The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-07-22

To the surprise of the Demo-
cratic clique its convention finished
its deliberations at 4 so o'clock
Thursday evening. Members Of the
clique a day or so before the con-
vention, when negotiating for the
music at the convention, left the
impression that the convention
would last a good part Of the night
and possibly have to go over to the
next morning. 1t appears that the
clique was not entirely sure of its
work and it began TO awaken to the
fact that there was a formidable OPP
position to it and its methods by
many country Democrats, as well as
large number of city Democrats.
1t thought possibly It's plans might
miscarry to some extent, and deter
mined that, if nothing else would
help it, it would filibuster and worry
the country Democrats, as well as
some Of the city Democrats, into
coming to time
The ticket as nominated is as fol-
lows:
Charles a. Short, for sheriff.
q. d. Lewis, for prosecuting at
torney.
David I. Hall, for county COM
missioner.
w. o. Kennedy, for assessor up
per district.
Louis Rector, assessor lower dis
trict.
Guy BusselI, for county surveyor.
M. ]. Francis and Ernest Ram
dolph, for house Of delegates.
After The candidate for sheriff
had been nominated and Harrison
and Lewis had been put in nomina-
ton for prosecuting attorney, L. G.,
Smith announced that he had been
requested e put the name of G. h.
Sperry before the convention. and
did so. It was announced that
Sperry had been the Democratic cd-
itor here for period of two or three
years
The ballot resulted as follows:
Clark district. Harrison 6. Lewis
4 Clay district. Lewis 10; Coal dis
trict. Harrison ). Lewis ,, Spcrrv|
2 Eagle district. Harrison /, Lewis
9; Elk district. Harrison ?, Lewis
s.; Grant district. Harrison Z, Lewis,
2, Sperry /: Sardis district. ITarri-
son ;. Lewis :: Simpson. Harrison.
8, Lewis .; Union. Harrison o..
Lewis / Tenmile district. Harrison
So, Lewis i, Sperry u. Total,
Harrison Is, Lewis -. Sperry 4.
The call of the roll of delegates
for nomination for county commits
sioner brought no response, and j.
j. Davis placed the name of David
i. Hall for the place The nomi-
nation was nude BY reclamation.
Florris Davis named c. W. Davis
son for assessor in the upper district
and DR. Kemper, Of West Milford,
nominated w O. Kennedy in al
mastery effort. Kennedy received
the nomination by a good sized ma
jority.
J. j. Davis nominated Gordon
Kisbaugh. oi Sardis, for assessor inl
the lower district Frank Whitel
named L6uis Rector in very clever
speech Edmund Southern second
ed the nomination Of Kishbaugh
James W Robinson placed John w.
Flanagan in nomination.
Kishbaugh got 10 votes in Sardis,
8 in Coal. 3 u CLAY. . in Eagle and
nothing in Simpson. receiving all
told Is vote Rector got in Coal.
8 in Eagle, , in Clay and 10 in
Simpson, nalins a total Of 30.
Flanagan was given votes by Coal
district and that was all he re-
ceiyed
Guy Basel wa- nominated by ae-
clamation by tic contention for
county surveyor. His name was pre-
sented by c, +. Holden and there
was no other candidate for The place.
The following executive commit
tee was reported:
81 CLAY district. l.. J. Rowand j:
Clark. r. A. Garrett: Coal. NJ. j.
Francis: Eagle c. $. Homor: Elk,
S. r. Bartlett: Grant, 5. L. Basel
Tenmilc, NJ. H. Davis Sardis. G. T.
Kisbbaugh: Simpson. j. H. Hurry,
and Union, r. G. HelmicB. after
which the convention adjourned sine
die.
One Of the features Of The con-
vention was the way the clique
manipulated the affair. especially
the nomination Of Short. SO long
as there appeared no special danger
of Fighters being nominated they
were content 10 worry along and take
the time Of the convention. but
when it came 10 the point where
Fighter was about to be nominated,
Ernest Randolph, who took special
pains to try 10 impress the conyen-