The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-10-01

fldtnead county convention, as
published in the Columbian Fall,
Columbian is re-published ir
this weeks Acantha.
The republican county conven
tion of Flathead county met las
Saturday at Kalispell. The story
OF the gathering is told in severa
ways, and this paper has put the
versions IN pot and extracted
therefrom general average. The
chief contention was on the dis
trict judgeship. 1t was a three
cornered fight between Grubb, Nc
[ntire and Pomeroy. On Friday
evening the Grubb faction, seeing
their contest appeared hopeless,
threw their strength to the Pom
eroy people. This they believed,
gave Pomeroy good lead. So it
did, SO far as delegates numb bered,
but the McIntire forces had the
politicians, and to use the expires
sion of one of the McIntire man
ayers, "made dubs of the Pom erov
farmers. -
Kalispell was carried by the Nc
Intire forces at the primaries. j.
Hayes, who is known by no other
name than "Jimmie the Nibbler. :"
came in from Syl7anite long
enough to arrange the primaries
for the Kalispell republicans. Jim
mie formerly held the crown as the
"Klng of the hoboes," whatever
that may mean. 1t was his pleas
ure in former days to run the poll
tics of Kalispel!, 1t was during
the exciting mayoralty days that
Jimmie put the frost on Mr.. Hat,
cher by electing Mr.. Whlpps as
mayor.
Therefore. it is stated, that when
Mr.. Whips needed delegates to
to carry things for his iudgeship
candidate Jimmie was called in.
That the work of Saturday was
well done is shown by the polling
of 326 votes at Kalispell's republi-
can primaries. The most san
guine republican does not claim
more than 225 republican votes for
Kalispell. There are some men
mean enough to assert that in a
room on the bowery there were
lightning change rooms where
thinly clad voters could exchan ge
hats and clothing and thus exer>
else the freeman's franchise twice
or thrice.
Anyway the magnitude OF the g.
o. p. primary vote is not worth dis
cussion: it is to the con ventlon and
its results that this story must re-
late. Saturday dawned with the
'country delegates" in the lead,
but not united A rising vote in
the absence OF a number of "coun-
try deleg tes' everyone out side
of KaIispellis is called "country") re-
suited in the first blood for Whips
McIntire, and the selection of Sam
Wallace as chairman.
The committee on permanent or
ganizatlon reported and their re-
port was adopted. They left out
all reference to the judgeship
Mr.. Noffsinger then introduced a
resolution TO instruct the dele
gates to the state convention to
chose B. ]. McIntire for Judge.
A quick motion to adopt the res
olution, and a sudden whoop of
eyes" by those in on the play car
ried the resolution through ard
the dazed majority of delegates
who favored Pomeroy had lost the
ten of trumps in the game.
After that stirring episode and
display of generalship the rest was
"dead easy" The minority which
had won the JUDGE was willing to
concede the majority few offices.
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