The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-24
REFUSE TO ENDORSE
HARMONY IN THE FIFTH WARD
TAKES A RED HOT VACATION.

Caucus asst Night Goes After Hide - Rufe
Cone and Sam Amidon Touched Up
Gar Crewson and the Rump Primary
Roasted to Dark Brown-Pops Not as
Good as Niggers With Democrats
Machine Accused of Chasing Judge
DaIe-The CITY Ticket Is Not Endorsed
at the Meeting.
Fifth ward Populist straight-outs
claim to be the victims Of a lot of ma
Chine work, and they say by all that's
holy that they won't stand il.
a caucus of about twenty-five voters
was held in the Office Of Committeeman
Frantz on the West Side last night,
which resulted in a jaInbouree of Kill
kenny cat clawing and long-range leg ac-
tion for Pop bosses in general and Wich-
ia ring-masters in particular.
The new Car Crewson was sat upon
heartily, Rufe Cone and Sam Amidon
were ripped up the back with great
long, sizzling, red-hot rip and to iced
Vengeance 10 safety the kickers turned
10 biting each other.
George 4. Rogers stated the objects
ard purposes of the meeting and moved
20 appoint a committee of three who
Should ascertain where the Fifth ward
was at and who put il there, end what
sort of fool suckers the East side ma
chine rock them for, anyway. After do
ing this the committee was to draft res
olutions Of aqua FORTS and cayenne pep
Per to apply 10 the city ticket ard the
men who made il. To these ilide-curling
resolutions was TO be appended an adj
dsndurl of adVices that the Fifth ward
end all other anti-fusion, anti-machine
Correspondence Populists should unite
in spanking the Cone-Amidon East side
machine out of existence, etc.
]. P. Parkhurst thought this wouldn't
do. He said he heartily hated the
trump primary by which Dave Crew
son got the drop on the whole Fifth
ward and appointed ten delegates-regu-
lar machine delegates that Rufe Cone
wanted. He didn't like the way the city
convention on Saturday was manipulat-
ed, and in fact he got 50 Disguised that
he and Mr. a. Brown walked out with
some onlinous gestures and few
square-toed quotations from profane his
tory, all Ct which led to the nomination
OF H. K. fuller for city treasurer.
against the designs Of the machine. For
this reason he thought the ticket ought
10 be Endorsed AMI he moved TO table
Mr.. Rogers motion temporarily, and
swallow the entire dose from mayor
down.
On motion to indorse. Mr. Rogers
spoke:
The Pop politics of this city and OF
Sedgwick county is run BY the RUFF
Cone and Sam Amidon gang and 1 am
opposed TO the gang At our first regu-
larry and properly called primary we de-
cided not TO send any delegates TO the
city convention and We adopted resoiu-
ton condemning the legislature for its
assinine stupidity and inaction. We de-
clared that we would not support any
set Of candidates who were not pledged
to any particular principle and suggest
ed this 10 the coming convention. The |
machine then got an Illegal and unwar- |
ranted call and succeeded by rump meth |
DDS to foist upon US a rump delegation !
and rump ticket. Now, 1 want 10
know FIVE are going to slide BACKYARD
on this deal and give over to dictation
again just as we always have? l am not |
in favor of indorsing this ticket"
J. W. Nichols said:
'I am a Populist. l have always !
fought this mongreI mix-up of the Pop |
ulists with the Democrats. They total |
ly ignored US i'll that city convention. |
Why. some of our fellows got up there |
in that hall with tears in their eyes and |
plead for the poor Populsts, and We
wern't as good as niggers with them. |
No, sir. You can indorse this ticket Il |
you want 10. What evidence have We |
that these men viii carry out their |
pledges to support that platform? We |
had a legislature that didn't. \ ma /
chine run that convention and that ma
chine is part of a crowd of thirty-siX in !
this county that has declared they will !
put Judge Dale out Of the way when the /
next convention comes around. My God, !
I'd like TO know If we have 40 rights
and are going to submit to such as this"
Two speakers took the other side OF
the question and a general spat ensued. |
Mr.. Neiswanger, OF the East side, was
called upon and he said he meant to vote
for some of the ticket, but he wouldn't
take - ell.
The ticket was uon-endorsed and by
consent they agreed TO bolt on
mos; of il Ar investigating committee
os three was appointed TO hunt down ma
chine methods and the caucus adjourn
ed 10 meet again.
Sixteen letters will make one good |
post-olection motto for the mansled re-
mains OF the Pop city ticket: "Requies-
Daas