Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-24
DELEGATES.
Call Issued for Democratic Primaries for q
County Convention on May 1-Districts
in the County-Names Of Delegates
Spoken of.

County Convention ON May 1-Districts
in the County-Names of Delegates
Spoken OF.
w. R. Kenyon, chairman OF the Demo.
cratic county committee, has issued a call
for primaries to be held next Saturday at
the various precincts set out in the call,
between the hours Of 4 and 8 p. M, to
choose delegates who will meet at the Court
House at moo OF thefollowing Wednesday,
May 1. The purpose for which they will
meet is to nominate candidates represent
ing the party to be voted upon at the
election called by g~uberRatorial proclama-
ton for May IA, to represent the several
districts into which the county is divided
ct the Constitutional convention to be
held in Helena or the 4th of July next.
The number Of delegates in each county OF
the Territory at the various nominating
county conventions is in the discretion of
the different county committees, and the
Democratic committee of Silver Bow
county bases it's call for it's county conv, n.
ton on one delegate for every thirty.ive
votes cast for the Democratic candidate at
~ - xNOF6ulUCI clcCbIOu, WHICH, Ii CdlCu.
lated to assemble q convention at the
Court House OF about eighty.fve delegates.
It will be the duty OF these gentlemen to
nominate two candidates for election from
the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty.
fourth and Twenty.ffth electoral districts.
Each party, it is expected, will pnt in nom.
ination two delegates for each district.
Each district is entitled. by the enabling
act of February %, to three delegates in
the Constitutional convention. No voter
can vote for more than two candi.
dates, therefore one OF the candi.
dates Of each party is certain OF cleo.
tion, unless there shall prove on
the day OF election to be more than
two party tickets in the field. 1t is hardly
probable that this will happen. as the aim
OF both the leading parties will be to send
their very best men to the convention.
The object OF making the number of dele.
gates from each district three. and confn.
ing the choice OF the voter to two of these
only, is for the purpose of having the min
GRITTY represented in the convention-to
have the opinion OF the Territory impair.
italy represented.
The various county districts are an fol- |
lows: |
District No. 22-The following precincts
of Silver Bow County, to.wit: Clipper |
Mine, Rocker, Silver Bow Junction. Divide, |
Station, Melrose, Norton's Gulch, |
Soap Gulch, South Butte and the Sixth and
Seventh wards Of Butte City. |
District No. 23-The following precincts |
OF Silver Bow county, to-wit: Walkerville, |
Burlington, Centennial Brewery.
German Gulch, Gregson's Springs and Nc
.une Wood Camp.
District No. 24-The First, Third and
Fifth wards Of the City of Butte.
District No...25-The Second and Fourth
wards of che City of Butte.
Meaderville. Parrot and Blacktail pre-
are taken from Silver Bow County
and added to District 81, of Jefferson
and the ..ehairmen OF the Demo.
county committees OF Jefferson and
Silver Bow counties have issued a Joint
for that district, but the delegates from
the Silver Bow precincts will assemble Mt
Basin.
Speculation has already begun as to who
will be the best men to represent the party
n the several districts ito which this
is divided, and SO far az could be
earned yesterday among the statesmen on
he corners there seemed to be remarkable / ,
lnanimity OF opinion. From the Twenty
,econd district, consisting OF the Sixth and
seventh wards and the southern portion
d the county. G. w. Stapleton is spoken
of to represent the city andJ b. McQueeny
of South Butte to represent the agricultu.
al part Of the district. For the Twenty.
third district Leopold Schmidt OF the Cen
5ennial Brewery and Mr.. Campbell of
Walkerville. For the Twenty-fourtb dis. {
;rIct Mr.. Kirkpatrick, DR.. Hough and Judge
Caleb e. Irvine have been mentioned to be I
.hosen FROM. In ths Twenty-ifth district
he names suggested are w. A. Clark and I,
v. ". Dixon. The matter is only specula-
i've at present, as the sentiments 4 none |
the gentlemen mentioned are known at |
resent az to whether they win consent to
he use OF their names. 8