Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-27
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
n Required Little more Than Malt an Hour
10 Railiy tho Decision Of tho BOSssa.

Sembled with due notice, saturday q
the opera house In delegate conyen
tlOn TO elect delegates and alternate
TO the state and congressional con
yentlons, The News, the organ 0
court house ring,and pet advertising
medium of the commissioners con
graduated the delegates on their sys
tematic business ability, harmon.
and r0pldity In dlscharging the dutle
OF the convention agreeable to call
We can all remember that II Is ever
thus, And why notY Weeks befor,
the convention meets a bakers dozeI
Of faithful courtlers assemble in {
closely guarded room and determine
everything that Is TO come before The
convention, The temporary and per-
manent chairman, secretaries and
committees, and even the delegates
TO represent the county, are all Sc
lected and counted out many days be-
fore the convention assemblies. The
bosses are there. The temporary
chairman knows the next man that
is to make motion and looks In his
direction when the time comes for
the motion assigned to him Is to be
made, The innocent, but yerdant,
patriot from the ranks from the rural
districts, applauds what he believes
TO be the voice of the people and
therefore tho voice Of God. He may
be first class statesman at the cross
roads in his township, but this is his
first deal In the game Of politics with
All Sin Of Hutchinson. 1t is not
much less than twenty years since
the court house ring assumed the
guardianship Of the republican party
and they will continue TO do so until
a reform movement Is sufficiently pow
erful to root them out. If the rural
tenderfoot could hear the boasting OF
the city bosses u short time before
convention day, he would learn for
the first time that his standing in the
party Is that Of a faithful follower
and q never falling dupe.
Sam Forsha was made temporary
chairman and Matthew Smith, sec
retary, and the committee on organ
ization recommended that the tenn
porary organization be made perma-
nent. This was done Of course with
out question. AS chairman Of the
COMMITTEES to select delegates to the
congressional convention, w. Y.
Morgan, president of the State Ex-
change Bank, announced that the
committee had selected the following
names to be ratified as delegates to
the congressional convention. orr
course they were ratified. Mathew,
Smith, @, O. Miller, II. Hilyard, w.
II. Wilson, A, @. Malloy, e. d. Wood,
%. M. Cafrey, Henry Thleson, j. II.
Elwood, r.. II. Moore, j. A. Young,
II. N. Cheatum John LitchGeld, A.
Mardls, Albert Dean, w. r. Randle
w. +. Hendry, M. II. Elliot, and II.
II. Oliverson. OF course there is
nothing to be done at the congress
sional convention but to renominate
Long, and as 1t Is so conceded every
where, the farmers were considered
emlnently capable of doing that and
were let in on the delegation in large
numbers Only five Hutchinson men
were considered so thoroughly capable
OF doing nothing. Therefore the
News was careful to print the place
Of residence of each man on the del
egation, But when ii came to the !
fellows who are to to Wichita it
was all different and Of the twenty
more than half of them, and probably :
nearly three-iourths of them are city
men.
The following are the delegates to
the state convention to be held at +
Wichita, March %; W. Y. Morgan, +
J. @. 0. Morse, Frank Vincent, Sam d
W. Forsha, Charles Mapes, S. G. |,
Ieorge, Charles II. Bacon, Arthur 7
lpperson, j. E. Humphrey, George h
v. Cooter, Nh Long, j. s. George, a
]. J.Lam% @ A. Cordry, j. W. a
lones, G. GSs, John Canning, W. h
R. Benn9 9M& o. e. Fehr. h
DIR. s.. D Galaday as chairman c.
'f th@ nominating committee a
'cporttS kA after comforting with 4
tr, Da!N !NeMils he found the delegates 81
we're all satisfactory to him. Hel II
hould, in order to be fair have also h
that they were also salts @,
actory to Mr.. Cyrus Leland and Mr.. ii
Sally, his man. OF course the report II
( the committee was ratified. Mr. M
)ayhoff of course was endorsed, and Of
rhile the committees were out, Ora h,
Iorse announced that II. A. McCul- h,
'ch of Harper county who is ~ can cl
idate for attorney general, was in the Ii,
all and moved that he be invited to
ddress the convention. The gentle