The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-22
PARCELS THEM OUT
how DEMc-POP5 FUSION CONFER
ENoE COMMITTEE WORKS.
Vote Stood Seven to Seven Of Pops and
Democrats Till Charles Hatton Was
Given . Place Merely for Courtesy NJ
the Suggestion of Spencer. tho Demo
cratic Member, Now Says Ono Pop Its
No Use to Go and Simply Sends HIS
Proxy to Hatton With Regards-lts n
Simple Twist OF the Wrist.

| No Use to Go and simply Sends His
Proxy to Hatton With Regards-lts n
Simple Twist of the Wrist.
When the Demo-Pop fusion conference
committee met to consider the division
| Of the county ticket there were seven
men on each side and the doors We're
| locked.
The members Of the two committees
| were, for the Pops: Silas Ruteledse,
G.. A. Gilmore. of Mt. Hope; Mr. Sloan,
CT Grand River township; Seth High, OF
Gypsum township; Mr.. Anderson, OF
Grand River township; ]. F. Arnold and
j. NJ. Furnish; Democrats-D. A Nc
Canless, I. B. Cartwright. OF Waco town
snip; J. W. Burton, G. K. Spencer, n.
B. Sickler, of Derby: Mr.. Anderson, OF
Great Bend township, and Leslie Martin
Of Delano township.
Nobody but committeeman Would pe
allowed inside it announced. and there
wasn't till Charley Hatton, VINO is a par
ticular friend OF Police Commissioners
Spencer and Jocelyn and whose salary
in these flourishing days OF big business
enterprises, big crops in this western
country, along with general Pop hustle
and prosperity, was raised SIS month
by these same commissioners. happened
along.
OF course il was all the merest coinci-
dent that the door should be unlocked
about the time Mr.. Hat.on got there and
OF course, too, il was only an act OF I'M
premeditated courtesy that Mr.. Spencer
should get up and move that Mr.. Hat
ton, as representative OF the silver Re-
publican vote, sshouli be allowed a vote
in the committee proceedings.
The silver Republicans were to have
no representation on the ticket it is true.
but Hatton could see that the thing was
divided UP right.
When the matter came to a vote the
Pops were given sheriff. The Democrats
took treasurer. II was clerk next and
by turn as we'll as by the county vote
the Pops were entitled to the place and
expected It. The vote stood equally d.
vided up to Hatton's vote. and he gave
it 10 the Democrats. This was merely
a political coincidence, too. Certainly,
Spencer, whom Campbell said runs the
police board, Is Democrat and had Hat
ton put on the committee, but that had
nothing 10 do with Hatton's vote.
Ike Little, who has been the Populist
candidate before and who has been in
the campaign all along, who as a Poou-
list worker heretofore, expected the
place, and was led to believe he might
expect The Populists who cast five
seventies of the silver vote OF the county
couldn't do thing. Spencer and Joce-
Ign, who raised Hatton's salary and Incl
dentally had him put on the conference
committee and who as team are Demo-
Gratis. they had nothing at all to do with
il. OF course. but it all has the effect of
calling out such expressions as this from
three Pop central committeeman:
Friend DIT has been suggested that
il the Democrat and Pop conference
committee have occasion TO hold anoth-
er meeting, that the members just send
in their prayers to Hatton and save the
expense of trip to Wichita So l send
you mine, which You can use or turn
over