The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1900-04-13
LOGAN'S CHOICE,
Col. W. R. WarnOCk Nominated
for Congress.

This week has been big one for |
Delegations from the vari
,us counties in the Eighth Congression-
u District began arriving Monday, and |
Tuesday there was grand rush. The
delegation waited at Mil |
ford Center for the Logan delegation,
and, reaching Marysville just before
noon, marched up in a body, four
reaching for nearly two
Their cry was "Warnock,"
and the crowd in town took notice at
once that Warnock was in it.
The Convention was called to order
at 1:30 p. m. by the Chairman of the
Congressional Committee, w. L. David,
of Hancock county. Rev. w. S. Bug
bey, of Marysville, opened the pro-
ceedings with prayer. The Marysville
glee club rendered some very pleasing
selections and the temporary organiza-
tion was commenced as follows:
Chairman-George Coyner, Of Della
ware.
Secretaries-F. o. Batch, of Belle
fontaine, and w. G. Vorpe, of Kenton.
t-at-Arms-EmmetV. Rhoads
of ST. Paris. Assistants-J. Ed. Rob-
inson, of Union: r. T. Brugler, of Lo-
gan; Clinton Russell, of Champaign:
Tracy Thompson, of Delaware: L. A.
Ansley, of Hardin, and David F. Davis,
of Hancock.
Mr.. Coyner's speech was received
with applause. The roll of counties
was called and all counties fully rep
resented, and no contests, and the fol-
lowing Chairmen Of Committees were
annouced: Logan, w. w. Roach:
Champaign, G. B. Heiserman; Della
ware, N. F. Overturf; Hancock, s. P.
DeWolfe; Hardin, B. S. Young; I'm
ion, E. M. Fullington.
Credentials-F. T. Crawford, Cham
Firmin, Hancock; L. E. Loring, Logan
Resolutions-E. w. Todd, Cham.
paign; J. S. Jones, Delaware; J. W.
Grim, Hancock; Judge Melhorn, Har.
eron, Union.
Rules, etc.-George Hit, Champaign
N. M. Miller, Delaware; Fl. P. Grouse
Hancock; F. B. Willis, Hardin; 10. A
Campbell, Logan: James McCampbell
| Union. c
Permanent Organization Thoma.
Hunter, of Champaign; w. o. Lupton
Delaware; r. w. Hale, Hancock; w
A. Belt, Hardin; J. G. Brand, Logan
r. l.. Woodburn, Union.
Members of Congressional Commit
tees. S. Deaton, Champaign; A. S
Conklin, Delaware; G. B. Dwiggins
Hancock; A. s. Ramey, Hardin; w
w. Roach, Logan; A. B. Robinson
Union.
After a recess the various committee
reported. The temporary organization
was made permanent, and J. Fl. Shear
er was added as additional Secretary
After the usual preliminaries tn,
first ballot was cast at a little after fOu
o'clock, as follows: Warnock 78, Ly
brand 36, Ross Al, Fess 80, FullingtOl
33. Necessary to choice III. Twen
Ity-five ballots were cast without
change, when a recess was taken TO
Isupper, and to allow the wrestlers T.
try for ''fresh hold"
The Convention met again and bal
loted until the Tooth ballot was cast
Not a vote had been changed. No on
had gained and none lost a vote. Sec
retary Batch had given way to an AS
sistant Secretary, and he in turn ha
Surrendered to Batch again, as hi
vocal machinery wore out, and it wa
decided to adjourn until Wednesda
morning.
| On Wednesday morning at $50 tn
balloting was resumed, and went alOn
in the same old way, not a change of
vote. At the 256th ballot, recess wa
taken until 1:30 p. m. Rumors wer
rife of changes to take place in Logar
Hancock, Delaware and Union countie!
ind the crowd were expectant an
watched each ballot with increasin
excitement. When Logan county wa
called for the 301st ballot the Chail
man of the delegation, w. w. Roacl
srose and stepped into the aisle. Their
was futter of excitement all over th
house and the word was passed alon
first break" When he said "Ml
Chairman, at noon, Logan county ha
caucus, and determined that after th
}00th ballot-every eye was centere
On Logan county; each delegation We
Watching to see where the split We
going, and wondering whether his cal
lidate would receive any benefit an
: making lightning calculations as [
, what else would follow the first spill
as Mr.. Roach resumed-''that after th
300th ballot Logan county's vote woul
still be 80 for Warnock," the crow
caught onto the situation and yelle
and shouted, each delegation glad tn,
the other delegations had not got ar
benefit. and all realizing that they ha
been victims of Conventional jok
On the 315th ballot the Conventio
! again adjourned until p. m. and til
same monotOnOns ballot was announce
until the 350th, when the ConventiC
adjourned to 8 o'clock Thursday NOR
! ing.
i A number of the boys from the mort
part of the county who had gone
school to Professor Fess, were on tt
Logan county delegation, and whi
! they would have been rejoiced to hay
seen the Professor nominated, the
stuck Loyalty to Warnock. On We,
nesday morning they notified the del
cation that if something was not dor
, to break the deadlock; that if Wa
mock was not able to make some ga
by the end of the morning session the
would feel that they had done the
duty by Warnock and feel free to go
Fess. No break of any kind occurrin
and Judge WarnOck being unable
gain a,vote anywhere it was expecte
that some six or eight votes would E
: to Fess. After dinner Judge Warnocl
asked the Logan county delegation {
meet him for few moments.
The Judge came into the room e.
pecting stormy session, but was r,
ceived with such hearty welcom
from the whole delegation that he wa
nearly overcome. He addressed tn
delegation and told them he had hear
some of them were going to leave hin
He thanked them from the bottom q
his heart for their loyalty to him, an
said that they had stuck to him a
faithfully as he could have wished, bu
asked them to give him one more trial
to stick to him until Thursday morniE g
and then if by that time he could no
show them that he could be nominated