The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-01-23

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A hundred or two persons assembled ut
the Court holsGT Saturday evening, 70
pattjcibaae IN, and watch the FooeeiinGs
OF the Convention announced to assemble
there att O'Clock. About that hour John
Nolan called the crowd 10 order and nom.
mated Jacob Hull to. preside I Me- a. vas
chosen, but did not take the chair. Ut is
due DIr. II. to say that no was not in the
court room when elected.) Subsequently,
John Clator was, onlmOtion, made Pfcsi'
dent Of the Convention, Several gentle.
men were selected to act rs Secretary, but
all asked to be excused. Finally, p. L.
Kimberly consented to serve in that Gu
pacity, .f 81. B. bsl q
The roll Of delegates was called. and
the following answered: ,.Ia 49,, z '..-
FvYt Wdrl-Petcr Gundling, Thos Gray,
Henry Myers, w, j. Connolly, Henry
Cots, Thomas Atwell.
Third Rard-JOhn Clator, John Nolan,
VIM. Brown, Andrew Britt, Philo L.
Kimberly, and John Reid, Jr. l5ll =. i
Fourth Rard-Jacob Hull, James Nc:
Adams, John Britt, Theobald Molter and
James Acker. '-.l...' z "a'".i'a
TVM RdmAJobn W. Moorehead,
Thomas MoGett, D, Harkins, Il, B. Young
and r. Higgins. W s.e ~ 4 Joil
Sirh RmG-W, Fl. Travis, Andrew
Quigley, Benjamin BrOckett, Thomas Ed.
wards and Alfred Work. at.s-
SepenM Wdrd-Hugh Mccain, James
Dyson and William Eckles. ~
Mr.. Harkins offered the following; Re
sOlUed that all the delegates must be pres
emit to entitle the ward TO tue full strength
Of its vote, which shall DO cut down in
proportion to the number Of absentees.
Voted down. w ,ai = tg +.
On motion Of Mr.. Nolan the delegates
present were authorized ito cast the full
vote Of the ward they represented.
No delegation being present from tho
Second ward, the names of Messrs. ]. G.
Clark, Leonard McGill, Alex. Frcw and
W. II. Waddell were proposed as delegates
from said ward.
The proposition was voted down. Sub.
sequently the vote was reconsidered, and
the gentlemen admitted to seats in the
Convention.
The following resolutions were offered
and adopted:
Resolved, That the basis upon which
nominations ofthis Convention are made,
will be the entire vote Of the city as cast
for Mayor at the last charter election,
Resolved, That no candidate will be con-
sidered the nominee Of the Convention
until II Is announced that he has received
a majority of the whole vote; said an-
nouncement TO be made by the proper
officer. 40 i7r. I
Resolved, That each delegation shall poll
the vote Of the ward they represent, and
that they can vote as unit, or each rep
resentative may vote his proportion, as
the delegation may decide for themselves.
The following was offered and laid up
on the table: n o. na,f
ResOlued, That all persons presenting
their names to this Convention for nomi-
nation to any office on the citizens ticket
must previously pledge themselves, in
writing, TO use their influence for, and vote
for the entire ticket as nut forth by this
Convention. 5. -,.rI1 r.r1-gt Hu D.
The Convention, on motion Of Mr.. No
Ian, proceeded to nominate candidates for
the office OF Mayor Dr. 1WHJ. Bates,
Geo. W. letters and John H. Hall were
placed in nomination.
Messrs. Jacob Hull and John Nolan
were appointed tellers.
Before n vote was taken II was re-
solved that after the first ballot the candi;
date receiving the lowest number Of votes
should be dropped. . aFS u -
A ballot being ordered, resulted as fol-
lows Bates, 1928! LETTERS, $40; Hall, $3.50.
Whole number Of votes cast, 1887 nc.
cessary TO choice, 1854 .eo.2 ~ 'as
Dr.. Bates having receiycda majority Of
the votes cast, his nomination was made
unanimous. 10 'r9' IEt t.F7s y 10
Gen. II. F. Feeney was nominated Tor
the office OF city clerk by reclamation.
|, Nominations for Superintendent Of the
Water Works were called for, aud Messs.
w. II. Cots, John W. Cummings and W.
II, Duty were named for thC. position.
A ballot was had and resulted. Cots,
1913; Cummings, 364; Duly, 7Gs. s.a.e
Announcement Of the nomination Of
Mr.. Cots was made when twas discover.
cd that about ono hundred morcvotes had
been cast than. tho basis agreed on per.
mitted. GssEl ~
/ A second ballot was therefore necessary,
and resulted; Cots, 1885; Cummings, 376;
Duty, ga. a5l4 y'ian ~.
Mr.. Cots was declared the nominee of
the Convention. N y
Messrs. John Q. Bellyillc, Joseph For.
syth, and Joseph Toliyar, were placed in
nomination for tho office Of Wharfmaster.
A ballot was ordered and resulted:
Bellville, 100; Forsyth, sO09; Tolivar, Of.
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