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Show A SUCCESSOR TO 31' GARTH. The Alliance Tnrns Him Down but Adopts Glowing Resolutions of Confidence. Salina, Kan., Oct. 24. The Alliance convention con-vention has adopted the co-operative scheme an overwhelming vote. Insurance features were then taken up, and in this, too, co-operation was decided upon. Everything was fixed in caucus before the convention proceeded pro-ceeded to the election of officers. President McGarth stated he wanted an endorsement of his official acts and an . acquittal of the variofs charges of corruption brought againr.t hira H iv no tine hhad enoag-Ji ' delegates to force a 8 endorsement and reelection. re-election. Not wishirfg, however, to ca'i'e djseord he would whithdraw in favor of W. H." Utley,. state treasurer. When the convention assembled, how ever, all was not smoothe sailing, and the delegates delega-tes w ho had not been in cacus were stubborn. As a result of the balloting W. H. Biddle was elected president. He is an ex-union soldier and a stock Taiser, pratically unknown un-known in state polities. A resolution was unanimously adopted, expressing unqualified unquali-fied confidence in the retiring president, and this smoothed things over. The other officers offi-cers were re-elected. No regular platform was adopted, but the sub-treasury scheme and the Ocala and the official acts of President Polk heartily approved. ap-proved. - - |