The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-12
BEGINNING THE sKIRMISH
The Republicans Take the Lead in
Opening the Local Campaign.
The Township Convention dominates Good
Ticket. and Is an Enthusiastic and Har-
monious Gathering of Party Workers.

/ yesterday, Was characterized by earnestness and
| enthusiasm, and determination to begin the
political battle of 1883 by putting in the field
| ticket worthy the support of all voters. A dis
| tineu:shiug feature of the gathering the un
usual number of new faces, the most of them Of
young men, who heretofore have not taken &C
| active part In political work. There was a very
earnest contest for some of the positions or
| the ticket. but the nominations were al
/ made in good spirit. and the nominees
| met with general endorsements after'the result,
/ was announced The nominations were well
| distributed over the city and township. and in
making up the ticket the colored race. which has
| always done valiant service for the party, was
| not forgotten.
The convention was called to order a few min
| utes after 10 o'clock by Newt Harding chairman
of the Republican county central committee.
who, without any preliminary remarks, directed
Eugene Saulcy. secretary of the county CON-
mittee to call the roll of wards for the purpose
of seeing if any precinct was unrepresentsd-
The call of the roll showed that all delegates
were present.
Judge Scott nominated w W. Herod for per-
manent chairman, who was elected unanimously
upon the motion of Harvey Smith.
On taking the chair Mr.. Herod made brief
speech, in which he said he regarded it as an
honor to be called upon to preside over a Rep ub-
icau convention. He had forgotten about the
to the Criminal Courtroom he thought
perhaps some more Democratic tally
sheet-forgers had been indicted. He was not
candidate for any Office, and he could therefore
be permitted to eulosizs the Republican party
IN good faith It WAS grand old party. and one
Marion county were sure of success this year.
because the ballots would be counted as they
were cast Almost within the sound of his
voice were two living examples of fed
eral justice melted out to men who
had dared to interiors with the bal.
lot. II may be little prs1udced
in favor of the Republican party, said he, .but
hope my hair may be silvered over more than
it is now before vote against the party that
saved this government want every man who
loves law better than violence to stand with the
Republican party" The present convention, he
said IN closing was hut the skirmish of the
great fight to come later on. and whatever was
done should be done well.
The organization of the convention was COM
pleted by selecting Harry Lehr. of the Nine
teenth ward. as permanent secretary, and W.
Fl. Nickerson, Charles Hickman Ben d. Bagley.
e. A.. Brown, John B. Parks, Merrill Moores
and Frank B. Wells as assistant secretaries.
The organization havi.e been completed,
was ready to nominate candidate for township
trustee, and Col L c. Walker presented The
name of Charles J. Many. the present incumbent
In doing SO, Colonel Walker said that the people
of Indianapolis were more interested in who was
elected to fill the minor Offices than in the gov
ernorship, for it was they who looked after the
they found an honest. capable officer. it was
their duty to keep him in Office. Tho people
had tried Charles J. Many: had found him true
as steel, and for that reason the Sixth ward
again placed him in nomination for trustee.
D. B. Shideier sald that he had known Mr..
Many personally for twelve years, and had al
WAYS found him man that could be trusted. If
Center township had bad more such trustees,
Pollard would not have made manv visits to
Indianapolis. Il desire TO second the nomina-
ton, said he, land more, that 1t be made by &C.
ciamatsor."
mir. Many is a man honest and capable " said
Chairman Herod, land all who favor his nomi-
nation will rise to their feet and say aye"
Every delegate in the room stood up, and Mr..
Many was declared the nominee for trustee.
for the nomination. and promised to
work earnestly for the success of the entire
ticket.
The nomination of three candidates for Justice
of the peace was next in order, and the
of the following candidates placed before
the convention: Charles B. Feibleman. John
ored, William Judkins Richard NJ smock w.
e. Sehilling, Calvin Lindley, Fremont Afford
and Jonathan S Harvey. Upon motion of D.
should be voted for at once and that any
more candidates receiving majority
Of all the votes ca cast s.uo. should s,n,ias be
follows: Feibleman, 112; Egger, 81; Stroupe.
%; Franklin, AZ; Smock. SO; Schilline. 40: Lind
ley. 8; Afford. IS; Harvey. 20; Judkins, 20. One
hundred and sevanty-fonr votes were cast. and.
IS SO votes constituted q majority. Feibleman
and Smock were both nominated When the re-
suit of the ballot was announced, the names of
Lindley and StrouDe were withdrawn.
The second ballot was then taken for the
third candidate, and resulted in Eeger receiving
Sc votes. Franklin 36. Schiliug ii. Afford 81.
and Harvey f.
There being no choice. third ballot |
called, but before the vote was taken Harvey |
r7~or Ill avsd f1a plv audi dat
The vote stood: Egger. co. franklin. 40, and |
Afford n.
There was still no nomination. and after a
few minutes intermission the fourth ballot was
taken, and resulted the nomination OF MIR. |
Afford. He received ninety votes, Egeer sixty |
eight. and Franklin sixteen. Upon motion of |
dates, the nomination OF Messrs. Feibleman, I
Smock, and Afford was made unanimous.
The nominas h9 Of three sonstaoles was the
placed in nomination we're. David Smock,
HUGH Cloudy. Frank L. Glass, George 81.
Arthur A. Wnitsel, William Kline. Joseph Fl.
Shepherd, Jacob r. Stokes and Charles
R. Biggs tcoloredl. The vote was
ballot ballot resulted as follows: snock. ss: Goudy,
3d. Glass, co. Cochran, %; Newcomb, 25; Moore, I
28 Whitseil, 103 Kline, "a; Shepherd, II; Stokes,
%; Biegs. %. Mr. Whitsel, having received a
majoriry of all the votes cast, was declared
nominee.
The second ballot resulted: smock. &C. Cloudy.
l0 Glass, fl: NewcomD, ~; Moore. IL. Kline. III
Shepherd, go; Stokes, 6; BiRgs; "a. Mr.. Shop
herd, having received majority Of the votes,
was announced as the second nominee.
While preparations for the third ballot we're
being made Messrs. Moores Kline, Newecomb
md Stokes withdrew. leaving Goudy, Glass;
Smock and BigRs to be voted for. The vote was
IS follows. Smock, "a: Cloudy. 50; Glass. 80;
Biggs. 81, and Moores. /. There nom-
ration, and Henry Sweetland, a coiored dele
gate, made brief appeal that colored man be
placed the ticket. and urged the delegates to
support Mr. Biegs the colored candidate.
The fourth ballot taken with the follow
ng result: Smock, 3D. Cloudy. 81; GLASS; Is;
3iggs, 80. Smock and Glass Withdrew their
James. leaving Cloudy and Biggs the only
candidates. and tho following ballot Biees
vas nominated. receiving lit votes to Goudy's 81.
The nominations were made unanimous aud
Herod announced that the work of
he convention was concluded. He congratu-
ated the delegates on the admirable ticket they
lad made, and spoke of it one that was
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