The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-04-19
BROKEN PROMISES.
History of the Recent Judicial Con-
VentiOn.
MEIGS COUNTY
Promises Her Delegation to One Man and Then, AS
Usual, Delivers it to Another.

The first vote resulted as fol-
lows:
Vollenweider, 81 johnson, 80 ;
Ricketts,, II. On this vote, Meigs
county cast II for Vollenweider
and 10 for johnson and continued
to vote that way until the last bal
| lot, when the entire vote went to
Johnson.
Fairfield cast 15 votes for Vol
lenwelder, 3 for johnson and for
Ricketts,, while Hooking, Vinton
and Gallia voted solidly for their
favorites.
On the second ballot, Fairfield
voted 10 and 10 for johnson and
Ricketts,, while all the other coun-
ties voted as on the first ballot,
and the same was true on the third
ballot, except that Vinton divided
her vote between Vollenweider and
Ricketts,. On the fourth ballot the
explosion occurred.
A recess was taken to allow time
for consultation and when the roll
! was finally called the result was as
follows: Nollenweider, 10; John
son, 5G; Ricketts,, 90. Johnson
was declared the winner and the
Gallia shouters almost raised the
roof oil the house. He received
10 votes in Fairfield, 10 in Gallia
and % in Meigs. Vollenweider
had only Vinton's 10, while Rick
etts got l5 from Hooking and 5
from Fairfield.
johnson was brought into the
convention and made short
speech, thanking the delegates for
the nomination.
The nomination of Johnson and
the defeat of Otto Vollenweider is
the climax of cut-throat politics,
and ranks as one of the rawest
political deals ever handed an as
piring candidate. Vollenweider
had the positive pledge of every
prominent republican in Meigs
county and this pledge had been
renewed from year to year. Vol
lenweider has for years carried
Vinton county's vote in his vest
pocket and whenever Meigs need,
ed it she got it, and in return
pledged the vote of Meigs, when
ever Otto got ready to make stab
at the judicial job. This trade
was made at Lancaster two years
ago when Judge Bradbury landed
the iudgeship to succeed Judge
Wright, and was reiterated last
year at Gallipolis, when Vinton S
vote was needed TO land Rathburn,
and every member of both delega-
tions is said to have Individually
and collectively pledged the Melgs
vote TO the popular young attor-
ney from the hoop-pole county in
return. 1t must be said to the
credit of Senator Rathburn and
number of others that they tried
to keep their pledge and they
would have done it had they not
been "wild hogged" in the com
mittee meeting of last week.
Johnson, the successful aspirant,
is nephew of Judge Bradbury,
and there is an old "gsg" that
blood is very much thicker than
water. II might with equal truth
be said that blood is stronger than
campaign promises, so it was not
surprising that Judge Bradbury
could overlook such a promise
when an opportunity presented it,
self to assist one of his kin-folks |
Anyhow he did it and that is why |
the budding jurist with the Ger
man cognamen is to be kept away
from the juicy puddin', otherwise
called Common Pleas Judgeship.
But it took some devilish slick
work to line up to the necessary
'otes to turn the trick. 1t was up
% Meigs county to do the job, for
zach candidate had two counties
20 start with and johnson had tol