The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-02-14

All roads lead TO Hardinsburg, Mon
day, il it did rain.
Republicans rode all the way from one
to twenty miles, facing the fierce
elements TO vote for their favorite can
ddates.
Nearly four hundred representatives Of
the party crowded the City Hall, and for
noise and disorder it would compare
favorably with any Democratic assemb-
lage of the kind.
1t was period in the history of Re-
publicanism in the county that had
never before been reached.
Never before had Republicans become
so confident aud bold as to meet in an
open mass convention, and place full
ticket in the field under the name Of
Republicanism.
AT about 1880 p. m. the convention was
called to order by the Chairman of the
County Committee, Mr.. Frank Has
we'll.
Hon. Charles Blanlord and Mayor
Horace Scott were placed in nomination
for permanent Chairman, but instead Of
a contest for the place, Mr.. Scott positive
ly refused to serve and Mr.. Blanford was
made the unanimous choice of the cen
vention.
As he took the chair the Honorable
gentleman was loudly applauded, to
which he replied appropriately, closing
his remarks by courteou,ly inviting all
Democrats present to take seat on the
stage. This was done to avoid confusion
on the floor, and to prevent the possible
accident of the noses of Democrats being
counted in taking votes. After the
sheep had thus been separated from the
goats, nominations were accepted for
permanent Secretary.
The names of sherman Ball and Il. NJ.
jolly were presented, aud the ayes gave it
to Ball. Jolly was then selected Assist
ant Secretary.
Preparatory to starting to ballot on
candidates, it was suggested that those
taking part in the balloting should con-
slider themselves obligated to stand by
the action of the convention, and sup
port the nominees. Up to this time the
nervous actions of Nicifmus Basterfield
Burton had plainly indicated that he was
freezing to make a speech, and this was
his opportunity. He rose and objected
TO the suggestion, saying that ii seemed
too Democratic for a Republican to be
positively obligated, but that he rather
favored that a man ought to consider
himself obligated to stand by the action
of the convention, but he was not COM
PEELED to do so The chair informed
him that his ideas were in exact accord
ance with the motion, and as he had I'M
loaded himself somewhat he seemed to be
satisfied.
At a committee meeting in the fore
noon program was laid down for the
convention to be governed by, placing the
nomination OF County Clerk first on the
list This created howl in the cnnven-
ton, and Mr.. Amel Oelza, Of Cloverport,
moved that the convention proceed to
nominate County Judge first, as that
Office always headed every ticket The
Chair informed the floor that this con-
vention was an independent body and
could do as it pleased, regardless of di-
rections from the County Committee.
Burton continues his speech without
listeners.
Mr.. Oelzs's motion carried, and the
chair called for nominations for County
Judge.
Charles Mattingly, OF Hardinsburg;
VIM. ALL, OF Cloverport, and +. Ii. Mil
Ter, of StephenspOrt, were placed in nom
ination.
The convention waits while Burton
makes another speech and seconds the
nomination OF ALL.
The committee had decided that the
voting on candidates should be done by
secret ballot, and the first ballot was pro-
ceeded with. During this ballot, Burton
got it broke offin him. There were some
calls for more ballots, and Burton arose
to continue his speech, and intimated
that il John T. Haswell, Jr., would dis
tribute ballots instead OF talking, bust
ness could be done with more dispatch,
when somebody yelled, "Oh, sit down
and shut up Burton, you've done three
times as much talking as anybody else
so far" and the gentleman from Rock
Vale struck the chair.
The first ballot for Judge resulted ALL,
lOl; Mattingly, l39; Miller, 35. Miller
then withdrew from the race, and the
convention decided TO take no more
votes by ballot, as the progress was too
slow.
The Chair then requested the Mat
tingly men 10 take one side Of the house,
and the ALL men the other. This was
quickly done, with some confusion of
course, and the count showed that ALL
had received 200 votes, and Mattingly