Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1902 — REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.

The repulicans held their city convention Wednesday night and nominated the following ticket: Mayor, J. H. S. Ellis. Clerk, Charles Morlan. Treasurer, James H. Chapman. Marshall, Mel Abbott. The councilmanic convention was not held until last evening, too late for us to give a report of in this issue. There was no opposition for mayor or treasurer, and for city clerk only two names were presented, S C. Erwin, the present clerk, and Chas. Morlan the courthouse janitor. A ballott resulted in Morlan receiving 178 votes and Erwin 156. For marshal 10 candidates were voted for and four ballots were necessary for a choice. Mr. Smith was not a candidate and so announced after the second ballot. The vote by ballots was as follows: Ist 2d 3d 4th Mel Abbott 75 gg i*> isj A D Burns S 3 M M 46 Jerome Harmon 48 53 5* 73 Lem Burton 42 43 30 24 David Gassoway 23 18 14 3 Joseph Rowen 16 13 10 Christie Vick 36 23 14 Lyman Zea 55 43 16 10 Charles Platt 18 10 WF Smith 11 24 - -