Missouri Valley times., 1901-08-22
CONSERVATIVES WIN
IN The cAUCUsEs
John S. Murphy Meets His Water
loo in the Third and Sells
Is Beaten in Fifth.
eleventh AGAINST REAFFIRmAIloN

eleventh AGAINST REAFFlRMATl0N
Quick's Resolution, Declaring state Is
sues Paramount In tho Campaign,
Adopted, and K. G. Herrick,
Named on Resolutions.
Des Mones, Aug. 22.--The one great
light In the convention was for control
of the committee on resolutions. There
was battle royal in every one of the
district caucuses Wednesday before
the convention proper. When the re-
ports We're compared. the sound money
men believed they had won decisive
victory. In the Third district John S.
Murphy was laid low in defeat, the
first time he has had such an experience
since 1895. In the Fifth, Cato Sells was
defeated emphatically. The Tenth was
carried by the conservatives by two
majority, and the big Eleventh was
easily In control of the sound money
men, But While they had won in nam
ing their men on the committee the
conservatives had been compelled to
concedc in several districts that gen
eral reaffirmation of democratic prin-
cples should be made The sound
money men, pleased with the caucus re-
suits. came out declaring they would
fight on the floor against anything but
the most general reaffirmation.
In the First district j. j. Seerley, con-
serNative. was elected on resolutions
and the following declaration adopted:
We affirm the Kansas City platform
and instruct our member on resolutions
To vote fol the same"
This left the First u drawn battle
In the Second. n. ID. Ely of Daven-
port Was placed on resolutions. He op-
posed anything in the shape of reattir-
nation. The caucus named an advisory
committee of one from each county to
engineer the fight against reafilrma-
tion.
Murphy's Waterloo.
The Third had long fight. 1t was
John S. Murphy's Waterloo. John D.
Denison of Eagle Grove was the Muir
ply candidate for resolutions, William
Nj. lligbee of independence being pre-
sented by the conservatives. On the
roll call Higbee was elected II to AL
Then Murphy moved to instruct Hig-
bee to favor reaftirmation of the Kan
sas City platform. This was met with
substitute offered by the conserva-
tiNes TO instruct for a general reaf-
tirmation of historic democratic prin-
ciples. MIR. Murphy bitterly opposed
this in an address, but it carried, Ga
to 49,
Sound money Won in the Fourth dis
trlct. Senator ii. G. Bishop of Clayton,
IL z of
Mailman of Mason City We're candi-
dates. 1t took several ballots, Bishop
the conservative, winning He opposed
all reatfirmation.
There was another hard fought bat
tie in the Fifth. Much bitterness had
developed against Cato Sells and the
Stlger men had worked hard to down
vention sympathized with the Stiger
crowd. When the caucus had organ
lied NJ. r.. jackson Of Upton was
named for the conservatives and Sells
was presented by Benton county. A
roll call was ordered and resulted 54 to
81 for jackson. Before it was an
nounced Mr.. Sells arose and introduced
a set of resolutions.
care not who is your committee
man." he said, but l would feel that
my part was done If could have these
resolutions adopted"
The resolutions said that "while we
disayow no democratic principles we
recognize that the money question is
not now in issue. The adoption by
the republicans of the democratic
quantitative theory of money has ta-
ken this question out of the number of
Immediately important ones" Then
q demand was made for strong Sc
ries of declarations on state issues.
When Mr. Sells had read his reso-
lutions objection was made to their con-
s1deration till after the vote had been
announced. Mr.. Sells then withdrew
his name and moved that Jackson's
election be made unanimous. This
carried.
Sells Resolution. T,h,.d
,rbon !, n,a+;,,n
sel,s raso,,,t;a,, a as,S 'i.,ue .'1 W las 'he
,.;e1 III t,,a on, W. .ns .apie. ~ car
a clnsa 'i n.,t ''i.us, T., ~, auJoulhea. st.1l.
,.iotnr, e.. ~, .'.s s.a.ii resulted IN
,...as ~. ei,e W GoISerNatlNes. by
s,irn,,,.n,, 80, W. ~. i1alillitoh OF
cenarni sasu. ny yva. mas siea.eM on resolution.
,,o,..a ..,to. :. " W SeM.oll, sAHerl!e.
1,,a,. .iiae - pe lhe sense OF the
go. "a, ~ 10, M io.ai W ehe Kan
-, ,I.,,,.', ~ ;. pla''oihl, put we waive ma
,io,,s.., tsra1s IT., .s ~ .asoi vi STATE ques-
.'s,s M .,.. .'iis M eaiiieu.
n.m;n. Wa,tar p,,t1an ~ '''s ,e,Ne,ltIl,
over Farley sheldon of Ames "A 70 ~ as
The Eighth district selected 1,ia,,%. ~.
r. Porter of Centerville on resolutions
A resolution of instrmction -, ea. 'e
simple reaffirma ton of Of tba =, iaNor laa OF
City platform was adopted With h',t
two dissenting votes. 'o'
In the Ninth disfric+ ~,
r. cleveland of Shelby was nha.,',,
without dissent on resnln+;nns CO .sl.
Cleveland was NOT instrueted ,r,ol = Nc