Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-28
CHURCHILL MEN GAIN CONTROL
Secures Five of the Six Delegates Large
to the State Convention.
BAXTER ENDORSED FOR SUPREME JUDGE
One Anti-Churchill Man Pulls
Through in Spite of the Major
ity-Instructions of County
Convention Ignored.

The Douglas county delegation to the state
convention met at Washington hall yester-
day forenoon and elected John l.. Webster,
Milton T. Barlow A. c. Foster. Rev. How
ard MacAyeal w. o. Rodgers and Luther
Drake as the six delegates -at-arge. The
first FIVE named are Churchill men. Drake
was the only anti-Churchill candidate who
won a place on the delegation. He defeated
Harris by six and one-half votes.
The meeting was called at 10 o'clock, but
it was nearly an hour later before it was
called to order. During this time the
friends of the two tickets were actively at
work among the delegates and it was evil
dent that each was somewhat unwilling to
precipitate the contest. The Churchill men
displayed the most confidence. but it was
conceded that neither side had votes to
spare.
Chairman John Lewis of the county cen
trail committee called the delegation to order
and the first test of strength came on the
election of a permanent chairman. r.. C.
Jordan of the First ward named W. A.
Saunders as the Churchill candidate, while
George f. Munro of the Eighth nominated
C. l.. Chaffee. James Walsh seconded
Chaffees nomination in behalf of the coun-
try. The roll call indicated fifty-eight votes
for Saunders and forty-seven for Chaffee
and Saunders election was received with
vociferous enthusiasm by the Churchill dele
gates. The roll call indicated that Church
i'll had the Second. Third and Fifth wards
solid, with majority of the First, Seventh
and Eighth. He also had East Omaha and
Mllard precincts, half of Valley and two
thirds of South Omaha.
On motion of George w. Covell F. c. O'Hal-
laren of the Fourth ward was elected secre-
tary. K. s. Fisher of the Eighth was elected
assistant secretary.
The election of the delegates at large was
moved by j. II. McCulloch, who offered
resolution which provided that since the
county convention had instructed the dele
cation for Balch and Williams, John c.
Wharton Luther NJ. Drake, +. NJ. Stenberg
Guy c. Barton, A. A. Raymond and A. c.
Powers be elected the delegates at large
John H. Butler moved as an amendment
that the names of John L. Webster NJ r
Barlow, A. C. Foster, Howard MacAyeal C.
l.. Harris and w. O. Rodgers be substituted
Before the vote was taken the Churchill
men discovered that the adoption of the
amendment would still leave the reference
to the instructions for Williams in the reso-
luton and motion of A. G. Harte both
motions were tabled.
]. S. Miller moved that the delegates pro
ceed to elect six delegates. at-large by call
of the wards and precincts, the six receiving
the highest vote to be declared elected. The
roll call was ordered and proceeded slowly.
calls being made for a poll of the vote in
nearly every ward. These did not materi-
ally change the result, however, and the
Churchill vote was very nearly as forecasted
by the vote on chairman. The final an
nouncement was Webster, 561A; Barlow.
60; Foster, GA; MacAyeal, 54; Rodgers, So
Drake, STA Barton, SO; Harris, 81; Powers
A; Stenberg SO; Raymond, 35 The first six
were declared elected.
The following resolution was offered by
d. L. Johnson and unanimously adopted:
''ResOlved, That we, the delegates selected
from Douglas county to the republican state
convention. do heartily endorse the candi-
dacy of Judge Irving F. Baxter for Judge OF
the supreme court, contingent upon the
passage of the constitutional amendments;
and we do pledge him our earnest support