The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-08-10
,aAcKLEFORD Is THE MAN.
Isaersen CITY Man Nominated
10 Succeed R. P. Bland.


4 maddox That Developed on the First
v.te-Puask Delegation Cast the
Deciding Vste-Harmsny Rsigns.
Fultsn, No. Aug. 3.-Judge
n.rssy W. Shaokleferd was, on the
Iss,h ballot, nominated by the dem
1 Gratis of the eighth congressional
a.trict to succeed the late Richard
Park Bland.
The result was reached only after
bitter fight that resolved itself into
deadlock from the first ballot.
tn TO the 57th ballot the vote
.,ood 80 Shackleford, II Hockaday,
% McCulloch, s Farris, Hannay 8;
,.csssary for choice So. On the 57th
ballot one of the Usage delegates
cant 10 Shackleford, making his
lotsl 80, and there the matter stood
a.tiI the afternoon session of to day,
vhen Mr.. Haines Of Dallas withdrew
| his name from before the convention
| md his following went to Shacleford.
| making his total As. In the follow
| inr ballots the gain for Shackleford
vss l from Laclede, aud later l
other, making his highest total to
this time 10 votes.
| The balloting in the afternoon for
seine time was the same as it had
bssn for several hours. The Shackle-
4 tord men, however, seemed confident
and after the 32Sth ballot a motion
was made to allow Mr.. Haines of
Dallas to make a speech. The mo-
lion carried and in closing his re.
marks he withdrew his name and in
the next ballot the Dallas delegation
voted for Shackleford and the big
fight was on.
] For several ballots the vote stood
the same until motion was made
1 10 allew Senator Farris of Laclede
to make 6 speech. On the 332nd
| ballot the motion carried and he
| withdrew the namo of his father, j.
W. Fsrris, and there was another
change in the vote, giving Shackle
ford, 4S; Hoskaday, II; HAZEL. p
and Hannay, Z.
On the 385th ballot the entire
delegation of Cooper and Lacled'
went to Judge Hockaday, making
the vote Shackleford, As; Hockaday
| 81; HAZEL, Is; Hannay, Z. The flop
however, only lasted for one ballot
for at the next roll call the Cooper
men went to Hannay. and on thu
next to McCulloch The skirmishine
at this point showed decided gain
for Hockaday and HAZEL, but Their
was nothing sure for any of the can
| didates.
For some time the vote stood at
standstill, until the Galloway delega
ton gave Colonel McCulloch com
pIimentary vote. Immediately the.
went back to their regular candidate
and the vote proceeded with tn
same results as before. Occasionally
the vote would change to one man
another and then settle back to tn
same as where it started.
There was every evidence, how
ever, in the closing minutes OF tn
afternoon session that Hockaday an
HAZEL were making gains for Sha'
keford At 4 o'clock a motion wa
adopted to allow the candidates t
make five minute speeches. Judg
Hocksday was called to the stant
aud amid much enthusiastic applaus
stated his position. Judge Shackl'
ford next took the stand and We
also we'll received by the delegate
and spectators, and so on down til
line OF candidates.
| On the 4S6th ballot the Pulas
delegation gave its vote to Snack
ford and this ended the contest.
| P. Stone and DR.. r. E. Young wei
! delegated to notify the successf
candidate of his selec ion.