The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-16

pie For sheriff. j. K. Brown For Treas
urer, Ransom Brown For Surveyor. e.
Il. Carnahan For Register. L. w. SIC
Laughlin For Coroner, j. W. Burton For
Clerk-Democrats Proceed to Do as 1t
Was Planned by Two of The I'm.
Looks like this thing was cut and
dried said W. r. Thrush OF Bentley,
who sat as a delegate in the Populist
convention yesterday. He knew it was.
With one exception, the Eagle named the
| ticket a week ago. Yesterdays meeting
was not nominating convention but a
| ratification of the Spencer-Jocelyn slate
that has been arranged for the last
| month. AS Tom McNeal would say, it
| was not such a razzooping time, either.
| The announcement that Governor Leedy
| would be present failed 10 draw a crowd.
! Garfield hall was no more than half full
| when the meeting was called for temper
airy organiza ton, and as for the result
| half a dozen men would have effected
| the same thing. Two thirds OF the dele
gates got up in the front end Of the hall
a few struggled around among the emp
| ty seats further back, as if they were
| leery Of the situa ton. A dozen erstwhile
| Pops with as many disnterested onlook-
ers yawned around near the back win
dows. Occasionally some one would drop
| in at the door, and holding his hat in his
| hand would survey the drowsy, listless
crowd for minute and then retire. The
aggregation billed in Garfield hall as
| the main circus was only a side show.
| The ringmaster was over at Zeininger
hall in direct connection with the post
office.
The Pop convention yesterday wasn't
| the whooping. fiery, enthusiastic gather
ing such as might have been seen last
| fall bowling depression. decentralization
of silver, hard times, Ascent wheat and
all the list of calamitieS as the direct re-
suit of Republican rule. II was like the
frazzled end of country literary society
when It has petered out in the spring a.
corn planting time. Eighty cent wheat
and silver on the toboggan slide has
knocked the s;uffing out of their argu-
ment and the enthusiasm out of their
crowds.
The committee on resolutions rung off
this, which certainly entities them 10
rank with invalid dyspeptics:
I'VE are profoundly grateful TO kind
Providence for abundant harves;s and
good foreign markets. yet we sympathize
with suffering humanity in other coun-
tries al whose expense and 10 whose
misfortunes our present prosperity is
due"
Lord, What an incorrigible case of
chronic beilyache! Last fall it was Re-
publican misrule and corporate greed and
now it is Europe's and Asia's misfor-
tune. The Pops are certainly logical to
a fault, but to carry all out they ought
70 get up a public grub stake of garlic,
Imburser and whey and have twenty
years barbecue. That ought to be long
enough 10 give them generation OF
puckered livers and good, big gall
The ring had its Johnny Springs there
and Colonel Jocelyn to oversee IL He
touched the button and they did the
rest.
W. j. Babb was unanimously elected
temporary chairman and said that the
Pops ought not TO go backward. That as
between conservatism and radicalsm he
was in favor of the latter
Several names We're offered for secre-
tary. Pat Healy nominated D. c. Sloan
" Minneha township. who was elected.
with George Rogers OF the Fifth ward as
assistant.
After ten minutes recess Chairman
Babo announced the following commit
tees:
Credentials---G. W. Gilmore, F. ]. Ar
mold. W. H. Berthof, William Cooper, I.
p. Campbell.
Permanent organiza TONS. A. Miller.
D. c. Sloan. - Hunnewell, J. c. Milton,
w. Kirkpatrick.
Order of business---W. ]. Anderson, G.
w. Peters, F. J. Granfield, Judge Ash,
Topper.
Resolutions---H. ". Ruble. ]. P Park
hurst, J. E. Hare. Captain Handfey John
Tucker.
The session then adjourned to o'clock
ar which time Capt. Waters and H B.
Fleharty were announced TO speak
During the noon recess the delegates OF
the Second, Third and Fourth wards
met and nominated j. z. Howard for
commissioner as a morsel 20 the Free
Silver Republicans.
After dinner Captain Waters. who is
supposed 10 be cute, was introduced and
said:
Il have no political bias. am in IA
vor Of fusion with anybody any time and
all the time to knock out The whi,e-liv-
cred Republican crowd" Which certain
y demonstrated that Capt Waters has
no political bias.
II. B. FIeharsy spoke for half an hour
in a general way. He made good talk
from his side of the fence, but the en-
thusiasm was OF the very clammiest so-,
as it was ali TIE way through except up
on the nomination OF Dal Wimple for
sheriff.
The committee on credentials seated
the following delegates: