The daily sentinel., 1900-03-21
ARE AFTER
THEIR SCALpS.

ic and Populist Tickets by d.
Baughman, Chairman of Tax
payers Committee. Not ten
per cent of vote Cast by Eth
er Party Emitting them to
have Tickets Filed Without
Petition.
There is monkey and parrot time on
in the ranks of the populists and demo-
Gratis, or those OF the latter who have
been termed rump democrats, all on ac-
count OF the filing of two protests and
objections in the office of the city clerk,
against permitting the tickets nominal
ed at the two conventions last Saturday
from appearing on the ballot and the list
of nominations.
The proteet ts come from D. Baughman
chairman of the "tax-nayers' tickets.
He has charged many things not quite
according to Hoyle in the conduct Of con
ventions which he alleges are irregular
in the nomination of the two tickets and
they are set off in typewritten protests,
which have the ear marks of having
been drawn by some one who knows
what he is about.
His main objection and protest in the
case of the democratic party is in part
as fellows
That the call is irregular and illegal;
that neither the said S. G. MeMullin j.
f. Dulmaine, j. NJ. Sampliner, Frank
h. Haskell, W. M. Mann, j. E. Broem-
ser nor j. A. Comins, who made the call
for tho convention, had any authority
whatever, to sign or cause said call to be
made; that none OF these parties belong
to the democratic city committee; that
there is no democratic city organization
and no city democratic committee; that
Frank H. Haskell is not committeeman
from the East Third ward nor does he
reside in that ward; that if there be any
committeeman from that ward they are
D. T. Stone and W. s. Wallace, and they
are of the county democratic organiza-
tion and not of the city.
The call is further irregular, invalid
and fraudulent in this, that it designates
a democratic convention will be held in
the city hall in Grand junction on tho
18th day of March, 1900, at 2 O'Clock p.
M. for the purpose OF nominating candi-
dates for city Office and that said call so
directed and notifying the voters OF said
city to convene on March 18th, 1900,
which was Sunday, and that the 80
called convention was held twenty -four
hours in advance of the time stated in
the printed call
Again there is no democratic city or
ganization empowered to call conven-
tions OF the democratic party; that there
ls no chairman or other officer of said
party empowered to call conventions and
that the said nominations certified to is
not OF the form provided by law; that
said convention designating the ticket
nominated. is not democratic conven-
have sworn to the list Of nominations;
there vas no convention OF delegates
representing the democratic party and
that they have no right to have said
ticket placed upon the official ballot or
upon the list Of nominations.
Ap objection upon which much stress
is laid is that the populist party did not
cast ten per cent of the vote at the last
municipal election, to entitle its candi-
dates to have their ticket filed without
petitioring the same into the notice of
the city clerk.
The objections against the filing Of the
populist ticket are in the main similar
to that Of the democratic ticket. The
parties who signed the call for the CON
vention, A. T. Wharton, G. II Ketch-
um, Frank M. Welch, A. A. Miller, G. P.
McCary and William Campbell are
charged with having no authority what
ever. That there was no populists muni-
pal ticket at the last election and that
not ten per cent of the entire vote cast,
was cast for the populist party emitting
it to have its nominations upon the off
cial ballot or upon the list OF nemina-
tions.
A hearing will take place tomorrow
morning at ten ocl ck before City