The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-20
ATHERTON AND PHILLIPS
Elected Delegates by the Republicans
Of First District.
N. E. SANDERS RESOLUTIONS
They Sought to Get the Endorsement OF
tho Convention for United States
senator Matthew Stanley Quay
but We're Laid on the Table.

Two delegates LOT Juuse Niiai u
were elected at yesterdays convention
of the Republicans of the First Legts-
lative district, held In Mears' hall, West
Side. They are b. B. Atherton and
Thomas w. Phillips. Delegate NJ. f..
Sanders made an effort to have the
delegates Instructed for Quay. but was
unsuccessful.
The convention was called to order at
3 p. m. by DIR. w. a. Paine. chairman
of the standing committee of the dis
trict. Secretary John II. Reynolds read
the call and Elias Evans and w. B.
Thornton were selected as assistant
secretaries. Credentials were called
for and after they had been handed In
and examined it was found that the
following delegates We're entitled to
seats in the convention, no one appear
Ing 10 contest the rights Of the dele
gates holding credentials.
Members of the Convention.
First ward, First district. job Jen-
kins, Thomas T.. Jones, Joseph $. Ma
loney; Second district, T.. w. Pearce:
Third district. John Neat. Edward
Crellen, William Appleman, Isaac
Jones.
Second ward, First district. Evan
Gabriel. David f. Davis; Second dis
trict, Roger Gillis. NJ. L. Sanders.
George Reale; Third district, George II.
Pierce. Thomas Mackerell Fourth dis
trict, Thomas Simms; Fifth district,
william Crosby.
Third ward. First district, Edward
Rock; Second district. Richard Walsh.
Fourth ward, First district, A. B.
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william G. Powell, Thomas II. Davis,
Hosea Thomas; Third district, George
II. Hoffman, Lemuel Nichols: Fourth
district, John Marsh, Jacob Reybert,
Isaac Price.
Fifth ward, First district, Edwin G..
Peters. James Phillips; Second dis
trict, John j. Morgan, Enoch Dunkerly:
Third district, Richard Morgan, Daniel
Bynon, William Gleason, Fourth dis
trict, Daniel l. Phillips, John Thomas.
Sixth ward, First district, William
Ganghan; Second district, John w.
Horn.
Fourteenth ward. First district,
Reese Pritchard. Ebenezer Williams;
Second district, James Lewis, william
Nichols.
Fifteenth ward, First district. Will
liam NJ. Davis, f. f. Evans, James p.
Thomas; Second district, j. p. Acker,
John p. Lewis.
Eighteenth ward, John r. Beckett.
Twenty-first ward, First district, w.
b. Thornton; Second district, usaac
Evans, Henry Sherman.
Captain pearce Made Chairman.
After the list OF delegates had been
read Chairman Paine announced that
the preliminary work Of the convention
was completed and said the body was
ready ITO affect a permanent organiza-
ticn. w. j. Appleman. of the North
End. nominated as chairman Captain
f.. w. Pearce, who represented the Sec
onl district of the First ward. He was
unanimously elected as were Elias Ev-
ais and w. Il. Thornton as pernane ~
secretaries.
Thomas r. Jones was also nominated
as one Of the permanent secretaries,
but his name was Withdrawn before the
convention had an opportunity to pass
upon it. Nominations for state dele
gates We're then asked for.
w. j. Appleman was the first per-
son to gain the recognition OF the chair
and in short speech he nominated b.
B. Atherton. Several delegates Sec
onded the nominatio and A. 3. Eynon
placed the name of Thomas w. Phillips
before the convention. M. f. Sanders
nominated Wade M. Finn, who, he said,
was a man whose Republicanism had
never been questioned. John J. Nor
gan placed William Penn Morgan in
nomination.
After the work of naming the candi-
dates had been completed, Mr. Sanders
presented the following resolution,
which he asked the convention to adopt:
Resolved, That the delegates elected
this day to the Republican state con-
vention be and are hereby instructed to
vote for and support United States Sem
ator Matthew Stanley Quay for chair
man of the state committee.
On motion of w. II. Sproats, Of the
West Side. this resolution was laid upon
the table by a vote of 80 to q.
Vote for State Delegates.
Mr.. Sanders served notice on the del
egates that he had another resolution
to offer and while he was preparing 1t.
on motion adopted by the convention,
the vote for state delegate was taken
and resulted as follows:
AthertOn ...................'. %
Pnllllps ...........'.....' d.
tlnn ..................... q
Morgan .................. IL
p. B. Atherton and Thomas w. PHIL
ipps, having received the majority of
THE votes cast by the convention. were
declared elected by Chairman Pearce.
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