Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-08-25
It OI NOI VIIOI'
DR.. o. NJ. WILLIS.

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What was undoubtedly one of the
most'orderly although sharply contest
ed county conventions in the political
history of Washington county assem-
bled at the Auditorium at eleven
o'clock Tuesday morning and labored
diligently all the afternoon in' nomi-
mating a ticket that is destined to
achieve an overwhelming victory in
Novem Der. The convention was no.
ticea BILE as being a thoroughly repre-
sentative body of Repu blicans.
The assem blage was called to order
by Senator Charles S. Dana, who intro.
duced the temporary chairman selected
by the Executive Committee, Mr.. John
! Ii. Brown. Auditor W.. A. Patterson
was chosen as Secretary and NJ. W.
| Cline as assstan. secretary. After a
brief address, Chairman Brown pro-
ceeded Immediately to the business of
the convention, and upon motion ap-
pointed the following committees:
Rules and Order of Business-M. b.
Johnston, l. W. Putnam, L. C. Hayes
w. Fl. Murphy, E. S, Bake.
Creden tials--W. S. Morse, Amos
Johnston, VIII Weber.
By request of the convention Mr.. c.
P. Dyar submitted the report of the
committee appointed at last years con-
vention to formulate system of rules
for the government of the Central and
Executive committees. Mr. c. c. Mid
dleswart led fight against the report
on the ground that it gave the com
mittees too much power belonging di-
rectly to the people and the report was
laid on the table by an almost unani-
nous vote. Later in the convention
substitute code of rules for the orEani-
zation and government of the commit
tees was offered and adopted unani
mously. The document will be printed
in full in tomorrow's Leader.
After the usual reports of the Com
nittees on Rules and Credentials the
convention plunged at once into the
real work it had to do and announce
ments Tor Representative were called |
for:
The names OF Judge W. II, Leeper of
Marietta, Dr. r. 5. Gage, of Fairfield, |
and Hon. ". B. McGill, of Durham,
the present imcumbe bent, were present
! ed and the big battle was on. Before
| the roll could be called the name of c. !
c. Middleswart was announced. The
| first ballot resulted: eeper 81, Nc
Gill ~. Gage 45, Middleswart 2S. 1T
required 1870 votes to nominate and so
the ballots proceeded until the ninth,
Leeper and McGill gaining slowly and
the Others losing. On the ninth Leeper
received 127 votes and was declared the
nominee. He thanked the convention
in few words for the honor and was
folio we'd by Gage, McGill and Middles-
wart, all of whom accepted the result
most gracefully.
For Treasurer the names of H. p.
Bode, of Liberty, r. T. Moore, of Mari
eta, and Fred Dana, of Newport, were
presented and it was expected that the
contest would be as close as that on
Representative. Mr.. Bode deve,o ,oped
unexpected strength, however, and
lacked but one and one-third votes of
being nom mated on the first ballot.
He went over the fence on the second
when he received 1872.
In the race for Prosecuting ATTORNEY
were J. c. Brenan and Il. E. Guyton, Of
Marietta, and James Ross, of Wesley.
Mr.. Guvton Withdrew his name after
the first ballot and Mr.. Brennan was
nominated on the second ballot, re-
ceivng vote of 1872.
The large number of candidates for
Commissioner made the contest unusu-
ally interesting and the result beyond
the power of men to TO esee. Ballot
after ballot was taken with the low
men dropping out one at a time until
the choice of the convention finally
settled on w. L. Hadley, who received
100 votes, exactly enough to nominate.
InfrmarY Director George w. Rich
ards was renominated over two oppon-
ents by a large vote and DR.. o. NJ. Will
lis was renominated for Coroner with.
out opposition, bringing the conven-
ton to a close.
The list of members OF the new Cen