The herald., 1898-10-19
THE VICTORY ASSURED BY FUSION

impatient and cut his speech short, then the
vote was announced and after the "Atef'
ward had made the nomination unanimous
and three cheers were given for that ward,
G. G. Wright was introduced. He was given
an uproarious reception and briefly returned
his thanks for the honor conferred.
Mr.. Adcock introduced a resolution pledg-
ing the candidates to get a fire department.
for the colored voters of the Seventh ward
and the resolution was adopted.
The Report on Fusion
The chair then announced the reading OF
the, report of the committee on fusion by
Judge DuPuy. The main officers to be nom
mated we're left as in the original repore-
the only addition being the selection of war.
nominees. The report allotted the ward OF.
fees as follows
To the Democrats-Second ward, member
of board Of education; Third ward, council.
man and member Of board Of education;
Fourth ward, councilman and member OF
board of education; Fifth ward, councilmAn
and member Of board of education; Sixth
ward, councilman; Seventh ward, vouncil-
man; Eighth ward, councilman; Ninth ward,
member of board of education.
To the .Populists was allotted the council
man in the First ward and member Of the
board of education in the Sixth ward ana
councilman in the Ninth ward.
To the Silver Republicans-In the First
ward, member of board of education, coun.
Gilman in Second ward and member of the
board of education in the Seventh ward.
Many Protests
The delegates from the First ward entered
q vigorous protest against taking away
their nomination for council and giving il
to the Populists, as the delegates of that
ward had earlier in the evening nominated
L. P. Collette as a candidate for council.
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the convention had no right to dictate or
apportion the ward nominations, but that
work must be done by ward conventions.
Then followed wrangle, and points of or
der and motions were thicker than mos
quitos in Jersey, the whole row being led
by the First ward delegates.
The whole matter finally simmered down
the report, namely, the First and Ninth,
while great majority of the delegates "a
vored its adoption.
The convention finally took the bit in it,
teeth, and adopted the report over the heads
of the objectors by four to one vote.
A motion was made that the nominations
made be certified to the Populists and Silver
Republicans. and request made that the
two conventions reciprocate.
Fusion Messages
Delegate Fulton from the Peoples party
reported the adoption of the report Of the
fusion committee BY that body.
DR.. Boynton made similar report from
the Silver Republicans.
weller, Hardin and Brooks, were appointed
to notify both the Populists and Silver Re.
publicans of the nominations made by the
Democrats and of the adoption Of the re-
port on fusion.
Set on 'Em
The First warders kept up howl about
their councilman, but the delegation was
divided in itself, and the convention was
dead against it. Hard as the ''kickers''
worked, just as hard the delegates at down
on their attempts to have their own way.
.t Ratify Nominations
As soon as the Committee had left to no.
tify the two other conventions to the union
the chair announced the nominations az
made by the Silver Republicans as follows:
Jay Winans for treasurer and Frank Walker
for assessor.
The convention ratified the nominations,
and recess was then taken, and the dele
gates divided themselves into ward conven-
tions to make the nominations allotted to
the Democrats in the various wards.
Ward Nominations
The ward nominations made by the three
conventions up to the hour of adjournment
were as follows, the initials D. standing for
Democrat, s. R. for Silver Republican and
r. for Populist candidates:
First ward-Council,, -; board of edu-
cation, w. j. Washburn, s. r.
| Second ward-Council, Henry DeGarmo.
S. r.; board of education, A. G. Sum-
mers, D.
Third ward Council, L. G. Tyler, D.:
board Of education, B. Sens, D.
Fourth ward-Council, G. E. Huber, D.;
board of education. G. G. Davis, R. lin
dorsed).
Fifth ward-Council, Willard Stimson,
D.; board Of education, Irving Blinn, D.
Sixth ward-Council, George D. Pessell,
D.; board of education, Norman Schanz, r..
Seventh ward-Council, Will f. Keller,
D.; board of education, S. W. Hawkins, s. r.
Eighth ward-Council, Robert A. Todd,
D.; board of education, Adolph Ramish, d.
Ninth ward-Council, /. V. Glasscock,
p; board of education, George W. Simon
ton, D.
The Populist Nominees
As soon as the convention reassembled the
report from the Peoples party convention
Of G. J. Dahl for city auditor and George
Harlan for tax collector. These nominal
tions were indorsed, and it was announced
that the general city ticket was complete.
and had been ratified by all three conven-
! tions.
Not Complete Ticket
When the ward caucuses were called, ,it
was announced that the First ward dele
gates had nominated L. P. Collette for coun-
Gil in defiance of the fusion report, and that
the Populists would not agree to give way.
It was then decided to adjourn the conven-
ton until 10 this morning.
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