The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-06-03
UNION STATE CONVENTION.

UNION STATE CONVENTION.
According to provious announce.
ment, the Union State Convention
rs scmbled at the Atheneum il Colum-
bus at 10 o'clock on Wednesday NOR
ming, and was called to order by Ex-
Gov Dennison, chairman ofahc Union
State Central Committee, on whose
motion Col. Il. r. Stanley, of Vinton
county, was appointed temporary
chairman. On motion, John w.
King, of Muskingum, was appointed
temporary Secretary, and Maryland
Chance. of Wood county, Assistant
Secretary. Col .Stanly, on taking the
Chair, returned his thanks for the
honor conferred, after which the
usual preliminary business looking
TO permanent Organization, was
gone through with. Committees on
"Crcdcntials," "Pcrmanont Organi-
zatlon,' Resolutions and State Cen
trail Committee" wore appointed, the
names of the members OF which we
omit tnr. want. .HG..snacc. -ThGa aGew,
was instructed to report the names of
two Senatorial Electors for the State
ut large. 1t was also voted that all
resolutions to he offered to the Con-
vention should be first submitted to
the committee. The Convention
then took recess until , O'Clock, T..
VI.
Convention met according to al
igt NJ - L.,
by the temporary chairman.
The Committee on Credentials re-
Iported that all the counties in the
State were represented but two, al
though some of them had only partial
delegations, and recommended that
those present should cast the full
vote of their respective countics.-
Report adopted, and committee dis
charged.
The Committee en- permanent or
ganization made the following report:
For Prcsident--Col. Il. X. StanIy.
of Ninton county.
Ono Vice Presid mt was appointed
for each District-Parlec Carlin rep
resenting the 9Th. George A. Ben
edict OF Cuyahoga county was ap-
pointed Secretary.
THE NOMINATIONS.
The nominations for Supreme
Judges being next in order, the fol-
lowing named gentleman were pro
posel for nomination. Judge Lu-
thcr Day, of Portage county; Hon.
Horace Wilder, of AS tahula; Hon.
Simeon Nash, of Ga!ig Hon. c. C.
Jones, of Delaware.
A ballot was taken by counties,
and as It was:evi'lcnt that Judge Dav
had received large maiority--on
motion the rules were suspended and
he was unanimously declared the
nominee for the full term.
On motion the rules were suspon.
ded; and William White, Clark
county. was unanimously nominated
NY acclamation a candidate for the
long vacancy.
On motion Hon. Horace Wilder. of
Ashtabula, was unanimously nomina.
ted by acclamntion rs the candidate
! to fill the short vacancy, occasioned
by the resignation ofJudgc Gbolson.
sEcRr TARY or STATE.
The following gentleman wer pro.
posed for nomination for Secretary
of State:
William Henry Smith, of Hamilton
CO, Capt. A. KaGa, of Seneca; G.. A.
Stewart, offIardin o. Cole; Of Frank
lin; j. w. Longbon, OF jackson; Ma
jor Cunningham, of Harrison
A call Of the vote by counties was
had, hut before the announcement of
the vote, on motion, William Henry
Smith was declared by acclamation
the unanimous choice of the Conven-
tion, the nominee for Secretary of
State.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
4 The following gentlemen were pro
posed as candidates for nomination to
this office: Col. John NJ. Connell, Of
Fairfield; Col, w. L. Richardson, OF
Monroe; Chauncey n. Olds, of Frank
lin; II. NJ. Briggs, of Faycttc; James
Murray, of Wood 60 BY direction
of the President. the Clerk called the
vote by counties. hut it was easily
discerned that Col. Richardson was
: elected by large majority, .and be-
fore the vote was annonnced--on mo
ton. the rules were suspended, and
he was unanimously declared the I'm
ION nominee for Attorney General.
cOSiTRoLLER. CT STATE.
For this Office, Moses II, Bradley,
: of Fulton County, and Hon. s, :. Os-
, horn, of Lake County, were proposed
as candidates for nomination. ~
a motion was made by the fricads
: OF Mr.. Braily to nominate him by ac
J, clamation AMI the vote was put, bu'
!, there being considerable opposition
r 10 this mode of procedure, the presi
J, dent ordered tho call by counties t.
proceed, resulting as follows; ~,, i
: For r. M. Bradley 372 for Hon. S
c S. Osborn 82S. Il s-s F~eof~ I'm
anr rf. f.f -.af.-r s.r-t e. .