The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-29
TFE nFNooRATIc COYVENTEo :.
4 sIlm crowd and No Enthusiasm.

After several weeks advertising In
the. Courier, the Democracy of Van
derburgh County" $50 says the Con-
rier) met in convention at the Court
House, on Saturday" to select dele
gates to attend the State Convention,
to be held at indianapolis on the 9Th
!. January next. If the aDemoc-
racy of Vauderburgh County" we're
present at the Court House on Satur-
day. the party has become fearfully
deeimate' The number was so small
that it SCENE tie of room to use
the Court House to accommodate so
few persons.
After waiting for large crowd,
and finding that I To- came not, Dir.
Garvin called the Democracy of
Vanderburgh County" to order, and
moved that Judge Law be called to
the Chair. This prevailed, and the
editors Of the Courier and Demokrat
were appointed Secretaries.
Judge Law announced the object
of the meeting. after which Messrs.
Garvin, Rudd aud Whittlesey vera
appointed to report the names Of per-
sons to be appointed as suitable dele
gates to the Convention that viii go
through the formality Of nominating
State ticket to be defeated. Alter
a short consultation the inevitable
list was brought forth, we'll
thumbed," and the following named
persons, most Of them absent, we're
appointed as delegates:
Pigeon To,onship. = Hon. john
Law, VIM. Rahm, Jr., L. g. Van
Ripper, Hon. Jas. E. Welborn, Dr.. G.
Lauenstein, A. j. Gillette, Hon. John
A. Reitz, George Stackhouse, Pat.
Burke. Geo. w. Sbankiiu, Jacob III.
Miller, Nicholas Kapps, James D..
Saunders, James Scantlin, David u.
Sparks, J. 4. Gavisk, S. L. Jones, j.
B. Rucker, Hon. Daniel Morgan,
Bernard Nurre, Col. Charles DENLY,
Christian Hedderich, III. w. Bippus,
NJ. Mulhausen, NJ. D., n. Willard,
Charles A. Mann, Ben. Stinson.
Knight 1o,0nshiP.-J e4erson Linn.
Samuel Granger, John James, Jesse
Nightingale.
Centre T0aonsAip.-Marshall Hes
mer. Ira A. Fairchild, Samuel NJ.
Gibson.
Scot To,oaship.-Cliutou Stacer,
Chas. r. Hopkins, Thomas Bower.
ARMSTRONG Township Hon. Leroy
Calvert, Loreuz Paul, Hon. Geo. w.
Finch, James E. Mcdonald.
German 1oOnship-Joshep Hart
lein. Fred Umbach, DIR. Oehlmann.
Perry 1oUaship-Jos. Ii. Brands,
Dan. Wenzel, Ben. Hayes, Simon
Waterman.
Union Toloaship-Msjor j. B. Cox,
Peter Miller, B. 4 Williamson, A. G.
Brown.
On motion, Messrs. Whittlesey,
Rudd aud Garyin, were added to the
above list, of course. !"
1t gas also resolved that any Demo-
Gratis in attendance at the Convention.
from this county, have authority to
act as delegates.
The following resolution was then
offered and adopted
Resolved, That we recognize in the
person of our distinguished fellow
citizen, Hon. William i. Parrett, a
Judge of the highest ability; that We
eI7fc EsGTe I'm Hsev-----s1svfT1g HIn
10 the Democracy Of the State as a
candidate for Judge OF the Supreme
Court of Indiana; and that our dele
gates are hereby instructed to use all
honorable means to secure the nomi-
nation Of Judge Parrett for that
office.
A motion was made to adjourn, but
a Democratic Convention without a
speech, would not be conducted in
Democratic style, aud Judge Law
arose and addressed the "Democ-
raoy of Yanderburgh County"
In the course Of his re-
marks he took occasion to COM
graduate the Democracy on the glo-
rious CD results of the elections last
year, and claimed that the prospects
for the future were quite brilliant
He said they were marching on to
triumph, and that the efforts Of the
Democracy would finally terminate in
a brilliant victory. The Judge con-
Guided his remarks by stating that the
Republicans we're deserving their
party and joining tho Democracy.
The Democracy of Vaaderburgh
County" in a small squad assembled,
then concluded to adjourn, and the
great event. which did not attract as
much attention as the seance of the
Won Bomelswei,zen Bros, was
over.
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