Show FOURTH PRECINCT Gov Thomas and Arthur Brown Declined De-clined ta Become Candidates 1 The mass convention of the Fourth precinct j was held at Taggarts hall n Eighty or more voters of the precinct U worn present when J A Iloughton called the meeting to order Mrs Ralph Guthrie was named as temporary secretary sec-retary and Mr Houghton as temporary I l tempo-rary chairman these olllcers later being U be-ing made permanent officers of the meeting After the reading of the call a recons re-cons was taken to enable tho respec thc districts to name their delegates which resulted In the selection of the 4 following La Thirtyseventh James T Hammond Thirtyeighth Mrs Theresa Werner Thritynlnth Frank Hoffman Fortieth Forti-eth Frank L Inn Foriyfirst Thom UK Mulholland Fortysecond John Hoffenbach Fortythird W R HutchInson Hutch-Inson Then the chairman stated that tho I election of four delcgatossularge was In order and the blowing were placed In nomination Arthur Brown J E Jennings John T Lynch L M Earl James Devlne Arthur Pratt Grant H Smith Walter C Lyne John A Houghton Arthur L Thomas S E Harper and Mrs Arthur Brown the last named nominee being named by Mr Guthrie who Intimated that the best workers and best voters of the party were being slighted and should receive more rpcognJ lon than had been accorded them In the past Senator I Brown and Gov Thomas both declined to bo candidates and their names wero withdrawn I The VOLe resulted as follows Dc vine 44 Pratt 30 Harper 13 Smith M Lyne 23 I Earl 10 Houpluon 66 Mrs Brown 21 McMillan 22 Lynch 10 Jennings Jen-nings 9 I lllnes 5 Axton 1 Messrs Houghton Devine Earl and Pratt were I declared the delegatcMatlargc On motion of J T Axton Messrs Smith I Lyno McMillan and Mrs Brown were 1 declared the alternates they being tho I I four receiving the next highest number I of votes I W R Hutchinson then moved that the districts name their alternates and these were chosen aa follows Capt J Wash Young Thirtyseventh dis trict Mrs Glen Mlllor Thirtyeighth J E Jennings Thirtyninth Miss Susie Su-sie Harper Fortieth Ralph Guthrlp r Fortyfirst John Hyam Fortysecond I J T Lynch Fortythird A collection was taken to defray the expenses of the meeting which resulted result-ed In paying the expenses and having a balance of 2sr which Chairman Houghton said would be devoted to I campaign expenses |