The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-12
GEORGE PITTS IS BOSS
Proves His Title Over Demo-
crat and Pop.
MIDDLE NAME is SMOOTH
How He Landed Duval at
Hutchinson.
NAME is SMOOTH
Special to the Eagle.

Special to the Eagle
Hutchinson, Kan, Sept. u-George
Pitts has won. Claude Duval is nornin-
| ated for congress against Long. 1t was
accomplished at $50 this evening on the
| second ballot. The one-roof convention
is over. The Democrats were the abso-
Lutte masters. George T. Pitts is the
smoothest fusionist in the district and
already has boom been sprung for him
for United States senator in recognition
of his services, and of course he will get
Popuist support in that, since he did in
the recent contest here.
George Pitts is a young Sumner coun-
ty lawyer. He began politics, so one Of
his enthusiastic friends said here. buck
ing Andy Richards in Sumner county pol
ttics." Today he is one of the smooth
men Of the state, for he has successfully
run Populist as well as a Democratic
convention. He has won at every turn:
he has forced the Populists to do his bid
ding; he has nominated Claude Duval
and established his supremacy over Dem
ocrats and Populists alike in the dis
trict
Pitts was first on the ground He had
delegates met as they arrived and had
them brought to his suite of rooms at
the Midland. He instructed Populists
what to do He fixed organizations and
committees.
Pitts is smooth. There was considera-
BILE unorgaRized Populist feeling against
him. He wanted to be on the committee
OF conference, but did not go on. be-
cause he didn't care to flush the game.
He put his faithful assistant, Ed Hack
ney at the head of the committee and
himself kept in the background. He is
smooth, is Pitts and wise, and too much
for the Populists.
l. P. Campbell is mad tonight. So are
other Populists. They see how Pitts has
worked them. The correspondent for the
Eagle complimented Campbell on his re-
cent address before the Populist conven-
ton at Wichita.
Yes" he said, 'ft was truth-laree
chunks Of it-and now this thing is over
I'm going to hurl a few more chunks"
And the general impression is he will
do It.
When the one-roof convention was ad
journed, the two single conventions again
met in their old halls, and while the
Democrats TO a man wildly went down
the street to do their ratifying, only thir-
ty-seven Populists repaired to their hall
81 out of 49, TO ratify Duval
Democratic supremacy is recognized to-
night. and while some like it; while some
calmly take their medicine, others do
some tall talking, and things are not al
together peaceful now it is all over
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One Of the features of the convention
was the somewhat remarkable speech of
Senator William A. Harris, Populist to
the Populfst convention. In It Senator
after exhorting the forces here to
day to harmonic, talked straight Dem
oeracy, which serves to emphasize the
change which seeks to convert
the Populist party bodily into the Dem |
ocratic party.
Harris told how he and Lafe Pence of |
Colorado went to Bryan in 1894 and beg |
ged him to become a Populist. Bryan |
said no, he would reorganize and rejuven- |
ate the Democratic party. "And he has |
done it." said Harris. UNLESS we win |
with him, no man in this general ton can |
win the day for US. The Democracy of |
today is newer and better than ever. It |
now represents good policies. and it is in |
a position to do national things. If the |
Populist party should go out of existence |
now its duty would have been accom-
plished. 1t has nerved the Democrats to |
their position of today. 1t has started |
new reforms and he people to thinking"
It was very noticeable how Harris talk
ed Democracy. and it was but an indi-
cation of. the tendency Of the Democratic |
party to absorption.