The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-04
Hottest Fight in Kansas by
HarperaCOunty POpuIi8tS.
AGAINST THE DEMOCRATS
Fiery Circulars Issued by
Both Sides.

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The Harper county Populists are tired
Ct their Democratic allies and the way
they 2~a landing on Mr.. DuvaTs friends
Is wonderful to see
I'm 1897 and in 1895 the Democrats issued
sneeriug pamphlets against the Populists,
which the PopuIists took and groaned
Under. But they bided their time
Now they are out in pamphlet Of their
own. scoring the Democrats. and with It
they pass around duplicates Of the two
pamphlets the Democrats issued against
The Popuists in previous years.
The pamphlet issued this wear bv +be
Populists is signed by leading PoDuiists
in the county. by G. w Titus. Sheriff T.
S Holiday. Mr. A. r. Mckay. B. Mar
Tin. George w. Finch w. w. Stalev. d.
Rose and Frank Fetrov
Their address is as follows,
To the PoDu1ist Voters ~ T7arnsr
County:
We desire TO submit IN Won state
ment Of facts concerning the nomination
OF CIaud Duva for congress. and of Lot
Ravenscraft for state senator.
The Seventh congressional convention
of The Populists and Democrats was held
at Hutchinson September 11th after the
fusion committee had secured the with
darwaI of both Mr.. Campbell and Mr.
Duval Thirteen counties instructed
their delegates to the Populist convention
for the nomination of new man These
counties had| uniformalv given Ponul}s+
najorities The Sunaower T.ea-ue ab5
so maniuulate4 the Pona,1fs+ o,,,,,-o.-
sionaI committee that no county was 70
have less than two deIeeates while
Harper county mad but Eve and sod
wick county nineteen. In the tb.,lv
populated counties In the southwestern
portion of the state the Damocrs tic
committee either sent DELEGATES TO the
P0pulist convention or eouinno5 tba
Democratic delegates with proxies TO
vote I'm the P0DuIfst convention This ar
rangement gave the sunAower LEAGUE
forty votes fin joint conventfon-the dele
gates from the thialy populated districts.
whiie Harper county was represeDte6 bv
five Democrats. although the voting
strength Of Harper county eaua1Ied an
of SAID thtnly populated counties.
The Popuist vote of Harper comfy
has been about four or five times that
az the Democrats. vet the Democrats
were accorded equal representation with
the PopuIists This was because the
Sunhower league knew what was neces-
eary to nominate Duva1 What was true
about Harper county is also true about
he other counties of the Seventh dis
t~iot The counties that genersI1v give
1rblscan rnaf3rities were Iona for
uuval.
The conference COMMITTEES vvrare,ed
over the proposition for five hours The
Populissz who held out as instructed (for
q new man) were told by the Democrats
that it must Doe Duval or a double
header that they would rather have
DuvaI nominated. even if defeated. than
IL nominate a new man and elect him
Tho whole question hinged UPON The
ability of the SunHower league to be
able to control the federal patronage
Duva. being at tah head of that orGani-
zaton and the postofice being an az
raintaln- aereed upon. the Sunaover
league Gid not want to take chances on
new man. hence the agreement to all
lcw said thinIy populated counties the
eat representation. An efforts to have
The Democrats take an appointment i'm
tie convention. in proportion totheirvote
WAS rejected by the Democrats. Thus
was thu nomination of DuvaI forced by
the Democrats who furnish about one
fourth of the fusion vote of the Seventh
core esslonaI district upon the fusion
convention under ten threat that if the
convention did not nominate him DuvaD
as tn fusion candidate the Democrats
would nominate him and run him as
their candidate.
The same condition Of affairs practi-
c7uv existed at the senatorial conven-