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

| the nomination to George Is. Nc
Caughna, of Owosso; Z. L. Sidney, of
Durand; Clark d. Smith, of Corunna;
Hugh Nichols, of Corunna; and all re-
fus" to accept the same. The reasons
wei" various, tho the one offered by Mr..
Mc.aughna as his principal reason was
| not the least surprising of them. 1t
would be charged, he said, that he had
used his influence to Gust Beers to get
the place for hlmself-and the re-
mark was wise one, inasmuch as it
has already been asserted and by a
prominent member of Mr.. McCaughna's
own party at that, that such was the
| plan, but that somebody's nerve failed
at the last moment when the conse.
| quences were more closely faced.
Whatever the reason for the numerous
destinations was however-and the
matter is still puzzle unless the most
plausible reason, that none had any hope
+, of beating John Y. Martin in the election
| and none cared to make himself sacri-
flee to the party, for the empty honor of
running for county clerk on the demo
cratic ticket, all of the above persisted
in their refusals and finally the nomi-
nation was given to Mr.. Schuyler b.
Spaulding, of Perry, who is said TO be
OF age and to have other good qualitica-
tions for the office. In his response to
the call of the convention which
asked him tos "stand up and lets
see what he looks like" after the
nomination had been rendered him, he
told the delegates that he hoped he
would have their support from that time
until election day, adding as an after
thot, and wise one too, that he knew
he would need 1t on that day.
The nomination for representative
was not made exactly on the cut and
dried orthodox plan but was also passed
around the bases for little practice
play before it reached the man with
whom it finally remained-whether it
had been planned for him from the
start, granted to him on the unwisdom
OF giving him different nomination
becoming apparent, or whether it
merely fell to him by chance. Certain
it is that had Floyd Owen not refused
to be the candidate for representative
his name would have been in that place
today. A. l.. Chandler also had the
privilege of refusing to run as the demo-
cratic candidate for the legislature as
did also Theodore NJ Euler and Thos.
Bonsor, but when it got around to Geo.
b. McCaughna the nomination never
got real good chance to get away and
the Owosso justice has it with him yet.
The other places were filled generally
with less trouble, two of the more i'm
portant ones being filled by men who
were not there to decline-which &C.
counts in all probability for the fact
that the ticket was filled at all. Matt
V. B. Wixom was not present and was
nominated for Judge of probate. Amos
Parmenter was not present and no one
refused in, his behalf to allow his name
to run as the democratic candidate for
treasurer, so the nomination was at
least temporarily filled without undue
bother. The entire ticket is as follows:
For State Representative, Geo B. Nc
Caughna, of Owosso; for Judge of Pro.
bate, M. V. B. Wixom, of Shiawassee;
for Sheriff. Daniel j. Gerow, of Owes
so; for County Clerk, Schuyler B.
Spaulding, Of Perry; for County Treas
urer, Amos Parmenter, of Shiawassee;
for Register of deeds, A. Wrigley. of
Shiawassee; for Prosecuting Attorney,
Byron P. Hicks, of Durand for Circuit
Commissioners, George E. Pardee, of
Owosso and Bernard Kildea, of New
Lothrop; for Surveyor William E.
Payne, of Owosso; for Coronors. DR..
B. S. Knapp, of Owosso, DIR. r. H.
Scott, of Laingsburg.
As if to make an effort to avoid re-
peating the humiliating experience of
this convention when the congressional
convention should assemble, the con-
vention passed resolutions unanimously
endorsing Wellington r. Burt, of Sagi-
nav, for congressman in the 9Th dis
trict. The TIMES ventures the guess
that the convention came about as
near naming the man who will accept
the nomination when the time comes
as it did with its first ten unanimous
nominations for register of deeds. Mr..
Burt should accept, however. The
democrats could make good use of his
barrel
The other resolutions, which were one
of the most amusing pyrotechnic displays
ever enjoyed by any convention, were
touched off by Mr.. s. E. Parkill, of
Owosso, who, as chairman of the com.
mitttee on resolutions, took occasion to
lambast the republican party for about
everything which it has done in these
last four years and accused it Of even
more things which it has not done. The
resolutions may not be logical or con
vincing, they may not be even good
appeal TO intelligent democrats, and
may be a most atrocious exhibition so
far as rhetoric may be concerned, but
they answered the purpose OF the con-