The Yellowstone journal., 1894-10-10
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In less than thirty days the people of
Custer comfy will have passed upon
the wisdom displayed by the republican
county convention in its selection of
candidates for the various offices by
either confirming or rejecting such Sc
1ections. In these days Of secret and
delibegArive voting tt the individual,
the choice by ballot means vastly more
than it did when it was possible to put
a ballot into a mans hand and march
him to the polls to vote it. The occu-
: patton Of the worker" at the polls 10
gone and with the departure of this evil.
comes renewed responsibility on party
conventions to nominate good men il it
is expected to hold voters to party allie
glance. In this respect the action of the
republican county convention is unus-
ually free from criticism and this condi-
ton is directly attributable to the fact
that the convention was,made upof actual
delegates and not of proxies. Never
the history of this county has the Ie
publican convention Of 1894 been
equalled in numbers or in actual repre-
sentation. Out of eighty-four delegates,
sixty-six sat in convention. only three
precincts were unrepresented and of the
fifteen proxies, thirteen were held ard
voted by residents of the precincts from
which the proxies issued. so that the
- h. h.
thoroughly representative body. One OF
eighty one votes cast. seventy nine were
given by men living in the localit'1
which they represented and sixty six G..
whom had been chosen by the republi-
cans Of their respective localities to rep
resent them. II is useless to say that
nomination by such a convention does
not represent the choice of the people
and it is not creditable to any republi
can to demur or find fault with the
selections made or to sulk in his tent be-
cause his choice was not the choice of
the convention. That there are repub-
licans who feel this way, we will not
deny. 1t is at once the good fortune and
the misfortune Of our party. that it
is made up of men who think for them
selves and who cannot be blindly drawn
to the support Of unworthy candidates
simply because such candidates have by
crafty manipulations secured party en-
dorsement, but no such objection can lie
in this case. In order that no man
might have cause to complain, six weeks
notice was given Of the primary elections |
and in the case Of the miles City pri- |
mary, all the safeguards and methods |
that surround a regular election were
ing seventy-five names OF known repub- |
licans, embracing every walk Of life, was |
used and from these, twenty-five were
chosen to represent this this precinct,
and it can safely be said that these !
twenty-five were no mans men as a |
body; every candidate before the con-
vention had his or her supporters in the |
Miles City delegation, but though nu-
nesically the largest, this delegation was
powerless to carry out any schemes it |
might have matured, in the face of fifty |
nine votes from the country" We
make this point briefly, for the reason |
that in times past Miles City has been |
charged with undue influence in the con-
ventions, and while in therecollection Of |
the writer such charges were unfounded,
there might have been some reason for
their existance, but certainly none for
any such claim today. Whatever was
dooe in the last convention was done by
~ country" and confident that this