Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-19

Inc nominations OF Justices OF th
Peace and COnstables for Silver Bow towr
ship then occupied the convention but th
voting on them was limited, after niue
wrangling, to the delegates from the prt
cincts in the township. Charles O'Donnel
Gilbert Engel, Evan Herbert, John G.. HoI
kins and M. p. Smith were placed in nom
nation successfully and the ballot resulted
Herbert, 15; O,Donnell, 81; Smith, 4e
Hopkins, so, and Engei 12. Smith an,
Hopkins were declared the nominees.
For Constable, Bennett Benson
William Dave, VIM. Morsehead, Sam Ton
kin, Gilbert Engel and e. E. Williams wer
placed in nominations The ballot resulted
Benson, So; Dave, 81; Morsshead, az; Ton
kin, IA; Engel, 20; Williams, Is, and Ed
| wards q.
1t was now nearly 6 o'clock and the con
vention took q recess to 7:3O.
Evening Session.
The convention reassembled at 7:3O arc
was called to order by the chairman, who
announced that the first business in ordel
would be the nomination for candidates
for the Legislative Assembly, but as th,
platform and resolutions had not yet beer
presented and was In the hands OF the com
mittee, he suggested that they be read anC
considered. There being no objection Judge
Knowles read the resolutions AS follows:
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That we are in full accord with
the aims and purposes Of the Republican
party OF the United States; that we are
proud OF it's past history and achieve
ments, and hold that during it's existence
the material prosperity of all classes oi
the people Of this country has been
materially advanced and human rights
elevated to higher and more enduring
position.
That we endorse the platform of the
National Republican party OF 1888 and ite
nominees for President and Vice President,
Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton,
and earnestly desire their election.
That after four years in power the Dem.
ocratic party has failed to achieve or pro.
pose anything OF benefit to the people;
that its foreign policy has been weak and
vacillating and unworthy the dignity of 30
great and honorable nation as the
United States; that it has violated it's
pledges OF civil service reform, and has not
only failed to reduce the expenditures OF
the national government, but has ma
terially increased them; that it's only at.
tempt to reduce taxation has been the
proposed modification OF the tariff in the
interest of free trade; that it has shown
an unparalleled hostility to the terrific
ries of the West; that it has pursued a
course tending to retard their settlement
and growth, and has exhibited DISPOSE
tion in the interest of party supremacy to
violate the undoubted intent OF those who
framed our national constitution and
keep them in state Of colonial subjec-
ton to the National Government when
Justly entitled to be admitted as equal
States in the Union.
Resolved, That we denounce the present
administration for it's hostility to silver.
and we charge that President Cleveland by
his message to Congress demanding the
cessation cfsilver coinage has caused q loss
to the silver mines OF Montana of hundreds
of thousands OF dollars.
Resolved, That it is our firm conviction
that the Democratic doctrine Of tariff for
revenue only" is but another name for
tfree trade" and that free trade" must
inevitably lead to low wages, and that low
country of the same conditions of poverty,
suffering and want which nev exists in
many countries Of Europe.
Resolved, That we are unalterably op-
posed to the importation of contract labor,
and that we favor the enactment of the
most stringent laws looking to the suppress
sion OF this evil which works such an injus-
tice TO the laboring classes Of this country,
and especially do we favor any and all
measures looking to the exclusion OF Chi.
nese cheap labor.
That we are in favor OF a law authorizing
the appointment OF Territorial Inspector
.of mines whose duties itshall be TO examine
all mines with the view OF ascertaining il
they are properly timbered and ventilated
to the end that the lives and health OF Our
mining laborers may be preserved.
Resolved, That we believe 1T Is peril
nent at this time to call the earnest atten'
tion OF the Republicans of Montana to the
gross frauds and open prostitution OF the
ballot box, which have heretofore been
nracticed by the Democratic party.o .of this
Territory, and particularly to the shame
less and Wholesale purchase OF votes in the
city of Butte four years ago, by which Hon
Hiram Knowles, the Republican nominee
for Congress. Was defeated; and in this con.
;,ection we urge upon our representatives
IN theTerritorial legislature the necessity
of acme measure looking to the registra-
tion ofyoters 10 the end that the ballot
NAV be preserved 10 it's purity.
Resolved, That the principles of Amer
lean government are IN direct opposition
t,. and that we severely condemn the use
Of coercion or intimidation, either implied
or expressed ON the part OF any Individual
cumpany or corporation, to influence the
votes OF employees, recognizing in such
practices direct infringement upon the
most sacred rights Of the individual, an In
suit to his manhood and an attempt to re
duce him to condition OF abiect servitudt
and dependence. :.
Resolved, That we pledge to the county
ca ndidates this day nominated our loyal
and hearty support.
las, Hall moved the adoption OF the reso-
lutiofs which was unanimously agreed to
Nominations for the Council were de