The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-07-25
The Republican County COnven-
ton.

The Republican county convention to
nominate candidates for county officers and
for the state Legislature, and to appoint four
delegates to the Republican state convention
to nominate candidates for Comptroller and
Clerk of the Court of Appeals, met in the
court house Tuesday morning at 1 o'clock.
Jas. L. Mccullough, Esq, chairman of the
county executive committee, called the
convention to order and after reading the
porary chairman and Roman Tammany
for secretary.
Upon motion one delegate from each dis
trict was appointed as committee on Gre
dentials, after which the convention adj
journed till 1.3O O'Clock p. NJ.
The convention met at l.. 30 as per ad iourn-
ment. The committee oncredentials reported
the temporary officers as the permanent
ones and the following as the roll of dele
gates by districts.
KEEL, Thomas p. Jones, Jr., John Taylor,
John Morris.
Second district-Harry Ellison, Walter
Buckwth, w. b. c .leman, j. NJ. Reed, j.
w. Lavender.
Third district-Townsend Poole, c. c..
Strickland, Robert T. McVey, Covington
Wood. Isaac d. Davis.
Fourth observation-disclosures SaXton, W IN. II.
Salmon, VIM. II. Vansant, S. X. Miller,
ID. T. Work
Fifth district-Jo ohm McNamee, Harry
West, Nathaniel Alexander, Israel Dean,
Z. NJ. Terry.
Sixth district-H. II. Haines, Alfred
Kirk, Z. Il. Mcdowell, c. w. Wilson, Jos.
Harris.
Seventh district-R. l.. Christie, NJ. j..
Oliver, Alexander Craig, Thos. w. holland,
John Il. Bond.
Eighth district-John Il. White, w. r..
Citing, w. r. West, p L. Hall, George j..
Boldly
Ninth district-Jas. G. Crothers, Jno. L..
Crothers, Jesse w. Hamilton, Harry Pyle,
NJ. r. Wilkinson.
The convention then proceeded to nomi-
nate candidates for the several offices to be
voted for in November, beginning with
Clerk of the Circuit Court, when the follow
ing gentlemen were named: End, district
named 7. B. Hopper; srd, p. C. Strickland;
4th, George Ricketts,, of the 3rd; It'll, James
A. Davis and Sth, George NJ. Christie.
The first ballot resulted as follows: Davis
Is votes, Christie II, Strickland Q, Hopper
4, Ricketts, L.
On the second ballot, Davis received %
votes, Christie II, Strickland 6, and Hop
per 5. iIr. Davis having received a ma
jority of all the votes was declared the
nominee.
Thos. p. Jones, Jr., was nominated by
reclamation for Register of Wills.
Samuel NJ. johnson was nominated by
reclamation for sheriff.
Nominations being called for county
comm issioners, the End district named VIM.
T. Bradford, 4th, VIM. 7. Bye, 9th, J. Keil-
holtz and 9th, Il. Martindale. The first bal
lot was as follows: Bradford 80 votes, Bye
80, McNamee 81, Keilholtz % and Martin
dale 5. Messrs. Bye, McNamee and Brad
ford were declared the nominees.
nominated for state senator by reclamation.
Nominations for the legislature being
called the LIST district named Roman Tam
many; 9th, Chas. w. Wilson; 7th, w. f.
Coale of the 9Th district, and Peter Z. Tome
9th, II. NJ. Cameron. The result of the irst
ballot was as follows: Tammany SO, Will
son IS, Cameron 33, Coale II, Tome II.
Nessrs. Tammany, Wilson, and Cameron
having received a majority of the ballots
were declared the candidates.
Henry NJ. Nicols of tine 3rd district was
nominated for county surveyor by acclama-
ton.
S. Kennard Miller of the 4th, Harry Eli.
son of The 2nd, II. IL. Haines of the 9th, and
John r. White of the Sth, were elected dele
gates to the state convention.
James T. Mccullough, chairman of the
County Executive Committee, resigned the
position and Townsend Poole was elected to
| fill the place