Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-20

not looking for any consolation Offering
and he and his friends went home feeling
that they had been badly treated.
The contest for the nomination for clerk
Of the district court had during the early
morning narrowed down to Zurmuehlen and
LeFeber and 1t was evident that there was
a good fight on between these candidates
representing the two sections of the
county. The informal ballot gave Eur
muehlen s6h and LeFeber soy. with II
for J. NJ. Kelley Of Macedonia, who an
nounced he was not a candidate. The
FIRST formal ballot gave the nomination to
zurmuehlen with 1903 votes, against IS for
LeFeber.
Not in Consolation Glass.
Then ensued one Of the most interesting
Incidents OF the convention. On motion
Of c. d. Walters Of Council Bluffs the rules
we're suspended and LeFeber was nominated
for auditor by reclamation, every one APP
p~lauding except the delegates from Walnut.
AS soon as the cheering died down Dele
gate Sievers Of Walnut announced that Mr..
LeFeber would not accept the nomination
under any circumstances and would posi-
lively decline to make the race.
Delegates from all parts OF the hall
crowded around LeFeber, urging him to ac-
cept the nomination, but be turned a deaf
ear to their entreaties and informed them
that he had not come to the convention
seeking any consolation prize. He had been
turned down for the nomination he had
sought and that ended 1t with him. The
convention, however, was on the point Of
forcing the nomination on LeFeber when
Delegate Sievers rose to his feet and in a
voice ringing with anger said that the
democrats of Walnut would not permit Mr..
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man.
J. J. Shea suggested that AL A. Lenocker
Of Oakland, a rural telephone system mag
nate, be nominated for auditor by accla-
nation. This was voted Town and an in
formal ballot taken, which gave Lenocker
121 votes, against 81 for L. G. Prouty, a
school teacher of Garner township. On
motion of the delegation from Garner the
informal ballot was declared a formal one
and the nomination given to Lenocker.
Then as a consolation an attempt was
made to give the nomination for recorder
to Prouty by reclamation. but fell down.
An informal ballot resulted as follows:
Prouty, 90; L. H. Smith Of Rockford, So;
c. r. Reels of Reels, 4, and Brooks Reed,
county chairman, s. This ballot was then
declared a formal one and Prouty accorded
the nomination.
l DO NOL Llke the bFbnus
Then more trouble ensued. An attempt
to nominate Harry L.. Robertson, mayor of
Nicola, for county attorney drew forth a
storm Of protest from all parts of the hall.
1t developed that opponents Of Robertson
had during the morning made overtures to
Emmett FINLEY of Council Bluffs over the
telephone and had received from him a
qualified consent to accept this nomination.
The informal ballot gave Robertson So and
FINLEY 70. Then Attorney Organ addressed
the convention, stating that 1t would be
unwise to nominate a maj who might later
withdraw his name from the ticket. He
said that they had no positive assurance
that Mr.. FINLEY would make the race. Then
there was more trouble, and opponents of
Robertson showed that he was no demo-
crat and called upon him to come forward
and declare himself. A friend FASTENED for
Mr.. Robertson, and in the meantime the
convention attempted to settle the ques-
ton by nominating Mr.. Organ. but he re-
fused. Then Justice Riley Clark Of Nicola
seized the opportunity to accuse Robert
son OF being anything but a democrat.
After a while sufficient order was restored
to enable the formal ballot to be taken on
an order from the chairman and It re-
suited in giving the nomination to Rob-
ertson by ITO. against 80 for FINLEY and
8 for Roscoe Barton OF Avoca.
Mayor Robertson made his appearance,
and mounting the stage declared he was
as good a democrat as any of his Nicola
friends. or more correctly speaking, enc
mics. To prove his democracy he called
attention to the fact that his father had
been a confederate soldier and that he
himself had during his earlier years voted
the straight democratic ticket and that
four years ago he left the republican fold
and wandered back into that Of the dem
ocrats. After he had paid his Nicola
friends all the compliments he could Mayor
Robertson concluded by thanking the con-
vention for the honor It had done him by
nominating him for attorney.
The informal ballot for member OF the
Board OF Supervisors for the long term
brought out several candidates and re-
suited as follows: John w. Warner OF
Valley township, s1h; George Dye Of
Carson township. 3sk; Thomas Smith Of
Boomer township. IT; Tim Ryan of Rock
ford township, 10. The formal ballot on
motion was made a formal one and Warner
declared the nominee. For the nomination
for the second member of the board for the
short term the informal ballot gave Tim
Ryan SO votes, against 81 for George Dye
and IS for Thomas Smith. Dyes name
was withdrawn and on the first formal bal
lot Tim Ryan was nominated by 103h
votes, against SAY for Thomas ninth
With the election OF Mack Goodwin of
Council Bluffs as chairman of the county
central committee to succeed Brooks Reed
and the naming of the members Of this
committee the convention came to a close.
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