Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1893-03-03
That Mass-Mseting.

houSei III tuis pioCer Iiiuay
evening. Feb. 24th, 1893.
Seth Singleton was elected chair
man and j. p. Coleman secretary.
Tie object of the meeting as stat
ed by the chairman was to select
delegates to nominate city ticket
On motion of j. J. Moore. second
ed by c. A. Chapman, the meeting
was resolved into Democratic
meeting.
On motion of c. A. Chapman, Sec
onded by NJ. b. Hunt, the chair ap-
pointed q committee OF three from
each the First and Second ward to
report a list oi.seven delegates from
each ward, the basis OF representa-
ton to be one delegate for every ten
votes or fraction of more than five
polled at the city election on April
5tb, 1892.
The committee appointed by the
chair from the First ward was: G..
p. Vaudiver, DIR. j. L. Aldridge and
c. l.. White; for the Second ward, +,
c. A. Chapman, NJ. b. Hunt and ID.
b. Kellogg, ir., who returned the fol.
lowing report:
Delegates from First ward: j. s.
Rucker, j. j. Moore, c. +. Owen, DIR.
j. A. Egan, w. W. Hancock, r. ID.
Edwards and Seth Singleton.
Delegates from Second ward: T.
j. Martin, W. G. Agee, II. C. Miller.
Warner Ford, j. p. Coleman, Geo.
III. Applegate and c. A. Chapman.
Each delegation was ratified by
the voters present, representing the
respective wards from which the
delegates were chosen.
The delegations were instructed
to meet on adjournment of the
mass-meeting and I'LL such vacancies
as might occur in their respective
delegations, and make nominations
for the offices ofmayor, city marsha,
two aldermen for the First and one
alderman for the Second ward OF the
city of Keytesville, to be voted forat
the city election to be held on April
4th. 1898.
Immediately after the adjourn
ment OF the mass-meeting the dele.
gates from each ward met in conven-
tion and organized by electing I. j.
Martin chairman, and Seth Single
ton secretary.
After the appointment and report
of the usual committees the vacan-
cies in the delegation Of the First
ward, viz: W. w. Hancock and X.
ID. Edwards, were filed by the ap.
pointinent OF Capt. j. c. Wallace and
C. p. Vandiver. In the Second ward
C. p. Thrash was appointed to fill
the vacancy in that delegation
caused by the absence Of w. G. Agee.
C. p. Vandiver was made chair
man OF the delegation from the
First and j. p. Cole man from Sec
ond ward.
The next order of business was
the request for the various csndi
dates to present their names TO the
convention for consideration.
The name of Judge X. c. Ford
was handed in as a candidate for
mayor, and there being no further
names submitted for that Office the
convention proceeded to ballot on
Judge Ford, and unanimously nomi-
mated him ior the honorable Office Of
mayor.
For city marshal, the names OF g.
.. Brecknan, +. J. Wilkes, J. W.
Garrett and y. n. veatch were SUBJ
mitted. The first ballot stood:
veatch T. Brockman 6; and Wilkes
1. There being no nomination,
the second ballot was taken and was
as follows: Brockman z. Veatch 6
and Wilkes L. There being still no
nomination, the convention proceed.
ed to take the third ballot with the
following result: yeatch 10. .Brockman
4. Mr.. veatch having received a
majority OF the votes cast was de-
clared the conventions nominee for
city marshal.
For aldermen in. the First ward,
j. s. Rucker and W. c. CASTOR were
chosen, and III. C.. Miller was nomi-
mated Tor alderman from the Second
ward.
There being no further business the
adjourned sine die.
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