The Dickinson press., 1896-04-18

N. STARK w., NORIH i
press themselves as favoring the elec-
tion Of United States senators by the
direct vote Of the people.
We hereby instruct our delegates to
st. Louis to use all honorable means
to secure the nomination of William
Mckinley, jr., for president and they
are further instructed to vote OH all
questions as a unit.
The republicans of North Dakota, in
convention assembled, renew their
devotion to the doctrine of protection.
The republicans Of North Dakota are
unyieldlng in their demand for honest
money. We are unalterably opposed to
any scheme that will give this coun-
try deprecated or debased currency.
We favor the use of silver as currency,
but to the extent only and under such
restrictions that its parity with gold
can be maintained. We are therefore
opposed to the free and unli mited
coinage of silver, until it can be ar
ranged by international agreement.
The report of the committee on re
solutions was unanimously adopted
and great applause followed.
The main fight of the convention
came i'll the selection of he delegates.
Harry Oliver of Ransom made
motion that the convention proceed to
the naming Of the delegates to the
national convention. His motion was
carried. Mr.. Oliver named the follow
ing six delegates to be acted upon:
G. M. johnson, Richland; o. S.
Hanson, Trail; S. T. Satterthwaite,
Cass; J. NJ. Devine, La Moure; Ale x.
ander Hughes, Burleigh; J. H. Bin
genheimer, Morton. Delegates from
Barnes, Cavalier, Benson, Ransom,
EmmOns, Towner, and Stutsman
seconded the nominations.
As soon as Oliver could make the
motion and as soon as the motion was
seconded hundred delegates were on
their feet. An amendment was offered
to the motion that the name of Frank
Veits Of Grand Forks be substituted
for the name of Alexander Hughes of
Burlegh. Upon this point there was a
bitter andssliyely fight, and now aud
again some Of the old dirty linen was
thrown in the faces of some of the ring
leaders. Probably no man in the audi
ence spoke with more energy than
Cochrane of Grand Forks. He sand
wiched his eloquent sentences with
such expressions as "gag rule" and
others of similar nature and was
bitterly opposed to the leaving out of
su,h good county as Grand Forks.
and giving to Burleigh, the extreme
western county in the state dele
gate.
Miller of Bottineau arose and said
that he was aroused as all good repub-
licans should be; that he could not sit
quiet, and not at least ask for repre-
sentation from his district. He made
an amendment that the name of r. A.
Fox be substituted in the place of S.
I. .Satterthwaite of Cass. McGillivray
of Stark seconded the amendment.
At this point Mears of Cavalier arose
and made an earnest speech, opposing
the high handed way in which tho
delegates were being named, and de-
nounced the combine that had been
formed to gag those no had come
from the remoter counties with as
much right as any one Of the bodies
AS it was seen that it would be diff.
cult to proceed unless Miller Of Bot
tineau would withdraw his amend.
ment until after vote was taken on
the first amendment, he finally gave
in and consented to withdraw for the
time being.
Before vote was taken on the
question there were heated discus
sions participated in by many of the
eloquent speakers Of both sides. b.
F. Spalding of Cass, said that he had
agreed in the caucus to stand by what
was done at that meeting, and that
they agreed to support it as read by
Oliver of Ransom.
Evans of Kidder took occasion to
repudiate the remarks made by Spald-
ing by exclaiming with much en-
phasis that he did not see why any
action taken ut q caucus should bind
the members Of the convention.
Oliver of Ransom stated that he was
not looking for anything, but hs was
there to stand by what had been
agreed to at the caucus, and would
work in that line to the end.
R. N. Stevens of Burleigh made a
spirited talk and hurled bomb into
the enemies camp by saying that he
did not believe that the delegates in
convention were there to work for the
N. P. road. and did not see why they
should send delegate of the road to
the national convention. He had ref.
erence to Alexander Hughes.
In answer to this remark Spalding
Of Cass made the remak that he did
not see why the convention should
support representative Of Wall street,
meaning Alexander Mckenzie.
The matter finally came to vote,
and motion was made that the secre-
tary proceed to the roll call. The fol.
lowing vote on roll call will tell the
story of the convention;
Viets. Hughes.
Barnes .............. !!