An in
| formal ballot resulted as follows:
White. GI1ls: Burgess, 1872; Bashor,
| 55lz: Dayton, 40; Roberts, o.; Leach.
&c: Williams. la7: liealy, 80; Boies, Q;
| DAILY IA; Carpenter .: Stubs, IA.
| Before the second ballot was com
| pleted Mr.. White was nominated by
reclamation. The committee on reso-
buttons then reported and it's report
| was at once ADOPTED.
The platform committee was as fol-
| lows: First district. X. NJ. Eichers, Web
ster; Second, w. ]. Hayes, Clinton; Third.
Rlaise. Cerro Gordo; Fifth, j Nj. Terry,
Lee; Sixth, g. NJ. Tripp, Jasper; Seventh.
+. b. Evans. Polk: Eighth, f. Q Stuart,
Lucas; Ninth, George w. Cullison. Shelby;
| Tenth. NJ. F. Healy, Webster; Eleventh
John L. Barter, Sac. The convention then
| proceeded to the nomination of a candidate
| for judge of the supreme court. Judge L.
| g. kinne and Judge Freeland, or Wayne
| county. were TIE only candidates. the bal
| lot resulting g91 for Kline md 200 for
| Freeland The nominations made by the
other conventions were then endorsed and
| the convention aQJOurneU.
DIES MONIES. June 24.-The populist
| state convention was called to order
by j. Bellangee, chairman of the state
| central committee. After an address
| by c. o. Holly. A. w. c. Weeks, of
Mahaska county. offered a resolution
| to instruct the committee on creden-
tials to reapportion the representation
I...x e., ~ on -
was tabled.
| The roll was called for members of
committees, the committee on resolu-
| tions being composed as follows: First
district, l.. c. Lining, Van Buren,;
Second. J. n. Newman, Muscatine;
| Third. j. c. Ferris, Franklin: Fourth,
l.. ID. Van Gordon, Ailamakee Fifth,
J.. 5. Wood. Linn: Sixth. Perry Engle,
| Jasper; Seventh, John Kent. Dallas;
Eighth, w. II. Robb, Union; Ninth, l..
Il. Tabor, Guthrie: Tenth, A. Il. Star
rett, Humboldt; Eleventh, l. H. Car
roll, Brien.
A conference committee was APP
pointed to confer with similar con-
mittee from the democratic and silver
republican conventions. Mr.. Weeks
objected to giving this committee any
authority, but the chairman decided
| that it had authority. Weeks called
upon all popuiists who We're in favor
of only populists controlling popu-
| list convention to meet at the Kirk
wood for a conference. At the con-
ference the following resolution was
adopted:
Resolved, that a committee of five be APP
| pointed to sit in the convention and when
ever that body takes any action that makes
it a democrat. and not a populist conven-
| ton said committee should protest. and
then arise and lead the true blue populists
| out OF the hall.
Permanent organization was ef-
fected with the following officers:
| Chairman. Gen. j. B. Weaver of Jas
per; secretary, w. n. Hinton, of Abba;
assistant secretary, ALI Wooster: read
ing clerk, Charles Weller. Ex-con-
gresham Towne, of Minnesota. made
an appeal for harmony among the sill
yer forces. The chairman of the con-
ference committee announced that an
agreement had been reached by which
the democrats were to name the candi-
dates for governor and supreme Judge,
the silver republicans were to nomi-
nate candidates for lieutenant governor
and superintendent, and the populists
were to name a candidate for railroad
commissioner. A. w. c. Weeks Oh
jected to the plan and offered reso-
luton that the populist state central
committee be instructed to file a
petition with the secretary of state for
the nomination by the populists of a
a full ticket. The motion was de-
feated, and Weeks led forty-seven
members of the convention from the
hall, declaring that the convention
had repudiated the principles of pop
ulism. The committee, after adopting
its platform, completed its work by
nominating S. Il. Crane for railroad
commissioner.
Dies MONIES, June 24.-J. b. Romans,
of Denison, was temporary chairman
of the convention Of silver republicans
and +. O. IIinckman, of Guthrie coun-
ty, temporary secretary. Permanent
organization was effected by tire
selection of ID. Il. Collins, of Palo Alto
county, for chairman, and G.. L. Rine-
hart, of Jasper, for secretary. EN-
Congressman Towne addressed the
convention briefly, after which the
platform was considered and adopted.
Nominations being in order. the con-
ycnt,on selected Is. A. Plummer, of