The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-27
AUGUST 18TH
COMMITTEE TO DECIDE BE
TWEEN CAMPBELL AND DUVAL
Democrats Proposition Checking 1t
to POpui. sts Was No Bluff.

! By agreement reached in caucus at the
/ Fort Scott convention. the Populist con-
! gressional committee is slated to under
take the responsibility of unwsnding the
! Seventh district tangle. 1t is to decide
! who IS TO come off the track. The lead
ers at the Fort Scott convention gave it
/ out TO the short-grass fellows that one
/ Of the two candidates had TO come of.
/ and that in mighty quick order. to pre-
/ serve the interests of fusion. Contrary
/ to expectations the state convention did
not get its finger in the buzz saw but
checked the matter up to the congress
sional committee.
The committee is to choose between
/ Campbell and Duval. and meeting will
be held on August Is to settle the dis
turbance. The date has not been an
nounced vet TO the members of the COM
mittee. but Chairman A gers of the Pop
ulist committee told a reporter for the
Eagle yesterday afternoon that the meet
ing would be held in Wichita about that
date. He is IN spondence with mem
bers Of the committee with that end in
view
In checking the bet to the Populist
committee Mr. Duval made a bold move.
He says he viii abide by the decision OF
the committees; that If majority of
them want him off he Will 'dy his kite
and turn the field over to Mr.. Campbell.
In making the proposition the Democrats
| claim that he knows what he is doing.
In the event that majority Of the COM
mittee favOrs Duval, Campbell IS to go.
so say the leaders. notwithstanding the
Nichitan's claim that no power on
| earth can remove him from the race"
Mr. Campbell does not feel that he is
slated to go. but, on the contrary. he
and others claim that they have inside
information that II is his opponent. He
was busy yesterday with a number of
prominent Populists in the short-grass
district who stopped off on their way
| nome from the Fort Scott convention.
The Democratic and Populist deIega-
( tons from this county and a large
crowd from counties on the west CANA in
from Fort Scott on the afternoon Ms
souri, Pacific train. They vera = iolIv
set They formed a procession at the
depot and marched up Main and Doug
las. The parade was headed BY Colonel
Toler the Mark Hanna of the gang. and
County Attorney sam Amidon. There
Voc sf'Nt4t 4-t IN lle party and they
were making all kinds OF noise. stop
ping in front ~ the Eagle Office. they le,
out three cheers for Bryan and then
wandered 81. They were in excellent
spirits and 50 noisy that the vibration
reversed the machinery IN the Eagle Of
fee and tore about three yards az as
phaltum OF Douglas avenue. besides rat
Ting the teeth Of q Chinaman three
blocks distant.
An impromptu ratification was held N
Market street, where forty-rninute
speeches were made BY Mayor HeaneSssv
Of Great Bend. Colonel Tole-, Major
Brown OF KinEmsn, County Attorney
Amidon and others The delegates car
ried sunfower had-eS and convention
umbrellas which were rs much protection
from the sun as a baseball mask. The
crowd looked worn out. yet they ersovei
themselves and carried on ali the wsv
over on thu train. All expressed them
selves as being satisfied with the ticket
Mr.. and Mrs ". n. Kenyon G. 81.
Louis, No, is visiting Mrs. =. Ngo-znan.
OF College Hill