The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-03-09
STATE CONVENTION To Be HELD TODAY
OLD MACHINE SUPERSEDED BY A new One

Ter. declare his friends and behind his
! interchangeable industry and bright intel
/ lect IS a sterling integrity.
| The state convention will be one
| day affair. To the committee on credeI.
1 tials VIII come the bulk of the work of
/ the convention and what that report will
/ he is Only matter Of conjecture. One
prominent politician stakes his judgment
/ that each of the contesting delegations in
! Wyandotte county will be given half a
vote and the rest Of BOwersock delegates
! in the Second district counties and the
/ Curtis delegates in the First district Will
/ be seated. SoloneI Anthony says if this
/ is attempted there will be fight and
/ the colonel never makes such a threat
without making good. A meeting Of the
Allen and Anthony delegations was held
today and il was decided to fight the seat
| ing Of the Bowersock and Curtis dele
gates and fight to the end. What they
viii do when the fight is over no one
predicts. but il is not believed that there
viii be any bolt or any holding of a rump
| convention, it will be simply protest
and they will call It a triumph of might
over right and let it go at that
Oahctoale Against Kelly.
1t has been decided by the opponents
Of Kelly to have candidate in the
field against him Who he is to be is
not known outside the machine leaders,
or if they know they refuse 10 tell but
they assert that when the roll is called
upon state treasurer today those dele
gates who are opposed 10 Kelly will be
given a chance to register their votes
against him. They do not hope 10 defeat
him, but viii deprive him OF the salts
faction of a denomination by acclama
ton that will be accorded the rest of
the state officers that were nominated
in this city two years ago.
The 5oss-buster movement against the
boss busters that was started Monday
night by the Federation of Commercial
Interests fell fiat Tom Potter refused
TO be a candidate for chairman Of the
state convention. and Senator Mcmillan,
who has been here spreading poison re-
turned home last night. The movement
Of the federation, said prominent Re-
publican last night. would have had more
standing had not such Democrats as
Mcmillan and Reaser been the leaders in
the movement to dictate the nomination
giving any assurance that they would
aSsiS after the nominations they at
tempted 10 dictate Were made.
There is little doubt but that Wheatley
and Walker viii be renominated, and
the third candidate Will be either George
or Robinson. with the chances in favor
Of George One Of the stronger cham
pions OF Georges candidacy is ". ".
Watson, president Of the Watson-Durand-
Kaspar Grocery company of Salina, one
Of the largest wholesale grocery houses
in the state. George is also backed by
other large wholesale interests of the
state and is probably playing velvet now
on the nomination.
The fight for justice of the supreme
court is believed by many shrewd poll
ticians to be settled. and Clark \. Smith
is tire man who Will land the nomina-
ton according 10 them. Judge Slonecker,
however says il viii not be on the first,
second or third ballot and intimates that
the man who lands the nomination will
know that he has been in a race. Those
who are on tn Inside claim that Atkin-
SON is out of ii. 80 far any show for
the nomination is concerned but the
Parsons jurist stin has confidence in his
ultimate ability to land the nomination.
While the anti-machine leaders claimed
that thov were taking no hand in the
fight. il is asserted that they went 10
Judge Smart of Ottawa with the propo-
sition that if ne would secure the with
drawal of Henry Aliens contest for the
congressional nomination in the Second
district they would give him the nomi-
Of.
vv;,= made so il is claimed by no less n
leader than Mr.. Stubs, whom it is rec
oguized has all kinds Of goods and IS
able to deliver them.
Governor Bailey Not Here.
Governor Bailey will not attend the
convention today. The governor had in
tended q be present but just as he was
starting for Wichita he received a tele-
gram saying that his brother-in-law. who
lives on his farm in Nemaha county had
gone entirely blind. His hrothey-in-law
had been suffering with his eyes for
some time and the announcement of his
misfortune. while not unexpected. de
marded the immediate attention of the
governor. and instead Of coming TO Wich-
ita he went TO Baneyville to attend his
stricken brother-in-law.
Al Hi~ds of Bands.
There was plenty Of music az the con-
vention yesterday Besides the Marion
band. which accompanied Mr. Hoch and
the eIoriou county delegation and attend
ing rooters. there was Wichita hand,
and then last but not least there was
Jim Mosher's drum corps and it has
M Dc The blood run a little quicker as one .
listened TO the martial airs played by
tho band from Beneviue
There Will not be many surprises in .
tho convention today. The caucus last .
uight has arranged everything and all .
that viii be necessary viii be 10 carry
out the plans formulated at that caucus. .
Tickets viii he issued by Mr Alhaugh .
to the delegations this morning and ad-