The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-22
POPUL!ST COUNTY CONVENTION
The Delegates Meet and Elect Dele.
gates to the POpulist State
Convention at Deer Lodge.
The County Convention to Nominate
Candidates for County Offices to
Meet Aug. IA ut Great Falls.

The populist county convention met in
the populist club room in the Realty
block Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Dan. Mckay, chairman Of the county
committee, called the convention to
order in a neat speech.
On motion j.. E. Num- Of Sand Coulee,
was elected president, and s. NJ. Moore
Of the same town secretary.
THE president on taking the chair
thanked the delegates for the honor and
hoped the proceedings would be harmon
ious and in the interest Of the whole
people.
The following delegates answered to
roll-call, Sand Coulee being the only dis.
trict represented by delegates elected in
accordance with the call: j. E. Mum,
Hans Gibson, W. r. Dixon, John Gillen,
James Naysmith, S. M. Moore, Henry
Mclaughlin, Thomas Mehan, Patrick
Keegan, Jas. Erickson. Burt Fenrick.
Several Of the Sand Coulee delegates
expressed their minds pretty freely about
the Great Falls populists not having
delegates at the convention. An expla-
nation was given by a populist why
Great Falls was not up to time and the
Sand Coulee men accepted the apology.
In the meantime several populist leaders
put in an appearance. A motion was
carried for a short recess to arrange del.
egates to the populist state convention.
On being called to order the following
delegates were nominated and elected:
Sand Coulee, w. r. Dixon; Belt, Samuel
Galby; Great Falls, Matt Dunn, James
Donovan, P. H. Hughes.
The following committee on resolu-
tons was then appointed by the chair:
S. M. Moore, W. r. Dixon, o. M. Holmes.
On motion the committee took a recess
until 4 o'clock to give the committee
time to draw up resolutions.
At 4 o'clock tho convention reas-
sembled, and the committee on resolu-
tons reported the following:
In county delegate convention, as
sembled at Great Falls, Mont, June 20,
1894. the delegates Of the peoples party
Of Cascade county, it's delegates to the
state convention are instructed to en-
ploy every honorable means to have the
following incorporated in the state plat
form:
THAT the popullst party insists on
the application OF the initiative and ref
erendum in the passage Of all it's laws,
both civil and criminal.
"That the election of United States
senator's be made Unpopular vote at reg.
ular elections.
That the state mine inspectorship be
made elective and non-partisan 30 far as
possible.
THAT protection is a business and not
a political proposition; that the protec-
tive system should be based on the diff
ference between what the wages should
be in this country and what they are in
Europe, and that the establishment and
manipulation Of such tariff schedules
should be placed In the hands of a per-
manent non partisan commission, and
that any raise made at any time in any
tariff schedule must be based upon q
proportionate raise Of the operatives
wages.
"That we indorse each and every plank
Of the peoples party Omaha platform"
A resolution was adopted instructing
the executive committee to call a county
convention to meet in Great Falls on
Tuesday, Aug. IA to nominate county
officers.
After a general discussion on several
matters pertaining to the thorough or
Of the populist party in Cas-
cade county and other matters the con-
uention adjourned sine die.