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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-04

Council Grove was nominated. The
man who is elected to this vacancy
will have four years to serve.
There was considerable discussion
as to whether Judge Mich olson Is a
Democrat. Nicholson served for sew
eral years as the Democratic judge
in the Eighth judicial district, but he
did not approve of free silver and it
was generally conceded that he voted
for Mckinley. In fact he announced
his conversion publicly. Some of his
friends asserted that he has always
been a Democrat at heart, however,
and that he has now returned to the
party. Judge Nicholson was finally
nominated by acclamation.
The state committee was given pow
er to fill vacancies and correct all
mistakes.
Governor Click was given bouquet
in the shape of a rising vote OF thanks
for the fair and impartial way in
which he had run the convention. 1t
was proposed by Sam Amfdon OF
Wichita.
A vote of thanks was proposed for
various parties and there was some
argument concerning who should be
included in it. The Jefferson CLUB,
the Democratic Flambeau club and
the local committee were nnally IN
cluded in the motion.
Governor Click referred to the fair
way in which the newspapers had
treated the Democrats in contrast TO
what they did twenty years ago.
The rooster was again selected as
the official party emblem, and at IL
O'Clock the convention adjourned sine
die
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81 INJURED.
Passenger Train in Collision on
the l.. & n.

Louisville, KY, Aug. 4.-South bound
passenger train No. 1 on the Louisville
& Nashville which left Cincinnati at 6
O'Clock last night collided today near
Horse Cave. KY, with north bound pas
senger train No. g which left Nashville
about $3.50. Thirty-three passengers
and four trainmen We're injured, but
none, it is thought, will die The con-
dition of Engineer Rehm on No. 1 is
serious. According to information re-
ceived here Rehm either disregarded
orders or was asleep as his train was
going 40 miles an hour wnen it struck
the northbound passenger train. None
of the coaches left the track. Among
the injured are:
Mrs. J. A. Thornton, Wichita, Kan,
suffering from shock.
Mrs. S. L. Muncy, Slidell, Tex, body
bruised.
Mrs. E. L. Hamilton, McCrory, Ark,
back hurt.
All the postal clerks were badly
shaken up but not seriously hurt.
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METEOR WRECKED
Thirty-twO Passengers and
Four Trainmen Injured.

Vinita, 1. T. Aug. 4.-The Meteor, a
fast passenger train on the st. Louis
& San Francisco railway (the Frisco
SyStem) from Dallas and Fort Worth
for st. Louis, was derailed near here
today. The engine, baggage car. mail
car and two chair cars left the track.
Several persons were injured but no
one was killed.
The injured:
Mrs. James M. Drake. postmistress,
Salina, Tex, arm broken back
Wrenched, internal inJurieS; may re-
cover.
Seven year old son of w. r. Mizer.
F't. Worth, Tex. cut and bruiseds skull
E. D. Durham, Vinita, leg cut, three
ribs broken.
Mrs. J. w Phillips. Knoxville, Tenn,
back wrenched.
Three -year-old son of Mrs. Phillips.
seriously cut and bruised.
A. G. Levenite, Stephenville, Texas,
head cut.
Mrs. Leverite, StephenviIle, Texas, in
ternal.
J. p McCaskill, Abbott, Tex, shoul-
der dislocated and cut.
P. R. Payne, Mckinney, Tex, ribs
broken, badly cut.
Miss Annie Buford. Kerrville, Texas.
teeth knocked out, face badly cut.
Mrs. Bufords baby, cut; not serious.
Media Cuntiff, Anna, Tex, teeth
knocked out, face badly cut.
Ella Cuntiff, Anna, Texas, cut and
bruised.
Mrs. L. 5. Dillow, Mckinney, Texas,
face cut, nose partially torn from face.
Twenty others received slight cut and
bruises
: All the injured were taken to the
company's hospitals at Springfield, Mo.
DR.. Green, passenger, attended
many of the injured, before the railroad
physicians arrived. He saved one life,
1raf rRf De- IL
to death. At the time of the accident,
the train, which was half an hour be-
hind, was running at the rate of 35
miles an hour. For some unknown rea-
son the tender became uncoupled from
the engine and turned half way around,
crossing the track. The cars following
with the exception of the Pullman
sleeper, went into the ditch. The Pull
man left the track but remained up
right. The injured were cared for in
the sleeper.
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side began to present it's propositions.
The Populists presented the following:
First-That each party nominate an
electoral ticket to go under their re-
spective party headings, and tnat they
unite on a state ticket to go under the
Populist heading.
Second-That a set of Watson electors
be nominated and placed on the Demo-
cratic ticket, followed by a state ticket
to be named by the Democrats.
Third-That each party name its cleo
toral ticket; that the Democrats name
governor, secretary of state, treasurer,
superintendent of schools, one railroad
commissioner and two supreme justices,
to be placed on the Democratic state
ticket leaving the other offices blank;
that the Populists name the balance of
the efficeS-lieutenant governor, audi
tor. attorney general, superintendent of
insurance. one railroad commissioner,
one justice and congressman-at-lar
and place them on the Populist state
ticket. leaving blank the offices named
by the Democrats. This is what is
known as the zigzag ticket.
The Democratic propositions were
as follows:
First-The Democrats to nominate
their electoral ticket, allowing the
Populists to recommend the entire
state ticket and placing it under the
Democratic heading.
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Judge Waterbury, of Emporia.

