Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-02
WINNERS
ARE NAMED
Republican State Convention
Completes Nominations
For State Offices.
GILBERTsoN WON OUT

GILBERTSON WON OUT
He I. linated for Treasurer-Mar-
tit.5 Jed for secretary-ResoIu-
tic 8 !. Respect foe. Senator Gear
Pa conger Is Remembered.
For z tary of state-W. 3. Mar
tin, G Id.
For Auditor OF State-F. F. Mer-
Ram, Manchester.
For treasurer of State-G. S. Gill
bertson, Forest City.
For Attorney Generat-c. w. Null
Ian, Waterloo.
For Judge of the Supreme Court
Emlin MccIain, Iowa City.
For Railway commissioner-D. ].
Palmer, Washington.
For Presidential Electors-at-Large-
John N. Baldwin, Council Bluffs; Ole
o. Roe, Des Moines.
The above is the ticket named at
the republican state convention at
Des Moines yesterday after five hours
voting and deliberation in the swelt-
erin. heat. Not one delegate in a
Thousand would have guessed that the
ticket as it appears would go thru,
as at least two of the above candi-
dates were considered by everybody,
almost, up to the hour of the after
noon session, as being candidates In
name only. But it seems that they
did their work quietly and the COM
binations formed by the managers OF
the successful candidates did the
work. However, this can be said:
Not one word could be heard among
the delegates against the ticket. All
agree that it is particularly strong
one and that party differences viii
now be laid aside and all work togeth-
er for the good of the cause. For
convention with as many candidates,
and as many earnest workers In be-
half of their candidates, it is remark
able that there was no more clash.
The best of good feeling prevailed
thruout and the defeated candidates
took their medicine and said nothing.
But it certainly was great conven-
ton, and as l said in my dispatches,
a convention of delegates in every
sense of the word. Party machinery
was ruthlessly thrown aside, candi-.
dates with various interests" behind
them were left far in the, rear, and it
was a convention in which the votes
of half dozen delegates, supplement-
et by little enthusiasm at the right
time, might have changed the result
in more cases than one. Particularly
was this the case with the Office of
secretary of state. Senator Hobart
was looked upon as the logical candi-
date, and the man who had by far the
best chance of being nominated. And
when he received the largest number
of votes on the first ballot, the thing
looked as good as settled. But some
how, and | will try to explain that
how while Hobart's friends stood by
him almost to a man on the second
ballot, Martin, of Adair county, seem
ed to catch every vote that left the
other candidates and on the second
ballot he was in the lead. Then Ho-
bart's friends, altno they showed a
small gain, believing the jig was up.
went over into the band wagon.
But in more ways than one was the
convention notable and unusual one.
To start with, the committee on per-
manent organization selected in Sena-
tor Trewin chairman who had the
ability to control the convention, as
he fel. the responsibility of the strug-
gle and the necessity of maintaining
order. The committee even went fur
ther and recommended that no nomi-
mating speeches be allowed, that no
dalegsss ss=,n be allowed to change its
vote in a ballot after it was once
made, and that every delegation must
announce it's vote in the order called,
and not be allowed to wait until K an
expression of the convention coulo
be heard. 1t was in fact convention
for business, and there was much bus
mess to attend to, as the voting prov
ed. Three reading clerks are today
probably very hoarse as they COM
pletely wore their voices out in CALI
ing for the votes of the ninety-nine
counties. Chairman Trewin recogniz-
ed the large amount of bIsipacc he
fore the convention by cutting his
speech down to about twenty words,
and thereby earned the good will Of
all the delegates. They were not
there for speeches-but for business.
Now that the Smoke of battle" has
cleared away, those who ought to
know are saying that Mr.. Guilbertson
all along held the key to the situation,
and that a secret agreement was en-
Tered into between the managers of
Guilbertson, Martin and Mullan, that
each support the other with his solid
t9istrict Each did So and tho rac,,1t