The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-15
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
STATE DELEGATES ELECTED LAST
 EVENING.


 Ward Makes n Fight Against the Balance
 of the City--Farnswortl's Bold Speech
 The republican town convention was held last evening in Veru hall. James H. Macdonald, chairman of the town committee, called the meeting to order and asked for the nomination of a pre- siding officer.
 Samuel Well nominated John Pierce of the Fifth ward for chairman of the convention Major Lincoln nominated c. w. Blakeslee, jr, Louis Ullman and Fred A. Belts were appointed tellers by the chair.
 Eighty-nine votes were cast of which J. H. Pierce received 66 and c. w. Blakeslee 25 votes.
 Louis Knollmeyer of the Third ward and Richard w. Kirck of the Seventh ward were nominated. MT kirck with
 drew his name and MT. Knollmeyer
 was elected by exclamation. The call was read, announcing the
 purport of the convention, which was to elect four delegates to the republican state convention to nominate the state officers.
 The chair then announced that the business of the convention was to nomi-
 nate a first delegate
 Major William A. Lincoln nominated
 Herbert E. Benton of the Tenth ward. Alderman Hamilton of the Fifth ward put in nomination Isaac NJ. Ullalan of
 the Sixth ward. President Fred B. Farnsworth of the Young Mems Repub- lican club seconded the nomination of MT. Ullman, saying that ore of the | most important questions to be consid- cred in the coming convention was the l revision of the system of representa- | tion In all republican conventions. MT.
 Ullman had given the subject more
 party. It was, therefore, right and
 poper that he should lead delegation pledged to this reform.
 | The vote taken resulted in the elec- tion of MT. Ullman by a vote of 67 to | 25, the whole number of ballots cast being 92 A motion to make MT. Ull- mans nomination unanimous was ob- 1 jected to by a voice In the Tenth ward delegation.
 | Insurance Commissioner Fred A. Betts nominated Herbert E. Benton for the second place on the delegation. The nomination of Mir. Benton was second by Isaac ullman, who moved that the nomination be made by ac- clamation. Mir Farnsworth also sec
 onded the nomination of Mir. Benton
 and hoped that the gentlemen who ob-
 jected to making MT. Ulman's nomina- tion would desist from such action this
 time. "1'hey may be good fellows, but do not know much" The remark
 seemed to meet the approbation of the
 majority of the convention. The ques-
 tion was put and MT. Benton was unan- imously elected
 | Fred l.. Averill nominated James H.
 Macdonald for third place, saying that
 1t had been a time-honored custom to send the chairman of the town commit
 tee to the state convention. Mir Mac donald had never been a delegate to the state convention and he certainly | deserved the honor as much as any
 of his predecessors
 l Isaac Ullman seconded the nomina-
 tion of MT Macdonald, who, he said, | had spent his time and his money in
 the cause of republicanism The chair
 man of the town committee had worked day and night to secure republican su- premacy.
 The chairman of the convention was | about to put the question on the mo-
 tion to elect MT. Macdonald by accla-
 nation when Major Lincoln claimed
 recognition from the chair. He depre-
 cated the action of the majority of the | convention, though he was also grate- | full to them for the honors bestowed
 upon the Tenth ward.
 He then put in nomination Thomas J. Sullivan for third place against Mir. Macdonald.
 In doing so the speaker said that he acted in the interest of a class of men who represented a large number of
 votes in the republican party He had l known his candidate for years and had always found him honest, active and | energetic. It was time that the work ingman was recognized by the repub- licans of the town of New Haven. MT. Pardee seconded the nomination | of Mir. Sullivan.
 I The result of the ballot taken was as | follows: Whole number of votes, 92
 Macdonald, "A; Sullivan 15; blank. 3. Four delegates from the Tenth ward offered motion to make the nomina- | tion unanimous.
 1 The fourth place on the delegation was secured by Fred B. Farnsworth of the Eighth ward He was nominated by Councilman White, who said that he | took pleasure in naming MT. Farms worth for the place for it was written. the last shall be first, and he hoped the
 gentleman would find the place to | which he would be elected the stepping stone to greater honors in the very near future This reference to MT. Earns worth's candidacy for the office of lieutenant governor was received with applause.
 Major Lincoln opposed MT. Farms
 worth with pr. George H. Jackson. When the ballot was cast it was found that MT. Farnsworth had 80 votes, Dr. Jackson 8, blank f. The election was made unanimous. The election of Mir. Farnsworth com
 pleted the list of delegates, but not the
 work of the convention, as there was in store for the voters assembled a
 fight which has seldom been equaIled
 in the local republican convention