Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-08-13

adding up the figures Mr.. Jourdan
moved to make the nomination of Mr..
Crow unanimous. Wild cheering fol-
lowed, and the motion was declared
carried.
Mr.. Crow was picked up bodily by
the Jasper county delegation and car
ried to the platform, and when some.
thing like order was restored he re.
turned his thanks.
Recess was taken till 2:3O o. m.
Nominations for judge of supreme
court were taken up. A great demon.
stration in favor of Judge Brace was
made, and the hall rapidly filed up
until standing room could no longer
be obtained.
C. C. Fogel, of Schuyler, tried tC
stampede the convention with a mo
ton to nominate Judge Brace by accla.
nation, but was ruled out of order.
w. c. Scarritt, of Kansas City, placed
in nomination Judge Theodore Brace
of Monroe county.
Col. c. F. Cochran, of ST. Joseph, pre-.
scented the name of Judge Henry NJ
Ramey, of st. Joseph, and the third
and last candidate, Judge d. p. STRAIT.
ton, of Vernon county, was named By
Congressman d. A. De Almond
The confusion during the rolI-call
was very great, as delegations marched
over the hall, waving flags and cheer.
ing. When st. Louis was reached
Judge Brace needed but few votes
and as ward after ward voted solidly
for him down to the Twenty-second
he won out. Before the vote was an
nounced, Judge Ramey moved that
Judge Braces nomination be made
unanimous, which was carried, with
wild cheering. The actual vote was
Brace, 276; Ramey, los, Stratton, 81.
Candidates for railroad and ware
house commissioner to the number OF
II were nominated in the following
order: 3. F. Bourne, of Scotland; b
A. Head, of RandoIph; Charles e.
Sain, of Linn; A. J. Connolly, Of
Johnson; J. w. Morris, of Atchi
son; A. J. Mitchell. of Kansas City
Joseph II. Garrett, of Kansas City; w.
c. Branaugh, of Henry; Jim J. Hen
messy, of st. Louis; James Scullin, OF
st. Louis; John G. Burns, of jefferson
and L. w. Mabrey, of Ripley.
A resolution was adopted to drop the
lowest candidate after each ballot
The ballots resulted as follows:
First Ballo:-Head. 80; Bourne, 81;
Sain, 20; Connolly, Sc; Morris, 40; Gar
nett. %; Bronaugh, Gs: Hennessy, 65
Scullin, 81; Burns. 40; Mabrey, SO.
Mr.. Sain was dropped.
Second Ballot-Bourne 70; Head, So
Connolly, s.; Morris, "a; Garnett, IS
Bronaugh, CD; Hennessy, rs; Scullin
so; Burns, 80: Mabrey, As.
Burns and Garnett were dropped.
Third Ballot-Bourne, IO2; Head. 40
Connolly. 81; Morris, "a; Bronaugh, 50
Hennessy, ST; Scullin, 80; Mabrey, e.
Head and Morris were dropped.
Fourth Ballot-Bourne, 122; Con
nelly, 81; Bronaugh. LOG; Hennessy
ia; Scullin, Sc; Mabrey, 70.
Connolly and Scullin were dropped
and, pending roll-call, Hon. jefferson
Pollard, of st. Louis, was called tc
the chair to preside.
Fifth Ballot-Bourne, 157; Bronaugh
142; Hennessy, IT'S; Mabrey, 50.
Bronaugh and Mabrey were dropped
leaving the race between Messrs. Hen
messy and Bourne.
The sixth ballot resulted in the nom
ination of Mr.. Hennessy by a vote Of
319 to PIT.
On the last two ballots St. Loui'
voted solidly for Hennessy.
This completed the ticket, and the
convention proceeded to nominate two
presidential electors -at-large. John A
Lee, of st. Louis, and ]. c. Allen, Of
Clay. were nominated by exclamation
and Charles Lemp, of st. Louis. and
E. G. Reshow, of Polk, alternates.
ONE OF THE BATTLES.
It is odd, the correspondent of the
st. Louis Republic telegraph that pa
per, that the two big fights arose over
the offices supposed to be attended by
the most dignity-thOse of attorney
general and supreme Judge.
r. C. P. Wilson had put Morton Jour
dan in nomination for attorney-gen
eraL Then came the war-li1e Benton
of Neosho. Mr.. Benton began to scat
ter fire brands. The Crow men haG
been bowling at Mr.. Wilson, but he
kept his temper and finished his tall
in fairly good form.
The eyes of the man from NeoshC
flashed. His big voice rolled out and
he began to talk about corporate in
frences. There was wild yell from
Jourdan's supporters They cheereG
and howled and screamed for five
minutes. Benton deliberately Sal
down on a step on the platform anC
waited until the storm was over. Their
he finished his speech. When Mr.
Benton stepped from the platform hi
was greeted with mingled cheers anG
Kisses