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.r.:f ff M JV J If irjA . iiiiiiHHiiwmiiwiBiip'.WiWi...l. ijii i.ihi ,.. . ijl. Ill mil I pi JllTDl TTl T'l I . "" I" ' 'I - wt rt0-rjtm-mMt.,mmrwf'rvimimmm mi ny VOL. VIII., NO. 12. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH 18, 1896. $1.00 A YEAR BOSS LELAND WINS. Rods the Republican Convention Without Opposition. The Republican State convention to elect delegates to the St. Lonis con ventlon met at Hutchinson March 10. It was called to order by Chairman Leland, and after prayer by Rev. Sage, a colored clergyman of Ottawa, ex Chief Justice Horton was elected Tem porary Chairman. Chairman Horton referred in his speech in glowing termn to the Republican party as the party of principle and progress, apparently ignorant of the fact that the conven tion representing the party had no principles and was waiting for the na tional convention to state their princi pies for them. Speeches were made by George T. Anthony and Senator Gor don of Wichita. The committees were then announced. George T. Anthony was made Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions. He is a single gold standard adherent. The fight of the convention was over the election of six delegates-at-large to the national convention. The names presented were those of Cy Leland, T. J. Anderson of Topeka, N. C. Barnes of Kansas City, Senator John C. Car penter of Chanute, M. M. Murdock of the Wichita Eagle, C. A. Swensson of Lindsborg, and A. P. Riddle or Min neapolis.. The flght was really be tween Murdock and Carpenter. Mur dock was on the Leland slate and Carpenter was not. A large number of the administration people were op posed to Murdock, the prohibitionists objected to his liberal position on that question, and his well known silver views caused him the loss of still other votes. The vote showed a majority of 13 over Carpenter. The others were elected with little opposition. The alternates are: W. B. Townsend, Leavenworth; Tom Anderson, John son county; W. II. Nelson, Cowley; E. L. Shafer.Moiris; L. M. Walker.Os borne; George Huycke, Ellsworth. The three electorsat-large were then nominated, and they are as follows; Thomas E. Thompson, Howard; John R. Hamilton, Norton, and Grean Keith, Lawrence. Special attention is called to the res olutions . The last one, which indorses Leland, precipitated a fight, but it waj easily carried. The first resolution is a wonderful one. It ought to cause the heart of every Republican to swell with pride because of its clear enun ciation of party principle. So far as principles are concerned, it contains all that the party has, except, of course, the principles embodied in the sue ceedlng resolutions in relation to "pie." The resolutions are so remark able that it cannot be doubted that every reader wants to see them, so they are here given in full: "Your Commlttea on Resolutions tre unanimous in the conclusion thit i this Is not the time nor the occasion for formulating and resolving upon a platform of defined policy on national administration. That work, aa wa be lieve, can only be done wisely and well by a convention after patient and pa triotic interchange of views by repre sentatives of all the States delegated to speak for them in convention. We therefore submit to you declarations of existing facts and fundamental principles upon which there is no con tention or diversity of opinion in the Republlcai ranks. "It is our first duty and greatest pleasure to recall with profound grati tude the victory of the Republican party at the ballot-box since our last meeting in State convention, and to congratulate the people of Kansas, without regard to party, that this vic tory has restored to our State an honest, dignified and economical ad ministration of its public affairs, com manding respect at home and restoring confidence abroad. "That it has placed in the Congress of the United States a Republican Sen ator, in the House of Representatives a nearly unanimous delegation, who fairly represent the patriotism, intelli gence and purpose of the people of Kansas; putting statesmanship and love of country in the place of wild vagaries and revolutionary theories, which had dishonored and humiliated us heretofore, and wd pledge ourselves and our constituents to complete this reform by filling every responsible po sition in the Stale an;i in the national Legislature with like Republican ma terial. "When we'arralgn and condemn the present national Democratic admin istration as unstatesmanlike and un- American and without ability to manage the affairs of the government at home, or the diplomatic intelligence and courage to enforce the rights and maintain the dignity and honor of our country in Its foreign relations. It has denied the right of Americans to pro tection against the pauper and crim inal labor of foreign nations; It has failed to provide the means of meeting the expenses of the government with the current income and changed the Republican policy of reducing the public debt; it has once more given convincing evidence that the Demo cratic party has neither patriotism nor the ability to manage the affairs of our government with safety to the con stitution or solvency in its finances. "We recognize a conviction and pur pose among the body of the people as universal as intelligence to rid the country of Democratic misrule