The plan under which fusion was ac-
complished allows each party to place
its electoral ticket on the ballot, the
Democrats a Parker ticket and the
Populists a Watson ticket. The state
ticket Is divided between the two par
ties and placed under the Democratic
heading.
There was no trouble over the division
of offices. The trouble was entirely over
the way the ticket should be placed on
the ballot. AS the offices were divided
the Populists get one justice of the Su-
preme court. lieutenant governor. audi
tor, attorney general. superintendent of
insurance, ngresSman-at-large. and
one railroad commissioner.
The Democrats get governor, secre-
tary of state, state treasurer, superin-
tendent of public instruction, two su-
preme justices and one railroad COM
missioner.
In reality two of these offices are ex-
changed The Democrats named a
Populist for secretary of state and the
Populists named a Democrat for con-
gresSman-at-large.
For a time it looked as if the fusion
wagon would be shaken to pieces by
the rocks set up by the middle-of-the-
road people. They talked and talked
and even those in the Populist conven-
tion who favored fusion under the Dem
ocratic heading were doubtful about the
result of vote on the question.
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Vote i'm POpuIist Convention Is
One Sided.
Expected Bolt Is Almost a
EiZZIe.
ONLY Is WALK OUT.
Mollison and Wright of Burrows
Town Lead 1t.
Hooted by Other Delegates as
They Leave.
CLEMENS is BACK.
Makes Speech Advocating
Union of Forces.
Judge Dale Makes an Effective
Address.
Makes a Speech Advocating
Union of Forces.
Judge Dale Makes an Effective
Address.

After wrangling all day without re-
suit, and after the conference commit
tees from the two conventions had
spent seven hours in trying to get to-
gether and had then reported to their
respective conventions that they could
not do so. the Populist convention took
the bit in its teeth at IL O'Clock last
night and voted to accept the Demo-
cratic plan favored by Judge Dale, by
decisive vote of 321 to lis.
Thereupon the Smith county delega-
tion and a number of other delegates
boIted and went to the senate chamber
to consider what to do. They had done
nothing at midnight and then adjourn
ed until this morning.
There will be no straight Populist
ticket on the ballot, however, as has
been contemplated When the bolters
got together this morning there was so
few of them that it was decided that
it would be foolish to attempt to name
a ticket, and on the recommendation
of Judge f. S. Waterbury and Albert
Griffin they decided to go home and
''be good"
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Arrangement Is Entirely Salts
factory to Democrats.
State Offices Are About Even
ly Divided.
DALE FOR GOVERNOR.
Wichita Man Has Everything
His Own Way.
Dolan, OF Clifton, Chosen for
Treasurer.
PLATFORM is ADOPTED
But Little Said About the Ma
tional Issues.
State Ticket Under a Democrat
ic Head.

