The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-06-10
THE CONVENTIONS.
Pettis Democracy in County,
District. Judicial and Town
ship Convention.
They Elect Full County, Ju-
dicial and Township
Tickets.
District and State Convention
Delegates are Selected.


The Democratic county convention me
at the court house yesterday, there being ;
large crowd and full delegation present
The proceedings were harmonious through
out, and its action elected frequent AND
hearty applause.
The convention was called TO order a.
IL O'Clock by Judge John A. Lacy, chair
man of the Democratic county conven
tion, who sisted the object OF the meeting
He spoke of this as being a national yeal
in elections, and that the democratic ban
ner would be unfurled all over this broad
land, and the people called upon to sus
tain it.
of MIR. David II. Orear, of Longwood, fol-
carried unanimously. Mr.. John ID. Rus.
sell was. made temporary secretary.
A committee on credentials, consisting
of Bedford Shobe, John Banks, Frank
Hayman, John Lakin and Mr.. Inman,
was appointed, who reported, and their re-
port was received and adopted:
The committee on permanent organize
ton and order of business, composed of u.
F. Scott, John Owens, VIM. Henderson, T..
e. Yeater and John Montgomery, Jr. then
made Its report, as follows: For peIma.
nent chairman, ID. H. Oresr, for perma.
nent secretary, John ID. Russell. Nomi-
nations shall proceed in the following or.
der: Prosecuting Attorney, Sheriff, treas
urer, collector, surveyor, assessor, coroner,
two candidates for the legislature, two can
didates for judges of the county court,
delegates to the senatorial, congressional
and state conventions, and the election Of
new central committee.
On notion, recess was taken until /
O'Clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention was called to order at
about twenty minutes after /. and Chair
man Orear declared nominations for prose
cutting attorney In order.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
CT. jackson, of this city; was placed in
nomination by Mckinley.
George F. Longan was nominated by
Frank &. Haymap, and the nomination
ably seconded by Charles E. Yeater, who
made a telling speech in favor of his
champion.
A ballot was then taken, and resulted as
follows:
Jackson....... ...............Sl
G. Z. Yeatsr then moved to make the
nomination unanimous, which was done.
The two men were loudly called for, and
each made a short speech.
SHERIFF.
The next order OF business was the nom.
ination of a candidate for sheriff, and the
following gentlemen were placed before the
convention. Benton Reese, l. s. Murray
and Mont Carnes.
The ballot resulted as follows:
murray .'.......oo
COLLECTOR.
Mr.. NJ. r. Priest, the present incumbent,
was nominated by reclamation.
TREASURER.
Capt. John L. Hall was nominated by
acclamation to succeed himself as county
treasurer.
SURVEYOR.
The following gentlemen were placed in
nomination for county surveyor, John E
Slower and J. c. johnson:
The bollot stood as follows:
SlOver........ ...."-lo
johnson. ........46
ASSESSOR.
For the Office of county assessor there
we're two nominations, Albert Capen and
J. Walker, the present incumbent, The
vote was as follows:
Capen......... ....-4l
Walker. ......l9
On motion, the nomination of Mr.. Ca.
pen was made unanimous.
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
The following gentlemen were selected
IS the delegates to the congressional con-
vention, and instructed for Hon. g. c.
Heard
Ira B. Barnes, DR.. Willis P. King, C. NJ.
A. Clancy, Maj. VIM. NJ. Gentry, Victor
E. Shaw, F. s. Arnold, John Montgomery.
jr., Van Gowell. S. K. Hallem and E. F.
Scott.
ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.
Twelve delegates were appointed to rep
resent the party in the ST. Louis commit.
tee to select delegates to the National con-
vention at Chicago, as follows:
c. E. Francis, Ed. Hurley. Geo. p. B.
Jackson, John r. Barrett, Judge John A.
Lacy, Charles Z. Yeater, French c. Hay
man, John ID. Russell, John L. Hall, j. w.
Murphy, j. r. Wade and T. w. Cloney.
STATE CONVENTION.
The following delegates were elected to
the state convention, and instructed to use
all honorable means to secure the nomina-
tion OF r. w. Gentry as state treasurer.
ID. III. Orear, Geo. F. Longan, j. r. Bar
rett, ]. NJ. Offield and G. c. Heard.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
Ii was then moved that a central COM
nittee, to consist Of one delegate from each
township and two additional ones from Sc
elected: