Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-11
independent County convsnt,on.

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order by A. NJ. Allen at 2 o'clock. Mr..
Allen was nominated temporary chair.
man, and accepted it in q depreciatory
way with the assertion that it was "im.
posing on good nature" he had been
chairman Of every county convention
since the party had been organized
No one seemed to pity and he pounded
the gavel and started the machine.
w. w. Slovenian, Of Bristol, was
elected temporary secretary and W. G.
Kendall was appointed to the arduous
duty Of seargeant-at-arms-a bone tossed
to Will to keep him in line.
A motion prevailed allowing the chair
10 appoint ell the comm;ttees-which
the chair modestly proceeded to do. On
credentials. A. B. Falkner, Thos. Doug.
lass and J. W. Tabor.
On permanent organisation and order
OF business. Seth Allen, A. C. Roberts
and Mr.. Stewart.
On resolutions, Geo. Patterson, y. &.
Yeager and NJ. l. Graves.
Committee on credentials were out
about an hour, in which time a collec-
ton for campaign p~urphses was taken
up, amounting 1915. The committee
reported % townships represented.
Delegates from Butler were admitted by
motion, leaving two towns not represen-
ted.
The committee on permanent organi-
zation and order Of business reported
as follows: first temporary organization
to be made permanent and order Of
business: /, nomination of county judge
2, Supt. Of schools. 8. States attorney.
4, Sheriff. Al, Register Of Deeds. 5, Au-
ditor, 6, Clerk Of courts, z, Treasurer, s.,
assessor, 0, Surveyor, 10, Coroner, IL,
Senator. IL. Representative, IL, Com
missioner, 1 Dist. Report adopted.
The report fell like q wet blanket on
some Of the aspiring ones-and hat by
the way composed q large part of the
eonyention-who were not on the inside
Of the deal. After the reports true in
wsrdness had began to soak in, Thos.
Douglass moved to reconsider the vote
by which it Was adopted and to adopt
the regular order al presented in the
call. Farmer Kelly seconded the motion
and thought the g~erremsnder in the re.
port would work an injury to several
candidates who would come before the
convention, and that all should have a
fair show. Seth Allen replied that there
was no attempt at gerremander. Vote
Viva Voca was called, and although the
Is had it, the chairman was unable to
decide, and division being called for
the ring program prevailed and the
motion was lost by q vote of % to 20.
Mr.. Allen bad been at the bottom of
thereport, although fairly beaten in the
first vote managed to get the combine to
understand that he didn't wait it that
way and SO Kelly and Douglass were
turned down and had to yield the point.
Ii was this unusual method Of doing
business that downed Mr.. Potter for
clerk and farm er Kelly for the senate.
The committee on resolutions repor-
ted q re- confirmation Of the St. Louis and
Dm-Aa-nie tfornnz Fvidanttp .lap
thought 10 endorse both those platf orms
ought to be enough rot for one day.
Mr.. Slovenian put in two amendments
to the report, one of tsffy for the Indians
and the other condemning the taking
Of railway passes by legislators, and the
report Was unanimously adopted.
The regular order of business nov
coming on. Farmer Cowen was nomi.
mated for County Judge by reclamation
Farmer A. NJ. Allen for supt. of schools
and farmer Sears, for states attorney
were also nominated by reclamation.
For sheriff, II. G. Serenson, w. W.
Dow, John Leightizer and Knut Syver
son were placed in nomination. Farmer
Serenson was in the deal and received
So votes on the informal ballot. John
Leightizer tumb!ed to the fact that he
wasn't on 10 the combination and moved
to make the informal q formal ballot and
to declare farmer Serenson as the nomr-
nee Of the convention for sheriff. The
motion prevailed as slick as goose grease.
For Register Of deeds WV. Dow, j..
B. Prendergast. B. II. Egeland and L.
ii. Belts were placed in nomination. On
the informal ballot. Dow had Is, Prem
dcrgsst42, Egeland 10 and Belts 3.
The formal ballot farmer Prender-
CAST having aided TO handle the pins in
the combine got there with two to spare.
For Auditor farmer Molee was nomina-
ted by a vote So. In this nomination
the combination slipped a cog.
For clerk Of the courts d. E. Potter,
VIM. Atchison and B. II. Egeland were
placed in nomination. Mr.. Graves
moved a formal ballot and the person
having the highest number of votes to
be declared the nominee. Half the
convention supposed it to be an infor-
NAL ballot, and the ringsters were per-
fectly astonished when Atchison's NOM
Ination was declared. Another cog
slipped but il was the last one.
]. T. Goodwin was nominated for
Treasurer by reclamation.
Z. P. Owen, a life long Republican,
was nominated for assessor.
1.-THE Surveyors office went 10y default
no one in the party being able to fill it.
Dr. Hermon was nominated for COR
oner.
For Senator, Farmer Kelly, A. e. Rob-
srts and NJ. !. Graves were placed in
nomination. An informal ballot result
ed.
Farmer Keliey...-."."."." ......".... 30
A. q. Roberta. 70
NJ. /. q. 70
Mr.. Graves withdrew and asked
his friends to support A. G. Rob.
erts. The formal ballot stood
Kelly 80 to Roberts 10 and farmer
Kelley was turned down the second
time by his devoted and loving
coadjutors Of the last three years.
A motion WAS made and adopted
to give n representative to the east
end.
For first representative S. G.
Crosby, W. IL. Jones, NJ. B. Pet
erson and John B. Wick. The iu-
formal ballot resulted:
Crosby IL
nc
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DOw....-......... 8
The second ballot gave NJ. b.
Peterson "a votes and the nomina.
ton. Just why the combine should