The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-02
And STILL ANOTHER
Three Republican Conventions PrOba-
BILE for Granite County.
SPLITS, KICKS AND SNAGS
AS 1t Looks Now. 1t Is Senator
Sigh Against the Field. With
Chances Altogether In Fa-
vor of the Doctor.
Special Dispatch to the Standard

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Philipsburg, May lit now seems
probable that there will be three re-
publican county conventions held here
next tuesday and that the A. p. A. in
qulsltoTial committee will have its
hands full securing members who re-
fuse TO be dictated to as to its private
pontlcal stands. There was another pri-
mary called at the court house last
night at IL O'clock and IL is Understood
that a full delegation was elected 10
the city convention, but the action
taken and the purpose OF II is a pro-
found secret and much harder to find
out that what Is done In a regular
meeting of the A. p. A. The O'Clock
primary, by resolution. endorsed Car
ter, Mantle and Hartman but prominent
men who did not participate in these
proceedings say that II was done for a
blind and that the primary was In
reality controlled by the a. p. As; but
II IL was there are two A. p. A. wings
to the regular republican kit in this
county.
IL Is openly charged and not denied
that the IL O'Clock primary was an A.
r. "A. affair and yet there are many
here who doubt 1t for the reason that
the whole thing has been kept secret,
ana this Is something heretofore un-
precedented in A. Il. a. city politics
a gentleman who has been a re-
publican all his life. in an interview.
said to-day: THE republicans In this
county are demanding full and credit
abIe representation at the approaching
state convention. They do not want
fractional represen tatlon: nor do they
want Misrepresentation, either, in their
principles or numbers They have a
right to ask Ii and no Interest. secret
or otherwise, has a right to give them
less. Decent regard for the right "a
well as thoughtful consideration OF
their welfare must see 10 Il that the re-
publican organization here Is given
such representation as will reflect the
higher character. intelligence and in
dependence of the masses of the party
Unless this is done the party will suffer
in the coming campaign. 1t appears
that the whole mix-up comes from a
FAILURE OF the county central COMMITTEES
TO meet the chairman and secretary in
Issuing the call without authority from
the committee In actual session. Every
thing would have been all right ordi-
narily, but In the present condition OF
republican politics in this county, IL
appears TO be impossible for the differ
ent factions to harmonize. each seeking
TO disrupt the other and every flaw is
taken advantag ge Of"
This evening the Mail publishes an
extra endorsing the s O'clock primary.
and scoring Senator Sigh and those
associated with him. but aside from
this the Mail seems to be fair and
plausible and makes much OF the reso-
lutions adopted In favor of the states
congressional representation, which
resolutions were adopted after the
Standard reporter had supposed the
business was completed. and the pri-
mary was Just to adjourn. and were
therefore not mentioned in the report
Judging from the Mail an endeavor will
be made to harmonize the and IL
O'Clock primaries and this would mean
Senator Sligh against the field and his
friends are Offering even money that
the senator will win. The democrats
are, of course. feeling very sorry about
IL all