Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-04-03
FUSION FORMULATED.
TO Be DEFEATED NEXT MONDAY.
Cgrtiss. 6eiknap. Melgs. Nester, Reilly,
. ONeil Saattoek. Yale. and Sasn-
dsrs. are the Victims


man Of the city oommittes. krya Dyke
ma, al : o'ciock. l. \. Moulton Was called
10 preside temporarily. and AndreW f5 fs
was ehosen temporary secretary. ". III.
Andrews, ; Turner J. Blanford Wallace
Watson and Andrew fyfe were appointed a.
Committee on Credentials simon sullivan
i. r. kesn and J. B. fortier We're appointed
az a committee on order Of business and per
inanent organization A recess Of forty min
utes Is taken 10 allow the COMMITTEES 10 pre-
pare their reports
The Committee on Credentials reported
the hst Of delegate. H. published IN " ednes
dey mornings paper with the exception Of
the First Ward. 'fhe committee reported IL
favor OF seating the delegates named by the
caucus Of Wednesday night, stating that the
call issued 10y James Hennessy was not
authorized. A letter from Senator Curiiss
authorized by the caucus last year 10 ap-
point ward committee and did 70. and
that James Hennessy was not one Of the
committee. Mr.. Hennessy took exceptions
10 Mr.. Cnrtiss's statements and said that
~. Curtiss did authorize him lHennessy)
to call the caucus and called upon ". B.
Weston 10 corroborate his statements He
also stated that the men who engineered the
Wednesday night caucus were Republicans.
l.. 4. Kinney arose and said 'that l. not so,
that Is not so. Cries of Question, "quos-
ton were heard and the convention sat
down upon the Hennessy party by adopting
the report.
The Committee on Permanent Organiza-
ton and Order of Business reported in favor
Of making the temporary organization per
munent and appointing Conference Com
mittee of eight TO be selected 10y the ward
delegations. The report was adopted and
the committee was named a. follows First
Ward, James DeYoung; Second Ward,
Kryn Dykema: Third Ward, l.. w RUndell:
Fourth Ward, I. T. Kean: Fifth Ward.
Simon Sullivan; Sixth Ward, Isaac Dekub
bar; Seventh Ward. 5. L. Turner; Eighth
Ward, \. NJ. Belts. The convention then
took a recess TO allow the Conference Com
mittee TO meet a like committee from the
Democfatic convention and divide the
spoils.
The Conference Committee reported al
I0:l5 that the joint committees had agreed 10
allow the Greenbackers to nominate the can
didates for Mayor, Marshal, Controller and
Member of the Board of Review: the Demo
Gratis TO name the Clerk, Treasurer, Director
of the poor and twoJustices of the Peace
The report was adopted without opposition.
A. l.. Skinner, Frank Kutts and c. l.. Shat
tuck were appointed to notify the Democratic
Convention that the report had been adopted
The convention then proceeded TO ballot
for candidate for mayor. The first ballot
resulted: John l.. Curtiss 81, Crawford
Angel ,. Mr.. Cur;iss was declared unani-
mously nominated. On motion of X.
Dykema committee of three was appointed
to wait upon Mr. Curtis= and ask him to
appear and state whether he had, within the
past half-hour, changed his mind IN regard
TO accepting the nomination.
A ballot for Controller resulted: Geo. b.
Rely y, William Walsh II, ID. i. Ransom
I, and Andrew Price !. Mr.. Reilly was de
clared nominated and the convention pro
ceeded TO ballot for Marshal Result-John
Goldsmith Is, Thomas Nester 10, Amos d.
Greene l. and j. b. Rely 1. No choice. A
second ballot showed q for John Goldsmith
and 10 sor Thomas Nester. motion to de
clare the ballot formal was declared lost and
a formal ballot ordered. Cries of ''Nester
Nester," from spectators. The formal bal
lot resulted-Thomas Nester -, John Gold
SMITH l6; total, 4l-"stuffed." The next
ballot showed q for Nester and I6 for Gold
smith
The candidate for Mayor appeared and
said: "It is with considerable indifference
that | come before you. / appreciate the
compliment. but you know that I did not
want the nomination. But when the com
mittee tells me that you have given me
thirty seven out Of the forty votes feel it
is my duty TO accept. feel that would
like TO be renominated for the Senate and
reelected two years from last fall. when my
party will be in the majority in that body
and I have feared that by accepting the
Mayoralty I would hurt my chances for q
nomination and vill try TO be elected. and II
elected will DO the best can
For member Of the Board of Review
Charles J.. Shattuck -. NJ. J. Ulrich g. T.
+. Ransom 3 William T. Walsh s. A. ~
Bettis !. ]. DeJonge I. Formal ballot.
Shattuck -, Ranaom 10. Ulrich 3. Walsh g.
on the second formal ballot sbsttuck 20
ceived p. Ransom 10. and Mr Shattuok was
declared nominated.
A Committee vss APPOINTED 70 invite the
Democrats % come over and retlfy TIE nom
nations.
When the Democrats arrived q motion 81
ratifY the nominations Vas carried and fae
nominee for Mayor vas called on for an
other speech. He ssid. ATsu vh0 know ne
understand ti.sf speech making is nj ray
forte hsvs been IN fhs state Ssnafs. buf
there sneh men as Jay Hnbbell nonopolize
fhe basness ard have ~ had nr8ch - e
cssrce - prsotics. The Re1ubiieans d mt
srFerf 81 slecs thesr stsfe iickst fl.i- Sl-iur
Jay Hsbheil's cor uittss Rae Eigeon- flale8
fte tfsi 90 increaze ths uunbeF - Saf-sr7.f
Coar- 1uazss 81 tffy fhoogft they co1l5
eject hi~ tter vaai7 - Is fsvn~ ~ r-r-sF