Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-09-21
Republican County Convention.


met in Convention on Tuesday, at one
o'clock p. m, for the purpose of placing
in nomination county ticket. The
Convention was called to order by Capt.
c. F. Barclay, Chairman of the County
Committee. Mr.. Josiah Howard was
unanimously chosen President and K. f.
Smith and M. NJ. Larrabee secretaries.
The roll of delegates was called and it
was found that every district was repre-
sented, with the exception of Gibson
they having failed to hold primaries there.
The following delegates were present:
Emporium.East ward-George Bloom, A. C.
Blum, s. E. Murry.
Emporium-Middle Ward-E. o. BardwelI, NJ.
M. Larrabee, H. s. Lloyd. F. p. Rentz.
Emporium ward-C. L. Butler, F. A,
Hill, Josiah Howard, III. II. Mullin, It. F. Moore.
Driitwood Borough. o. Brookbank, vK
Corbett, John Mcdonald.
shippen Township-F. B. Housler, VIM. R.
johnson, j. w. Lewis, b. L. Spence, w. L.
Thomas, George VanWert, Lewis Yates.
Lumber Township-Stephen Bunce. Nye Chap
man, S. l.. Bunce.
Grove Township-J. r. Bachelor, "a vots) M.
j. Logue, "a vote) E. F. Smith, j. H. Drum.
Portage Township-John wygant, George
Edwards.
The following order of business was
adopted
ORDER OF BUSINESS.
! l Election of permanent Chairman.
Election of Secretaries.
| Roll call of Delegates and Instructions.
| Nomination and election of County Chair
man.
/ 5 Appointment of Committees.
| Nomination and election of County Com
mittee.
| Nomination of Sheriff.
| 8 Nomination of County Commissioners
Nomination County Auditors.
10 Miscellaneous business.
The chair instructed that the crcden-
tials be read to the convention that the
delegates might be apprised of the action
of their constituents.
B. w. Green, Esq, on motion of j.
w. Lewis, OF Shippen, was unanimously
elected County Chairman for the year
1900.
The Chair appointed H. H. Mullin,
Jno. A. Wykoff and J. 0. Brookbank a
committee on resolutions.
The nomination of candidates for
Sheriff, being in order, the following
were placed before the convention Sam
Lewis and j. D. Swope The roll call
resulted in the following vote: Lewis,
13; Swope, II. The Chair declared J.
d. Swope the nominee for Sheriff.
For County Commissioner the follow.
ing nominations were made and resulted
in the election of E. w. Gaskill and
Chas. Gleason by the following vote:
/ Gaskill, 27: Gleason, %; ID. Burlin-
game, o.
The nominations for County Auditor
being the last in order, resulted in the
election of G. l.. Butler and w. III.
Logue, by the following vote Butler 25;
Logue 20; A. Chesbro, Z; A. L. Ensign, 4.
At this juncture in the proceedings
Mr.. Howard highly complimented che
Convention upon the excellent ticket
nominated and delivered ringing Re-
| publican speech
Upon motion the nominations were
unanimously endorsed The committee
on resolutions reported the following,
which were adopted:
RESOLUTIONS.
! The Republicans of Cameron county ratify and
rcaffirm the principles and policy of the Republi-
can party as declared by the Republican National
! Convention at ST.. Louis and the Republican
! State Convention of Penna of August oath, 1899.
/ We heartily endorse the Republican State ticket
and call on all Republican state ticket and call
| on all party of Lincoln, Grant, Garfield and Nc
| Kinley We heartily pledge our support to the
| ticket this day nominated,
Mr.. A. G. Blum presented the resolu-
tion that was laid over from the last con-
vention, amending rule 8, which leaves
with the County Chairman the authority
to call the County Convention. For
future information we herewith insert the
resolution: ''Strike out that part of
Section 8, page 5, commencing with pro
viding, further, that the County Con
ventions held for the election, etc, and
ending with of the date of the fall elec-
TONS The object of the amendment
is for the purpose of obviating the calling
of TWO or more conventions in iresiden-
tial or other years. The amendment as
presented by Mr.. Blum was unanimously
adopted.
Mr.. J. o. Brookbank presented the
following amendment to Section II,
which was laid over for action at future
convention:
AMENDMENT TO SECTION II.