At ten minutes of midnight Fred J..
Close appeared in the Democratic con-
vention and announced the action of
the Populists endorsing the plan of put
ting the fusion ticket under the Dem
ocratic heading. The announcement
was greeted with prolonged cheers.
Then the convention got down to bus
mess and started in on the nominations.
Judge w. P. billiard of Fort Scott
was nominated for supreme justice, but
he made a nice little speech declining
it.
Then it was tried on Henderson Mar
tin of Marion. but he told Zahary
Taylor story saying "he wasn't fit for
it, and he turned it down.
Governor Click and Claude Duval
protested against naming men who
would not stand for the nominations,
and the supreme justice were laid over
for the time being.
Judge A. NJ. jackson of Winfield
made the speech nominating Judge
David NJ. Dale for governor. Abe
Steinberg of Topeka moved that Judge
Dale be nominated by acclamation. and
the motion carried with a whoop. 1t
was just 1928 o'clock this morning
when Dale was nominated.
Judge Dale was called on for a speech
and was received with great enthus-
iasm as he came to the platform. He
made a brief speech of acceptance, in
which ne declared that he stood for
principles enunciated in the state plat
form. He said that he is accused of
making the railroad question the chief
issue in the present campaign, but there
is a greater issue than that, foisted Oh
the people of Kansas by the Republi-
cans themselves, and that is Burton
ISM.
Thomas G. Fitch said the Democrats
want to be more than generous with
the Populists, and he wanted to noni-
nate John H. Curran, secretary of the
Populist state committee. Curran was
nominated by acclamation.
The state treasurer fight came up
next. DR.. ALBANIAN, of Kansas City, got
the floor and said:
1T has been said that the present
state treasurer cannot be defeated be-
lie. am going to name man who is
an IriShnan, a Catholic, and an honest
man, Peter Laughlin of .Atchison coun-
ty.''
Ira w. White made similar speech,
nominating w. ]. Cavanaugh of Jewell
county. Vernon Rose nominated w. P.
FEEDER of Great Bend, H. M. Fulton of
Clifton, and ]. 1. Shepard nominated
Pat German of Fort Scott.
On the first ballot Laughlin went
up to Sc votes, but most of them chang
ed before the vote was announced, and
then it stood: Laughlin 12; Cava-
naugh, 80; FEEDER 179; Dolan 263; Cor
man 130
fore the second ballot was taken.
The second ballot resulted fol-
lows: German 11S; FEEDER 1874; Dolan
BOP; Cavanaugh n.
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ty, was nominated by reclamation for
superintendent of public instruction. He
was county superintendent of Ieaven-
worth county for ten years
For the one place left Tor the Demo-
Gratis to fill on the railroad board three
candidates were presented, w. M Fer
guson of Wellington, G. A Cooper OF
Rice, and John Quincy Adams of Stock
ton. Ferguson won in a walk The
vote stood as follows: Ferguson 406;
Cooper 1876; Adams IL
On the motion of J. L. Shepard. Hugh
Farrelly was unanimously elected mem
ber-at-large of the state committee
L. NJ. Penwell stated that David
Overmyer's name had been suggested
for the place but that he was not a
candidate and Shawnee county desired
to support Farrelly.
John H Atwood, the national COM
mitteeman, was made an honorary
member of the state committee.
The presidential electors nominated
were as follows:
First district-B. F. Hildebrand of
Brown county.
Second district-Conway Marshall of
Anderson county.
Third district-R. M. Kinds of La
bette county.
Fourth district-L. D. Eppinger of
Fifth district-Dr. j. P. Stewart of
Clay county.
Sixth district-C. NJ. Cole of Phillips
county.
Seventh district-L. W. Kabler of
KingTnan county.
At large-Patrick German of Bour-
Mayall of Sedgwick.
At 3:05 this morning the convention
took a recess until 10 o'clock to finish
up anything that mad been overlooked.
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1T WILL BE WARMER.
At Least the Weather Man Still
Thinks So.

The elements are still having trouble in
forming a combine that will bring hot
weather. but the forecaster expects war
mer weather. The forecast for Kansas
sent out today is: Partly cloudy tonight
and Friday. with probably. scattered local
showers; warmer Friday.
Todays corn and wheat region bulletin
says: t'Clear weather prevailed this
morning in the central and northea stern
counties with cloudy weather in the
southern and southeastern and in west
ern Missouri. Showers have occurred in
all parts of the state except in the north
eastern and extreme southwestern coun-
ties. The temperature has risen slightly" :"
The rains recorded over Kansas last
Dresden. 1.20; Fort Scott. trace; Macks-
vile, .06; Mcpherson, go; Sedan, 02; To-
ronto, .4 Wichita, 8
The maximum and minimum tempera-
lures for the "a hours ending this MORN
ing at Z O'Clock were as follows: Baker.
1886: Concordia, S4-62: Dodge City, SS-62;
Dresden. SS45s Fort Scott. S6-66: Macks-
vile, S6-62; McPherson, ss-e4; Manhattan,
1854: Usage City, $3.50: Sedan, S6-70; Tope :
ka S5-6S: Toronto, s4-62; Wichita, S6-64
The wind at noon was northwest, blow
ing eight miles an hour. The hourly tenn
peratures recorded by the government
fborr tOdaV <
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FUSION IS AGREED UPON AT LATE HOUR
THE STATE TICKET.
Named by the Democrats.

