The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-29
ILL FEELING And
LOSINl; TICKET
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVEN-
TIoN DOES POOR WORK

Many Signs of Trouble = Convention
Poorly Attended and No Enthus-
ism Manifested.
The above is little twisting of the
Bulletins headlines of the county con.
vention, but it tells the truth which
the Bulletin is most careful not to DO.
Among the political corpses scattered
along the line of the county convention
are R. Shaw Van, Chas. Dugan. VIM.
Flaherty, Harry Scaggs, Fred Jepsen,
Dan McGaath, Bob Grasop, Ad. Eishel
and others too numerous to mention.
The harmony of which the Bulletin
speaks was we'll illustrated in the fist
fight which occurred shortly after be-
tween two of the delegates. Mayor
Carey assessed FIVE dollar fine
against one of the combatants, a Dugan
man by the way, and thus is harmony
made to dwell like dove over the form
Of, a well-nigh lifeless democracy.
The ticket was just what was ex-
pected and just " hat the Denison gang
had either planned or had been forced
to accept 1t is a uniformly weak
ticket. A combination was formed
quite early in the game by O'Hare,
McKim and Holland and it went
through without hitch.
Faul and Collins were renominated
because they have had but one term.
McKim was nominated because there
was G feeling that no ilverrepublicans
need apply. S. O'aare was named be-
cause it was the only way to beat Shaw
Van and that had to be done at any
price. Holland was put on the ticket
to punish the democrats at Vail and to
give them to understand that unless
they are prepared to swallow the whole
ticket they cannot play in the game.
Ahart was nominated to beat Flaherty
although that gentleman was given a
few complimentary votes. ''just to let
the OLD man down easy as the Bulletin
editor is quoted as having said imme.
diately after the convention. That this
was SO, is evidenced by the fact, that
DENTON voted largely for Flaherty on
the first ballot and then, although he
showed a gain on the second the Deni.
son vote was taken almost solidly from
him. Cook was named because the
Scaggs candidacy failed to work MIR.
Seaggs candidacy was one of the
tragedies OF the convention. He was
induced to run by the gang in order
! to beat Cock. who is the special
aversion of Romans and Caswell
They soon found that Cook was too
strong for them and they deserted
Scaggs as rats leave sinking ship.
Harry Scaggs is too good man to
have been made ridiculous just to
please unscrupulous politicians.
Surprises of the convention were the
Door showings made by Shaw Van,
Grason, and Dugan. 1t will be noticed
that the entire northwest corner OF
the county is omitted from the ticket
and that were it elected the town
ships of Soldier, Charter Oak, Willow,
Otter Creek, Hanover and Paradise
would have absolutely no representa-
tisn.in the county government. Davie,
the perpetual, evidently thought that
now that Largan was gone he might
have some show of election and he
was induced" to become candidate
for representative. If any sort oi
good judgment is used in the nomins.
tions, the republicans should elect the
majority of their ticket this fall, as
the democratic ticket named yester.
day will not command over seventy.
five per cent of its party vote.
Below we give the official proceed
ings of the convention:
The Convention.
The convention was called to order
at ten O'Clock In the opera house BY
@ County Chairman John Cook, with 8
large representation of the delegates
present. Mr. Ed. Downey Of Jackson
township was called to the chair tt
preside as temporary chairman and ]
j. McDermott of Manila was en- mo
tion made secretrry.
On motion the chair appointed 8
committee Of five each on credentials
permanent organization and resolu
tions, as follows
Credentials. c. Suhr, c. P. Harvey
E. 81. Swasey, Geo. Jordan and FRANK
Aylward.
Permanent organizaton-Ed. Glau, f
A. Jackson, G. Erne, Ed. Houston ant
Lyman Morris.
Resolutions-W. A. Davie, NJ Hue
schen, G. R. Wiley, A. H. Rudd, arc
Adam Wiese.
!. The committees reported after diu
ner at one o lock.
The comm, 'tee on credentials re