The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-12
CUT AND DRIED
POPS AND DEMOS HOLD THEIR
PRIMARIES LAST NIGHT.

POPS AND DEMOS HOLD THEIE
PRIMARIES LAST NIGHT.
George K. Spencer Out wits the Old Poll
tic,ans and Has His Ticket All Named
He Has Chosen Both Tickets and Has
seiected Gehring For Treasurer. Hswey
For Dlerk. WimpIe For sheriff, Carna.
han For Register. Brown For Surveyor
and Rose For Coroner-Cone aud Stew
art BalS and Refuse % Play.
There has been seeming inertia in
Demo-Pop political circles this fall, and
with a few exceptions there was on the
surface no candidates for any Of the Of
fees. This seeming quiet was a we'll
laid scheme and it worked admirably,
as was evidenced last night when the
delegates were chosen at the primaries
There is new Richmond in the field
and ne is 50 far ahead of the rest Of the
two by four politicians that they either
cannot Illustrate his plans or else in
order to get into his good graces in the
hope that he VIII reward them that they
succumb. Rufe Cone. George Locke,
Jim Burton. Colonel Jocelyn, Tom Fitch,
Colonel Taylor, Judge Sanl1ey and many
others are as play things in his hands.
This new political boss is no other than
George X. Spencer, the man who has
worked the old political wise acres TO 4
finish.
There is only one man that stands IL
able TO break UP some Of the plans Of
Mr.. Spencer. and that is Up Campbell.
Mr.. Spencer cannot be in two conven-
lions at once, although hen as things in
such shape that ne hopes to have his
chief lieutenant attend To the Pops for
him. l. Z. Campbell is the best talker
la the party and ne not satisfied with
she division that has been made, and
when he gets up in the convention and
shows to the counrp delegates how the
Pops have been hogged by the Demo-
Gratis they viii believe him, for no one
doubts Mr.. Campbelrs honesty, though
there are many that know that he is
misguided. This is where the new boss
Is liable 10 fall down. This one man who
will trip George Spencer inhis bossdom
will be Ipey Campbell and he will do it
by presenting the scheme that has been
worked. Campbell believes in going in
to the convention and fighting for what
in his judgment is right and there IS
none in the Pop party that is more out
spoken than The eX-chairman. Rufe
Cone and Harry Stewart have declared
themselves and say that they will vote
the Republican ticket straight in retalia-
ton for Spencer-JOcelyn and the police
force knitting George Young last spring.
This act upon the part of Cone and
Stewart will give them passage into the
glorious hereafter and through the
pearly gates.
The ticket that Mr.. Spencer has chosen
for the Pops and Democrats to vote is
as follows:
For treasurer-G. Gehring.
Fir Clerk-Will Hewey.
Sheriff-Dal Wimple.
Register of Deeds-J. W. Carnahan.
CorOner-Dr. Rose.
Commissioner. z. Howard.
Tom Cartwright wants to be nominal
ed for treasurer, but the power that is
gays that ii must be Mr.. Gehring, ana
the rest of the gang say aye, aye. Lew
ButteTfield has been working for six
months to get the nomination for sheriff,
but then something must go 10 the coun-
ry, and Dial Wimple will be given the
nomination. As Wimple and Cartwright
are both from the same township, VIM |
pies nomination Will kill Mr.. Cart |
wright's prospects. As sop to the Silver !
Republicans, Mr.. Howard will be allow |
ed 10 go against brick wall by trying !
to be elected in the First commissioner
district where no Pop or Democrat or /
Silver Republican has ever been elected. |
The Pops and Democrats both held /.
their primaries last night, and they |
passed off all right with the exception |
81 in the Sixth ward. There eight walk |
Sd out. but not before they took occasion |
70 express themselves. George Peters /
was put up as Spencer's man for COM |
mitteeman. The others suggested CT. |
w Grimsteah This was all right, so a |
vote was taken. When the vote was |
counted it was found that Peters was |
elected, there having been twenty-four |
ballots cast and only twenty-one men |
present.
In the third ward the primary took
the prerogatives OF the convention and |
passed the following resolution:
Resolved. That We, the Populists of
the Third ward in convention assembled,
call upon our members Of the school |
board from the Third ward TO use their
influence and best efforts to enforce
the new school text book law in the city
of Wichita and 10 put into the city
schools at once the series OF text books
adopted by the state.
1t was carried unanimously.
The following Democratic delegates
werec hosen 10 the convention, which |
meets next Thursday:
First ward-Charles Daniels, G.. Gehr-
ing. Romer Braitch, Charles Wei. W.
B. Gibbons, Z. c. Harris, W. A. Hart.
s. Crib. Harry Moore, J. Y. Wood. J.
T. McA1illen. Charles Davis. II. HUT
mann. Charles Fordum, William Carol.
]. Deyier. WarSen Smith.
Second ward-L. A. DEAN. ]. X. Al
bert, George l. Young. II. w. Stewart,
". c. Beck. Thomas Gentry, J. W.
Gillespie, George y. Guffy, Isaac Mis-
kele. John Kinseder. George Van Wer-
den. Joseph Strickland. George y. Kes-
Ter. J. o. Phipps. William Eilenberger.