Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-16

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trap.ps ! baan reached the convention
pom. asaaa blool and thirsted for more;
Nations 10 adjourn were repealeuh' varv
5ovn and at III bousn s;no
hody was weary and worm, .he rs
and important work OF uian.nsh ~
nominations was entered upon Ill
determination to push ~ 'nioueA
ont another adjournment.
Report of Credentials Com"i''e
Tho report of the committee on
..adantials, read by Geo. Pease, recon-
ieuaa5 that Charles Mix county De
u;,an e'even votes, Marshall eight anu
G.enory and Nowlin two each; also tnat
oieso aad counties have one each. IL
uao snrther recommended that the WI
son contesting delegates from ran ~
he seated, and that the TWO uersa'
from Lyman divide the vote,
concentrations of the committee eAeeps
as 10 Fall River we're at once app!.ose1
and.adopted. A minority report sisneu
Inv two members of the committees, reS-
ommeuded the seating OF the uaru-
ner delegates. Thirty mute were
given to each side 10 presen'
their position to the conVehtion
Chambers Kellar and MAJ. hhoeison
anneared for the so-called regulars, aha
Dr. J. w. Hancher, president OF BLACK
Hills College at Hot Springs, for the
contestants, Mr.. Wilson himself also
smoke briefly for the latter side. A
motion TO substitute the minority report
for the majority was declared lost, and
ON roll call the committee was sustained
and the contesting delegates seated by
The decisive vote Of 473 to 1l9. The con.
test developed into some heated personal
tiles and structures, being.especlally bitter
as TO DR.. Hancher and Maj. Anderson.
The formers presentation OF the case
was simply masterful and his perora-
ton wac grandly eloquent. Wild APP
plause and huzzas greeted him. Brown
county gave twenty votes for sustaining
the committee and four against.
other Reports.
The committee on permanent organiza-
ton reported, recommending that Hon.
Edwin Van Cise be made permanent
CHAIRMAN and f. l.. Mease of Madison
permanent secretary; also that w. A.
Renier of Lawrence and t. +. Blanch-
ard of Dawson lie named as assistant
secretaries. The report was enthusl
astically adopted. The committee on
rules and order of business recommend
ed that the nominations be made in the
following order: Two representatives
in congress, governor, lieutenant Cover
nor. secretary Of state, auditor, treasur-
er, attorney general, superintendent,
commissioner of school and public lands,
railroad commissioners, presidential
electors and state central committee
men,. Adopted.
Resolutions and Platform.
The declaration of principles was read
bv the chairman of the committee on
platform, Judge Bennett of Deadwood,
and appear below as subsequently
adopted. The resolution referring to ex-
Governor Mellette was impressively
adopted by a rising vote of the conyen-
ton. The one condemning the course
of Senator Pettigrew at and since the
ST. Louis convention was referred back
to the committee with instructions to
again report on that point.
The Full Text.
The resolutions as finally agreed to
and adopted were as follows:
The Republicans of South Dakota, in
convention represented, affirm their full
faith and allegiance to the declaration
of principles adopted by the national
Republican convention at st. Louis In
its entirety, constituting a platform of a
great and progressive party, proud OF
its past record and achievements, cour-
ageous 10 its championship of the right
and unfaltering in the maintenance of
its political tenets.
We recognize in William Mckinley,
Il candidate for president, and Garrett
A. Hobart, the nominee for vice presi-
dent, two typical Americans. tried in
the public service and found able and
true, pure in their lives, untarnished in
their honor and close TO the people in
their experiences and s~ympathies, and
We pledge to them our most hearty and
willing effort and support, with the full
vote of South Dakota in the electoral
college. With such a platform and in
vincible leaders we enter the contest
with the inspiration of a sure prophesy
Of victory at the polls in November
next.
We commend the present Re
publican administration of gov
as honest and economical and especially
Souiupchu us stcduy purpose anu e1OrI
in exposing and bringing to speedy
punishment a former defaulting state
treasurer, and recovering for the
state SO large a proportion of the stolen
funds, and we demand the passage of an
act by our legislature providing ade-
quate punishment for ~defalcation com
mitted by public officers.
The Republican party having
always been the friend of labor and
laboring men deplores the frequent
strikes and conflicts between EMPLOYERS
and employed, resulting at times in
destruction of life and property and great
injury to those Immediately concerned
and the public generally, and favors the
settlement of all questions of dispute
arising between capital and labor by
legally constituted arbitration by which
all parties interested shall be bound.
We believe the transportation corpora.
tions of this state are the peoples public
servants: we oppose any and all harsh
or unjust legislation concerning them.
but we DO demand such legislation as
will c'othe the board of railway commits
sioners OF this state with full power md
authority to correct evils, right wrongs
and IN general to prevent all unjust