Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-08-21
WILL BE THREE VACANT CHAIRS.
Miss Trio Of Honored Men,
bers of the Party.

AT the Democratic state COnVen-
ton at Winnemucca next Monday, tho
absence of three familiar faces will be
have attended similar assembblages in
former years they are those of JOS
eph r. Ryan, Peter c. Weber and John
H. Dennis The absence of the first
two named will be caused by death,
while that of the latter will be attri-
butable to the condition of his health
which will not permit him to make
the wearisom trip and participate IN
the excitement which is the inevlaJ-
able accompaniment to all assemo-
lagos Of that character
Joseph r. Ryan and Peter C.Weber
have attended as delegates every De- /
mocratic State convention that has
been held in Nevada during the last
ten years and have taken an active
part in their proceedings. Both were
delegates to the last National Conven-
ton and the circumstances of their
uCutHS dlc ldllillldl W Tie Joul udl
readers.
One died at ST Louis a few DAYS
pr to the meeting of the Convention
and the other passed away an hour II
so after his return to his home in Ely.
Although recognized leaders in the
party, neither of them ever asked for
q nOcitinn will 10 mi
ment, at his hands
Mr.. Ryan was assayer at the Cars IN
Mint during Mr.. Clevelands first a l.
ministration, but it was a voluntary
offering on the part of one Of Nevada's
Senators and obtained without any So
licitation on the part of Mr.. Ryan.
Mr.. Weber never asked for nor held
any popular. position during his resi-
dence in the State. although he attend
ed as a delegate three National Con-
ventions during that time. They were
both content to serve their party with
out expectation or desire for pecuniarv
reward
Certainly there is no man in the
Safe who has the Convention record
of Major John H. Dennis, and prob
ably none in any other state in the IN
ion. He has attended every territorial
and State Convention that has been
held in Nevada since 1868 Without
single exception, he has attended rs
delegate, the exception occurring
when he was holding a Federal Office
and declined to be a delegate in viola
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attended the convention only as spec
tator, although by invitation Of the
committee he assisted in forming the
platform for that campangn.
He was a member of the commit &c
on resolutions and platforms at every
convention he attended, and was or
one or two occasions the presiding
officer of the Convention, although he
always preferred place on the foo
to a seat in the chair and the handling
Of the gavel
In addition to this he has been foul
or five time elected delegate to Ma
tional conventions, is now serving hi
second term as National COMMITTEES
man: who was eight years Chairman
of the State Central Committee an
for the last six years it's secretary
Although he has held several publ
positions, he has never asked for an
Office, the few that he has held bein
the voluntary offerings of the appoin
ing powers or the Democratic CONVEX
tions in the counties where he live'
This year he positively declined ,
allow his name to be used as del
gate to be voted for. and for the fir
time in forty-one years he will renal
at home while the brother Democra
are in convention assembled.
When interviewed by Journal :
porter Major Dennis expressed his e
tire confidence in the wisdom ar
judgement in a majority Of the deleg
ties in the Democratic and Silver pa
ty conventions; that. harmonious fu
ion would be continued and that
winning fusion would be nominate
and platform adopted from Unit
States SSenator to Short Term Rege
that the Parker and Davis elector
ticket would carry by from six hu
dred to eight hundred majority al
that Nevada would be fixed mo
firmly than ever before in the Den
cratic column
He said that from force of habit,
nothing else. he would like to ate
the convention if his health permit
Although the absence of his old frien
and associates, Ryan and Weber, wi
whom he had always worked and act
in unison. would render it sad Occ
ion for him. and that fact had in
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