The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-08-20
The GANG !.
DEFEATED
All Their Cherished
Plans Destroyed.

Annihilated, Caswell Humil-
lated, Free Silver Omitted.
The democratic county convention
held here on Saturday was poorly at
tended but interesting meeting. For
some unexplained reason the strongest
democratic townships in the county
were not represented by regularly
elected delegates and it would seem
that there was great apathy in. demo
cratic ranks. In fact the convention
was dominated entirely by those town
ships and precincts which are as rule
reliably republican. The convention
was a sort of a subdued volcano
throughout, and when it was over and
the gang figured up the retvrns, it
it has seen for years. The old machine
was completely turned down on every
important point and it was all done so
quietly that the gang can only rub its
sore snots and wonder what hit it.
County Chairman John Cook called
the convention to order in the forenoon
and called c. 2. Harvey, against whose
democracy the Bulletin made slurrinG
remarks not three weeks ago, to the
chair. O. Nj. Criswell was appointed
temporary secretary. On motion
committee of three was appointed on
resolutions The committee consisted
of G. L. Caswell, Chas. Bullock and r
Shaw Van. whose name the Bulletin
Intentionally left off the convention
call after it had appeared in one issu~
of that paper. Mr.. j. B. Romans
moved that a committee of one from
each precinct be appointed as joint
committee on credentials and perman-
ent organization. This was intended
as direct slap at the temporary chair
man. 1t is the usual custom to allo"
the chair 10 appoint committees #
from three to five on these committees,
but it was thought that by having
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i the power of appointment would be
taken from the chair and Harvey turn
ed down. The friends of Harvey saw
the situation, however, and rallied to
his support during the noon hour with
such effect that the committee on per-
manent organization reported in favor
of making the temporary organization
permanent. This was first blood for
those upon whose democracy the Bull
letin has been casting slurs.
At the afternoon session it could be
seen that there was great deal OF sup
pressed excitement. The happenings
of the morning had been important
Mr.. Romans seeing that he did not
have hearty support for senator and
that it would be impossible for him to
make peace between the warning
1 factions, had withdrawn as candidate
for senator, w. A. Davie had announc-
ed himself as candidate and Carey
was announced as a candidate by Mr..
Caswell. Two surprises awaited the
convention in the afternoon. The re-
port of the credentials committee
showed that none of the German town
ships had sent a regular delegation and
resented only by one man and that few
caucuses had been held This was a
source of much chagrin to the demo
cratic leaders as it showed cow little
interest the democrats take in any.
thing but the distribution of county
4 Offices The second surprise was the
report of the committee on resolutions
In the platform there was no reference
to silver, to Bryan or to the Kansas
City convention. This county has al
wavs been considered as one of the
strongholds of silver democracy and j,
) mas almost worshipped Bryan. The
platform was direct slap at the free
silver republican converts, who have
been trying to run the democratic
party Of the county for the past few
years Mr.. Caswell was the chairman
of this committee and was generally
supposed to be the author OF the reso
buttons. What reasons he has to Offer
for the silence of the platform are
awaited with interest The intense
silver men were greatly disgruntled al
the way their pet tissue was side-trackeC
aud democrats all over the state are
wondering what has happened to the
democrats of Crawford county thai
they have deserted their colors. We
publish the platform in full in another
column. A second surprise to the un
initiated was that Mr.. Romans was moi
endorsed as candidate for senator.
After the resolutions had been reaG
and adopted, without a sign of. APP
plause or enthusiasm, motion was
carried that committee of one be APP
pointed from each precinct to recon-
mend delegates to the state and sena