The new North-west., 1890-09-12


| The nomination Of officers was passed.
The report on The County Central Com
| mittoo was made and adopted, as follows:
| y. J. Bielenberg. Deer Lodge; ]. Il. Losce,
| Anaconda j NJ. Sigh GRANTEE II. f.
Titus, Philipsbur@; and James Moore,
Anaconda.
Mr. n, j, Bielenbcre was elected chair
man Of the County Central Committee
The committee on platform and rcsolu-
tions through its chairman Mr.. Theodore
lirantly, made its report, Us follows:
We, the delegates Of the Republican
party Of Deer Lodge county, in convention
| assembled, express our unqualified APP
proyhl Of the National Republican plat
form Of 1883
We hereby endorse President Harrison's
administration as thoroughly Republican
| and wsc.
| We renew our adherence to the princi-
| pies of protection as have been enunciatcd
| in the platforms Of the party in the past
We believe that protection for American
industries is the only direct highway to
| national prosperity.
We unYualfcdly endorse the course
taken by Speaker Reed in removing the
| main obstacles in the way Of practical leg
is!itlon III Congress, anu approve ms posi-
| ton that a member cannot be both absent
| and present at one and the same time.
| We do not believe in Il minority rule
We assert that the efforts Of the Hon.
7. II. Carter, our Representative i'll Con
gress, to retain the present duty on lead
and i'll behalf of the present coinage act,
| whereby silver has appreciated about
twenty five per cent, and his efforts to pro-
| tect the miners of the Rocky Mountain
region from competition with the peon
laborers of Mexico, to open valuable lands
for settlement, and to protect citizens Of
Montana from a threatened land steal Of
startling magnitude, have i'll every instance
| been for the furtherance of our interests,
and are deserving of the LASTING gratitude
of the people Of Montana; and the dele
| gates from this county to the State Con-
| vention are instructed to earnestly support
| him for denomination.
We heartily express our confidence in
Senators Wilbur +. Sanders and Thomas G.
| Power, our representatives in the United
| States Senate, and commend their manifest
devotion to the interests of the people of
| Montana.
| We hereby announce ourselves as op-
| posed to any radical change in the present
election laws of this State, or any moditi-
cation of the Australian system of voting
| which will in any wise weaken or impair
! Its efficiency. ..-... ~55.v..
| On the other hand we recommend such
/ additional Legislation us will perfect the
| operation of the present law, and render it
impossible to defeat the will Of the people
| by fraud and dishonesty in the selection
| of election officers and the manipulation Of
the vote at the polls.
| We want the law to render il impossible
to coloniZe and coerce an unnaturalzed
alien vote to defeat the will of honest
| American citizens at the ballot-box.
Remembering the repeated frauds per-
| petrated by the Democratic party at Wild
ers Landing, Wooley's Ranch and other
precincts, condemn in unmeasured terms
the attempted steal by that party of the
Saith precinct, in Silver Bow county, at the
last election, and the barefaced fraud and
robbery by which they attempted to defeat
the expressed wishes of the people of
Montana.
The platform was applauded throughout
as it was being read, and US it was finished,
received the hearty endorsement Of the
convention.
The following committee was appointed
to confer with u like committee from Bea-
verhcad county in the nomination of Il
Joint Representative: G. ID. Joslyn, /. 0.
Leonard, J. NJ. Sligh, W. G. Bradshaw and
Eric Mussigbrod. 55
The convention then adjourned.