Named by the Democrats.
Governor-David NJ. Dale of Wich-
Justices of the Supreme Courts
Council Grove.
Secretary of State-John H. Curran
Treasurer-Thomas NJ. Dolan of
Clifton.
Superintendent of Public instruction
M r. Howard of Leavenworth.
Railroad Commissioner-W. NJ. Fer
guson of Wellington.
Named by the POpulists.
Justice of the Supreme Court-John
Lieutenant Governor-M- A. House
holder of Cherokee
Auditor-W. H. Mcdonald of
Girard-
superintendent of Insurance-John
Stowell of Nemaha.
Railroad Commissioners. H.
Chase of Jackson.
Congressman-at at-large-Francis NJ.
Brady of OSwego-
Democratic Electoral Ticket.
B. r. Hildebrand. Hiawatha.
Conway Marshall, Garnett.
L. NJ. Kinds. Oswego.
L. d. Eppinger, Coffeyville.
J. p. Stewart, Clay Center.
c. NJ. Cole, Phillipsburg.
L. w. kabler, Kingman.
Patrick German, Fort Scott.
Michael Heery. Topeka.
J. c. Mayhall, Valley Center.
POpulist Electoral Ticket.
F. s. Stevens Shawnee.
H. A. Strong, Linn.
n. A. Vyne, Lyon.
John H. Brown, Ottawa.
c. H. Emmons, Graham.
w. J. Rabb. Sedgwick.
j. a. Wright, Smith.
r. d. McCliman, Nemaha,
a. c. Shinn, Franklin.
DR.. G. Bohrer, Rice.
The Ballot Problem.
Each electoral ticket will go on the
ballot under the heading of its re-
spective party. The state ticket will
go under the Democratic heading.
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Just before ii came to test, however.
G. c. Clemens appeared before the con-
vention and announced that the Pop
ulist party had returned to him. and
that while he had always fought fus-
ion when he had been a Populist il
looked to him as though it was the
thing this year if the POpulists wanted
to accomplish anything in the way of
relief for the people. a committee was
also sent for Judge Dale and he was
asked to speak. He did so briefly and
undoubtedly turned a considerable num-
Der of votes to the fusion proposition.
The Committees Troubles.
The conference committees from the
two conventions went into session be-
hind closed doors in the council cham
ber early yesterday afternoon. Judge
W. P billiard presided, and after a
round of speeches had been made, each
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drivers of wagons carrying meat to
the city institutions have quit work
but President Crouch of the st. Louis
Dressed Beef Co, says he is making
deliveries with new men and men
from the office.
Strike Causes Insanity.
Cedar Rapids, Ia, Aug. 4.-Driven
insane by the butchers strike, Alfred
Day, meat inspector for the packing
house here, committed suicide today
by hanging. Days hallucination was
that the strike had extended to Cedar
Rapids and that his life was en-
dangered.
Packers Must Give Names.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 4.-Judge Nun
ger in the federal court today denied
the motion of attorneys for the pack
ing house employees to quash an affi-
davit of the packers asking the court
to punish certain of the strikers for
contempt of court because of an al
legged violation of an Injunction issued
by the court against picketing. The
court ruled, however. that the affi-
davtt should contain the names of all
strikers alleged to have been guilty of
contempt and gave the packers until
August 16 to amend their affidavit.
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The Sixth district withdrew Cava-
naugh's name at this point.
Dolan was nominated on the third
ballot. The vote stood as follows: Do
Ian 391; FEEDER 175; German ia.
Before the vote was announced FEEDER
withdrew his name, and this was fol-
lowed by J. I. Shepard withdrawing
Germans name and moving that Do
lan's nomination be made unanimous.
The motion was put through.
Colonel Fred ]. Close had been wait
ing for some time to make a report of
the nominees selected by the Eopulists
and he was allowed to make the report
at this point Judge billiard made the
formal motions and the PopulistS were
nominated by reclamation.
NJ r. Howard, of Leavenworth coun-
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THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
hose Who VIII Manage Bourbon
End of the Campaign.


