Omaha daily bee., 1883-09-27
Judge Lakes Desire TO Serve the Party
Beautifully But Firmly
Declined.
The Republican Convention Eff
fectively Manipulated by Has
call, Howe & Go,
M. B. Rees Nominated on ths
Tenth Ballot for Su-
preme Judge.
~Inexperience and Mediocrity Pitted
Against Judge Savage.
Special Dispatch to The BEE.

Nj
Special Dispatch to The BEN.
LINCOLN, September 26.-The fight
against Lake wakes warmer, and as the
different delegates come in the strength
of the different candidates begins to show
up. Warren, of Nebraska City. is in the
lead. Even the Douglas county delesa-
ton is understood to be broken up,
and they will hold a meeting at
five o'clock to cement themselves together
to make some sort of a bold front. If
they can present Loves name gracefully
they will do 80, but have no intention of
waging a bitter fight for him. His friends
expect him to start in with about forty
votes and gradually draw over
the strength of the others
until nominated. Speaker Humphreys
has come into the field since morning, and
ard Kennedy is not considered as the
candidate of Douglas, but they expect to
introduce Sidney e. Locke for regent.
He is a new man to this part
of the coun 'ry, but the intention of the
country delegates is that whatever Omaha
wants for regent she shall have, if they
can only get a break on the Supreme
Judge. Charles Holmes has consented
to stand again. The convention of the
Fourth Judicial District has just been
called to order, and it is expected that
Judge Pound will be re-nominated by
acclammatien. The Douglas county
delegation in the state convention
will be Long, Hascall, Carlton
Lake, Straight, Stenbsrg, Timme, Hall,
Anderson, Sahler, Bechel, Burnham and
proxies Halves for David Reed,
Nye for Barber, Chase for Redman and
Croft for Knight There were two con-
tested seats, Cadman and Yediker con-
test from Franklin, and Brooks and San
tee from Knox.
There will be a strong effort to elect
Regents at large, instead of from Con-
gressional districts, as proposed. What
ever Omaha wants will be allowed her,
and Kennedy is looked upon as
the proper man for Gannett's
place. Regent Merritt, Cad Slaugh-
ter, Mcintyre of Seward, Judge
Hewitt of Hastings, Burton of
Orleans, Ed. Holmes of Wayne,
j.. W.. Love of Fremont, True.
of Crete, Rich, CT Brownville, Kincaid,
of Holt, Mallilieu, of Kearney, McAllis-
ter, of Columbus, are all candidates and
most of them are here.
THE CONVENTION.
Special Dispatch to THE BEE.
LINCOLN, September 26.-The state
convention, composed of 357 members,
commenced work at the opera house this
evening by electing Church Howe chair
man over c. S. Chase, and w. II. Mitch
ell, secretary. Messrs Gere, Watson,
Weaver, Shedd, Scott, Nye, Valentine,
Dolan and Cole were made a committee
on platform.
From the start it was evident that the
fight on Supreme Judge would be
lengthy and complicated. e. F. Warren,
of Nebraska City, Z. G. Homer,
of Kearney, M. B. Rees of Wahoo,
U. K Griggs, of Beatrice, Capt.
Humphrey of Pawnee and George B..
Lake of Omaha, were nominated. Col.
Chase proposed Judge Lakes name, but
on consideration it was withdrawn by
Hascall, who said the position was not
sought for by the Judge and he would
not consent to run unless it come unani.
mously, and seeing the opposition
that had sprung up the Douglas
county delegation would cast their votes
for other candidates. Nevertheless on
the first ballot, Lake had 20 votes from
Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Hall, Sarpy and
Seward counties. Homer had 81, Rees
83, Warren 70, Griggs "a, Humphrey 20,
and Sam Chapman getting the Ii votes of
Cass. Douglass gave 10 to Warren and
6 for Homer. All the counties were
split up in the same manner The voting
commenced at 8 o'clock, and up to IL no
result had been attained. eight ballots
having been taken. Chapman and
Humphrey dropped out, Lake fell
to 2, and Griggs to IL, his own
county. 1t settled down to Warren,
Homer and Rees, when the break came
on the ninth ballot, Dodge, Douglas,
Hall, seven of Lancaster, Washington
and Cass going to Lake amid constant
cheers. Then the counties commenced
to change their votes to R~ees-Seward,
Buffalo, Lancaster, Dodge, Madison and
others-until it was clearly evident that
Rees was the man, when on motion OF
Douglas, seconded by Lancaster, he was
declared the unanimous choice and called
upon to speak amid yells and shouts that
shook the roof.
Milton j. Hull, of Clay, and Jesse M.
Hiatt, of Harlan, were nominated Regents
for the Second district; j. T Mallahen,
of Buffalo, and Ed. Holmes, of Pierce,
from the Third district. G. W. e. Dor
sey is Chairman of the State Central
Committee another year.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Associated Press Report.
LINCOLN, Neb,, September 26.-The
Republican State convention met here at
Up. IN. Church Howe, of Nemaha, was
elected president by reclamation. The
usual committees were appointed and the