Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1894 — Zimmerman Gets the Nomination. [ARTICLE]

Zimmerman Gets the Nomination.

The Democratic Congressional convention, at Hammond nominated Hon. Valentine Zimmerman, of Rochester, wlio was their crmdidate in 1883. The other candidates were C. 11. Pollard, of Delphi, Judge Winfield, of Logansport, and Patrick Keefe, of Keutland. The first, ballot was as "follows: ; Zimmerman 57 Winfield 81 Pollard.. 23 Keefe-. .. . . .-ldThe succeeding ballots ran abdut the same as the first until Judge Winfield withdrew after the eight ballott-, and the ninth then m urinated Mr. Zimmerman, the vote being as follows: Zimmerman Bfi Pollard 22 Keefe K

Hon. Valentine ZiimnermaiT will in all probability be our next, congressman. He will make an able representative of the'"people, something this district has not had in congress for many years.— Winamac Journal. Our esteemed democratic contemporary in Pulaski county, allows commendable frankness in admitting that this district has rot lately had an able representative in Congress. Not since the close of Hon. W. D. Owen’s last last t rra, in point of fact. But verily, we don’t see how any intelligent person could seriously believe that the condition of things would be much improved by sanding to Washington a person of Mr. Zimmerman's calibre. And happily there is no longer any serious danger of that result. The settlement of the factional fight in the Repnblican ranks ;puls an effectual damper on the prospects of democratic success in this disfncL..