Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — The Judicial Convention. [ARTICLE]

The Judicial Convention.

HON. r. Z. WfIJSY NOMINATED ON THE SEVENTEENTH BALLOT. The Republican convention to nominate a candidate for circuit judge to succeed Hon. E. P. Hammond, met at Goodland, Tuesday afternoon, as per call. It was compos - ed of 21 delegates front lienton county; 18 from Jasper, and 15 from Newton. Every county was fully represented The convention was called to or der by County Chairman Williams of Kenton county. Geo. G. Jenkens, of Goodland, was elected permanent chairman, and G. E. Marshall, of the Rensselaer Republic an, permanent secretary; and Isaac Pliares, of the Fowler Era, and H. G. Davis, of the Kentland Enterprise assistant secretaries. A resolution was unanimously adopted the Governor to appoint the nominee of the convention, whoever he might be, to serve until the election. The committee on credentials was JL I). Sleeper, pf Kenton Co., C. R. Peregrine, of Jasper Co. and O. G. Moll wain, of Newton. On Order of Riisiness, Geo. E. Ndlin, Kenton; C. E. Mills, Jasper; J. W. Rindall;Newton , __lhe voting was by counties in the order of Kenton, Jasper, Newton. On call of the counties for nominations, G. E. Ndm presented U. Z. Wiley, of Kenton county. J. F. Warren presented the name of M. F. CliHcote and William Greenfield that of R. W. Marshall, of Jasper county, j Newton county presented T. C. Annabel, of Goodland,

As seveventeen ballots were” re-' quired to settle the matter we cannot publish them all, in detail, by counties, but will give several taken at random, to show how the tide of battle veered to and fro. Kenton county was solid for Wiley, every ballot, having adopted the unit rule, by previous caucus. Four meu from Newton county also stayed with him, every ballot, and most of the time a fifth, so that his vote was never less than 25, and frequently 26. Following is the . lIKST BALLOT. "BentonVTa spefrKswtonTolair Chilcote 1 10£ Marshall Wiley 21 ~4~ 25 Annabal 2 2 The whole number of votes cast was 54, every ballot, and necessary to choice 28.

On the second the changes showed a gaTn oT'SToFChilcote and a loss Of one for Marshall, making them a stand-off at 13$. On the 4th and sth ballots Chileote had 14$, Marshall ttf 2 . r>n the sth W iley got one vote from Jasper. On the Glh, Chileote and Marshall changed places, Chileote having 11* Marshall 14*. M arshall continued to lead Chilcot until on the Bth ballot he had 19* votes to 6* for Chileote, On the 9th Chileote had Bs, Marshall 15* and Wiley 27, lacking only one of enough to nominate. On the 10th Jasper gave 17 of her 18 votes to Marshall and Newton gave him 8, making 25, or within 3 votes of enough to nominate, and this was Marshall’s “high water mark.”* On the next ballot Jasper gave Chileote 17 and Newton gave him 3, making 20 in all, which was his highest vote. During the next three Marshall was 2 or 3 votes ahead of Chileote. Annabal scored 4, his highest vote, in the 12th. On the 15th and 16th Chileote led Marshall 7 and 8 votes. The seventeenth babul settled the matter as follows: Benton. lasper. lewtoi. Total. Chi1e0te....... 12* 4 16* Mar5ha11....... 3* 4 7* Wi1ey......... 21 2 5 28 Aunabal 2 Wiley’s vote was just enough to nominate. On motion of Mr. Annabal, i' wn made unanimous. Mr. Wiley was called up and made a very graoeful speech in acceptance of theuourmsrioo. Messrs. Chileote, Marshall end Annabal were then called for in turn, and each, in the best of feeling, expressed their thanks to their friend* for their support, disclaimed all soreness over their defeat,

and promised their heartiest Support to*the nominee. After a humorous word or two from Win. Cummings, of Kentland, -and G«pt. Sink, of Thayer, each of whom had received one or two scattering votes, the journed. .1 / v: j Editor Republican.— Amongsti the many interesting things con-,1 tained in the latest report of the! -U. 8. Bureau "of Statistics, of the | State Department, is an article j from Mr. Geo. H, Murphy, who is a clerk in the Consular General’s office, at Berlin. He tells us that Canary birds comprise one of th,e chief articles of export from the district of Hanover. In-fact, is third in moirey Tahm of all the exports from that district In this statement above there is nothing to comment upon if he did hot supplement it by saying that these birds were mostly raised and sold by very poor people, as a means of adding to their very meager incomes, As an example, he cites the case of a village tailor inJHanover, who goes about from house to house to do his work and earns 33$ cents per day, or SIOO peT annum, if he works 300 days in the year. He has to pay sl6 a year for rent, ieaTihg~sM, with which to' support himself and consisting of six persons in all. So wonder that he resorts to raising birds, or in fact anything else, as a means to add a five dollars to his scanty income, How would our Knights of the needle and the goose, in this country of protected jnqustry,kick against “free trade and cheap living.” How would Our Homestead strikers, who according to their sworn statements were getting from $1.40 to $lO per day, enjoy such wages?