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National County Convention.Pusnant to notice, the Nationalsm af Morgan county assembled at the ir Court House, in Martinsville, Satis urday, June 8th, 1878, to nominate :k candidates for the various county ly offices to be filled at the ensuing le October election, ly The Convention was promptly 01*-r- ganized at 10£ o'clock a, m. by the le selection of Hon. Levi Ferguson as it- Chairman and E. W. Callis and J. n- D. Whitted as Secretaries. An or-Id der of business was then adopted so and a call of the townships made, is, All responded excepting Ashland, k- which cut the number of delegates so down to 72. On motion a commit-so tee on resolutions—one from each n- towuship — was appointed in the w, following order:1st Adams: John L. Raj\i»gj Brown: William Maey.d-l Baker: Presley Johnson,nd Clay: Henry D. Landers,rat- Greene: James M. Greer.13% Gregg: Dr. Grafton Seaton.— Harrison: Peter Morningstar.»e- Jackson: Joseph O. Fletcher,he Jefferson: Henry Sheplor.de Madison: Peter Slaughter,he Monroe: Leander Dewees,on Ray: Henry H. Newton,ed Washington: Clarke S. Crary.ef, On motion, Dr. Jarvis J. Johnson,P. of Washington township, was added on to the above committee,,ve] On motion, the Convention then 76, j adjourned until 1£ o'clock p. m., to Die give all who desired a chance to Uses- ten to a speech, in the court-house ck 1 yard, from Gen. S. F. Cary, of Ohio, ew The speech was considered, by ev-lad ery unprejudiced person who heard In- it, as the ablest and most convinced cing political effort ever made in the ver I town of Martinsville, ver Upon the re-assembling of the\t1]n_______^•__..t 1 1 __
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Martinsville Weekly Gazette
Martinsville, Indiana, US
Sat, Jun 15, 1878
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