The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-08-17
FILLED THEIR TICKET.


Horses Begged Young Men to "volun-
teer" to Make the Runs-Task to Find
l Those Willing To Stand up and be
Knocked Down.'-Ten Men In Success
sion Declined Unanimous Nomination
for one Office, Twenty-one Men Unani-
mously Nominated for Three Offices
Before the Men Were Found Who
Would Make the Runs.
If anyone thinks that it is disadvant-
age to have two or more men make a
hot contest to secure the nomination
for certain Office at the hands of a
political party, he would have seen the
disadvantage of the other side of the
matter had he been in attendance on
the democratic county convention at
Corunna, Tuesday, when a total of
twenty-one men were rendered the
unanimous nomination of the conven-
ton for three different offices before
the nominations were filled to stay
filled. This was in addition to num-
Der of others who in reality should be
counted in as they were given the
assurance that they would be unani-
mously nominated if they would but say
the word and unfortunately for the
patience OF those present the word was
"No," and they were not nominated
Judging from the spirit shown by the
candidates there is just one of the
county nominees who seem to expect to
land the Office for which he is can
didate, while there are two others who
seem to think that they have chance
enough to make the work of canvass
interesting to themselves and possibly
to their opponents altho the gingerly
way in which even they handled the
nominations rendered them did not
show any too healthy confidence in
their own good running qualities when
it came to considering run against the
men already put in nomination by the
republicans. The first of these men
was the candidate for sheriff, Daniel
Gerow, who actually seemed to be
confident that he had good chance for
securing the election and was really a
candidate for the nomination. The
second. who, however, may we'll be
considered scoring for possible dem
ocratic years in Shiawassee sometime
in the future, was their candidate for
prosecuting attorney, b. p. Hicks, of
Durand, who told the convention plain
ly that he would not move his Office
from Durand, and who has been out of
the law school but two years. The
other candidate who at least appeared
to entertain the wish that he might be
successful, was their candidate for
representative in the state legislature,
Geo. b. McCaughna, who accepted the
nomination after unanimous nomina.
ton had been positively declined by
three other men and q fourth had
refused to allow his name to be con-
sidered at all.
AS for the rest of the nominations
the spirit in which they were handed
around from one to another and quickly
handed on to another like hot ear at
corn roast showed palmer than any
words can, the entire hopelessness
with which the situation in Shiawassee
county is viewed by the democracy so
far as the possibility of electing their
county ticket is concerned. Eleven
men were nominated for the Office of
register of deeds and all except the last
one declined positively to let his name
60 on the ticket. Before this man was
found the matter had been referred to
the county committee with power to
act, speeches had been made remind
ing these present how in of time of war
volunteers were called for to stand up
and be shot down" and urging some of
the young men to come out and make
the run, and yet others reminded the
convention that they were making too
much horseplay of the matter. The
men who thus had the opportunity to
and felt impelled to decline to run as
their party candidate for register OF
deeds were: Thos. Bonsor, Middle
bury; Theo. NJ. Euler. Shiawassee; A.
E. Shannon. Fairfield; JAS H. Benson,
Laingsburg; VIM. Byerly, Bennington;
b. Fl. Ram, Perry; VIM. Rowley,
Laingsburg; VIM. H. Putnam, Vernon;
A. L. Beard, ,Morrice; and Stephen.
Hubbell, of Fairfield. At last Archi-
bald Wrigley came to the rescue,
was nominated for the Office and ac-
copied the nomination, plainly showing
that he was not man who was afraid
to ''stand up and be knocked down"
however the other ten may have felt
about the matter.
The nomination for the clerkship, too,
was handled with good deal of the
audacity, tho with but little OF the
science, with which two opposing foot
ball teams handle the pigskin on
Varsity gridiron. In the first place,
Seth f. Beers, the "Hero of the water
tank at Aguadores, was placed in
nomination and made the unanimous
nominee of the convention to succeed
himself when it was announced by u.
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