The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-13
Getting Ready for the October Gen.
test-The Delegate Elections
and Nominating Conven-
tions-The Aspirants
for the NOmi-
nations, and
Who They o
Are.

hours of four and eight, the regular elections
will be held in all the voting precincts of the
city for delegates to the con ventions by which
the candidates of the party are to be placed In
nomination. The conventions win be fifty
seven in number, as a separate body is con-
vened for the nomination for every office to be
filed, except in the case of the judiciary. The
ward conventions will not meet until o'clock
on Wednesday evening, but all the others will
be held at o'clock on Wednesday morning.
The Onices to be Filled, and the Conventions.
The offices to be filled and the places at which
the different conventions will be held are as
follows a,
sherif.-At National Hall, Market street,
above Twelfth.
Receiver of Taxes.-At Concert Hall, Ches-
nut street, above Twelfth. f
Register of Willss-At Washington Hall,
southwest corner of Eighth and Spring Garden
streets.
Clerk of Orphans Court.--At Broadway Hall,
Broad and Spring Garden streets.
City Commissoner.-At Musical Fund Hall,
Locust street, above Eighth.
Associate Judges of Court of Common Pleas
and District Court.-At the new Court House,
Sixth street, below Chestnut. (There will be two
vacancies on the bench of the Common Pleas
and one on that of the District Court.)
Members of Congress.-The Fifth district
embraces only three wards of the city and the
convention is not under the jurisdiction of the
City Executive Committee. The places for
holding the conventions in the first four dis
tricts are as follows
First Congressional District.-At the old
Court House, Sixth and Chestnut streets.
Second Congressional Dstrict.-At the As
sembly Buildings, Tenth and Chestnut streets.
Third Congressional District.-At the Ameri-
can Mechanics Hail. Fourth and George streets.
Fourth Congressional District.-At the Spring
Garden Hall, Thirteenth and Spring Garden
streets.
State Senator, Third District.-At the Ton
Halle, Third street, above Willow.
Members of the State House of Representa-
tives are also to be chosen in each of the eigh-
teen districts into which the city is divided.
Municipal Oficers.-Nether branch of City
Councils undergoes an entire change every
year. The terms of only nine members of
Select, and of thirty-one members of Common
Council, expire with the current year. The
uanges in Select Council will be In one MEM
Der from each of the following wards:-First,
Tenth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Seven
teeth, Nineteenth, Twenty-frst, and Twenty
third. In Common Council there will be three
changes in the Second ward two in the Third,
TWO III tut rlltccntn, turcc III tuc INlnet6entn,
two in the Twentieth, two in the Twenty-sixth,
and one in each of the others excepting the
Fifth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Twenty-fourth, and
Twenty-ffth. In addition to the members of
Councils, the various ward officers are to be
nominated, including aldermen, school direc-
tors etc. a..
The AspIrants for the Nominations
are legion in number. Below we give a list
of them, with as much concerning each as our
space will permit, in consideration of the large
number TO be mentioned
sheriff. r 3 o. ..t
Henry II. Bingham, at present Postmaster of
the city, was born in the Ninth ward and is a
son of the late James Bingham, the well-known
forwarding merchant He was educated at
Jefferson College, at Canonsburg. Graduating,
he commenced the study of law. In 1862 he
raised company at the college, and entered
the service as a lieutenant He was soon pro-
NOTED to csptaincy, and shortly thereafter he
was appointed Judge Advocate of Hancocks
, Corps. From a captaincy he gradually arose in
rank, until in April, 1865, he was breveted a
rgadier-General, and for some twelve months
prior to his retirement from the army had acted
as Judge Advocate of the Middle Military De-
partment. He was wounded at Gettysburg,
Spottsylvania, and Farmville, and was once
the latter part of 1865 he was appointed Chief
Clerk of our Post Office, and in the following
March was made Postmaster, position to which
he was reappointed by President Grant, having
received the endorsement of the city Congress
sional delegation and Senators Cameron and
Scott. He has also been member and treasurer
of the Republican State Central Committee.
f. Theodore Walton is a resident of the Thir-
.teenth ward. He is a native of Montgomery.
county, but at an early age came to this city,
where he entered the extensive dry goods estab-
lishment of Lppincott, Coffin & Co., in which
he received thorough training In all the de-
tails of business life. This occupation, how
ever, became distasteful to him, and he went
into business as a stock and merchandise broker
for some years, abandoning that, in turn, for a
more congenial calling. Mr. Walton has never
held Office, but for a number of years he has
been an active participant in our local affairs,
an earnest and Jealous worker in the cause of
the Republican party of the city. On two occa-
sions he has been a candidate for the nomiua-
tion of Receiver of Taxes, on each occasion
being defeated by Mr.. Peltz, the present Re-
ceiver, by very small vote in the convention.
William r. Leeds was the last candidate to
announce himself for this position, -. .nme
losAiiagsd as &es.d Fsss