Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-09-07
COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Question or Whose Names are to Ornament the
Ticket this Fall Finally Settled.

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The long drawn, finely spun agony is
over, the pangs OF convention travail
have passed and a list of excellent can
dIdates are presented for the suffrages
of the Republican voters. The van
guard of the army of patriots made its
appearance in the city Monday evening
and by eight o'clock the button-holer
was at his work and the torture had
begun. BY Tuesday noon the various
armies had encamped on the field and
were industriously at work making it
lively for each other and profitable TO
themselves. Wherever was seen a little
knot of interested conversationalists
there was the candidate or his best man
in the midst of them. Each shady spot
held a miniature convention. In the
languageo h elamented Kearney "there
was the devils own fighting along the
whole line"
There being no Joshua present the
SNh SontiihCo W IofC anu lOiCtg tllt
hour hand of the dial around at a rate
all too rapid for the workers. Time and
tide waits for no man and the changing
bell summoning the faithful to what was
to prove Sicilian vespers to the majority.
broke in upon the busy caucuses held
for last instructions.
The convention was called to order at
1:20 p. m. by the chairman of the county
committee, r. C.. Orr. j. HI. Evans
of P~latteville, was chosen permanent
chairman and Messrs. III. p. Rindlaub
and Seth Mcdonald, secretaries. The
room was packed with delegates and
their friends, the convention being one
of the largest held for many years. The
press was well represented, there being
at the reporters tables Rindlaub Of the
Platteville Witness, Mcdonald of the
Muscoda News, Holford of the Bloom
lngton Record, Stone of the Montfort
Monitor and THE HERALD represen-
tative.
The officials having assumed their
seats Hon. VIM. E. Carter moved that
a committee of one from each assembly
district and one from the county at large
be appointed on credentials. This was
afterwards increased to two from the
county at large and the following gem
tlemen appointed: VIM. E. Carter, r.
Meyer jr., T. N. Hubbell, Frank Thomp-
son and Sam Woodhouse. The COM
mittee then collected the credentials and
retired to put them through the crucible.
After being absent three-quarters of an
hour they returned and reported fifty
two delegates from the second district,
fifty-five from the first and fifty from
the third, together with the names of
the gentlemen comprising the delega-
tons. The report was adopted and the
committee discharged.
MI. Thos. Cheesbro moved the con-
v%ention proceed to ballot for sheriff.
Before this motion was acted upon the
following gentleman were appointed
~tellers. A. w. Bell, Jos. Harris, j. A.
Street, r. l.. Orr, Capt. III. +. Young
and John Montieth. Mr.. Carter in a
neat little speech placed in nomination
the name of j. l.. Rewey, of Platteville.
Luther Basford, presented the name
of John Dolphin, of Glen Haven. Capt.
II. F. Young nominated l.. BETTER,
of Patch Grove. Mr.. III. Gilliard, of Mi.
Hope, was proceeding to second the last
nomination with q few remarks when
Mr.. Hubbell suggested that the gentle
man was not n delegate and therefore
out of order. The point being well taken
this part of the programme was cut
short. Mr.. j. ID. Wilson presented the
name of JAS. Barnett, of Boscobel,
to the convention. Mr.. Ed. Pollock fol-
lowed suit for Anton Schmitt of
Lancaster, and the nominations closed
by Mr.. Buggins placing before the as
sembly the name of Ora Richards,
formerly q resident of Mt. Ida.
An informal ballot was then taken
resulting as follows: