Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1902 — COUNTY CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY CONVENTION.

Good Ticket Nominated By Enthusiastic Convention. NINE BALLOTS FOR TREASURER. Marlon Gets Auditor and Sheriff, Barkley the Treasurer and Carpenter the Surveyor— Halleck and Waymlre Renominated. THE TICKET. Auditor James N. Leatherman. Treasurer Samuel R. Nichols Sheriff. Abraham G Hardy. Coroner Willis J. Wright Surveyor.... Myrt B. Price. Commissioners— S. First District Abraham Halleck. Second District Fred Waymire. Third District Charles T. Denham County Councilmen— First District John Hawn. Second District.... Harvey E. Parkinson. Third District .John Martindale. Fourth District Walter V. Porter. { E. T. Biggs. At Large.. -I Erhardt Wuerthner. I Andrew J. Hicks. Delegates to State Convention— John F. Pettit, H. M. Prevo, W. H. Robertson, R. B. Porter, Geo. E. Murray, H. B. Murray, Charles Bonner, J. R Wilson. As in previous years the Republican convention held in Rensselaer last Tuesday was a latge and enthusiastic one. The opera house was crowded with a good natured crowd of delegates and others.' 0. VV. Coen, of Rensselaer, was elected chairman of the meeting and Fred Griffin, of Remington, secretary. Candidates for delegates to the state convention were quite numerous and nominations were made from each commissioner’s district. John F. Pettit, H.M. Prevo and W. H. Robertson were selected from the first; R B. Porter, Geo. E. Murray and H B. Murray from the second and Charles Bonner, J. R. Wilson and Fred L. Griffin from the third. W. E. Peck was nominated for delegate at large. The following delegates and alternate delegates to the judicial convention to be held at Brook were selected: Delegate Alt Delegates Hanging Gr. R Drake.;.. J. R. Phillips Gillam J W. Turner OMcCullough Walker Geo. Meyer.. J O’Conner Barkley (E). „ S R. Nichols W. R. Brown Barkley (W). F. Waymire.. S. Nichols Marion (E) . W. F. Smith. M. Hemphill Marion (W). J. H. Perkins C. E. Mills Marion (S).. M. Leopold.. Geo. Murray Marion (N).. J. H Ellis .. Shelby Grant Jordan W. Porter... G. W. Tanner Newton A. J. -Harmon W. Sayler Keener R. M. Dunn. A. Halleck Kankakee ... John Greye.. C. Peregrine Wheatfield... J. Whitaker.. John Tilton Carpenter (S) Homer Hardy A. R. Updyke Carpenter (E) O P. Taber. John Tharp Carpenter(W) John Westfall Jack Hudson Milroy R. Foulks... D. McCashen Union (5)... J. Babcock.. Wm. Porter Union (N)... C. A. Gundy O A Yeoman Delegate at Large H. B. Murray Delegates to the legislative couven tion to be held at Hammontf were elected as follows: Edward Biggs, John O’Connor, Robert Mannan, A R Hopkins, L. M. Wilcox, S. T. Comer, M W. Reed, W. R. Peck, Homer Hardy, and Chas. J. Dean as delegate at large. By a unanimous vote of the convention the delegates - were in structed to vote for Jesse E. Wilson, of Rensselaer, for joint representative of Lake and Jasper counties. A similar motion carried unanimously instructing the delegates to vote for Chas. W. Hanley forjudge at the judicial convention. Right here it might be well to say that a vote on the judgeship matter was taken at nearly every precinct in the county Saturday at the preclnot conventions and the vote where taken was universally in favor of Mr. Hanley forjudge. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Hanley were each called upon after the selection of delegates and made a few brief remarks thanking the convention for their vote.

The first nomination for a county office was for auditor. The only nameplaced in nomination was that of James N. Leatherman, of Marion township, and he was chosen as the nnanimous nominee of the convention. For treasurer , four names wore placed before the convention —3. R Nichols, of Barkley township, Philip Blue and James D. Babcock, of Marion, and John A. Lamborn, of Carpenter. The contest was a long ands pirited one, requiring nine ballots to nominate. On the final ballot Mr. Nichols was nominated, receiving the votes of 136 delegates out of the 206. The ballots were as follows:' FIRST BALLOT Nichols . ..49 Blue rr. .69 Babcock ..41 Lamborn 46 SECOND. Nichols 1.. ....a..... S 8 Blue ..-57' Babcock..... '.y ,44 Lamborn 45

THIRD Nichols . 63 Blue#. , i 67 Babcock 28 Lamborn 44 Scattering 4 FOURTH Nichols 7a Blue 77 Babcock 16 Lamborn 39 Scattering 2 Here Mr. Babcock withdrew his name. FIFTH Nichols 90 Blue 74 Babcock 1 Lamborn 41 SIXTH Nichols ..92 Blue * 70 Lamborn 40 Shirer. 2 SEVENTH Nichols 98 Blue .64 Lamborn 40 Shirer 6 EIGHTH Nichols 103 Blue 50 Lamborn 43 Shrirer ......8 Scattering 2 NINTH Nichols 135 Blue 28 Lamborn . .41 A. G Hardy, of Marion township, was renominated for sheriff by acclamation. J. W. Wright was ihe only candidate for coroner and received the nomination by acclamation. For surveyor fiara wera three candidates—Myrt B. Price, of Carpenter township, the present incumbent; Hugh L. Gamble, of Marion township, and W. L Lewis, of Union towushtp. Price was nominated on the first ballot, which was: Price 156 Gamble 27 Lewis 21 Two names, A. Halleck and John F. Pettit, were proposed as oommis sioners from the first district, but Mr. Pettit declined to run and Mr Halleck was made the unanimous nominee of the convention. For the second district Nathan Eldredge and Fred Waymire were placed in nomination. Mr. Waymire was nominated by the following vote: Waymire 141 Eldredge 64 Ohas Denham, of Carpenter town 'ship, and Richard R. Foulks. of Milroy township, made the race for commissioner for third district, with the following result: Denham 188 For county councilmen John Hahn was nominated to repr sent the first district; Harvey E. Parkinson the second, John Martindale the third, Walter Porter the fourth, and Ed T. Biggs, Erhardt Wuerthner and Andrew J. Hicks constitute the nomi nees at large.