Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-08-14
ORGANIZE M'KINLBy CLUB

OkOhNIZ6 MkINLEy GI.ub
With Over Two Hundred Members-Elec,
Ofiicers-InterextinR Meeting Held
Monday Night.
A meeting was held at the city hall
in this city on Thursday evening,
August 9Th, for the purpose of organ.
izing Mckinley and Hobart campaign
club.
M. L. Kanable called the meeting to
order and briefly stated it's object
U,S;n motion made and duly carried
HtA. s. r. Wilson was elected temper.
} ary chairman and H. d. Clark temper.
ary secretary.
A motion that the chair appoint q
committee of five on permanent organ
ization, constitution and bylaws, was
carried. Chair appointed NJ. L. Kama
ble, DIR. Adams, Mr.. Farquhar, Mr.
Hedricks and Mr.. Cox.
The committee ON permanent organ
ization presented the following report:
President, Hon. 8. E. Wilson; secre-
tary, Harry d. Clark; assistant secre-
tary, M. L. Kanable; first vice. -presi-
dent, Hon. w. v. Lucas; second vice.
president, j. F. McClung of Edgemont.
The report was unanimously accepted
and adopted, and the officers named
therein were duly elected.
The report of the committee on con-
stitution and bylaws is as follows:
Article |. The name of this club
shall be the Mckinley Campaign club
'' Art lt' ). spfiasse Ths sf this club shall
be the promotion aid. advancement of
the republican party and to establish
and maintain spirit of fraternity be-
tween it's members by social intercourse
and the friendly exchange of informa-
tion and ideas, but the functions of
this club shall not be to usurp any of
the powers of the regular party organ
ization or to assume any of it's duties,
but on the contrary it shall cooperate
with and assist it, and shall consult
and act in harmony with said regular
party organization.
Art. 3. The affairs of the club shall
be managed by an executive commit
tee, consisting of the president, the
two vice-presidents at large, secretary,
treasurer and the chairman of the
county central committee, who shall
be a member ex ofiicio, and a member
from each ward of the city. who is not
an officer of the club
Art. 4. All questions before the eX.
ecutive committee shall be decided by
"a majority vote OF the members pres
ent. and five members shall constitute
Il aquorrlm of said committee.
Art. D. The officers of the club shall
be IL president, two vice presidents at
large. and an additional vice president
for each ward, Il secretary and treas
urer.
Art 6. To be eligible to member
ship. Il person must announce his in
tention to vote. for Mckinley and Ho-
bart at the November election and
subscribe to this constitution.
Art. Z. The regular meetings of the
club shall be held every second Mon
day night at 8 p. M, at IL place to be
fixed by the executive committee. and
shall also meet at the call of the execu
tive committee at any time it may
deem necessary.
Art. s. Ten members of the club
shall constitute IA quorum for the
transaction of business at general
meeting thereof. but less number
may adjourn from time to time
Art. 9. Roberts Rules of Order shall
be the rules and order of business of
this club, and all parliamentary ques-
tions shall be decided thereby.
The report was unanimously adopted.
Assistant secretary and secretary
were instructed to further circulate
the paper for signatures. The secre-
tary was instructed to furnish copy
of proceedings to Hot Springs STAR.
FIRST REGULAR MEETING.
-~ The first regular meeting of the club
occurred Monday evening and was pre-
sided over by President Wilson who
made few appropriate remarks and
then called upon Judge Gull for ten
minute speech. The judge reviewed
some of the history that the two lead
ing parties have made sharply con-
trasting the magnificent record of re.
publicanism to that of democracy and
wanted to know which of these the
people again wanted to trust He
made quite an exhaustive argument
and was loudly applauded at it's close
Rev. Hungerford was next called
upon and stated that he was very
greatly surprised to be invited to speak
at a political meeting and that he be.
lieved this was the first time in his life
he had uttered word in the way of a
politicalspeech. Buthe congratulated
the enterprising republicans of Hot
Springs upon. the organization of a
Mckinley club; he wanted to see it Il
great success in an educational way
information is what we all want upon
these main questions at issue and by
thorough organization and systemizing
the work Of the campaign can we all
be much enlightened. He hoped some