Judson Ticket Was Nominated

The republican county convention, or rather canvassing board ratification meeting Friday named the ticket for the republicans of Washtenaw as it had been decided upon in advance of the primaries, as follows: 

Sheriff–James E. Burke. 

Clerk–James E. Harkins.

Register of Deeds–Chas. O. Barnes.

County Treasurer–Cone E. Sperry

Representative, First District–John Haarer.

Representative, Second District–Capt. E. P. Allen.

The delegates for senator were instructed by the primaries for Frank P. Glazier. 

When the convention was called to order by Gen. Green he called upon Horace G. Prettyman, of Ann Arbor, who addressed the convention as fellow republicans and praised the primary election as in line with the Australian ballot, which, forgetting its adoption by the Winans administration, he said was a step forward by the republican party. He said the result of the primaries was an indorsement for them and then paid the highest kind of a tribute to the efficiency and correctness of the Argus news service by stating that peculiar conditions existed in Washtenaw county of republicans looking to the democratic press of the county for their views of republicans looking to the democratic press of the county for their views of republicanism. He claimed, however, that without any disrespect for the gentlemen who are conducting the democratic press of the county, that no democratic paper is a safe place to go for republicanism for they are not trying to elect republican candidates. We should not go to them, he said, for ideas as to how to carry on our campaigns or for whom we shall vote. We have enough republicans in Washtenaw county to elect our whole republican ticket and that’s what we are going to do.

JUDSON ON DECK 

William Judson moved the appointment of the usual committees. John F. Lawrence called attention to the need of a secretary and named Frank Creech, of Ypsilanti, who was duly elected, after which Mr. Judson’s motion carried.

On motion of Gen. Green, two tellers were appointed. 

The committees named were as follows:

Permanent Organization– Charles Gauntlett, William Judson, John F. Lawrence, C. R. Barnes, H. A. Steinbach. 

Resolution–W. W. Wedemeyer, F. W. Green, F. A. Graves, A. F. Freeman, Art Guerin. 

Credentials–C. Homer Cady, C. H. Greenman, James Wilbur, Archie Wilkinson, Edgar Holmes. 

The convention then adjourned for dinner. 

On the reassembling of the convention, the usual routine reports were made and Judge Kinne was asked to name the delegates to the state convention and Frank P. Glazier the delegates to the state convention. 

The secretary and tellers reported the following total vote of the county primaries:

Judge of Supreme Court–Edward D. Kinne, 781; scattering, 7. 

Senator–Frank P. Glazier, 657; William Burtless, 157. 

Legislative, First District–John W. Haarer, 378; scattering, 8. 

Legislative, Second District– Edward P. Allen, 329; A. R. Graves, 102. 

Sheriff–James E. Burke, 524; George Sweet, 320. 

Register of Deeds–Chas. O. Barnes, 700; John Reno, 12; scattering, 3. 

Treasurer–Cone E. Sperry, 662; scattering, 6. 

Clerk–James E. Harkins, 771; scattering, 3. 

Prosecuting Attorney–A. J. Sawyer, jr., 54; Frank Jones, 31; F. A. Stivers, 26; F. M. Freeman, 13; A. J. Waters, 10; Carl T. Storm, 9; F. W. Green, 8; Bert Turnbill, 5; scattering, 25.

Coroners–H. B. Britton, 647; J. B. Wallace, 407. 

PRIMARIES ENDORSED

On circuit court commissioner, the vote was less than 100 and badly scattered. 

The convention indorsed the action of the primaries, nominating the candidates there endorsed. No nominations were made for prosecuting attorney or circuit court commissioners, but the matter was left entirely in the hands of the county committee.

The following were named as delegates to the state judicial and senatorial conventions:

Judicial Delegates–Hon. E. P. Allen, Fred Green, A. F. Freeman, A. J. Waters, Wm. Judson, W. W. Wedemeyer, John F. Lawrence, Jerome T. Knowlton, Junius E. Beal, H. G. Prettyman, Frank E. Jones, Seth Randall, Frank Creech, James L. GIlbert, Morton F. Case, Martin Wackenhut, A. W. Wilkinson, George Burkhardt, George S. Wheeler, M. L. Case, Charles H. Greenman. 

Senatorial Delegates–H. G. Prettyman, Wm. Judson, W. W. Wedemeyer, John W. Haarer, James E. Harkins, E. P. Allen, Fred W. Green, George Cook, Abraham Woods, John Kalmbach, A. W. Wilkinson, Phillip Schweinfuth, William Burtless, A. J. Waters, WIlliam Tresselsouse, Otto Luick, John F. Huehl, Charles Gauntlett, Henry Steinbach, John Munn, James Wilbur. 

Judge Kinne in naming the state delegates said that he had no thought of forestalling the action of the convention. He would like all present to go as delegates. He would suggest 21 names, but would be perfectly satisfied if other names were substituted. He said that some contingency might arise at the state convention that it would be important to him to have men of wide state acquaintance. If a nomination ever came to now or ever it must come to him in such a manner to honor him and his district. There were many reasons why he would prefer to live among the people here than to remove to Lansing. 

Mr. Glazier thanked the convention for the honor of naming the delegates to the senatorial convention. He said if elected in November he would go to Lansing to represent the interests of the tenth senatorial district, independent and without any strings tied to him. 

Charles E. Townsend, republican candidate for congress, was next called out for a speech and introduced as an adopted son of Washtenaw. He said he was a republican because he had been a student of the lives and careers of the republican leaders from Alex. Hamilton to Wm. McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. He stood with the republican party on the tariff and the employment of American labor and every other American interest. He stood for so much protection as represented the difference between the cost of production here and the cost of production of the same article abroad. More than this was wrong, less than this was not true to the principle of protection. He thought the tariff needed revision in spots, but it should be revised by its friends and not its enemies.

He alluded to the determination of the democracy of Michigan to confine the conduct of the state campaign to state issues, in a sarcastic fashion, and said the contest was simply for the offices. 

He committed himself to a thorough going primary election law and election of U. S. senators by the people.

Relative to his own nomination for congress he handed out a few compliments to Washtenaw and the other counties which aided in his nomination and declared that he received that nomination without any promises in the way of patronage or anything eles of a political nature, that he stood wholly independent and would wear no man’s collar. He declared that if he was elected to congress, and he expected to be, he would owe no allegiance to any master, but only to the people whom he would do his best to serve in all ways. He closed with an earnest appeal to all republicans to stand firm for the ticket from top to bottom. 

James E. Harkins made a neat little speech of thanks, but the convention was not content, but forced him to sing “I Got MIne,” which he said did not refer to his nomination, which proved the most taking number of the convention. 

Candidate Burke, being called for, thanked the convention. 

Capt. Haarer also thanked the convention for the honor conferred and promised to do his duty if elected. 

Cone E. Sperry promised to do all he could for the whole ticket. 

While others were being called for, William Judson moved to adjourn, which was done with three cheers for the ticket.