Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-10
SHERIFFS HEADED BY PETERS
Deputy of Cook County, Illinois, is
Reelected President.
NEBRASKA MAN VICE PRESIDENT
Up for the Head office IL Chosen
for Second Office-Ex-
citement Runs High.

On the fifth ballot and after the hottest
fight ever known in the annals OF the as
ISOLATION, in which ward politics and bal
lot box-stuffing were resorted to, Charles
w Peters. deputy sheriff Of Cook county,
Illinois, was reelected president Of the
National Sheriffs association yesterday
afternoon The election of the Chicago
man was made possible by the withdrawal
OF Nebraska's candidate, James NJ. Dunkel
Of Grand Island, who UP until that time
had been leading the race. The final vote
was Sc for Peters and AZ for Louis Eek
hardt OF Davenport, the candidate OF the
Iowa delesRtion ---
The ballot-stuffing came on the fourth
ballot. eight votes all in the same hand
writing being found rolled up together IN
the box. There was intense indignation
and disgust manifest and for awhile It
looked as II there was going to be serious
trouble
Sheriff Ben Ness Of Des Moines offered
to withdraw the name OF Eckhardt from
before the convention II the judges should
disclose the name on the ballots and II
should happen to be that OF the iowa can
didAte. After some discussion IT was de-
cided that this would be highly unfair,
however, and Ness withdrew his motion.
Contest WAKES Warm.
This affair was preceded by little
fracas over the voting of c. P. Froom,
chief OF police Of Council Bluffs, by the
Iowa delegation as a deputy sheriff. Sher-
If Bradley made an impassioned speech in
which he threatened to run in the votes OF
every police officer in Omaha on the same
grounds. This affair blew over, however,
In the excitement attendant upon DunkePs
withdrawal.
Sheriff Dunkel was then elected vice
president over Sheriff ORourke of Mon
tana, who was put up by the Iowa dele
CATION. Sheriff Gerber Of ct. Paul was
unanimously reelected to the office OF
secretary.
There was no struggle over the next
convention city, as that Is chosen by the
officers.
On the first ballot James N. Dunkel.
the Nebraska candidate, led the field with
fifty votes; Louis EckhArdt Iowa's can
dIdAte, coming next with forty-two votes
and Charles w. Peters, present incumbent
OF the office, third with twenty-six votes.
It requires sixty votes to elect.
It Is a fight between Nebraska and Iowa
primarily, with the rest of the states united
practically As q unit for the Chicago man.
desperate effort was made BY the Iowa
delegation before the ballorinG started to
put Petsrs cut Of the race by introducing
q motion to the effect that no president
oeuld succeed himself Bill" Lofts OF
ISwA put the motion and was greeted with
howls Of applause from his hackers and a
few OF the Nebraska delegation. Cries Of
unfsirnsss. however. were many. and hot
debate followed
Sheriff z. F. Bradley Of Omaha turned
the tide by moving that the motion be
tabled. declaring that IL was unconsttu-
tional and unjust, and that he wanted 70
vote for the man he wanted whenever he
wanted to.
Sheriff Peters was nominated In a rous-
ing speech by Sheriff Charles Werner Of
Springfield, H.. who declared that his
candidates twenty-eight years Of service
as the actual sheriff Of Cook county should
give him the position hands down
Sheriff Dunkel was nominated by Sheriff
Hoagland Of Lincoln, who characterized
the Nebraska man as short OF stature, but
broad OF shoulders and mind
Sheriff Eckhardt was nominated by ]. J.
Dunn OF Dubuque. Ia, who said that he
thought the honor should be handed
around and not kept in the hands OF one
man