by placing it once more in the hands of its friends, the Republican party, which has before saved it from Demo cratic misrule and government imbe cility. "We recognize with pride and com fort the spirit of growls 7 American ism, and William IIsKinlsy u tna incarntion of that spirit, the defender of the American home, the protector of American industries and labor, t&a embodiment of the Republicanism of Washington the father, Lincoln ioa savior, and Grant the defender of tfra republic. "Representing the people of Kansas, we voice a public 'demand in hereby instructing the delegates to the Repub Ilcan national convention, chosen by us, and in appeal to the delegations to the respective Congressional districts to vote and use all just means for his nom inatlon to the Presidency of the United States. "Recognizing his Ions continued service as a member of the Republican committee and his admitted influence in that body for his State, we hereby instruct the delegation chosen by this convention to continue the Hon. Cyrus Leland as a member from Kansas of that committee." LEGISLATIVE RIOTS. Kentucky Senatorial Situation IffgmttcJ by the Unseating; of tfeitnberi. The Senatorial election in the Ken tucky Legislature still remains in an unsettled condition. Last Wednesday the long-promised scheme of unseating members began. In the House the Republicans unseated Kaufman (Dem.) and immediately the Democratic Sen ate unseated Senators James and Wal ton, both Republicans. The Republicans attempted to prevent action in the Senate by leaving in a body, but the Democrats continued their work. Shortly afterward the most exciting scenes took place in the joint session. An attempt was made to prevent the newly-seated members from partici pating. One of the Democratic Sena tors and the Republican member of the House got in, however, and voted. This prevented either party from secur ing an advantage over the other. No one received a majority of the votes cast. The members were greatly ex cited and firearms, principally ''revolv ers, were in evidence ready for use If neceisary. The Legislature acted more like a mob than a deliberative body. It seems probable that there can be no election at this session. : Holton Signal (Dem.): "The Re publican State convention at Wichita adopted a platform which in effect is as follows: 'We, the Republicans of Kansas, being in an uncertain state of mind, will refrain from expressing any opinion or principle until we learn from the national convention at St. Louis what the principles of Republicanism now are.'1' Populists don't precipitate riots in their conventions. Republicans, the only (T) order-loving people on earth, required the attention of the Sheriff and 1 lot of deputies to quiet the howl ing mob into which their recent con vention in Leavenworth county was tamed. CONGRESSIONAL CONTENTIONS. CurtlJ, Broderlck and Ion; Benomlnated by the Republicans. . The Congressional conventions of the Republican party were held in the First, Fourth and Seventh districts March 9. Each of the present Con gressmen from these districts were re nominated. The First district convention was at Leavenworth. Broderlck was named by a vote of 45 to 27 for Bailey. The latter received the votes of the dele gates from Doniphan, Brown and Nem aha. The delegates to the national convention are W. C. Hook of Leaven worth and John Schilling of Hiawatha. B. H. Tracey of Pottawatomie county was nominated for Presidential Elector. The finance plank of the platform la as follows: "The American people from tradi tlon and interest favored bimetallism, and that the Republican party de manded the use of both silver and gold wsUndsrd money with euch restric tions to be determined by legislation as would secure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals so that tha purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether gold, silver or paper, should be at all times equal; that the Interests of the producers of the country, its farmers and its work lngmen, demand that every dollar, paper or coin, issued by the govern ment should be as good as any other.' The Fourth district convention was held at Emporia. Curtis was renomi nated by acclamation. I. E. Lambert of Emporia and J. S. Dean of Marion were elected delegates to the national convention. D. W. Finney of Wood son county was nominated for Elector. The finance plank adopted Is as follows: "The American people from tradi tion and Interest favor bimetallism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money with such restrictions and under such provisions to be determined by legislation as will secure the mainte nance of the purity of value of the two metals so that the purchasing and debt- paying power of the. dollar, whether of gold, sliver or paper, shall be at all times equal." The Seventh district convention was at Wichita. Long was renominated by acclamation. II. S. Bone of Ashland and Frank Vincent of Hutchinson were elected as delegates to the St. Louis convention. R. P. McCulloch of Harper was nominated for Presidential Elector. The finance plank Is as follows: "It Is the sense of Ibis convention that by wise legation the annual out put of the silver mines of our country can be added to our circulating medium without disturbing the equal value of our cold and silver coin; we therefore 3 in favor of the fres coinage of all