The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-02
BOB NEFF IS NAMED
Continued from First pase.


pounding OF the gavel, sternly announced
that he would not recognize anybody for
| the purpose OF creating a stampede.
This action OF the chairman threw cold
water on theattempted stampede and the
excitement died away as quickly as it
started.
On the eighth ballot Cross vote drop
ped to rs. while Neff's vote increased TO
%, with a sufficient scattering vote to
keep the leader out OF hailing distance
OF the necessary two-thirds vote. On the
tenth ballot a demonstration was created
by the dramatic entrance of Candidate
Cross into the hall. There was a volley
OF cheers and applause, but on the roll
call the Cross vote dropped TO 1856. while
Nef still stod pat with 219 votes. Here
the convention took recess for supper.
The recess hour was spent in the active
mixing of medicine among the rival ele-
ments, but if there were any practical re-
suits il did not show on the eleventh
ballot, the first taken after the conven-
ton re-assembled. The vote was: Cross
al; Ross 81: Nef 22l On the succeeding
ballot there was another abortive at
tempt to create a stampede for Cross.
ties and the Usage nation followed suit,
but the result merely showed: Cross 1S9;
Ross 10. and Ncf still In the lead with
214 votes.
The thirteenth and fourteenth ballots
showed no material changes but the If
tenth ballot was made significant by
the sprinsing Of Bob Ray of Woodward
county as a new factor. On this ballot
Ray received Il votes; Cross III; Nen PIG.
and the rest scattering. On the next
ballot Rays vote had Increased TO 81 and
Cross had diminished to 145, while Nefr
neither gained nor lost.
In the succeeding ballot a languid in
terest was aroused by the re-introduction
of Callahan in the congressional game
Canadian county led off by casting It's
solid vote for Callahan. The Democratic
divided list Is votes between
Callahan and Cross and the Woodward
Demccratic delegation followed suit with
the result that Callahan received IS votes;
Cross 143; Neff 1876. balance scattering.
On the nineteenth ballot Callahans
strength expanded to So votes, but on the
twenty-fourth ballot his Strength dwfn-
died to nothing and a new Populist
Richmond had come into the field in the
person Of Jesse Dunn, with 50 votes as an
The next two succeeding ballots produc-
"a no material changes as between the
leading candidates, Cross and Neff, hut
the twenty-seventh ballot Neff's vote
was 23s which was increased on the
twenty-ninth ballot 70 2l7 votes, just %
shy of the nomination.
The next ballot settled the business,
when the Lincoln county Democratic
1elega ton changed Of its y votes from
Cross TO Neff. Woods county swung into
inc by changing 10 more votes to Nefr,
which gave him a total vote OF 2s5. 10
more than the necessary two thirds ma
ority. The secretary. however. an
bounced Eef's vote as 274, less than the |
necessary number, and in a moment |
here was howl To quiet the racket |
mother ballot was taken, which only |
ma gnified Nef's vote. the result being:
Ieff 2a5; Cross rs.
,Ouncement of the vote but in the end |
here was the usual love feast. In which |
ross Neff. Ross and Scott Denton par |
icipated as the leading characters.
The nomination is yet 10 he ratified by /
he Democrats and Populists in separate /
The platform adopted is a re-hash of /
hat which was presented before the
convention last night.