The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-04
Do It OVER AGAIN
PopuIists Elect New Delegates
to County Convention.
DEMOCRATS HAVE A TRICK
To Take Both Delegations to
Hutchinson for 0uvaI.


sional nominee in the field. The conven
ton is to be held Thursday in Wichita
The Democrats have called together tn
same delegates which made up the count
convention here on August IL. These vii
meet Saturday.
In the congressional situation following
the withdrawal of Campbell and Duval
the Wichita Democrats are playing
game for national patronage, and to thi
end will try to take to Hutchinson mex
week both a Democratic and Populis
delegation which viii vote for Duval. TIL
plan contemplates first delegations for T
G.. Fitch, but as Fitch is a CLEVELAND
Democrat and could no more poll thu
Populist votes of this district than coulC
Dan Lamount, the development of thu
plan purposes to throw the whole Sedg
wick county vote to DuvaL
Apparently the Democrats have lost al
fears Of offending the Populists. In tht
first place the men Who control the Dem
ocratic party in this city, because he wa:
formerly Republican, have no use fol
l. P. Campbell When they came out fol
ticket was yet to be nominated and the
Democrats hesitated at offending the
Populfsts. Now that the county ticket has
been nominated, composed wholly OF
Democrats and formerly Democrats, and
there is no necessity to lay further to the
Populists by being in favor Of I. P. Camp
bell
Whether the Populists Of the county
viii be twisted around the Democratic
rings finger is another matter. Some
think the Populists have been stunned
into complete docility; others that they
have some fire left and will show it when
the Fitch resolutions appear in the COM
ing county convention.
What the Democrats are figuring upon
is control of Federal patronage in case
Bryan is elected. Whether Duval is
elected or defeated, tie argue he would
control the postoffices and other presi-
Dental gifts in this district and these in
event of Bryan's success, would go to
Democrats.
Duval, the Hutchinson candidate, Is in
the race and expects to win the nominal
| ton. I. P. Campbell is attending to his
law business in this city and is not solic-
iting delegates or laying wires.
The only outbreak of Populist indepen-
dence shown anywhere in the district by
the Populists is in Stafford county where
Tom Moseley has been put forward for a
candidate. Moseley is a man about 40
years old. His father and uncles were
in the Confederate army and his father
thought in his declining years that the
x fa1.a
boy Tom, to his beside when he was dy-
ing and asked him to promise that when
the United States had a war, he would
enlist and fight for the Stars and Stripes
This Tom promised and when the Spanish
war broke out, Tom went to Topeka and
enlisted as a private in the Twenty-first
Kansas. OF course he did not get to
fight, but he wanted to.
But Moseley's candidacy will receive
the same paralysis over the district that
any other Populist aspirant's will. The
truth of the matter is that the Populist
rings in the various counties are trading
off for the congressional nomination for
support of Democrats for county nomi-
nees. The Democrats have in the last
year assumed a dictatorial attitude which
has completely hypnotized the Populist
ringsters. The leading ring Democrats
in county affairs have hoodooed the Pop
ulist ringsters into believing that unless
the Populsts tote fair in regard to the
congressional nominee they will cut and
slash on the county ticket. This bluff
| aided by what influence Jerry Simpson
has left, is what is behind Duval
The experience of I. P. Campbell during
his mapaigning in the district is said
said to have revealed this state Of affirs
For instance when he appeared at a place
the Populists as a whole, the farmers
and-ringsters gave him enthusiastic re-
ceptions and applauded his speeches to
the echo. The Observation-Disclosures
Populist leaders treated him only cour-
teously through fear and suppressed any
enthusiasm they might feel in spite Of
! themselves.
While the local ring Of Democrats here
are butchering Campbell they feel half
ashamed of themselves They naturally
have the Wichita temperament which is
TO stand by a Wichita man, and they
realize that they are treating Campbell
shamefully. In the former convention he
was modest about his candidacy and the
/ Democrats of Wichita helped him into
the fight When Campbell was out in
The district defending Populist principles.
+ at the very moment he was raising his
voice in ONT debate for the cause of
Bryan, they were forcing resolutions
| through a county convention here in
| Wichita behttling and weakening his can
didacy. The Democrats feel this guilt
/ q he
I luctance.
! ADD DO IT OVER AGAIN
/ Primaries were held last night IN su
/ the wards, though the Pops had trouble
/ in some places 10 get enough 70 get an
! official board. None Of the delegates
1 were instructed but a resolution instruct
/ ing for a new man was offered in the
! Third and would have passed except for
/ Judge straucn and Col H. c. Taylor
! J F. Arnold spoke for the resolution
i New delegations were chosen except
! in the Sixth. where the delegation 70 the
( former convention at Great Bend were
renamed with Fred Sewers and Dr.
/ Bennett substituted for those who had
moved out OF the ward
] Following is a complete list OF the var
( ious delesations;
First Ward-pelcgstes J. a Duncan
+ Chas- ". Morgan, J. O. Hsviey. L.
/ Helena A. Benner. \ 2 ButfeTheId.
+ P. Y. Healy. =. II Kit.ie @. II Hether-
I inrton. r r. viIkie, s. II Hess 2 n
Miles. n s Hssty. J. Fl SP.9ell O Za-
I han. c I. Irish. John Myers. D. Loeb
miller AlteTnateS: A. n Ward. p. T
/ Shepherd A NJ Murray. c P Miller
/ ". r. Sexton. Frank King. Z c. BroEn
/ John Exton- :. Halifax. J. y. Garnet
! Ed Garnet o flanders. Jos Furnish.
/ Tom Furnish. O. 4 kszcl~ X Mere
/ N,rSa v-hst.ske- . T-c%sW