Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-07-30
THE C K COMPLETED.

iHO tbcpuDiICdHs oCicCt 1uclI StdLs
Candidates Hathaway, of This
City, Beaten by George Stille,
of Unionville.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, July 25.-Ths
first business transacted by the Re.
publican State convention yesterday
morning was the adoption of a reso.
luton by George G. Crowther, of the
Fourth district, reducing the time fol
nominating speeches to five minutes
On the roll call for nominations fol
lieutenant governor the venerable
General Ben Prentis presented the
name of Senator 8. P. Davidson, oil
Harrison county; George A. Neal, oil
Kansas City, speaking for the Sixth
district delegation, in which he sat on
a proxy, spoke for DIR. A. @. Petit
john, of Linn county; W. W. Arnold.
of Galloway, spoke for the Eighth dis
trict for John L. Irwin, of Galloway
county.
The first ballot, without the city OF
st. Louis, gave Dawson ISL; Pettijohn,
34s4; Irwin, 1411a; F. W. Mott, of st.
Louis, Z. GEAR Zeigenhein cast the
solid los votes of St. Louis for Petit
john, who was declared the nominee
of the convention.
On a call of the roll for nominations
for judge of the supreme court, j. FL.
Boutwell, presented Judge w. s. Shirk,
of Sedalia; Joel d. Hubbard, of
Springfield, John P. Ellis, of st. Louis;
j. G. Kiscadden, of Franklin, Rudolph
Hirzel, of st. st. Louis; John Snyder,
of the Fourteenth district, Moses
Wybark, of Bollinger county. The
first and only ballot resulted: Hlrzel
3s4, Shirk 1874, Wybark 14s, Ellis 80.
Jackson county cast 81 votes for
Wybark because HirzeI was Filley's
man. 1t vas the extreme Davis men
who voted Tor Wyback. Hirzel lives
in Clayton and is Judge of the circuit
court of st. Louis county. He was de-
clared the nominee.
John G. Mckinley, of Putnam coun-
ty, presented George N. Stille, of I'm
ionville, for railroad commissioner.
Other names presented we're: John b.
Cotty, of Randolph, by F. G. Ferris, of
Randolph county; E. 8. Quincy, of
Caldwell, by George w. Shoemaker,
of Gentry; Charles S. GaspelI, of Kan
sas City, by Herbert g. Hadley, of
Jackson; James X. Merrifield, of st.
Louie, by w. L. P. Burney, of the
Seventh district: W. 8. Hathaway, of
Mexico, by DIR. Parrish, eff Audrain;
Otto w. Ramsey, of st. Francis county,
by John B. Young, of Texas county.
The first ballot resulted: Stille 2O7,
Gaspell "a, Cotty "a, Quincy 1902, Mer-
rifield 46, Hathaway 1877, Ramsey 116,
Boucher "a. Stille was nominated on !
the second ballot. |
For the nomination for secretary of
State, Senator Bailey, of Atchison
county, presented the name of Chiles
HARDWOOD, of Tarkio; Nathaniel Sis
sion, of Nodaway, DR.. Hamlin E. Rob-
inson, of Nodaway county; G. P. Peale,
of Springfield, W. L. Porterfleld, of
Greene county; l.. M. Mercer, of Mil
Ter county, W. P. Freeman, of Tus-
cumbia, Miller county; L. Beasley, of
Barry county, Thomas N. Allen, of
.allville.
w. L. Freeman was nominated for
secretary of State on the first ballot in
a stampede, which gave him 1888 votes
and was made unanimous.
Joe Upton then introduced a reso-
ution condemning the Democratic
pension policy and calling for
more liberal pensions. 1t was adopt
by a unanimous vote.
Nominations for State auditor were
for and these names were pre-
Judge Jacob Sands, of Adair
Judge A. III. B%urkholder, of
irundy, Charles E. Moss, of DeKalb,
John G.. Bishop, of Kansas City, q. q.
Russell, of Dade, James T. Davidson,
VI Butler.
AT the close of the first ballot on 1
auditor changes began which resulted
n the nomination of Bishop-Kansas f.,
first and only favor.
Bishops nomination really surprised
most of the Jackson county delegates, I
s they would have preferred to vote {
or someone else. n
For State treasurer, the names pre- 1
ented were: Joseph Albus, of st. |
oseph, and j. F. Gmelich, of Boom
lille.
The first ballot for treasurer result a
d: Albus 230, Gmelich 4s7. The .
alter was nominated. jackson coun- q
7 gave AZ votes to him. i,
John Kennish, of Holt county, was =
ominated for attorney general unan- +,
nously by reclamation with no other
andidate presented. r