The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-10

chairman who should select ten dele
gates to the Butte convention. The re-
port Of this committees was accepted
without a dissenting vote from the
! unsuspecting A. p. A. faction. They
did not seem to appreciate the fact
that the time had arrived for the fight
TO begin. They had gone there for the
purpose of killing any resolution en-
dorsing Carter Mantle and Hartman,
but they didn't seem to grasp the stu
alton, so long as there were no resolu-
tons with either of the three gentle
mems names in them.
When the report of the committee on
resolutions was made. in which the ac-
lions of the Montana senators and con-
gresham were endorsed and further
more, pledging the county delegates
support of them as delegates to the ST.
Louis convention. IL was evident to all
that the crisis had been reached, and
when Mr.. O'Hara moved that they be
adopted by a rising vote, there was
quite a murmur caused by the numer-
Gus exchanges of ideas, but still no
fight. The report of the committee
was adopted, about 20 members voting
against it, they being the Darby and
Corvallis delegations. and three or four
from Hamilton.
1t was now very apparent that sew
eral delegates wanted to raise a row.
just what was proper fighting etiquette.
So the chairman appointed, with inter-
ruption, the following committee of
five TO select delegates to the conven-
ton: j. A. Summers. j. w. McCarty,
G. T. Baggs, N. Il. Wilkerson and c. c.
Chaftin, and a recess was taken in or
der that the committee might get to-
gether and make a report. After the
committee was appointed, the A. p. A.
faction began to realize that they had
been taken in, but they decided to
make fight on the committees report.
After being out for about Is minutes,
the committee reported that no agree
nent could be reached. and some of
the straight-line faction moved to dis
charge the committee and appoint an
other. This motion the A. p. A. fac
ton succeeded in killing, but the
straight-liners were ready with another
motion to send the committee back,
with instructions to make a report.
which motion the A. p. AS attempted to
amend so as to discharge the commit
tee.
AT this juncture a great deal of talk
was INDUCED in, principally by the
straight-line faction. and on a vote
being taken the original motion pre-
vailed. The committee, after being out
a few minutes, returned with the fol-
lowing majority report. signed by j.
n. SunlfnefS, u. w. McCdfIy, George L.
Baggs and c. c. Chaifin:
Delegates-B f. Sanders, ]. F. Hen
bricks. Robert Harper. George T.
Baggs. r. A. O'Hars, ]. L. Stevens,
Amos Buck. w. II. Mccoy, ]. d. Watts,
b. II. Story. Alternates-Howard Ian
caster. c. II. Beck. f. NJ. Lockwood, d.
N Reber. f. A. Jamison, j. ID. Miser,
w. V. Mcintosh, n. +. Wilkerson, w.
c. Aprens, I. Nj. Laird.
While the minority report differed
from the above list in substituting the
names of Howard Lancaster, c. IL.
Buck and n. Il. Wilkerson for those
of George T. Baggs, Robert A. O'Hara
and w. ii. Mccoy this report was
signed by N. f. Wiikerson and was
rejected by a vote of 2S to %, while
the majority report was adopted by the
same vote.
The principal fight was against Rob
ert A. OHara and George T. Bags,
the former being n Catholic and the
latter having married Catholic. The
convention attracted quite a large
crowd of spectators who were eager 70
see fight but they all went away dis
appointed