The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-09-15
Note Of the Convention.

The candidates are we'll distributed
over the county.
Chairman Sankey made an ideal pre-
siding officer, and rushed the business
through without delay.
The candidates on the democratic
ticket will all go into the campaign
with absolutely clean personal records.
1t is one of the strongest county tickets
we ever had.
The ticket nominated at the conven-
tion last Thursday will prove a winner
and it is predicted by knowing ones that
every man on the ticket will be elected
in November.
Nearly all of the candidates were
nominated by practically the unanimous
vote of the delegates, showing very
plainly that they we're the choice of the
big majority of the voters of the party.
James G. Cozad, the candidate for
county clerk has only one leg, but that
will not prevent his discharging the
duties of clerk of the courtsand he will
be one of the strongest candidates on
the ticket.
Geo. w. Baker has twice been elected
county attorney and this county never
had better official. He conducted the
office with the lowest expense to the
taxpayers of any county attorney the
county ever had.
The defeated candidates all take their
defeat with commendable spirit, real
izing that while they were defeated
there was nothing personal against
them, the aim of the delegates being to
select the strongest and best vote get
ting ticket possible.
A. G. Bunney, the candidate for re-
corder, will make winning race, and it
is already predicted that he will come
out of Garden Grove township with a
majority, which is significant from the
fact that the republican majority in
Garden Grove township is almost 200.
The nomination of Geo. w. Baker for
county attorney was secured without
any effort whatever on the part of Mr..
Baker, but there was demand from all
over the county that an experienced
and capable attorney should be elected
to this Office, and he will be elected too.
L. A. Brown, our candidate for audi
tor, is hustler and vote getter, which
is evidenced by the fact that he secured
votes from nearly every township in the
county, and any man who can do this is
sure to be a good vote getter. There
will be no idle time with him from now
until the polls close, and unless all signs
fail he will be elected by handsome
majority.
The ticket enjoys one distinction this
year, and that is that one man on the
ticket is probably the largest man who
ever ran for a county Office in the state
of Iowa, S. H. Coyington, the candidate
for member of the board, weighing 800
pounds. And Sam is just as big a man
in every way as his weight and will
make an ideal member of the board, be-
ing successful business man, just what
is wanted on the county board.
Hon. G. P. Arnold was honored with
the nomination as the candidate for the
; short term as member of the board OF
supervisors by reclamation. During
the year he has served on the board he
has made splendid member and had it
not been that the candidate for record
J er was from Garden Grove township, he
would in all probability have been nom
mated for the full term, the only objec-
ton to him being that it would put two
) candidates in one township.
One familiar democrat at the county
conventions of Decatur county who was
absent this year was Prof. j. M. Howell
of Davis City, it being the first demo
cratic convention which he has not at.
| tended for over twenty years. But this
? year, Cuo COLlpCuOlOl pSlA5 uC1o ldVe
: and on Thursday, he was compelled tx
Z forego the pleasure Of attending as he
8 commenced his years work as principa
!. of the Decatur City schools on Monday
5 and did not feel like being absent from
!, his work for single day.
From the time we landed here unit
. Thursday, we have labored under tn,
delusion that there were but few demo