The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-25

Beverage decided that Mr. Cockrum was
right I'm his contention and said the vote
would be announced. Mr.. Bingham with
drew his motion The vote was then an
nounced as follows:
Moores ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Miller ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .9ofiz
bingham ..........-.-..--..--.----. y
Il now desire to renew my motion and
make the nomination of Mr.. Miller unani-
NOUS said Mr.. Bingham, stepping TO the
front OF the stage again. Il never was
beaten in a political race and don't pro
pose 10 be beaten i'm this one. l have sim
ply lost the first heat When my friend
Miller gets through with the office 1 pro-
pose 10 win the second heat. / want all
his friends TO now go home and begin TO
form an organization for me-
Mr.. Moores said he desired To second the
motion to make Mr.. Miller's nomination
unanimous. The lucky nominee was then
called for and graciously thanked the con-
vention and his friends for what had been
done for him. He said that from the dem
onstration that had been made for him in
the convention he did not think there was
much doubt but that his friends could Sc
cure the nomination for Mr.. Bingham If
they went after it.
THREE BALLOTS REQUIRED.
1t required three ballots to nominate
candidate for clerk of the Supreme and
Appellate courts The nominee is Robert
A. Brown, the present incumbent of the
Office. There were four other candidates
for the office at the start. They we're w. X.
McClelland. of Hendricks county; J. G. Hat
field, of Button; Edward Fitzpatrick of
Portland. and L. f. Neal, of Noblesville.
During the balloting for this nomination
a row broke out in the Marion county dele
cation. One feature of il was that Mayor
Bookwalter, who was chairman Of the
Fourth ward delegates, objected 10 III. b.
Gates, who held a proxy i'm THIS ward.
voting the proxy. Later George h. Elliott
challenged the vote of Marion county. The
challenge finally withdrawn and when
peace had been restored II. c. Adams, a
Marion county delegate, started the dox-
ology and many of the delegates Joined i'm
the chorus.
The first ballot resulted as follows:
Brown ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
McClelland ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2915
ItdlueIu Eo0
FITZPATRICK .........................o $50
Neal ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .5Ui
On the second ballot Brown made some
heavy gains but did not receive a
sufficient number of votes TO nominate him.
Following was the result of this ballot:
Brown .:...-...-.-........''. .oloA
McClelland ....-......-....-...-.....li 5
Hatneld :.....,,.......'.....''..'.' 'z4zst
FITZPATRICK ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 0o12
Mr.. Neal did not participate i'm the second
ballot, having withdrawn after the first
had been taken, with a pleasing speech of
thanks to the convention. Before the bal
loting was begun for the third time all Of
the other candidates had withdrawn except
Brown and Fitzpatrick. and for a time IL
was a neck and neck race between them.
On the third ballot Marion county gave
Brown 120 votes and Fitzpatrick rs. New
ton county. that had given votes to Hat
field, transferred them to Fitzpatrick. Hat
field being out of the race. Posey and Por-
ter counties divided between Fitzpatrick
and Brown Putnam county, that had stood
by McClelland, on third ballot gave its
vote TO Fitzpatrick. St. Joseph county,
with IL votes, gave them all 10 Brown. IL
was o clock when the contest was finished.
The result was announced as follows:
Brown .gI91z
Fitzpatrick .......,........-.--..-..-fo
to his friends from one end OF the State
TO the other" for what they had done for
him. Mr. Brown then came forward and
acknowledged the honor that had been
given him. He said # had been ''bruising
race" and 'bruising fight" and he had
very little time in which TO prepare
marks. He recalled that this is the
ond time he had been honored with this
nomination and said he considered 1t not
only an Endorsement of the manner In
which he had filed the Office. but also
of the splendid State administration.
FOR STATE SUPERINTENDENT.
The race for the nomination for super
intendent of public instruction was won
by Fassett A. Cotton after a sharp fight
1t took three ballots to settle the ques-
ton as to who should be the partys candi-
date At the outset Titus E. Kinzie and
George Morley withdrew, the latter indi-
eating that the Thirteenth district was
satisfied since it had secured the nomina-
ton of one candidate-Charles w. Miller
The name of c. A. Van Meter was not pre-
scented to the convention. The candidates
were E. S. Monroe, OF Mount Vernon; f.
A. Cotton, of New Castle and r. c. Hills.
of Logansport. The first ballot resulted
as follows:
monroe 900
Cotton
t1lllls
On the second ballot Cotton made some
gains, as did Hills. This ballot resulted
as follows:
Monroe 306
NOttOu III
1dlliis -oo9
The third ballot resulted i'm Mr.. Cotton's
nomination. He received 10O7Iz. while Hill
lis received 6791a. Mr.. Monroe withdrew on
the second ballot. Mr.. Cotton was de-
clared the nominee. and accepted the honor
given him very gracefully.
After adopting the eagle the emblem
Of the party in the State, the convention
adjourned a few minutes before o'clock
Leaders Leave the City.
Senator Fairbanks and Representatives
Steele, Watson and Brick left for Wash
ington at 7:05 o'clock last night via the
PennsYlVania road ReDresenfatfva Hem