End of the Campaign.
The new Democratic state commit
tee is made up as follows by judicial
districts:
l. F. P. Fitzwilliams, Leavenworth-
2. James w. Orr, Atchison.
3. L. NJ. PenweIl, Topeka.
4. Charles McCrum, Garnett.
5. P. F. Yearout, Emporia.
g. J. H. Cushenberry, Girard.
z. John F. Rhodes, Chanute.
8. w. L. Chamlin, Council Grove.
9. Geo. H. Davis, Mcpherson.
10. B. E. Riley, Paola.
II. w F. Sapp, Galena-
II. C. P. Christensen, BeHeville.
13. B. F. Landrigan, Eureka
IA. ]. H. Keith, Coffeyvflle.
Is. A. T. Rodgers. Beloit.
II. F. E. Munger. Atwood.
IS. H. J. Hagny, Wichita.
19. A. c. Lambe, Wellington.
20. Geo. Six, Lyons.
21. C. w. Brandenburg. Frankfort.
%. S. L. Carpenter, Severy.
%. w. E. Saum, Hays
"a. B. C. Hanlin, Kingman.
%. Jerry Grindrod, Kansas City.
80. August Bondi, Salina.
81. w. F. Petition, Dodge City.
49, J. NJ. Arnold, Ness City.
"a. J. N. Fike, Colby.
35. NJ. F. Trivett, Eskridge-
36. Sidney Hayden, Holton.
81. T. J. Oyler, lola.
The members by congressional dis
tricts are as follows:
1. E. E. Murphy, Leavenworth.
2. J. L. Pettijohn, Olathe.
3. F. L. Brady, Oswego.
f. H. S. Martin, Marion.
s. Thos. J. McCue, Concordia-
s. Chas. M. Sawyer. Norton
z. Geo. t. Pitts. wellington.
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DEMOCRATS ADJOURN TO-DAY.

Nominate Two Candidates for Supreme
Court and Thank Everyone.
Less than a hundred Democratic
delegates reconvened this morning to
finish up their business They had to
nominate two justices of the supreme
court. The first nominated was Judge
S. H. Allen of Topeka, a Populist who
has been on the supreme bench. For
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Judge Pollock, NJ B. Nicholson of
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Second-For each party to name an
electoral ticket and divide the state
ticket between them, placing it under
the Democratic heading.
Each committee turned down the
propositions made by the other side.
After every proposition had been ex-
hausted, however, six of the fifteen
mem berS of the PopuliSt conference
committee favored accepting the last
proposition of the Democrats. These
six were Taylor Riddle, w. S. Bush.
DR.. F. b. Lawrence, F. J. Close, M.
A. Householder and S. w. Chase. The
other nine voted against giving in to
the Democrats.
The Democratic convention met
after supper last night, adopted it's
platform, and then had nothing to do
until the conference committee re-
ported That was done about nine
o'clock After Judge billiard had
made the formal report he stated that
the six members who were favora BILE
TO the Democrats might try to take
their proposition on to the floor of
the Populist convention, and he sug-
gested a recess until the Populists had
acted, which was done.
Meanwhile the Populist committee
had made a similar report. and then
those who were anxious for fusion
prepared to make their fight. 1t came
up on a motion by Taylor Riddle that
the last proposition of the Democrats
be accepted Clemens and Judge Dale
made their speeches and the PROPOSE
uon carried by an overwhelming vote.
Then il was that fifteen or twenty
middle of the road Populists walked
out. When peace had been secured
the Populists proceeded to name their
part of the ticket. and Democrats re-
convened at midnight and nominated
their part of the ticket. They got
through shortly after o'clock this
morning, leaving the supreme justices
and some odds and ends to be fixed
up at an adjourned session today
BY vote of 329 to 11S. the Popu-
list state convention decided at the
session Wednesday night to accept the
terms OF compromise proposed by the
Democrats. and the bolt which fol-
lowed was good deal of a fizzIe Not
(ConfInued on PAGE Three1
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Wcather IndIcnt1ons.

Chicago, Aug. forecast for Kan
sas: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday,
with probably scattered local showers;
warmer Friday; variable winds.
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The new Democratic state commit
tee is made up as follows by Judlclal
districts:
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CONTINUED on Page Three.>
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St. Louis, Mo, Aug. TT is esti-
mated that as a result of the strike
of the butchers and meat cutters, at
Iueast "a independent abbatoirs are
now in operation in this city and are
killing from 500 to 1000 head of cat
tie, sheep and hogs daily. These plants
are being run by union men. The