Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-08-07
NOMINATED
FOR CONGRESS

Hon. IIttl ~. NIbNltildl US vi llIlpil
was unanimously nominated as the
Republican candidate for Congress i'll
| the Sixteenth district by the confer
cncc which met Tuesday at the Nor
ton House, Berwick. Charles @.
Evans, Esq, of Berwick, withdrew
and his conferrees voted for God
| charles.
| The conference was called to order
Mt noon by the chairman, DR.. Will l..
| Shindel, of Sunbury, and i'll twenty
minutes the nomination was made.
| An address was made by Mr.. Evans in
which he stated that he withdrew in
the interests of Republican harmony.
Professor c. f. Wilbur, of Blooms
burg, an Evans conferrec, then offered
the following resolution, which was
carried:
Resolved that Hon. Fred A. God
charles be the unanimous choice of
this conference for the nomination for
Congress in the Sixteenth district.
Addresses were made by Chairman
Shindcl and F. G. Schoch, of this city
endorsing the choice of the conference.
Resolutions were also passed thanking
Chairman Shindel and Secretaries Nc
Coy and Shoemaker for their work
during the sessions Mr.. GOdcharles
made brief speech in which he thank
ed the cOnferrees for the nomination
and expressed confidence i'll his ability
to carry the district at the fall cleo
ton
The first session of the conference
was held at the Montour House, this
city, on Thursday, July 10. The
counties were represented as follows:
Montour-S.A y. Mccoy, f. G. Schoch,
II. A. Kneibler, Danville
Columbia-J. H. Catterall, L II.
Doan, Berwick W. O. Holmes, q. +.
Wilbur, Bloomsbury.
Sullivan-M. p. Shoemaker, G. r.
Funston, Laporte.
Northumberland Will l.. Shin
del, Charles G. Bowen, Sunbury; w.
II. Deepen, Dalmatia; j. B. DeHaas,
Milton; William Eddy, Shamokin.
DIR. Shindel was elected chairman
and the secretaries chosen were 5. A.
Mccoy, of this city, and M. p. Shoe
maker, of Laportc. The candidates
placed in nomination were Hon. James
Foster, of Danville; Hon. Fred A.
Godcharles, of Milton, and Charles G.
Evans, Esq, of Berwick. For three
ballots Foster received the three votes
of Montour county, Evans the four
votes of Columbia county, and God
charles the seven votes of Sullivan and
Northumberland counties.
After the third ballot the name of
Foster was withdrawn and the Mont
our conferrees voted with Columbia
for Evans. Seven tie ballots were ia
ken, after which the conference ad-
jOurned.
On July II the conference again met
at the Neff House, Sunbury, where
fifty ballots were taken without break
ing the deadlock. The third session
was at the Hotel Haag, Milton on
July % at which there were sixty more
ballots cast with the vote still tied
between Evans and Godcharles. The
final meeting was the one of Tues
day, which ended in the choice of God
charles.
The total number of ballots taken
by the conference was 12l, of which
III We're tie and the final one unani-
nous.
Frederick A. Godcharles was born
in Northumberland on June 3, 1872,
and in 1873 his parents moved to Mil
ton, where he has since resided. He
was educated III the public schools
there and at Lafayette College, being
a graduate of the Milton High School,
class of 1888, and of Lafayette in 1893
He entered the Milton Nail Works
after leaving college, becoming the
title member of the firm of the Frede-
rick \. GodCharles Company III 1896
He is an active business man and is
popular throughout all of the counties
comprising the Sixteenth district. In
1900 he was elected member of the
House of Representatives in the Penn
sylvania Legislature, this being the
first office he ever sought
When the Spanish American war
broke out Mr.. Godcharles gave up his
business interests to enlist as a volun-
tccr in the Twelfth Regiment, United
States Volunteers This was on May
II, 1898, and when his company was
mustered out of the United States ser
vice in October of that year he was u
corporal. He was appointed battalion
sergeant major of the Twelfth Rcgi-
mcnt, n. G.. p, and was later prOmOt-
ed to Inspector Of Rifle Practice with
the rank of first lieutenant When
Colonel Charles NJ Clement, of Sun
bury, was elected commander of the
regiment he rc-appointed Lieutenant
Godcharles rs Inspector of Rifle
Practice.