Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1889 — Uhandler Nominated. [ARTICLE]

Uhandler Nominated.

A dispatch from Concord, N. H., on the 13th, says: W. E. Chandler was made the Republican caucus nominee for United States Senator to-night. Previous to the balloting, Mr. Suiloway, of Manchester, said that he bad heard reports that persons.in the interest of Chandler had been ottering $550 for one vote and $1,200 for two votes. Mr. Varney, of Dover, said a gentlemen had called at bis house last Sunday and told him that a person bad been offered theee juma. Senator Corning, of Concord, said he was authorized by Mr. Chandler to deny these charges. These speeches created intense excitement. After the vote had been annonneed Mr. Chandler appeared in the caucus and addressed it briefly, accepting the nomination. He pledged his sacred honor that he had aone nothing undignified, unworthy or dishonest in the conduction of his canvass; had spent no inoney er promised no money for votes.