Show WORSE THAN OLSON f The Liberals Nominate John Lawson for the Council He 1 the Man Who Renounced His Nationality National-ity Changed His Name and 1 Now on the Liberal Ticket Wo downed McNlece The church people got left The preachers ne not In i These were the remarks exchanged by the delegates to tho First precinct Liberal convention conven-tion held in the federal courtroom last night I to select a candidate for tho city council to succeed I I suc-ceed Olson decapitated I Now Olsen did not reflect any credit upon the I Scandinavians whose representative h was supposed to bo but the man selected to succeed suc-ceed him is an insult to that sturdy race His I ancestors went by the name of Larsen an honored name in Scandinavia but on coming I l vi wCsoo leg here this i fellow Anglicized i it into Lawson I Thats the sort of a Scandinavian he is and the sort of man he is may bo judged froiu the testimony testi-mony given before a commissioner ome months ago by Mrs Vail wife of Engineer Vail of the fire department when ho was on trial for assaulting her I Well these delegates met in the court room i and after sitting around for some time Jakey Greenwald called them to order and proceeded to read Olsena letter of resignation as written I by Judge Powers He then called A L Williams to the chair The delegates ALL TOOK A SMOKE and waited for somebody to take tho initiative As no one did it they divided up into groups and caucused At about 830 Judge faawyer moved that the resignation of Olson be accepted ac-cepted A number of men in the rear of the room yelled No J 1 No 1 1 but the motion was carried just the same i Then nominations i were called for and AsSistant fti at A6 I I sistant City Attorney Elchnor arose D C I Eichnor said he had been requested to present he name f J D Updegraff against whom no one could say a word That gentleman was amoral a-moral man and he would add dignity to the city government J H Harris considered that the dropping of Olson was an outrage but as that pent email had resigned he named A S Kendall to succeed suc-ceed him on the ticket TilE MAN ASHAJtCD OF IllS NATIONALITY Judge Barns presented the name of John L Lawson and one Corcoran and Al Ecklund seconded sec-onded it Arthur Parsons nominated Jakey Grcenvsld and Colonel Lochrie presented ihe name of J E Wiscomb i I Nominations then closed and the balloting was proceeded with There were eighty delegates I dele-gates present consequently fortyone votes were necessary to a choice The first ballot resulted as follows Greenwald 16 i TJpdeKraff iscorab 14 8 Lawton 2J I Kendall uo 00 0 1 John Johnson 1 I ninnlc I = = = = = = = = 1 tJ ri otvsu ordered and the result was as follows Qreenwald un 9 Updegrafu u 0 12 iscomb 10 Lawson uu 0 u 21 Kendall 2t When this ballot was announced Jakey I Greenwald took the floor and announce A that while thankful for the confidence reposed in him as shown by the ballot Selah he wished to withdraw his name The third ballot was proceeded with and resulted re-sulted as followsc Updegraff nnn 29 Yiscombu 3 u u 0 u n U 0 Law on uu unouu 0 20 Kendall 1 Colonel Lochrie withdrew the name of Mr Wiscomb and the fourth ballot was taken the result being as follows Updegraff nun 18 1 Lawson n 0 30 Kendall nunn nn U 6 No choice sang out the chairman Prepare Pre-pare for the fifth ballot The Lawson men 10 ked jubilant while Ken dalls supporters hustled around for votes They didnt getthem and so switched the result of the ballot being Updegraff 0 nun un n 2 6 Lawson u 0 42 Kendall un u 10 This nominated Lawson with one to spare and Jakey Greenwald took the floor On behalf of all candidates he moved that the nomination nomina-tion of Lawson be made unanimous The motion mo-tion was carried and Lawson was called for He thanked the convention for the honor und sat oclock djwn and the convention adjourned at 1 |