Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-17
FRED WHITE
NOMINATED.
He Will be Democratic and
Populist Candidate for
Governor of Iowa.
THE STORY OFTHEFIGHT

The Causes Leading Up to the with-
dravyai Of sslps Name-Populist
Jtinuence on tho Conven-
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For Governor h. !.
FRED WHITE of Keoikaa County
For Lieutenant Governor.
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"A VAN WAGENEN. of Woodbury. Co.
For Railway Commissioner
w CALHOUN, Pop, of Marsllall Co.
For orsuperintendent Public instruction,
.........B Hoist. Of Boone County
The above is the ticket placed in
nomination by the democratic state
convention at Des MoInes yesterday
afternoon. As we stated in yesterdays
Courier, Fred White,~of Keolluk coun-
", who was defeated two years :sp
by Gov. L. NJ. Shaw, will again be his
opponent this year. 81. L. Bevis, OF
kinggoid county, was selected lieu
tenant governor on the first ballot.
Judge Van Wagenen, of Waodouls
county, who was nominated for SUI
preme judge. was stranger in tie
| candidate rumors before the conycn-
tion.
In naming Fred White. the demo rat
lc party OF Iowa again d,uons traletl
that 1t is made up OF factions. no two
OF which are in accord with each { ther.
-After months of har,l work, by the
members of the state central
committee and the conservative
leaders OF the party to bring
about movement whiah wo,ll,l rrite,
IN a measure, the many actions az the
party IN Iowa, and tf.rr all, ti.e lead
ers had retired Tues lav right, .eeii,..
certain tha-, their work WAS at last to
bear fruit. and t:l,t al, :he, conclusion
OF Cato Sells speech in Ne morning,
I ne ne would ia. tAesa fternbon he. e.,inanlT
llou
,,sfhey' awoke sMeln nesdas morning To-
learn that Cato had nad i dream Iii IN
which lt.appeared 10 lin hat he could
not be nominated, and before the lcad-.
ers could marshal their forces AMI s1or.
the havoc, Cato Sells had ,v:rmlfawn
from the race. placed his hand in that
OF Fred White and ni",.n:sed hin his
support. To say that the wheel hor.es
were disgusted-nad. is putting it
mildly. but while the ;iead was dune.
they still had hope that after sells
speech as .eman-ary chl.rGlan, 'here
would be silca an ovation for him ;aa,
he would be nominated .,y acclanation,
despite his determination to retire.
The exact reason for Mr.. Sells ae
tion is not altogether known, but. rs
in many other cases, there are said TO
be MANY reasons. 1t is claimed thar n
careful poll of the delegates was taken
after the Bryan speech late Tuesday
night. and it was discovered that Sells
did not have enough votes TO nominate
him. This discouraged Sells, but not
the members OF the committee. They
figured that with three or four candi-
dates in the race, no one OF them could
have IA majority of delegates. at least
at the start. Others claim that the
article in the Des Moines Leader. stat
ing that White would probably be the
man, and that Bryan's speech had in
lured Sells cause and disrupted Sells
plan. was the real reason for the
action taken by the man from Vinton.
This Is supported by the fact that the
Leader has been the leading conser-
vative democratic paper of the
state. and Sells seeing what
he supposed was his chief or
gan, going against him, decided to give
up the fight. 1t is claimed by some
that the populist resolution, fathered
by General Weaver, which was TO thc
effect that the populists would not sup
port Sells if he We're nominated, had
something to do with the withdrawal
of the conservative candidate. Still
others claim efhat the positive refusal
of Editor Murphy. of the Dubuque ll.i--
esraph, the leading is to 1 paper in th,.
state to support Sells, if he were nom-
mated, was another added reason 1t
was to Mr.. Murphy that Mr.. Sells,
early yesterday morning, first stated
that he would withdraw from the race.
In an argument in the Saverv hotel
corridor. some hot words were PASSED,
and then and there Mr. Sells first gave
notice that he was not a candidate TOR
governor of Iowa on the democratic
ticket. After the mischief had oe,n
done there were many attempts made
to undo ii, but it was too late. The re-
port that Sells had withdrawn spread
like wild-fire, and the friends of Frcd
White were soon in possession of the
field
Iiut there was still a faint ray of
hope when the convention was Gated
to order ut II o'clock yesterday morn
ing. When Cato Sells was Introduced
he was greeted with prolonged cheers
and his address, all through. was more
loudly cheered, and seemed TO have Il
greater impression on the delegates
than Bryan's speech of the night he
fore. He delivered it with an earnest-
ness that was characteristic of the
man, and at the conclusion, when a
voice from the stage remarked, "And
they say Cato SEES Is not a democrat"
the scene was dramatic in the extreme.
After the cheering had subsidized, Sells
stepped to the front of the stage, his
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