Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — The Judicial Convention. [ARTICLE]

The Judicial Convention.

The convention to nominate a Republican candidate sot Prosecuting Attorney for the 30th Judicial Circuit, was held at Fowler yesterday. It was a very amicable convention, characterized by the utmost good feeling. Dr. 8. C. Maxwell, of Remington was made chairman of the convention, and discharged the duties of the place in an entirely creditable manner. When the convention was ready to proceed to ballot for a candidate the Hou. U. Z. Wiley, of Fowler, put in nomination John T. Brown, of the Benton county bar; and Capt. B. R. Faris, of Gillam township, presented the name of E. W. Mai s hall, of the J asper county bar. No other candidate being presented the first ballot decided the contest in favor of Capt. Marshall, by a vote of 31 for Brown, to 3'.) for Marshall. Of 81 delegates elected to the convention, 71 were present, in person, or by alternates. Six of the absentees were of Jasper county. The Convention voted by ballot, upon the call of the names of the delegates, in alphabetical order, thus obliterating county lines and giving no opportunity for the objectionable “unit rule’’ to be put in prae tice.