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Constitutional Convention.

CONSTITUTIONAL Convention.
Early Monday morning of this
week a visitor at the county seat
could have seen determined looking
men quietly slipping here and there,
dropping word of warming here
and a threat there, demanding
pledges Oh their knees, and pleasing
delegates in all manner Of positions
and shapes. 1t was the beginning
Of convention day. The LaMoure
forces were on the ground early and
gave it out that there would be
music if any man monkeyed with
the Deseim musical vehicle. L. G.
Harris was the general-in-chief COM
manding the LaMoure forces Of four
men with himself and early in the
day went behind their breastworks,
where they stayed all day and finally
were slaughtered on the ramparts by
their own hand-rather than be
captured they each in turn fell on
their trusty broad swords and died
with the fierce LaMoure warwhoop
on their lips. It was scarcely two
o'clock when County Committee
Chairman Cole ascended the rostrum
of the large court house. picked up
beautiful polished gavel evidently
borrowed from some bridge construc-
ton gang, and called one of the
largest and what proved to be the
hottest convention ever called to
order in Dickey county. After read
ing the call, and a few appropriate
with some good suggestions,
Mr.. Cole asked the convention to
chairmrn. Mr.. Richie,
Of kentner township, was made
temporary chairman and later on
WIS made permanent chairman.
MIR. Richie on ascending to the
chair thanked the people in a neat
little speech and then the conven-
tion got down to work. The chair
several committees, the
one being on credentials,
of which L. L. Marshall Of this city
was chairman. The only contest
was in LaMoure county and that in
one precinct. In due time the sew
eral committees reported and all re-
ports were unanimously adopted, ex-
cept the committee on resolutions.
In this case Mr.. Shepard, of Nor
way presented majority report ia
voring the prohibition question to
be submitted as a separate clause to
the people, and Mr.. Dennison pre-
sented a manority report favoring
the embodying Of the question in
the body Of the Constitution. Here
followed a spirited discussion in
which many fine speeches were made.
Finally. after an attempt to take
second ballot on the minority report
the chair declared the vote illegal,
as 115 votes were polled, whereas
but ia delegates were on the list.
Chester H. Bateman at this point
got in some smooth work by getting
a roll call and each delegate voted
as his name was called. At the close
of the roll call it was discovered
that the minority report favoring
constitutional prohibition in the
body of the Constitution had carried
almost unanimously. Then came
the desperate work. Nominations
were in order and the following
gentlemen were nominated as fol-
lows: w. H. Rowe, Of Monango,
by Mr.. Hines, Of keystone; H. S.
Deseim, Of LaMoure, by L. G. Harris,
Of LaMoure; H. ]. Mallory, by G.
E. Talmadge; A. D. Pennington, by
Henry Dickie; W. H. Ellis, by DR..
T. H. Matthews, Of Cakes. An in
formal ballot resulted as follows:
Rowe, IS; Pennington, 25; Deseim,
20; Mallory, ID. AS soon as the
ballot. was announced and Ellis re-
ceived no votes, long whine went
out from the chronic throat of C.
E. Talmadge chat Ellis and Rowe
had combined and he urged the del
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