Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-10-13
THE REPUBLICAN
COUNTY CONVENTION.
Every Voting District in the
County Represented.
SAMUEL l. KELLEY DEpOSED As CHAIRMAN.
THE EGG HARBOR IRREGULAR" DELEGATES
SEATED-THE ADMINISTRATION AND
THE LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE ENDO ORSED.
A LIVELY CONVENTION.

lQ0 hepuDllCdu COuuUy OOHScutlOu
assembled at Egg Harbor City on Sat
urday, with every voting district in the
County being represented 1t was
called to order by County Chairman,
Samuel Fl. Kelley, of Atlantic City, who
was Immediately deposed by vote ot
S4 to 4S, in favor of George II. Long OF
Atlantic City for temporary Chairman
Daniel Waters, of AbsecOn, was elected
Secretary.
The next contest was on rOll-call
for the appointment of a Committee on
Credentials, when Egg HarbOr presented
two sets of delegates.
Mr.. Wilson, of Absecon, moved that
each delegation be allowed half vote,
pending the decision of the Committee on
Credentials.
Mr.. Parker, of Atlantic City, said that
the Smith delegates held the regular
credentials and were entitled to q full
vote or none. The minority faction
went into the caucus, were defeated
fairly, and they should take their medi-
cine like men.
DIR. Gehring, and T. H. Mcconnell both
claimed they had been unfairly treated.
and claimed to be the genuine repre-
sentatives of the Township Republicans.
They also had credentials for the Com
mittee to pass upon.
Mr. Wilson, OF Absecon, advocated
dividing the vote on the roll call.
Mr.. Barrett, of Pleas antville, said the
caucus had been fairly conducted, aud
the contesting delegation beaten by d
vote of nearly three to one. There could
be no doubt about the right of the re-
rrlor 1oloro tiOu tO thpir apata
Mr.. Albertson wanted the whole mat
ter left for the Chairman to decide, and
it was so voted by the Convention. Mr..
Long decided in favor of the regular
delegates.
selected by the several delegates
Credentials-A. II. Butler, E. A. Par.
ker, J. G. Shreve, Carlton Godfrey,
Thomas Thompson, A. Bergman, A. B.
Smith, j. Vautrinot, ]. Frambes, l.
York, III. B. Crowell, J. e. Johnson, W.
H. Mischlich, j. Wagner, S. Bartlett, W.
Fish, H. T. Gertzen. E. d, Golf
Rules-E. H. Wilson, D. R. Barrett, E
F. Ham, George Clinton, j. D. South
wick, w. Chew, A. B. Smith, W.
Mischlich, John Blackman, W. Craig,
Grant Estlow, J. Clark, Charles T.
Crowell, John 7. Irving, P. Adams,
Charles Clement, S. NOrcross, j. Haw-
kins.
Resolutions-W Lee, L. E. Wooton
Fl. W. Leeds, l.. B. Rose, W. A. Ireland
H. Hoist, A. B. Smith, Charles Cast, G.
Murray, W. J. Anderson, Clark Abbott
W. Cunningham, W. z Rose, C. M. West.
colt, T. j. Oliver, E. ]. Steelman, Ed
ward Ridgway, c. E. Hass.
Ga motion of Mr.. AlbertsOn the tenn
porary organization was made the per.
manent one, after which a recess was
taken to enable the several committees
to report. During the recess there was
lively time before the Committee on
Credentials in which Supt. Mcconnell o
the Asylum and Gus" Parker, of At
lantic City exchanged compliments.
Upon reassembling, the Convention
made Recorder "Bob." Ingersoll, o.
Atlantic City, assistant Secretary, and
then adopted the report of the Commit
tee ON Credentials which included g
recommendation for seating of the "re
gular" delegates from Egg HarbOr
Township who were as follows:
Samuel A. Smith, Walter Fifi Id, Ben
jamin Lear. Japhet Frambes, Jr, Jos
John A. Blackman.
The Committee on Rules had a long
and animated discussion which finally
resulted in the following rules which
were adopted by the Convention.
Mr.. Emory Irelan, of Atlantic City
offered an amendment to Rule 5, but il
was rejected.
THE RULES ADOPTED.
The Committee of the Rules had mort
difficulty than any of the other com
mittees. The rules finally adopted to
govern the convention read as follows
Rules to govern the Republican Con
veution, Egg Harbor City, October 9th
1897:
Rule Towns, townships, borOughs
and wards shall be called in alphabetical
order for nomination.
Rule 2-The nomination for Assembly
Surrogate and Coroner shall be made il
| the order named,
each town, township, borough ant
ward shall be entitled to cast a vote
| which vote shall be announced by th'
chairman of the delegation, provided
that any town, township, borough OF
ward not represented, the repre-
sentatives for such voting districts shal
be elected by the vote of the convention
1he vote to be taken by calling the rol
of the several towns, townships
boroughs and wards.
Rule "A candidate to be accorded q
| nomination must receive majority o
| the entire votes of the convention. After
the second ballot the hecandidate receiving
the lowest number of votes shall b.
| dropped after each ballot until the nomi
nation is made.
Rule 5-The chairman of this con
vention shall appoint on or before May
| LIST, 1898, one member of the County
Executive Committee from each ward
| township, town, borough, upon the re
commendation of the delegates to tht
| convention.
| Rule 6-The basis of representation tt
which each city, town, township
borough and ward shall be entitled ir
the next Republican County Convention
shall be decided upon as follows: Th
total vote that the Republican candi
dates for all county Offices receive at thu
coming November election shall b.
divided by the number of county Office
which are being filled, thus making th'
average of the Republican tickets cast
The representation to the county con
vention will be one delegate for ever.
! fifty votes thus cast and one dp'.gat
for every fraction of fifty votS ove
twenty-five in. the various cities, U 7ns
townships, boroughs and wards !; els'
two delegates at large to each IN
township, borough and ward where 81
votes or more were cast, calculating tn
average AZ above stipulated.
/ Rule THE delegate election for th