The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-02
SECRETARY OF STATE.
william ID. Owen Is Nominated on the
Fourth Ballot.


Immediately after the platform had
been disposed of Chairman Thompson
announced that the balloting for secre-
tary of state would begin. He then
turned the gavel over to Warren G..
Sayre of Wabash and retired to the rear
of the platform. Secretary Wilson then
read the names of the candidates, who
were as follows:
Aaron Jones, st. Joseph; W. d. owen,
Cass; j. Z. Watson, Rush; NJ. r. Sulzer,
jefferson; Jasper Packard, Floyd.
With five candidates in the ring, the
majority of them coming into the con-
ventiOn with chances about equal so far
as anybody knew, there was of course no
expectation of a nomination on the first
ballot, but the manner in which those
counties having no candidates split up
their vote was somewhat surprising.
OF course the counties of jefferson, St.
Joseph, Rush and Cass gave their solid
vote to their respective candidates.
1t became apparent long before the
ballot was completed that neither SulZer
nor Jones would show up as strong as
their supporters had anticipated. The
friends Of Owen were very agreeably
surprised with the way he ran, and
Watsons vote fooled some of them con-
siderably, he having been considered in
some quarters a rather weak brother"
The river counties pretty generally di-
vided their vote between Packard and
Sulzer The latter took his stand near
the banner of the Lawrence county dele
CATION when the balloting began and
nervously chewed a toothpick while he
kept tab on .he vote. The convention
awaited the announcement of the vote
Of the Marion county delegation with
considerable anxiety. The 40, however,
seemed to be very much at sea, and were
in fact, wondering where they were at. "
DR.. Petition Of the Fifth, who never
allows anybody to loose him. in a con-
vention bObbed up when the county was
called and demanded that the vote be
taken by wards. He quickly disappeared
from view however. amid a perfect hur-
ricane of noes sit DOWN. crawl in
your hole and sundry other express
sions. The vote was then announced by
Gen. Foster chairman Of the delegation.
1t was badly split although SulZer and
Watson divided SO OF the 80, the former
receiving 80 and the latter SO. The result
of the ballot, amid some confusion, was
announced as follows:
owen ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Az As
watson ....................... 5yI 40
Jones ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1862 As
SulZer ..................... gu 40
Packard ........-..-........ III 80
The number of votes necessary to n
choice being S5S the chairman announced
nomination and ordered another
ballot.
The vote on the second ballot for
secretary of state was almost as that
on the first ballot. 1t showed a loss for
Sulzer of 80 3-5; a gain for Jones of
q 3-5; loss for Packard of SO 3-5; a gain
for Watson of 1S As; gain for owen Of
81 As.
Owing to the small digressions from
the vote on first ballot very little
thusiasm was engendered during this
ballot The vote as announced by the
secretary was as follows
owen ................... fOJ -
watson 40 10
Jones .-......-..-.-.- --..-....-- 3o5 10
SulZer NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2S7 Id
FaCkdIO .......-.s. 100 IL
No candidate having received a suf-
ficient number of votes to secure a nomi-
nation the chairman announced the call
of counties for third ballot.
Third Ballot.
The chairman had great difficulty in
securing order for the beginning of the
call Of the third ballot. 1t started off