Hutchinson gazette., 1900-04-19
why the News should manifest sOch
q spirit toward them However
strange to say the same spirit seems to
obtain among feW of the officers,
CongressIonaI ConventIon.

and nights OF caucnsing OF proeely Jlng,
aud of scrapping, the editor IL again In
his sauctum, and trying 10 pull his few
remainIng and badly scattered Wits
together sufficiently TO indlte u few
lines regarding tue way the p0pullsts
and democratic At Great Bend at'
tempted TO play politics, and sue
ceeded In playing something Of II very
much warmer temperature aud much
more sulphurnus odor The Reno
county delegation In the popuIlst con.
ventinn we believe worked 40 manfully
for our candidate AZ any delegation
could and we're assisted by other dele
cations with no leas zeal than our own
10 whom we feel under lasting obliga-
tioDs. Among these was the Rice
county delegation and Judge Foley In
person and particular, should be re-
membered with gratitude by every
Reno county man who haa spark Of
local pride or friendship for Mr., Duval.
The convention was called to order
by Chairman Ayres of Wichita and the
secretary, Horace Foster, being sick
and unable TO be present. Mr., Glllett
Of Pawnee county was called on TO
read the call, TIE Duval men nomi'
mated Hon } c. johnson of Sterling
for temorary chairman aud the Opposi-
tion nominate Ayres Of Wichita
Ayres was elected, AZ soon as this
temporary orgaIl2 IJon was affected q
reaolutlon was offered by Helm Of
SedgwICk fayoriug the nomination Of
4 populist, The editor Of this paper
raised point Of order that such res
olutiOn was out Of order because the
convention was not yet organized and
had no known membership, The point
was oyerruled by the chair and he was
sustained by the house on an appeal
from his decision. But nevertheless
Ayers admitted to the writer, In per-
son, that in the SedgwiCk county con-
venticn he had Knocked out a resolu-
tion offered by Mr., Peltrett, editor Of
Simpsons Bayonet, on the same point
The question was then discussed In u
decidedly lively manner for short
time by Mr.. Foley and Others after
which the whole matter WAS laid on
the table by large vote,
After dinner a much milder resou-
tion, really having little significance
was adopted with little or no oppoai-
tion.
The usual committees reported. The
resolutions we're long aud we FAILED to
get them. The convention then pro.
ceeded to ballot, II developed three
cornered hght between Duyal, Brown
Of Kingman, and Campell Of Wichita'
with several scattering votes for An.
drews Of Bush Brown Of Pratt, and
Rose Of Harvey All bat Rose drop.
ped out after FIRST the ballot Duval was
strongest, Brown next and Campbell
last at first. For about 25 ballots II
continued with little changing. At
various stages each one headed the
numbers of votes and then at other
times would drop to the last one Of the
three, Finally Major Brown withdrew
but for two or three ballots
his vote remained about the same.
Then he threw almost his entire
strength to Campbell which nominated
him. A committee was appointed to
report the result TO the democrats who
we're just adjourhing for supper.
After their informal ballot, the
democrat convention reported to the
populist convention their resnlt, which
was few scattering votes for each
candidate from his home county, the
highest Of which was 10, for Campbell
aud the rest, ll0, il we remember for
Duval, This was about the time Of
the first balloting in the populist CON
vention. At about the Goth ballot the
democrats sent over u resolution ask
ing that the populists representation
be raised to make 1t equal to the dem
ocrats, and both 90 into joint conven-
ton. This was tabled in the populist
without even show of courtesy.
So after supper the democrats nomi-
mated Duval and reported to the popu-
list convention. After this, conference
committees were appointed, but from
the complexion Of the populiSt conf
mittee we had no hope of agreement
and came home.
We find from those who stayed
that the outcome was exactly what
we expected. But the populist con-
vention delegated plenary powers to
the congressional committee to accept
resignitions, make new nomination, ,etc.
and in fact clothed It with the poweTsOf
the convention. So we consider the
matter is not finally settled 1t is sim
ply in state Of statu quo, in the
hands OF the COMMITTEES. We do not
put up the name Of either candidate
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