The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-03-30
GORMAN THE CHOICE
He is THE UNANIMOUS CHOICE OF
THE DEMOCRATS FOR MAYOR.
GUS JACOB is RBNoMINATBD
The Convention at Simmons Hail Was
Little More Than a Ratification as All
the Nominees Had Been Agreed Up
on and the Slate Went Through.

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Our friends, the enemy, are now
ready to meet the political hosts of the
Republican party in the battle royal,
which is to take place at the various
voting places in the city one week from
today and last night, in convention
assembled they placed the following
ticket in the field: Mayor, James
German; City Clerk, Gus Jacob; As
SCISSOR, Henry Biennemann; City
Treasurer, Martin Steinmetz; Justice
of the Peace, John G. Slater.
The convention was held at Simmons
Hall, and the room was pretty well
flied up with a mixture of Democrats
and Republicans. The former had
come TO see that their favorite candi
dates received the proper consideration
and the latter had just dropped in on
account of curiosity.
The convention was devoid of feat
ures, for previous to the meeting at
Simmons Hall, the shining lights of the
party had met at the City Hall and
fixed up a complete ticket. On this
account the meeting later in the eve
ming was nothing more than a ratifca-
ton meeting and the we'll CREASED slate
was never in any danger of being
broken and every man was nominated
as per schedule.
AS soon SIS the convention got down
to work John Mcdonnell, of the Second
ward, waschosen chairman, and John
SteinmetE, of the Eighth ward, selected
as secretary of the meeting.
After the committee on credentials
had determined the membership of the
convention the august body proceeded
60 take an informal ballot for the
nominee for mayor, which resulted IN
Mr.. German receiving the vote of every
delegate. The nominee was in the
room and responded to the call of the
party at once and made the following
speech of acceptance:
| +" Mr. Chairman and G-entlem8n O
lthe Convention--I thank you for tht
Ihonor you have bestowed upon me anC
| if elected premise you to work for thu
| best interests of the city"
The nominee for Mayor was received
with great applause and when it hat
subsidized the informal ballot was de
clared formal and lae was declared tn
unanimous nominee of the convention
The rest of the work of the conVen
ticn was tame and every nominee wa
I chosen without any formidable opposi
tio0.
| The ballet for City Clerk resulted il
/ the present Incumbent of the office re
( ceiWi2g the nomination by vote of 2
! to j.
( There were but two candidates TO
4 the tnominatiOn for Assessor and on tn,
/ fret ballot Henry Bienemann received
| I9 Rates to 8 for John B. ZieVers, anC
the f8rmer was declared the nominee
! The vote Cor Treasurer following The
action of the well prepared slate re.
suited in Martin Steinmetz receiving
the domination on the frst ballot with
. % votes.
The first ballot for Justice of the
Peace gave the nomination to John G.
Slater, the present incumbent of the
office
The ticket being completed, the
Chairman appointed the following city
committee: John G. Slater, chairman;
Thomas Hoban, Joseph Bienemann,
Joseph FULLY, Peter Steinbach, Mat
Scholeg, Peter Breidt, Christian Weier
and Martin Metten. After the ap-
pointment of the committee the con
VentiOn adjourned.
The ticket nominated is very weak
one and the Republicans should have
little trouble in defeating nearly every
one of the nominees. Of course the
nominees for City Clerk and Justice of
the Peace are the strongest men the
party could have named, but aside
from these two men the ticket has
nothing to recommend it to the voters !
of the city. I
James German, the nominee for
Mayor, is the we'll known Main street
barber who is at present the represen-
tative of the Third ward in the City
Council. His officiuI connection with
the city has been very short and his
record, good and bad, is known to