The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-23
CAN BEAT THEM BOTH
So Declares Major Brown of
Kingman of |. P. Campbell.
DR.. BROWN OF PRATT co.
Of Demo Committee Favored
DuvaPS Withdrawal.

A
man Juurnal, who was one of 1. P. Camp
bells chief opponents in the congressional
nomination race, was in the city yester-
day. Mr.. Brown has recently come out
strongly for Campbell and is doing every
thing in his power to cause DuVafs resig-
nation. In talking to reporter for the
Eagle, the major said:
.'Kdngman county, almost the solid fus-
ion vote, is for Campbell, because they
believe he offered to do the square thing.
Before DuvaI rejected Mr. Campbell
| proposition. he had many supporters. but
| I want to tell you right now that they
have gone back on him now. All this
talk about the Populist congressional
| committee being in favor Of Campbell
resignation is bosh At that meeting in
Larned there had been some talk of
CampbeiPs withdrawing Internationally,
and matters pertaining to that were dis
cussed, but it was decided to hold MI
Campbell in the race, unless he was given
something on the state ticket Nom gov
ernor down. The Democrats may boast
that the committee favored the Populist
candidates withdrawal, but there is no
! truth in it, and 1 will give any man s.
bill who will tell me any such thing
was favored by the committee. Campbell
will carry Kingman county over Long
and Duval both. Campbell has made
friends in Kingman county since he pro-
! posed to Duval that both should with
draw"
| Sheriff ]. B. Gibbons Of Pratt county,
who is members of the Populist con-
gressional committee, was in the city also
| yesterday. Mr.. Gibbons was not at the
Larned meeting, but he says that moth
ing of that sort occurred. To a reporter
for the Eagle, be had to say:
Campbell acted square and he has
gained strength in Pratt county. Out of
the twenty Democrats in Pratt county,
Duval might get twelve OF them. That
Hutchinson meeting was an awful tame
affair. DR.. Bowers, a member of the
Democratic meeting, did not attend when
CampbelFs proposition was brought up
for consideration, but he wrote to Chair
man Pitts and told him to cast his vote
in favor of Duval accepting the PROPOSE
ton, but nothing of the kind was done.
DR.. Bowers was, and is yet, IN favor of
the retirement of the Democratic can
didate. I myself believe that when the
matter is placed before the state and ma
tional committees that Mr.. Duval will be
goner, as all the votes that he can
possibly get now will be a handful. Camp
bell will carry Pratt county over Long
and Duval, surer than blazes.'
In summing up the situation, Major
Brown has to say in his paper:
According to the dispatches, Mr.. Duval
refuses to accept the proposition of Mr..
Campbell and both withdraw from the
race. On the other hand he declares he
is in the race to stay, which is equival-
emit to saying that Mr.. Long should be
elected. According to the story, Mr.. Duval
acknowledged receipt of Mr.. CampbelPs
letter and said that he would submit
the matter to his committee, which it is
claimed he did, and they unanimously
agreed TO hold him on the track and
politely invited the Populist party to go
to the country where they burn much
soft coal.
Two things are remarkable about this
procedure. One is that when Mr.. Duval
was making his speeches and saying.
with apparent good faith: 'It my can
didacy stands in the way of fusion sue
cess and getting together on the congress
siona1 candidate I will cheerfully with
draw, not refer ii to q committee OF
anybody's party.
The second is that the committee that
refused to allow him to withdraw was the
same identical men or nearly so, who
represented the counties that were for
Duval at Great Bend. and never offered
any compromise or solution to the ques
ton save a complete surrender to the
u, 81 70
retain their horses of side arms. Were
the Democrats of Kingman, Harper,
Pratt, Harvey and Sedgwick represented,
and if so did they vote to hold Mr.. Duval
in the race and thereby endanger the sue
cess of Mr.. Bryan and the fusion state
ticket, say nothing about the legislature
and county officers? If so, name the men
who represented them. And yet, without /
good majorities from at least Pratt. King /
man and Sedgwick no fusionist could be |
elected 10 congress. 1t was the same rule /
or ruin crowd that went into a conference /
meeting Of the committees appointed at |
Great Bend by the two parties, submitted |
a proposition TO give each congressional /
committee plenary powers. which the |
Populists accepted and carried through I
their convention without a dissenting 1
vote, anu tHI6e OF lue DSiHoCTdNlC GOi- /
ferees out Of the five on the committee. |
including the man who made the propo- |
sitian. went back to their convention. |
fought and defeated It No mans am6i-
tion IS supposed to be greater than his
partys good
But the most gail Is exhibited in the
Democratic address. Read II:
''on April Il, 1892 12S Populist delegates
and 142 Democratic delegates having been
beforehand regularly chosen for that pur-
pose BY the ordinary party method. net
at Great Bend, Kan, TO nominate g fus-
ion candidate for congress. OF the votes
g these delegates Mr.. Duval. on every
ballot received q majority. and on the
hnal and last ballot and the ballot on
which AIr. Campbell received the votes OF
Sc, thus giving Mr.. Duval IT the aggre-
safe i plurality over Mr.. Campbell OF 65
votes and a majority over all OF % votes.
which we submit in all fairness. entities
Mr.. Duval on the face OF the returns 70
be declared the fusion nominee % the
parties represented by these Us delegates
NO objection was ever made BY any |
one, before these conventions. % the |
of representation governing their
until after the delegates thereto
were elected. had assembled and had cast
their votes. No faint OF corruption, no
charge q dishonesty has ever been hint
ed al, much less made, with reference 10
the delegates OF any OF them. who con-
posed either OF the Great Bend CONVEX
items.
Their action at Great Beud speaks for
Itself and from that action we maintain
that The fusion banner should ba GAINED
D. Claude Duvai