Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1902 — The Township Convention. [ARTICLE]

The Township Convention.

The Republican mass convention for Marion township met in the east'eourt room, Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. as per call, and was largely attended. Moses Leopold, township chairman, was chairman of the convention and Fred L. Chilcote secretary.--* - For Township Advisory Board, Harvey M. Wood, Geo. W. Goff and John C. Porter, the present members, were re-ndtninated by acclamation. Road Supervisors were also nominated by acclamation as follows: Road Diet. No. 1, James Clark ‘‘ “ No. 2, Harrison Warren “ No, 3, Albert J. Biggs For Justices of the Peace there were to be three nominated, and five names were placed before the 'convention. Namely James A. Burnham, Jacob M. Troxell and . Wm. H. Churchill, the present incumbents, and Samuel E. Yeoman a * nd Schuyler C. Irwin. The re-1 suiting contest was quite lively J First Ballot: . .. Burnham .......39 votes Yeoman 41 votes Irwin 63 votes Troxell 71 votes Churchill 47 votes Each, ballot was supposed to contain 3 names but some only had one or two, and the total cast was 102. Irwin and Troxell, thus having a majority of all cast were declared nominated. The second ballot resulted in 40 votes for Burnham; 48 for Yeoman 16 for Churchill; hone receiving a majority. The third ballot gave 60 for Yeoman, 39 for Burnham, 1 for Churchill. Yeoman was declared he nominee. For constables, Christie Vick, Lyman Zea and Joel W. Childers were nominated by acclamation.