The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-08-27
REPUBLICAN, CONVENTION.
e.. Il. FOWLER FOR SENATOR.
AND mexican CARLETON AND
4. HIND. FOR REPEESEN-
TATIVES.
hess Jas. shelley Elected Chairman
at the County Executive
(OIuuttttrt.


The Republican Convention Of lut
nam county, called for the purpose If
nominating candidates for Senator and
representatives, met at the court house
in this city yesterday at la:l3 O'Clock =.
M, and WAS called to order hy Maior II.
/ X: Teassialc, chairman at the county "N.
ecutive committee, who rrtti the call ami
/ declared the convention ready for tenn.
p0rary organizltion.
TN motion Of Jas. Shelley, L. Hind
was elected temporary chairman, j. X.
/ Grassland, young co!nred delegate, was
elected Secretary. Afterwards the tenn
porary organization Wits made Ierma
/ nent.
! Some little discussion was INDUCED IN
by several delegates in regard to the ap-
paint mcnt oi q committee on credentials,
hut il Was finally agreed that. as there
Was n" contesling delegations, the ere
dentials should simply he handed to the
chairman, and after ho had read them,
the list Of names were declared To com
pose the member ship Of the conye tlon.
TN motion of q. T. Fowler, T.. +. Sam.
mis-. secretary of the H. let executive
committee, was in, tied t. seat on the
floor. Dr. Cowgirl sussl 6ted that a chat.
le pro, id,d for the Gentleman.
The nomination tor senator being the
first business IN order, Jas. Shelley
moved that g. l.. Fowler II nominated
by exclamation. and notwithstanding
that the char called Tor other nom,n1'
tions, tprohally in the hope that his own
name would h@ suggested no one Was
through like fash Mir. Fowler found
his feet IN snort ord,r, and thanked the
convention for ia. distinguished honor
conferred upon him and was none too
modest to say that it showed that he had
~ conducted himself as to win the con.
iidcncc - of his friends. lie endorsed
Greeley, and sand that Dr. Nc Mrekin was
troubled with IA little black hug, hnt
before the campaign ended he would h"
troubled with great many black bugs
IA for the democratic nominees for rep
rescntatives, they would certainly he
troubled with worms, and though this
remark WAS heartily checred, the crowd
looked "A little puzzled, as if they didn't
know exactly what their candidate for
Senator meant by it all.
Nominations for representatives. flew
thick and fast at the chairman. Mexican
Carleton, Thos. Hind, u. y. Hill and
George lterkelman were put in nomina.
tion. L. j. Broad, Ed Kirby, Do. Dan.
isls and Others were mentioned but they
declined the proposed honor. !. l.. l'nr'
cell was put in nomination, and in dc'
clining took occasion to indulge in som,
very spirited remarks Of II general nature,
beginning by saying that he felt safe IN
saying that u nomination from this con
vrntion meant defeat. lie proceeded I,
say that he would not mind defeat at the
hands Of intelligent republicans, hut h,
thought too much of his manhood and
indepen,lence to allow himself to IL
placed in "a position where the bob talle,
crowd under the direction Of BOSSES
could defeat him. lie had no respect
for the bob tailed crowd. Int did have IN
honoIuhl, ambition to do right, and lar
= r,ucd those " he hal been talking about
HIM generally.
Milton Cooper tried to reply and san
he was not surprised To- hcaI snch w"rd'
from a gentleman oi such immoral char
artrr -.----
lsut right there hc was stopped on 4
point Of order, and allowed To prorer,
no further, thurs putting II stop to al,ou'
the only real fun of the convention.
Amid much confusion of volrrs, th'
;ailots for the representative, w"r" pre-
pared, aud after much other confusion
as to how they should /" cast 1t VA
, finally agreed that the two names re-
ceiving the hghrst numi r Of vote
should he ,lrrll,d the nominees al Tia
convention Tor representatives. The ~
suit oi the ballot wa rs follow.
Mckcrn Carleton ......... .... 80
Thus Hind ..... .-.. Y
= -. \. itIll ......... ... ..... !
:, Geo. l., rklennn ....... ..-.. !
j, -. j. Daniels .,.,.. .......... .......
4 The nomination If carleton AMI Him
:, wiz. then made unanimous.
!. Mr. Hind in "A long speech accepting
r, tle nuninat iun, said hr wa surprised IL
- the result Of the ballot, and then gralte'
=, hold of the old tattrrrd bloody -hIrt
grew pathetic over the defeat 1T ELAN,
abused Cleveland aud the drmociai
:, down t. the county effects and post
masters, aud read extracts from tn
:, News in AN ,ilort to steal this paper
, thunder lie was not aNelse to- say III
:, also that the combination had done we
- in nominating Hind, who was a rrrtt
/, good fellow il hp was L ,nsid,rcd " la
!, man" 10y the demo, rats, etc, etc, n,
i, ing up his remarks hy stutlns his Co