The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-05-25

next circuit judge In this district, ar
rived home Wednesday morning. AL
though the convention was over at
o'clock Tuesday afternoon the railroad
facilities were such that there was no
possibility Of getting home till We'd
nesday mornings train.
The Stark county delegation failed to
win the fight for Mr.. Pomerene but
every man was satisfied with the effort
made. The fact was that the southern
tier of counties In the district seemed
to have pretty good understanding
to the effect that the nomination was
to go that way. There were some very
clever political movements played by
Donahue's friends and they won out.
The game ran along rapidly with lit
tie change Of a sensational nature till
the fifteenth ballot when Swartz, Of
Wooster, rolled up so votes. Then the
figures began climbing higher and
higher. On the seventeenth Donahue
got AZ. On the thirty-second he was up
to SO. Pomerene and the Swartzes and
Mitchell would occasionally be boosted
to the top only to come down again.
On the fortieth ballot Pomerene swept
away above anything yet scored and
stood at 81 votes. He only needed six
more but they never came. Licking
county had intimated that IL the time
came when she could land Pomerene
winner she would do it but when the
opportunity arrived she faltereo and
swung her twelve votes back to Swartz,
thus losing the day for Pomerene. He
dropped in the next round to 30 and
never got to as high a point again. All
along from the fortieth ballot Donahue
was holding up above the 30 mark
while the others were bobblng up and
down. There was nothing particularly
suspicious looking about the case to
any outsider but the Donahue men knew
what they were about. They were wait
ing for the combination to work out
right so the counties who were friendly
would have the last vote after, by the
system of reciprocal trades that pre-
vailed, some of the other counties had
given their man enough of lead to let
him win. At last the time came. On
the fiftieth ballot there was a slide up
to Pomerene and he landed "a votes.
1t was then his turn to drop again and
let some other rise and the combination
was just right. Knox county opened
the voting this time. the arrangement
being that a different county started
the vote each ballot. Knox, Licking,
Morgan, Morrow, all dropped in the
Donahue band wagon.
Now is the time to do it," yelled a
Donahue man. Muskingum was called.
She hesitated.
Does Muskingum desire to vote?"
yelled Chairman Mcbride?
Muskingum finally slit even giving
Donahue 61s and Winn 61s. This gave
Donahue 331s. Perry followed and was
sure for more making 40h. Along at
the tail end of the list of counties for
this round came Fairfield and Della
ware counties. They had been flirting
with the Donahue boys suspiciously be-
fore when it looked as though there
might be chance and the case was be-
ginning to be serious. They had 16
votes between them. This was not
enough quite. Richland county was
called and Richland county settled it.
She put in her IL votes straight for Dom
ahue. This made him 81. A mighty
howl went up from the Perry county
throats for they knew they had it.
Wayne dropped three more to Donahue
and there was another howl of joy.
Ashland got excited and wheeled over
from, Pomerene to Donahue and Della
ware and Fairfield finished the contest
by putting in their 16 votes for the win
ner.
When the vote had been announced
the crowd went wild. Frank Meriot, of
Delaware, Immediately moved to make
the vote unanimous and it was done.
Mr.. Meriot, Michael Dougherty, of
Perry, and r. S. Shields, of Stark, were
sent out to bring Donahue to the hall.
He soon appeared, thanked the con-
yention and then was given a hearty
handshake by the delegates as the con-
vention adjourned.
hc JuuiSidly was
lied to provide for the filling of a va
cancy should Donahue die or resiga
from the ticket.
The contest was lively and well fought
from the start but was without acr.-
mony or harsh feelings
Numerous efforts were made to spring
dark horses and rush them to victory
but without effect. They would flourish
for ballot or two and then another
would be brought out. Judge Albaugh
was thrown into the arena by Ashland
county and they stuck to him several
ballots. Judge Thayer and r. S. Shields
were likewise complimented for sew
eral ballots. In all sixteen dark horses
were trotted out but they failed to Gre
ate stampede. Those who thus re-
ceived complimentary votes, with their