, 1884-10-14
The twenty.second ballot ~ I Wnter

loo for the Thomasson forces. Just tw
hours after the convention assembled the
t%ellers begau counting the ballots. On
by one the tally rolled up a majority 70
Craig, and applause greeted each vote an
nounced for him. The Thomasson force
had evidently given up the contest
and the result showed that the preyiou
bushwhacking had, as was suspected i'm
mediately after the fate of the motionI
for time, failed to break the ranks of tn,
Craig party. The vote stood as follows
Craig, %; Thomasson, G; Bresnahen, 10
scattering, 2. On motion of G. w
Jones and seconded by Peter HANNA
the nomination of Mr.. Craig was made
unanimous.
Nominations for County Clerk wert
then made and W. G. provinces, Frank
Sparhawk and Rodger Bryant were
placed in nomination. The convention
had evidently wearied after the previous
hard struggle and on the first ballot Mr..
provinces was nominated by the following
vote: provinces 80, Sparhawk 6, Bryant
s, scattering 4. The vote was made
unanimous.
Judge w. L. Kuykendall was nomina-
ted for Probate Judge and County Treasu-
rer by Luke voorhees,. On motion, the
Secretary cast the ballot for Judge Kuy-
kendall as the nominee.
Mr.. j. G. Baird was likewise made the
unanimous choice of the convention fol
County and Prosecuting Attorney.
The following nominations for County
Commissioners were then made, to wit;
A w. Haygood, c. F. Miller (deelined),
G. A. Draper,..H. B. Kelley, Colin Hun
ter (~declined), R. F.. Glover (~declined)
Z. w. Whitcomb (declined). n. R.. Bres-
nahen (deslined), T. Dyer, j. T. Snow.
The ballot resulted as follows g. A
Draper SO, r. F. Glover 80, H. B. Kelly
81, T. Dyer II, c. +. Miller 10, Colin
Hunter s, J. T. Snow s, A. W. Haygood
9, Snyder 3. The chair announced
Messrs. Glover, Draper and Kelly as the
nominees, but it was stated hat a major
ity vote was necessary instead of a selec-
ton by virtue of the three largest votes
cast.
On motion by Col Murrin the above
mentioned were nevertheless declared the
nominees for County Commissioners.
The chair then announced hat the con-
v%ention would proceed to select its nomi-
nees for Members of the Territorial Coun-
Gil. Mr.. Fallon stated that he understood
that the %workingmen had a committee
present whose purpose it was to ask for
recognition by the convention, and for a
representation upon that portion of the
ticket now under consideration. The
chair stated that he had no knowledge of
the presence of such a committee, and the
secretary knew nothing regarding the
matter.
Nominations for members of the Ninth
Legislative Council were then made as
follows, to wit: T. Dyer, John London,
Harry Oelrichs, H. T. Goodwin, S. NJ.
Eisenberg, A. C. Snyder, Robt. Walker.
Messrs. Phil. Dater, c. F. Miller, j. NJ.
Tompkins, Luke Voorhees,, Chas. Coffey,
Geo. W Baxter, Il. w. Whitcomb,
Thos. Cahill and Thos. Reid declined.
Mr.. Voorhees, stated that there seemed
to be some misunderstanding about the
communication of the workingmen; that
that it was sent into the Committee on
Credentials, but he was under the i'm
preston that some one called for it and
took it away; that he understood that Mr.,
Dinsley was blamed for disposing of the
same in some way.
Mr.. Goodwin, of the Peoples party,
stated that Mr.. G. w. Day, the chairman
of his committee from the w~orkingmen,
was present. Mr.. Day stated that the
members of his committee had sent their
credentials to the conventions committee
on credentials, and that he had no means
of knowing what had been done with
them. Mr.. Voorhees, stated that it did
not seem proper to consider any creden-
'tials other than those of regularly selected
delegates to the convention or those of
their proxies.
Mr.. Isaac Greentree moved that a re-
cess be taken for the purpose of a general
investigation of the matter, and Colonel
Murrin offered an amendment to the eff
feet that a committee of three be appoint
ed to confer with the committee of the
workingmen and to present the wishes of
the latter to the convention. The
amendment prevailed and the chair APP
pointed Colonel Murrin, J. w. Griffin
and Isaac Greentree.
The committee retired, and after con
sulting with the workingmen, presented
the following report :
after looking over the matter and
finding the original copy of the communi-
cation from the workingmen they recon-
mend the placing in nomination for Coun-
Gil, H. T. Goodwin; for House, j. A.
Goddard. Jos. Granger and p. Ma
%roney."
The Convention Committee made no
recommendations, merely presenting the
result of its conference with the working
men before the convention. The conven-
ton seemed disposed to think that all it
could do for the workingmen would be to
place their candidates before the conven-
ton upon the same footing as the others,
leaving to the vote of the convention
their selection or rejection as nominees.
Mr.. F. E. Billiard was also placed in
nomination for a member of the Council