Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-09-24
DEMOCRA TIC COUNTY CON.
FENIION.

Tuesday, September 10th, 1879, be-
ing the day fixed by tho Rules govern.
ing the Democratic party of Clcarfeld
county, for the assembling of the Coun-
ty Convention, the delegates from the
several boroughs and townships met
in the Court room for the purpose Of
nominating candidates for Sheriff,
Distric. Attorney aud Jury Commits
sioner, and TO attend TO such other
party matters as might legitimately
arise
The Convention was called to order
ht clock r. NJ, by Israel Test, Esq,
Chairman Of the County Committee,
The first business in order was a call
of the boroughs and townships, for the
purpose OF learning the names OF the
persons elected as delegates to repie.
sent their respective districts, and the
result was as follows
LIST or DELEGATES.
Burnside borough Chambers Patrick, W. Gun
ingham.
cleardcld borough-wn. D. Bigler, James L.
Leayy, Frank Bickel.
Curwensvie borough--Dauid schorr. J. r..
Thompson.
HoatSdale borough-Patrick Shields, John Nc
Grath.
Lumber City torough--D. W. Hile, J. l.. Kelly.
Newburg borough. Edmunds, J. b. worrell.
New Washington borough-w. W. Barclay,
William Mahafey.
osceola borough-Johu X. White, George E.
Jones.
Wallaceton borough-G. W. Berry, I. II. Coon.
Beccaria township-John Lightner, George
W. Dots.
Bell township James W. Moehee, Chris, Es-
trickcr.
Bloom township Lines, Horace @.
Anderson.
Boggs tOwnship-John Deish, John ". Kyler.
Bradford township-J. X. Wilson, David Hitch
ings.
Brady township ip-charlos schwem, Joseph IL
Kirk. A. NJ Draucker.
Burnside township Daniel German, Peter
Stifler.
Chest township-Austin Curry, Daniel Fishel
Covington township-Christ Brown, Leon NJ
Coudret.
Decatur tOwnship-Adam Kephari, Jacob F
Steiner.
Ferguson iownship-A. A. Bloom, Christ
Straw.
Girard township--John MeCorkle, Georg,
Green,
Goshen township John A. l.. illegal, Eph X
shirey.
Graham township-Aaron @, Dale, b. D,
schoonover.
Greenwood township--Harry MccraCken, VIM
W. Rowles.
Guch township William r. Dicksason, Johi
Flynn.
Huston tOwnship-A. II. RosenkraAs, Gcorg
w. Weaver.
Jordan tovnship-Reuben Straw, James W
johnson.
Karthaus township--Godfrey Fisher, +. r.
coutriet.
Knox township-John II Dunlap, Peter Mays
Lawrence ship-Zach Ogden. Abram Hun
phrey, Clark Brown George Hall.
Morris township--JOseph Raymond, George W
Emeigb, Leonard Kycr.
Penn township Martin NJ. Flynn, Samuel c
Hepburn.
Pike township-samue Addleman, Riohar
. Freeman.
Sandy township--PeterS S. Weber, John Troxel
Union township-christ II. Laborde Reube
Laborde.
Woodward township Thomas Mathers, y
walsh.
. AT the conclusion Of the roll call j
{ was found that but 70 delegates on
swered, and that James j.. Leavy, G
Clearfeld, and George II. Hall, of Law
( rencc, werc away from home, and tina
, Edward Leavy had been substitute
4 for the former, and j. Linn McPherso
+ for the latter making a full Conver
ton OF n delegates. Thirty.nine (39
being a majority, it would take tha
+ number to make nomination. Ther
e were no contested seats, no petition Q
memorials were presented. Tho mex
Z buslnes in order was the selection {
/. two clerks, or tellers, to tally the vot,
= On motion of A. II, Rosencrans, Georg
W. Viewer, of Huston, and j. II wi
o son, of Bradford, were elected teller
and proceeded to tally the popula
vote. For vote, see tabular stat,
= ment at the top OF this page.l
Q The footings OF the above tabI
, show the number OF votes cast by tn
. people for each candidate. The ay
!, !, gregate vote polled for Sheriff wa
for Jury Commissioner, 22l9-sl
hundred less for the latter than for tn
u former office, and the result shows tn,
q tho people make the nominations aftt
all.
u AT this point Mr.. Humphrey, ,
Lawrence, introduced the follown
proviso to be added to Rule XIII.
Il Propidtdi That " there shall be Tic vote b
tween two or more Of the candidates for al
G Office, during the balloting Of the delegates, th,
In that case the candidate having received Il
o lowest popular vote shall be dropped, and Il
bAlloting proceed.
This was unanimously adopted, an
It Is an excellent amendment to tho ru
.s indicated, which reads as follows
XIII. In convention a majority Of all The del
) gates shall be necessary to q nomination and
persons name shall be excluded from the list
candidates until after the SIXTH ballot or vot
II. when the person receiving the leaet number
70 votes shall be omitted and struck from the ro
A and so on at each successive vote until non
nation is made.
is The rule as now amended will her
n after settle all dead.locks, " or tic
without resorting to any motions {
% strategy
3, SHERIFF.
.. The next business in order was Il
nomination of a candidate tor Sbori
y The first ballot resulted as follows