The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-10
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/ Speaking OF the nomination OF Mr.. Stan
ley. Cyrus Leland said: When Seaton
failed TO develop strength after the ballot
ing commenced. 1t was evident that Stan
: lay would De the nominee. I don't think
single politician thought there was a
chance for any other candidate.
Personally, I was for Hood-was for
him from the start. Stanley was my sec
ond choice. There was no reason why /
should support candidate from Atchison
county. Atchison pounds me whenever It
get chance. Atchison fights Bailey
Atchison makes Il a point to oppose me
and to oppose my friends.
While am not harboring any IL Will
against Atchison. it is only natural that
should give my support TO men residing
IN other sections of the state Stanley IS
= strong candidate. He IS a vote getter
He Will make a winning fight
Judge Albert H. Horton said: Shawnee
county's choice was Captain John seaton.
but the nomination OF Stanley will be sat-
isfactory 70 our people. Mr.. Stanley is a
good man, clean politician and an excel
lent campaigner. He will be elected. and
Shawnee county Will give him his biggest
majority"
Governor Felt, OF Atctison. said: I'VE
were defeated. but there are no sore spots
on as. regard Mr. Stanley as grand
man. He was che choice OF a majority
OF our delegation. I predict his election
By 600 majority"
WAS THERE LUCK IN TT?
When luck becomes a set rule and tortu-
nate circumstances are at the beck and
bid Of human mind, it will be possible to
determine who actually nominated w. E.
Stanley for governor on that third ballot.
No one man or no one thing and no one
man or no one thing nominated him Luck
alone did not nominate him, but rather
combination of lucks. the most obscure.
trivial matters conspiring. with an almost
intelligent collaboration. in securing his
selection And there is no story of the
convention to be told so interesting as a
detail Of these numerous little things
which made his nomination so surprising
iy sudden.
II at the beginning, months ago. Cyrus
Leland had said that he was for Hood.
or that he was for Seaton, It IS extremely
doubtful II Mr.. Stanley would be the nom
inee today. But Leland did not commit
himself and was equally friendly, in the
eyes Of the general public, 20 Seaton and
Hood. The time was certainly coming.
to the politicians mind even then, when
Leland must choose between the two, and
he must offend one or the other The time
came. He offended Seaton. He made a
combination between Seaton and Hood an
impossibility, and such a combination
would have been a most perilous thing
for Stanley. If, at the beginning, months
ago Billy Edwards had not gone into the
race for governor, Stanley would have had
the Seventh district solid, a thing his man
ayers very much desired at that time.
But that solidity would have made him
so prominently the leader in the fight that
a combination would have been the more
strongly induced among his opponents,
and he might have gone into the conven-
ton with the fun strength on the first
ballot and Embarrassing thereafter. But
Billy Edwards was in the fight, was not
allied by any agreement or understanding
with Stanley, was not placed. by any po-
litical prediction, with Stanley. His pres
ence in the fight made it possible for nm
to start the stampede. Stanley himself not
knowing it at the time, and make Stan
ley's nominat ton the question of a very
few minutes.
If there had been contest in any OF
the delegations and the usual endless polls
of the different counties during the con-
vention would have strung out over an
other day and every night was disad-
vantageous to Mr.. Stanley.
If the motion for a recess after the sec
ond ballot had succeeded, a prodigious
effort would have been made for COM
bination among the rival forces and might
have been secured.
And one of the fortunate contingencies
of the whole affair was an out-of-the-
ordinary personnel which han through the
whole convention, rather non-political
upon the whole, for the delegations for
the most part were made up of men who
were undlsciplined to the dictations Of the
delegate chairmen and who. most of them,
had very decided personal and independ-
ent views about a second choice and, most
important OF all, who were impatient OF
a protracted convention. Again and again
the cry went up from the delegates:
business" It was in response to this
restlessness that the reading Of the call
was dispensed with; that all committees
were quickly named; that the nominations
began early and were kept going until
nearly ! o'clock Thursday morning. a.
which time the convention adjourned
after having, toward the last, dispensed
entirely with all nominating speeches.
It was this eagerness for quick conclu-
sions which played a most important part
in the nomination OF the Wichita man.
The absence OF this feeling would nave
been detrimental 70 Stanley.
Above all the push" outside the con- /
vention did great deal to set the current
in SANKEY'S direction. The people OF
Hutchinson were for him and the people /
OF all the country surrounding Hutchin- +
son. The Stanley sentiment was persist f.
emily anI perpetually vocal and the /
second choice" sentiment having already /
been created to a great extent by Mr.. /
SANKEY'S canvass OF the state, was cTys- /
tall.zed.
CENTRAL COMMITTEEMEN.
Central committeeman were chosen IS ]
follows: First district D. r. Anthony:
Second a. J. White; Third. .. " Null !
vane. Fourth. George D. Cook: Fifst. ". (
A. Morgan: Sixth. Frank Smith; Seventh, /
John :. Gilmore. Fishth. Ford J. Funk. {