Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1880-10-12
THE CONVENTION.

The leading republicans and citizens
of Jamestown met at the court house last
Thursday afternoon ut 2 O'clock, for the
purpose of choosing two delegates to rep
resent Stllsman county in the Legislative
convention at Bismarck on Saturday, the
9th. H. M Tabcr was chosen chairman.
and VIM. C. White secretary.
It was moved and carried that dele
gates to convention be nominated by ac-
ckasMatipn.
RA. Bill and John Nichols nominated
and elected.
Upon motion committee Of three, con-
sisting OF Marshall Mcclure, chairman,
Lewis Lyon, and John T. Bush, was ap
pointed to act as Republican County Com
mittec for ensuing !, ear.
Adjourned.
There being a dispute among some Of
he citizens regarding the validity Of the
afternoon convention, few of the dis.
satisfied ones met at the court house at 7
o'clock and proceeded to choose two more
delegates in opposition to the two o'clock
convention, which they did by choosing
Major L. Lyon and s. F. Lambert
L. P. Wells and his supporters, who
were the principal participants in the
2 o'clock conventaon were present, and
up to Is minutes Of o'clock had mas
jority OF and could, if desired, have c5lled
the convention to order, and run it as
smoothly as they had their own few
hours previous At ten minutes Of 8
O'clock the Lyon faction bad succeeded
in running "mule.skinners" and railroad
men, including Limpy Jack and his pals,
" ho live in another county, to Carry the
convention. They then organized, and
after hard fight succeeded in running
in the delegates, as referred TO in the
foregoing. ...-r s.-....s...F Ns.
Mr. Wells, not dt.siring to secure the
nomination III opposition to the desires
OF tile whole people, addressed the cor
vention us soon as it was called, as fol-
lows; .s.. I
Gas there sppears to have been mis-
understanding regarding the hourat which
this convention was to meet and differ
ence of opinion as to which meeting is
the legal one, desire to make little cx-
PLANTATION of my position. l am not am"
bitous for any office in the gift Of the
people, having come to Stutsman county
for the purpose Of aiding in its develop
mcnt and thereby making money for my
SELF
''At the request of friends in this and
Burleigh counties, consented to accept
the nomination for the house, providing
l had reason to believe that it was the
wish of the majority our county. Re
garding the conflicting calls fol this con-
vention, | had ress son to believe that the
call for q convention at 2 o'clock was the
legal Que. Istill believe that to be true,
but see that there are here large nun
Der who do not agree with me- Amongst
these I sec many friends of Maine in whose
jud gmc mt and honesty have great conf
dence. also discover that this conven-
tion, which should have been friendly
one from the beginning, has aroused
much sectional feeling, and is degener-
ating into battle between the two sides
of an imaginary line. As have no SYM
pathy with any such feeling, and would
not under any circumstances act as the
representatives of south or north, or
any other side, unless I could represent
the WHOLE people, desire to say that l
withdraw my name absolutely from the
list of candidates for the position Of rep
rcenntativa