Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1912 — REPUBLICANS NAME TICKET. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICANS NAME TICKET.

County Convention Held Monday k and Some Promises Broken. At the republican county convention Monday afternoon, A. L. Padgett was nominated for sheriff; George Scott for recorder; A. A. Fell for treasurer; W. F. Osborne i for surveyor; W. J. Wright for coroner; (the three last named being the present incumbents and were nominated by acclamation); D. S. Makeever and Charles A. Welch for commissioners from the Second and Third districts, respectively. The only cor tests were for sheriff, recorder and commissioner for the Third district. The nomination for sheriff took three ballots. The ballot box having been stuffed on the first and second ballots, there being five more votes * cast than there were delegates on the first and one vote more on second ballot, vote was thrown out and on third ballot the vote was as follows: A. L. Padgett, Rensselaer. ..... 86 Charles Morlan, Rensselaer 66 C. J. Dean, Rensselaer. 1 F. E. Lewis, Kersey 1 Neither Dean or Lewis were candidates for sheriff, but some overzealous delegates evidently were voting for them first, last and all the time. •Padgett was declared the nominee of the convention. In the two ballots that were not counted because of excess ot votes,

Padgett received 86 and 90, and Morlan 66 and 69, respectively. Three ballots were taken also for recorder. On the first two the vote was F. E. Lewis, 57 and 74. Geo. Scott, 70 and 67, C. J. Dean, 26 and 12, respectively. Before the , third ballot Dean withdrew and the f nomination went to Scott, he receiving 77 votes to 75 for Lewis. For commissioner for the second ’ district there was but one candidate, Swaney Makeever of Newton tp., who was nominated by acclamation. In the third district Fred Berger ; and Chas. Welch, both of Carpenter, were candidates. Welch was nominated by 84 to Berger’s 55 votes. . The ticket as made up gives Rensselaer the sheriff, recorder, surveyor and coroner, and it already has the auditor and clerk. The thirteen townships have but two county officers outside of county commissioner, which could not very ■well be gobbled up. by the Rensselaer patriots, that of treasurer and county assessor. It is reliably reported that Mr. Lewis was promised the nomination for recorder long ago, and it remains to be seen how his friends in the north end of the county will take his turn-down. As for the candidate for commissioner fromthe third district, Mr. Welch is a son of George Welch of west Carpenter tp. He has resided practically all his life on the county line 1% miles east of Goodland, which has always been their trading point and the town in which he is more interested in than any place in Jasper county, and while Remington is his voting place, outside ,of going there perhaps every two years to cast his vote, he has probably never visited Remington a half-dozen times in his life.