Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-09-18
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The committee on permanent organ
tzation recommended that Judge Dud
Icy be elected permanent chairman ant
Mark Rich permanent secretary. Oh
motion the recommendations Of tn,
committee were adopted.
Charley Eastman and James Dornar
were nominated for the Office of sheriff
The ballot resulted as follows
Eastman 81, Dornan 3. On motion the
nomination of Mr.. Eastman was made
unanimous. Mr.. Eastman accepted
the nomination in a brief but:: eloquent
address.
L. D. Brooke, of Union township, and
r. w. Harris, of Oelrichs, were placed
in nomination for the office Of treasurer
The ballot resulted as follows: Brooke
36, Harris 20. The nomination of Mr.
Brooke was made unanimous and Mr.
Brooke expressed his thanks for the
honor.
Mr.. McConville, of Edgemont, was
nominated by acclamation for the
Office Of states attorney. He too said
he was thankful for the honor and
renewed his allegiance to the cause of
free silver.
Thomas H. Wells, of Hot Springs,
and John Heldeman, of Union township,
were nominated for the office of clerk
OF courts, the ballot resulting in favor
of the former by the following vote:
Wells AZ, Helderman II. On motion
the nomination of Mr.. Wells was made
unanimous. The successful aspirant
expressed his profound thanks for the
honor conferred upon him, said
that he should endeavor to merit the
confidence reposed in him and closed
with quotation from the scriptures,
which, he said, showed striking SINH.
larity between Candidate Bryan and
the Savior of the world.
H. p. Bacon, of Sand Creek, was
nominated by acclamation orthe office
of county auditor. He thanked the
delegates for the honor, said he was
refused nomination at the hands of
the republican county convention be.
cause he would not say whether or not
he was republican, and declared that
he now believed that free silveris about
the thing.
Levi N. Kelso, of Edgemont, and
$. b, Sherman, of Cascade, we're placed
in nomination for the office of register
of deeds. The ballot resulted as fol.
lows: Sherman A, Kelso IA. On mo-
tion Mr. Sherman was declared the
unanimous choice of the convention.
The successful candidate expressed his
thanks to the convention for the nom
ination.
j. G. Mckee of Edgemont was nom
mated by acclamation for the office of
superintendent of schools. He appre-
ciated the honor and thanked the con-
vention for the honor.
s. F. Adams of Smithwick and Ira
Tillotson of Cascade were placed in
nomination for the Office of assessor.
Mr.. Tillotson was declared the choice
of the convention, he having 81 votes
to Mr.. Adams 25. Mr.. Tillotson said
his was no public speaker, but all the
same he made nice little talk in ex-
pressing his thanks for the nomina-
tion.
j. w. Joyce was nominated against
his wishes for the office of coro ner
He was thankful for the doubtful COM
pliment and stole a little of DIR. Whit
fields thunder by remarking that he
supposed it would be his painful duty
to sit on the remains of the republican
candidates.
James Strong of Ardmore, Neeley
Parsons of Odell and H. E. Pomeroy Of
Hot Springs were nominated by accla.
nation for justices of the peace and
Messrs. Lee of Union, Pickett of Edge.
mont, Crosby of Hot Springs and Davis
OF Oelrichs were named for constables.
No nomination was made for the Of
fice of county judge and on motion the
country central committee was author
lied to supply the vacancy on the
ticket.
The nomination for the Office of rem.
resentative was the most spirited and
interesting contest of the convention.
Col. Kellar of Hot Springs, D. G. Bruce
of Cheyenne River and Prof. Hoover of
Edgemont were placed in nomination.
w. B. Dudley was also nominated but
he gracefully declined and made an
eloquent and impassioned appeal for
the nomination of Col. Kellar. Mr..
Peterson also ably seconded the NOM
ination of Col. Kellar. Neeley Par
sons protested against ''all the good Of
fees being gobbled up by the towns
and strongly favored the nomination
of Mr.. Bruce. The first ballot resulted
as follows: Bruce "a, Hoover 12, Kel-
lar % Mr. Hoovor w;thdrovu 4, fovo,