Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1858 — CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.

The Senatorial Convention met at Valparaiso last Thursday afternoon, and organized by electing David Crumbacker, of Lake county, Chairman, who made a short speech on taking the chair. Joseph C. Pierce, of Porter, and D. F. Davies, of Jasper, were appointed Secretaries. Moved and carried that each county have one vote for each one hundred votes cast for Colfax in 1856, and one for every fraction over fifty. The following candidates were presented: A. B. Price, Dr. Cameron, of Porter; David Turner, Alex. M’Donald, A. D. Foster, of Lake. Moved and carried that the delegates from the several counties now retire and then announce their vote. In half an hour the Convention reassembled, when the following vote was presented : Lake —Turner, 9 votes. Porter —Turner, Cameron, 2; Price, 31 votes. L Jasper —Scattering, 7 votes. Mr. Turner having received a majority of the votes, was declared unanimously nominated as candidate for Senator. A committee of three was appointed to inform Mr. Turner of his nomination, said committee consisting of T. G. Little, of Porter, D. F. Davies, of Jasper, and John Wheeler, of Lake. Mr. Turner was escorted into the room, when he addressed the audiance in a short and pertinent speech, which was warmly applauded at its conclusion. Moved and carried that a commfttee of three be appointed from each county as a Senatorial Committee. Said committee consisting of: Porter —John C. Ball, Joseph C. Pierce, E. M. Horan. ' Lake —Alex. M’Donald, D. K. Pettibone, Z. F. Summers. Jasper— W. S. Hopkins, R. 11. Milroy, D. F. Davies. Moved that, these proceedings be published in the Valparaiso Republican, Crown Point Register, and Rensselaer Gazette. Adjourned. ; David Crumbacnek, Prfes’t. Joseph C. Pierce.> „ D. F. Davies, \ Secretaries. , [From tlie Syracuse Daily Standard, July 12.