The record-union., 1898-08-13
DEMOCRATS HAD THEIR DAY.
MANY POSITIONS GIVEN TO
POPULIsTS EFT AL.
Morrison for Sheriff-No Recogna-
ton of the State Print
ing Office.

While toward it's close the Democratic
County Convention, held yesterday IN
Turner Hall, smacked Of ''ye olden
time" taking it all the way through
1t was tame and at times inslpld.
Long before the hour of convening
1t was known that David Ahern
had decided not to appear be-
fore it as a candidate for the nomina-
ton for Sheriff, and interest in that
contest died an easy death. It was
plain sailing for James NJ Morrison,
and he and his friends wore broad and
effervescent smiles.
AS indicated in the Record Union
several days ago, the administrator Oh
Governor Budd was indorsed without
murmur of dissent, showing that the
County Central Committee did it's work
well
Then, too, after indorsing the off,
cial acts of the Governor, the conven-
fion swung around and adopted res
olution extolling James G. Mcguire as
the logical" candidate for Governor.
1T is only justice to say that the Ma
guire resolution was offered by one of
the Governors bitterest political enc
mics, and it went through with
whoop, though after the convention
found what it had done there was talk
of reconsidering the matter on the
ground that a former resolution pro-
vided that all resolutions offered should
be referred TO the Resolutions Commit
tee without debate. OF course it was
gag law, and was intended to shut off
obstreperous members, but as no ques-
tions of moment came up, everything
went and the resolution was allowed
TO stand.
But the Populists and the Silver Re
ppblicans, to use an expression of the
street, and incidentally of the conven-
tion, Didn't do a ting to the Dimmy
Crats." but gobble everything in sight.
And the Democrats bowed the knee
passed under the rod, and took their
medicine.
They did not ask much, those Popu-
lists and Silver Republicans. The for
mer party could only be appeased By
having nominees for Assemblymen for
the Twenty-second District, County
Clerk. County Assessor and Supervisor
for the First District. The first three
positions the Democrats were willing to
surrender but when asked to draw
down L Boysen, candidate for Supervi-
sor, and allow the Populists to put up
Trustee D. Mckay, the delegates from
-
raised the cry Of mo fusion" and
'Down with the A. p. AS"
But the Populists were out for every
thing in sight, and they got all they
played for, and when the Silver Re-
publicans asked for the District Attor-
neyship the convention again did the
knee bending trick and tried to look as
though 1t didn't hurt
Then away along near the close of
the proceedings the enemies Of Cover
nor Budd again got their heads to-
gether, the result coming in the form
of a resolution declaring in favor of
Ieopening the State Printing Office as
a case of necessity in the matter of
perpetuating the present system of
State textbooks.
But Governor Budd's people had the
convention, and while they had made
a slight mistake earlier in the day, they
were on their guard, and the resolution
was met by storm Of boots, Kisses and
curses, and by host of demands that
1t be referred to the Committee on Res
olutions. The Chairman innocently Of
fered to read the resolution, provided
the convention so decided, but the CON
vention did ont desire, and in the end
1t was referred to the aforementioned
committee, who buried it so deep that
Gabriel will have a hard time finding
1t when the dead are resurrected
When simmered down, it will be
found that the Democratic County Con-
vention nominated candidates for the
Assembly from the Twenty first Dis
trict, Sheriff, Treasurer Surveyor and
Public Administrator, and indorsed a
few nominations for township officers
and one Supervisor and that is all.
There We're many evidences that the
convention was Democratic, even mad
the fact not been generally known
The Chairman often had a hard time
TO keep order. pugnacious delegates de-
nounced and even damned the A. P. A.
and there was a fight about fusion,
which is the malady that troubles all
Democratic gatherings this year An
examination Of the ticket will show that
the fusionists did not lose their time on
a hot day and a sweltering night
Believing that it is our only chance
70 elect a single officer this year" yelled
q delegate when his name was called on
ballot. II vote for fusion and Mckay -
Believing that 1t Is a base betrayal
of our party to the A. P. A." yelled an
other delegate, II oppose all such hy-
pocrisy as fusioni"
And so the convention was animated
amused or diverted from main ques-
tions during it's more animated moods
the Chairman at times keeping order
with the greatest difficulty.
I'VE thought we would have a fair
deal with Chairman Woodman. who
once presided at a meeting that de-
nounced the Governor for his State
Printing Office record" said one Of the
bitterest enemies of the administra-
tion, "or we should have refused to vote
for him" 1t was then complained oi
loudly that the Chairman appointed q
committee that indorsed the Govern.
ors administration.
In spite of the frequent and emphatic
statements Of Governor Budd's friends
that no resolutions indorsing his ad-
ministration would be introduced at the
convention, such resolutions We're in
troduced and adopted. The conven-
ton had hardly opened before the Gov
ernor's Private Secretary made a mo.
ton that a committee of five be ap-
pointed ito draft resolutions" There
We're nudges and knowing looks among
the wise ones from that moment, and tn
program soon developed the Governor.
way.
1t was alleged by those who were op