The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-09-12

night. The convention abounded III
exciting scenes. The nominees are:
For judges of the Superior court:
Judge Harmon Yerkes, of Bucks.
James 5. Moorehead, Westmoreland.
Peter +. Smith. Lackawanna.
Charles II. Noyes, Warren.
Judge o. p. Bechtel. Schuylkih.
Judge Christopher Magee, of Allegheny;
For state treasurer-B. +. Meyers, OF
Harrisburg.
There We're seventeen candidates for
the judicial nominations, and II took
Just three hours and twenty minutes
to select half dozen of the number.
In addition, speeches placing these as
pirants before the convention occupied
over two hours. Mr.. Meyers. who was
nominated by William NJ. Singerly. OF
Philadelphia, the late Democratic
gubernatorial candidate. was chosen by
acclamation. On the first ballot for
the judgeship nominations ierkes.
Moorehead. Smith, Noyes and Bechtel
We're chosen. each receiving more IMAM
the necessary 221 votes.
After considerable trouble, another
ballot was taken to nominate sixth
candidate, and it resulted: Magee l'O,
Bower 1i2, all of the other candidates.
with the exception of Rose. announcing
their withdrawal. AS many OF the
delegates left the hall after the an
nouncement of the first ballot the
chairman refusing to accept the proxies
of absent members, the vote OF neither
Magee nor Bower reached majority
of the convention (22O. Chairman
Garman, however recognized the ce!e"-
ton Of ,Magee, and declared him to be
the sixth nominee.
The Philadelphia Contest.
The full iist of convention delegates
was asa. but there being contest in
the first district of f1hiladelphia uie
committee on credentials seated only
four of the five delegates from that dis
trict, making the total number of dele
gates in attendance 453.
Otherwise the vote necessary to a
choice would have been 22S. The con-
vention assembled at lilo a. III. and
adjourned. sine die. at So p. m, the
only intermission being recess from
1905 o'clock until l.50 o'clock.
In order to expedite matters, 1t was
arranged to call the convention to or
der at 10 o'clock this morning, instead
of II o'clock, the hour originally agreed
upon The change, however, was not
generally known among the delegates
and at the former hour there were but
few persons in the opera house. The
flags and bunting, and In the gallery.
and directly facing the stage. was a
brass band, which did its share of toot-
ing 1T was lilo o'clock when State
Chairman Robert F. Wright of Allen
town, called the convention to order,
the hall at this time being crowded.
The call for the convention was for
mally read and then the state chair
man announced the temporary officers,
who had been selected by the state ex-
ecutive committee.
An Exciting Episode.
One Of the most exciting scenes of
the convention occurred while Mr.. Ma
| loney. of Philadelphia, was seconding
| the nomination Of Judge Mccarthy
| Maloney, who Is allied with the Penn
| sylvania Democracy wing OF the party
| declared that he preferred the Dem
ocracy of Mr. Sellers to that Of Mr.
Singerly, the latter whom he charac-
terized as the worst beaten man In
Philadelphia" This reflection upon
Mr.. Singerly's defeat for governor by
General Hastings last November was
loudly jeered. while cheers were freely
given for MIR. Singerly There were re.
peated calls for Maioney to "sit down
and put him OUT, A regular pande
|
partially restored the chairman notified
Mr.. Maloney to omit personalities from
his address.
Maloney continued, and when ht
again referred to Singerly by saying
that the Philadelphia Record (Mr
Singerly's paper) and the Philadelphia
Times (DemocraD had opposed Rober,
s. Pattison when the latter ran fol
register of wills on the Democratl,
ticket in Philadelphia and had favored
the Quay candidate. Mr.. Singerly arose
from his seat, II being but a few rows
ahead Of that occupied by Maloney, ant
said: THAT Is false" This started
another sensational scene but which
Mr.. Singerly partially allayed by ask
ing that the gentleman (Maloney) b,
allowed to proceed. Maloney's speech
was brief after this episode.
After considerable wrangling II wa!
decided that delegates be allowed t.
vote for Superior judge nominees
either individually or through tn,
chairmen Of delegations The takins
Of the vote began at 4.5S o'clock, ant
the first ballot was concluded at $50
1t was announced half hour later a.
follows:
The Vote In Detail.
Judge Christopher Magee. Allegheny
1893: Judge James N. Ermentruut, Berke
2O1; Judge Augustus s. Lands, Blair
98; Judge Harman Yerkes. Bucks, 349
!. W. Horace Rose. Cambria, 80; Calvil
NJ. Bower, Center. 143; Charles s. Nc
Cormick, Clinton. 80; Roger Sherman
Crawford. 5S; Levi b. Alriclos. Dauphir
80; Charles II. Noyes, Warren. 29a
James 8. Moorehead. Westmoreland
313; Roger MdMeen, Juniata. SO: Pete
p. Smith, Inckawanna. 262; Judge Hen
ry j. Mccarthy. Philadelphia, 110; .ex
Judge Theodore F. Jenkins, Philadel
phia. 81; Judge O. p. Bechtel. Schuyl
kill. 24O; Joseph G. Bucher, Union, Iii