Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-30

sprung he resolutely declined the proffers
and announced his determination TO win or
lose with Weaver.
Judge Warnock. at Urbana was nom!-
mated, after some 400 ballots had been cast.
at Marysville, Ohio, where the eighth dis
trict republican convention was held. The
judge is a fine type of manhood, six feet
tall and of impressive bearing. He is a ta-
vOrite IN G.. A. r. circles in the state For
the past twenty years his name has been
connected with the congressional nominal
ton and on one or two occasions in the
past he has been perilously near it. Natur-
ally this recognition of his ability and ser
vices is most gratifying to him and his
friends. Representative Archibald Lybrani.
who went to defeat under the application
of the two-term rule. which has prevailed
with but one or two exceptions in the sixth,
seventh and eighth districts ever since The
war, is personally popular throughout the
district. His delegation stuck to him game
~ until ordered to go to Warnock.
Tried to Beat southard.
"A concerted effort was made by the
enemies of Representative James Southland
of the Toledo district to defeat him, and
at one time 1t looked as though they had
him on the run. He rallied his forces,
however. and gave them good beating at
the finish. This is the fourth time he has
carried the congressional banner-a record
breaker of late years for that district. The
fact that he steered a bill through the
House giving financial aid to the Toledo
exposition helped him out in the fight. In
the tenth the republicans have renominated
stephen Morgan. who is serving his first
term, and was given denomination with
out opposition.
THE dean of the delegation, Gen. Gros-
venor, received unanimous nomination
from the republican electors OF the eleventh.
The grim old lion of Athens. as Champ
Clark calls him, was never in better politi-
cal fettle than when this convention con-
GrDnta6 W. all ha
Lent. Having Trouble.
John ]. Lentz looks like he is up against
the real thing in the twelfth. In 1895 he
beat d. K Watson, now a member of the
commission codifying the federal criminal
law. by beggarly forty nine votes, and in
eS finished seven hundred votes ahead of
E. n. Higgins. When Cultivate repre-
scented this district 1t was considered the
solid democratic district of the state, but
Columbus has never taken kindly to Lentz
and his silver theories. His greatest strength
end of Franklin, democrat and republican
alike, repudiated him. The republicans be-
lieve that II they nominate a man who can
command the full party vote this fall Lentz
will be beaten. He is having big trouble in
his own camp at present, and Judge D. c.
Badger OF the common pleas bench, one Of
the most vigorous democratic fighters in the
district, is after him with hot political
poker. Dewitt C. Jones, former editor of
the POst-Press. and LentZ's boon companion
in the two former campaigns, is now fight
! ing him vigorously. Doc Norton, as his
followers delight to call him, is happy with
a good local fight on in his thirteenth dis
trict. He IS cheerful and normal in the
midst Of political mixup, and If 1t threat
ems disaster the flower on his lapel grows
redder and his air even more jaunty No
matter how big republican majority may
sweep the state, Norton usually manages
to slide in on some shaky democratic plat
form. He is the stormy petrol of Ohio poll
ties.
Rough Shedding for Kerr.
Representative Kerr has been having
rough shedding in the fourteenth. The con-
vention that assembled at Wellington some
two weeks since cast some thirteen hundred
ballots without reaching a nomination. 1t
took one hundred and eighteen votes to
nominate, and kerr's greatest strength was
one hundred and three. 1t was known that
| he was the second choice of a number of
delegates in the other counties. but the
county candidates refused to release their
men, and the only solution was an adjourn
ment. which was taken, and Norwalk May
| IL, named as place and time. This conven-
| ton selected W. T. Francis, popular con-
| ductOr on the Baltimore and Ohio road be-
| tween Washington and Ohio as presiden-
| tial elector. In reviewing the situation with
an Ohio member on his train a few days
| since, Francis thought Kerr's chances were
steadily improving. He has great strength
| in Huron and Ashland counties and II is
\ predicted that a number of these delegates
\ Will break to him soon as possible at the
/ Norwalk convention. 1t is known that the
Speaker would be much pleased at Kerr