Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1904 — McCAIN NOMINATED FOR SENATOR [ARTICLE]

McCAIN NOMINATED FOR SENATOR

The Republican senatorial convention at Reynolds last Monday is 6aid to have been a warm number from start to finish. There were five candidates in the field —Jesse E. Wilson of Rensselaer, G. W. Kassabaum. Curtis D. Meeker, and E. H. Wolcott (the present senator) of White and R. C. McCain of Newtfin. On the first ballot Wolcott received Ilf votes, McCain 15, W T ilson 15, Meeker 7f, Kassabaum 7f. Some of the delegates from this county refused to support Mr. Wilson, including Everett Halstead of Newton tp., Babcock of Union, and the Carpenter township delegates, who supported Wolcott, giving him five votes from Jasper. Meeker and Kassabaum finally dropped out of the race and the delegates whip-sawed along until the 17th ballot, when Wilson’s strength was thrown to McCain and he received 36 votes to W r olcott’s 21. Fourteen of McCains votes were from this county. The defeat of Mr. Wolcott was a surprise to his friends, who had not looked for the opposition to develop such strength.