The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-09-16

'EEKLY MINER.
MISREPRESENTATION An
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Campaign.
Inasmuch - IN attempt be- bee1
made 70 manufacture capital from
the nomiuation aud declinatlo0 q
Col. Weolfolk at the recent Demo
cratic convsntlon, It seenas psope'
| that the history Of that matter shoud
- given By that gestleusau himself
The Zadepssdest Of The eth says:
"Thess has been much slush and
mud thrown By the Republican o.
enns IN Consequence Of The dseliDa-
tioa a the editor Il this paper sitss
receiving The souinatioa 1sr Co..
gssss, and The subsequeDt Demina'
tisa II Hon. Martin Nasinnls. A
plajn, simple statemsot Of the fhets
viii pat 10 shame ill such malicious
6olhm0s3.
For several weeks prior 10 The
Butte copvsstion the Independent
had advocated The sxpsdiancy q
.s-asminatinx Hon. Martin 1agin-
nls - The mast available man IN TIE
present crisis. The soa.dnoss q TIE
visvs exprsssed wsse gsnssall y co
Absssd By TIE Dennocsatjs masses
throughout Tia Territory, and The
result ~as that more than two-thirds
Of the delegations sent to the TesTi-
toeial eonventio0, were favorable to
Naginnb upon the ground ofavsila-
bility.
The Lewis and Clarke eosnty eea-
vsntion was entirely In unison with
the genssal sentiment Throughout
the Territory, and although The sdi-
tor q this paper - chairman Of tho
eosvention soaght to give ill ele-
mests In the party . lair rsprsoenta-
ton In appointing the committee to
nsminate delegates to the couven.
ttou, yet - great was the preposder-
ance In favor Of Naginnis, that the
Lewis and Clarke delegates In IT.
tendance On the eonvsntion were
Dolidly Sbe him, with bat one single
exception. The editor Of this paper
was one u these delegates. We went
70 The oo0ve1tio0 With no thought Of |
being candidate, at least - against
70 whom We were COM
mitted BY our public and private Ut
tesanees - the available n,au. When
however, the delegates reached Deer |
Lodgs City, en- route to Butte, they !
Iound the county convsntion In ses-
non and It instructed for Hon. A. +.
Aayhew for Congrsss. This was
'omewhat ef . surprise, - the dele
patton from this county had been
Inclined to b ievs from the general
Of the Dsmocratic press
y we'll ~ conventions throughout
he Territory and the declarations
" several presumable candidates, that
daginnis would be unanimously
on the first ballot.
It was we'll known that NJ. Magin-
.is had two yeaD ago publicly de-
lined to be . candidate for - election
md that he construed his public ut
erance to mean that he wnsId nat
uf'er bis name to 90 before the con-
while Il had another candi-
|ate before il. When therefore the
|elegates favorable to bis nomination
ound that other candidates would
. In the field, they had tochooss BE-
ween the alternative Of blocking the
by the nomination AZ sev-
nj candidates, or permit the will Of
oore than three-fourths Of the con-
ention to be defeated by lees than
ne-fourth. Acting under this BE-
ef the Lewis and Clarke delegation
to nominate the editor Of
bio paper. OF course We appreciated
be compliment II sach . nomination
omjng to % unsolicited, % It did,
ut we undefstsod It to be merely .
We were fully aware
bat the object Of the nomination
~ simply to prevent the will Of the
eople from being defeated by the
Of one or more ambitions
'pirants, and although not . candi
ste, Ne were wiling to leave our
lives II the hands Of eur ft,eDds to /
rhisve the object in view. when
- convention inst for the purpose
nominating eaudidates We did not
tend, partly tor the rea-
~ that " knew our name would b
to the conventtou. but
,isAy because We were engaged In
'aitisg resolutions for the party !
atiorni. On the second ballot the {
saverhead delegation changed ftom
oole to Voolfolk, ~ did the lGadi- !
u delegation from Mayhem. These
'dden accessiens, together with .
" others, gave to ~ the nominatioo. !.
va the result Of the joint support I
eur own friends and . large Dor. q
% Of those who preferred Maginnis. Q
When informed Of the result. We
nfess that We were somewhat EN-. !.
'rrassed by the action OF the conven- q
~. We had come to the conveu- .
~ - . champion for the nomiua- =
~ Of Nagiunis, believing It to b :
the best interests Of the party. /.
} his friend and to further biz cause q
, had consented to the ne Of our : =
me before the convention. We 4