Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — THOSE, SENATORIAL AND JUDICIAL CONVENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

THOSE, SENATORIAL AND JUDICIAL CONVENTIONS.

Jasper County Gets Left All Around. t or State Senator, ISAAC H. PHARES. of Benton County. For Prosreuting Attorney. f T. C. . ASNABAL. of Newton County. The Republican conventions to nominate a candidate for State Senator for Benton, Jasper and Newton counties; and a Prosecuting Attorney for the Thirtieth Judicial Circuit, •composed of the same counties, was held at Goodland, last Tuesday. The senatorial convention was called first, and convened at 1 o’clock p. m. Win. Ade, of Kentland, was chaiiman, and T. J. McCoy, of Rensselaer., was secretary. The only candidates presented to the convention were Isaac 11. Phares, of Benton county, and Mordecai F. Chilcote, of Jasper County. There had been a number of other aspirants from Benton county, but, by agreement of all of them, that county’s senatorial delegates had held a meeting the Week previous, and by majority ballot, selected Mr. Phares as tlieir only candidate, for whom they all agreed to stand solid, to the end. There being only the two candidates before the convention, a single ballot of course, nominated. 11 was as follows, by counties. Chilcote. Phares. Ja5per............. ,13 5 Benton 22 Newton 12 4 Total 25 31 Mr. Phares having received the majority was declared the candidate. Had Jasper county voted solidly for Mr. Chilcote, as might naturally and properly have been expected, .Mr. Chilcote would have been nominated. Without any disparagement to Mr. Phares, we can say that Mr. Chilcote as one of the oldest, hardest and most unselfish workers for the party in the the three counties, is the man who ought to have been nominated. Of the five Jasper county delegates who voted against their own county, four came from Carpenter tp. The fifth has not been positively located, but it is generally believed to have been the Union tp., delegate. It was generally believed at the conventions that this defection of the Jasper county men was the lesult of a deal in the interests of Mr. Guy, the candidate for prosecuting attorney, from R.mingtOD; and, whether this belief was well founded or not, it was disastrous to Mr. Guy’s prospects, for when the judicial convention assembled it was found that the Jasper county delegates had it in for Mr. Guy, and only the four Carpenterip., men voted for him.

The 'Judicial convention. Convened directly after the adjournment of the Senatorial. The delegates, from this county at least were all different from the Senatorial delegates, except the Carpenter delegates. . R. W. Marshall, of Jasper county, was chairman and Fred Gilman, of Newton Co., was secretary. There were four candidates in the field, Jasper Guy, of Remington; John Sink, of Rose Lawn; T. C. Annabal, of Goodland; and Mr. Palmer, of Kentlaud. Six ballots were necessary to nominate, the first three being as follows: Ist 2nd 3rd Guy 14 15 9 Annabal 13 13 17 Sink 24 27 273 g Palmer 5 2 2 J. T. Brown 3 4th sth 6th Guy 4 8 0 Annabal ~>lß 21 31 Sink 27 27 21 Palmer... 2 0 4 The whole number of votes cast at each ballot was 56. Necessary to choice 29; as Mr. Annabal ha-1 rej ceived two more than a majority, he I was declared the nominee.