Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-09-25
Republicans Convene to Name
County Officers.
WARM FIGHT FOR PLUMS
Candidates Already on the Ground. List
of the Delegates. Surprises in Store.
Dark Horses May Win.

the various county Offices will be
called to order at / p. M, today at
the City opera house by D. T. Park
er of Fennimore, chairman of the
Republican County committee.
Secretary Roethe of the same COM
mittee will read the list of creden-
tails, permanent organization will
follow and then the arena will be
cleared for what promises to be one
of the warmest political contests
in the history of Grant county.
1t is rumored that a movement
will be inaugurated to change the
customary order Of selecting candi-
dates, beginning with the foot of
the list and going up as it were. In
this case the sheriff will be chosen
last instead of first, and County
Supt. Nye will be named early in
the game. If this is not attempted
and the old program is followed the
contest for sheriff will open at the
start. In this fight Thos. McDon-
aid of Lancaster is in the lead.
Closely punched for second place
are J. w. Watson of Clifton and j.
O. Laird of Smelser, with Jos. Long
botham also of Smelser, r French
of Cassville, A. 0. Mills of Montfort
and Henry Irish Of Lancaster-dark
horses in the race. A choice will
not be made on the first ballot and
the outcome is a guessing contest.
Another battle of the ballots will
be waged over the nomination of
register Of deeds, prominent among
the candidates being T. 6. Metcalf
of Glen Haven, Walter Kleinpell of
Cassville, E. A. Berge of Potosi, Geo.
Gunderson of Fennimore and Jas.
Jeffrey of Jamestown In this case
F. M wager of Waterloo and Il. Il.
Streeter Of Mt. Ida are dark horses.
In the run for the clerk of courts
toga E. X. Hastings Of Platteville,
r. S. Olmstead of Woodman, Ed
ward Ulve of Marion, JAS. Hayden
of Beetown and Chas. Klarman Of
Waterloo are entered
County Clerk Grifis, County
Treasurer Scheinpfug, Dist. Atty.
Brown and County Supt. Nye will
be renominated by reclamation, all
opposition to the established preced-
ent of two terms having disappeared.
Their qualifications, too, are I'M
questioned and no better men for
these places can be found.
A large number of the delegates
and candidates are already on the
ground as the Herald goes to press
ready for the fray.
The list of credentials complete is
as follows:
BEETOWN-6.
Will Barr, Geo. Metcalf, Levi
Showalter, Leon Knapp, Will Hic-
kok and Frank Smith.
BLOOMINGTON TOWNS.
Will Schreiner, AL Crabtree and
Henry Roberts.
BLOOMINGTON VILLAGE"O.
Leo Philipson, Sam Kitto and
Robert Hoskins.
BOSCOBEL CITY-S.
G. W. Menkhausen, Will Seeman
Jacob Miller, Wilson Henry, VIM.
Parnell, F. G. Muff1ey, Pearl Terrell
and w. E. Howe.
BOSCOBEL TOWN..
Hugh Mathews.
CASSVILLE TOWNS.
O. F. Tate, Peter Weber and
Nick Wilkomme.
CASSVILLE VILLAGE-4.
Rev. P. j. Jones, Geo. w. Bar
rows, w. I'll. Failing and Chas.
Ishmael.
CUBA CITY,.
r. B. Luckey, Chas. Eustice, Bert
Naukivil and Jacob Harris.
CLIFTON.
A. n. Wells. A. E. RundeI, D. O.
Eustice, Andrew Brown and I. S. E.
Washburn.
CASTLE ROCK-3.
w. r. johnson, HI. 0. Bokken,
and P. A. Peterson.
ELLENBORO-4.
Chas. vesperman, Ralph King,
Thos. Edge and John Sandlebach,
FENNIMoRE TOWN..
VIM. Marsden, John Schneider,
p Gunderson and N. HI. Nelson.
FENNIMORE VILLAGES.
A. E. Storrs, w. Stephens, j..
Thompson, Fl. E. Roethe and Joseph
Him.