Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-09-20
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
An Enthusiastic convention-A Winning Tick
ct Placed In the Field.

Tuesday afternoon at 2:3O Chairman
Hanna called the republican county
convention to order. All morning
members of the the various delegations
could be seen on the street talking of
possible nominees and discussing ways
and means of securing the selection OF
the best candidates. General interest
in the work of the convention brought
out large crowd of spectators who
patiently waited the opening of the
CO INVENTION.
Chairman Hanna announced, as soon
as order was secured that he had been
requested to name as temporary chair
man A. H. Edwards of Douglas town
ship and as secretary F. A. Buthweg
of Leroy township. .Mr. Edwards took
the chair with brief word of thanks
and the convention proceeded to bust
ness.
On motion of Theo. F. Myers a COM
mittee on credentials, consisting of one
member from each township, was ap-
pointed by roll call of the various pre-
cincts. The committee was made up
as follows: Audubon, o. G. Donaldson;
Cameron, F. s. Miller; Douglas, J. Il.
McFadden; Extra, F. G. Wilson; Gree
ley, Fred Reynolds; Hamlin, VIM.
Stanley; Leroy, J. A. Overholtzer;
Lincoln, John Cameron; Melville, Z.
c. Partlow; Oakfield, VIM. Lansing;
Sharon, Chris Christensen, Viola, Thos.
Davis.
The committee reported townships
all present with full delegations. Dele
gates being as follows:
AUDUBON.-O. G. Donaldson, John
r. Minser, Hiram Statzell, John Ben
nett, j. S. Jobes.
CAMERON.-John Lovelace, Frank
Miller, Frank Buckner, Geo. Wright,
Levi Kopp.
DoUGLAs.-A. c. Darland, Sam Null
ford, A. III. Edwards, j. T. McFadden,
Sam Cramer.
EXIRA.-T. J. Essington, Reese Hal
lock, c. L. Bison, /. L. Statzell, Ed
Delahoyde, Z. C. Wilson, M. 7. Wood
ruff, VIM. Fulton, C. Newland, Ed
Powell
GREELEY.-Fred Reynolds, Frank
Herndon, c. A. w. Colee, VIM. ROBIN
son, VIM. Maxon.
HAMLIN.-H. d. Stanley, Hairy Per-
cey, John Overholtz, Geo, Scott, Henry
Young.
LEROY. A. !Overholtzer, H. d.
Miller, M. A. Marshall, H. B. Herbert,
F. A. Buthweg, Fred Vermilya, Theo.
F. Myers, III. S. Foulk, R.N. Carper, H.
w. Stearns, E. A. Bates, Geo. Davis, c.
H. Gardner, Alex Caldwell, John
Weighton, John Norris, Geo. Agnew.
LINCoLN.--Love Estes, B. C. Brook
field, c. E. Weston, Henry Gibson, John
Cameron, David Moody.
MELvILLE-O. j. Smith, Fred Far
quhar, Walter Hoyt, D. W. Fullerton,
Thos. Oliver
OAKFIELD.-Nels P. Hoegh, VIM.
Lansing, P. Nelson, j. II. Jenkins, c.
Hansen.
SHARoN.-John Esbeck, Will Boy.
sen, Jens Christensen, Geo. Jorgensen,
Jens G. Anderson.
VIoLA.-C. H. Earhart, Geo. Higly,
Thos. Davis, r. N. Johnson.
John T. Jenkins, r. N. Johnson and
j. S. Jobes were committee on organ
ization and recommended that the tenn
porary organization be permanent,
which report was adopted.
On motion candidates for clerk were
named by call of townships and Sharon
named j. w. Jensen, and Viola, Edgar
A. Smith. An informal ballot gave
Smith So, Jensen 20, Cousins 2, Carper
2, Cowles /. After the announcement
Of the result Mr.. Jensen arose and
moved MIR. Smiths nomination by &C.
clamation.
Next came the auditor. The infor-
NAL ballot gave Walker 80, Howald 81,
AIRY .17,Scott 5. The formal ballot show
ed a slight gain for Howald at the ex-
pense of Walker and AIRY. The third
ballot gave Walker 80, Howald 80, AIRY
z, Scott Z. In the fourth ballot AIRY
and Walker lost heavily to Scott who
received 20 votes while gain of was
made for Howald. The fifth ballot
gave Scott 3S, Howald 80 and Walker
10. The sixth gave Scott 70, of the Is
votes and he was declared the nominee
Informal ballot for county attorney
brought out Copeland with 81, Brainard
and Hanna with 20 each and for Stat.
zell. The first formal ballot gave Cope
land 36, Brainard 30 and Hanna r.
The second ballot gave Copeland 49,
Brainard 20 and Hanna 1. Mr.. Cope
land was declared the nominee.
Two candidates were named for re-
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