Nathan Sutton

The First District Democratie Repreentative Convention was called to rder on time at 11 o'elock this nioraing rder on time at 11 o'clock Saturday f temporary chairman were showered pon Ex-eandidate-for-the-legislature Nordman, of Lima. He asked the conention to throw aside all personalities and nomínate a candidate who will win. L. J. Lisemer was made temporory secetary and the following eommittees were appointed: Credentials-S. W. Beakes, Fred Bogle and Miehael Brenner. Permanent Organization and Order of Business- Charles Bates, Mr. McCune and Seward Cramer. Although, the Prohibitionists were supposed to be holding a representaive convention in the same building the dea of appointing a conference comnittee. with a view of amalgamating with the cold water men never occurred to the convention. It waa acknowledged that ex-Representative Nathan Sutton, of Northfleld, had a majority of the delegates outside of Ann Arbor city. It was feit in Ann Arbor that a candidate from the city should represent the district this year, especially in order to go there with the sole object of protecting the University from dismemberment by envious Detroit. Ann Arbor had three candidates in the field at the noon hour. They were W. D. Harriman, Wm. G. Doty and Hutson T. Morton, but the city delegates could not unite upon any one of them,. There was a chance for a first-class row over the gold and silver question, on the nominees and the committee on order of business recommended that the convention immediately proceed to ballot for candidates without nominating speeches in order to obvíate this as much as possible. The report of this committee was adopted at the afternoon sessjon. After a tedious and unnecessary amount of talk on proceeding to ballot the convention found out from the follwing score who were started in the race. (There were supposed be 118 delegates in the convention). Nathan Sutton 36. W. D. Harriman 23. Wm. G. Doty 14. John L. Duffy 3. Hiram Lighthall 2. Phillip Duffy 2. C. K. Manly 1. H. T. Morton 1. Wm. Welsh 1. Total 83. The flrst formal ballot stocd as folio ws: Sutton 47, Harriman 23. Doty 10. Lighthall 4. John L. Duffy 2. C. H. Manly 1 Total 87. llr. Sutton was declared the unanimous nominee. Mr. Sutton was formerly a representative from this district in the legislature and a farmer of Northfield with considerable prominence. The University of Michigan is known the world over as an educational center. The latest proofs f this are two young Mexicans, David Castilla, aged 26, who has entered the engineering departmenl with advanced standing from Lehigh university, and Emilis Arizpo, of Saltillo, also an engineer. Willlam Edwin Manhope, of Bailieloro, Cavan county, Ireland, entered Tuesday in the law depai-tment. No students have enroiled from Puerto Rico or Cuba and the one