Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1896-08-28
WILL GO IT ALONE
They Were in Favor of Fusion, bu,
Changed Their Minds After the
Committees Report.
There Was No One Willing to Fore.
go His Prospective Slice Of
the Political Pie.

"""AS ONoc SNpeiNuJ az ~ Il ILL dQu was
called to order by o. M. Holmes, who,
after a short speech, called for nomina-
tons for tempory chairman and secre-
tary. S. M. Moore was unanimously
elected to the former position and L. M.
Mcdonnell to the latter.
The chair. on motions duly made and
carried, announced the following COM
mittees:
Observation-Disclosures. Morton, Hender-
lider, Brosnan, Lambert and Jensen.
Order of Observation-Disclosures. McLaugh-
lin, Williams, Beck, j. j. Mcdonnell
and Dickson.
Permanent OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Car
ter. ODER, Roalswick.
observation-disclosures Hughes, Mciyr,
Jarl, James and O'Brien.
The convention then adjourned I'm til
ll:3O a. m. to await the reports of the
committees, and finding them not ready
at that hour. adjourned till | p. m.
On reassembling in the afternoon, the
committee on permanent organization
iol'oi W 40 bNi ubCu ollCCI5 VI Liz
convention the names of S. M. Moore as
chairman and George Herman as perma-
nent secretary. The latter declined in a
modest speech, enumerating his dis
qualifications for the office, but the con
@vention insisted and the report of the
committee was adopted. L. M. Melon
nell was elected assistant secretary.
The committee on credentials reported
the following delegates entitled to seats:
Great Falle-First ward, S. Il. Jensen,
Harry Ringwald, l.. M. Mcdonnell
Chas. Kaiser, Mic Michaels, Tim
Murphy; Second ward, Aaron James,
J james Crowley, VIM. Rance, Richard
Mansfield (proXy for Alex Gordon)
/ Third ward, G. o. Jarl, II. w. Brosnan
0. Nj. Lambert. o. M. Holmes, Julius
, Ness, James S. Davidson, Jas. Dibbs
Fourth ward, Dan Mckay, Jas. IL
Donlin, j.. j. Mcdonnell, Samuel Moore
' John Melyr, W. +. Brown, &c. Mitchell
Pat Hughes, VIM. Hall, Jas. f. O'Brien
, David Hartnett, Jas. Trevillian.
! West Great Falls-C. A. Brady, VIM
Hodges, H. Zeller, II. A. Clark, A. Nc
Neil, IL. S. Jackson (proxy for Slevin.)
Boston and Montana smelter-Pa'
kavanaugh, =. y. O'ConnelI, j. Russell
: Boston and Great Falls addition
= Henry Carlund, John Carr.
= North Great t'alls-Louis Kommers
: Vim. Klause.
l Silver eme.ter--Z. ?. DeForest, Swar
Nelson.
: Belt-Al Blake, II. Behrens, Thomaa
Bowes, N. Danielson, j. @. Dempsey
VIM. Eynon, Thos. Glenn, John Grogan
g Robt. lIendry, Geo. Herman, Charlie
: Irwin. VIM. Leibrand, VIM. M. Murphy
= Ed McDermott, NJ. Richardson, Ian
, Sproule, r. E. Spurrier, John Sweeney
= Sand Coulee-A. Morton, L. Roals
: wick, 4, Beck, G. a. Graham, Bert Fen
S wick, W, H. Dickson, A, Nelson, Il, Nc
0 LaughIin, D. Dolson. W, p. Graham, p
= Kedgau, j. McLiment, b, Jeremiah, G
Peterson.
q Missouri, Sheehy,
Naaol-J j. Elliott.
, Red HItte-C F.. Stork.
! Kibby-J. j. Obcr, V. ttenderlidcr.
' CaacaLe C, y. Hendricks.
Ming roulee-Henry Chadd.
1 FleIJ'a- r.. Bisgett, j. Fairfield.
Il Logging Creek-J, f, Williams, y
i Eoller,
\ fight was sprung at once by The con
T. testing delegation from Belt over this re
port aud ID minutes were allowed each
side to state its case before tho full con
%vention, \. P. McAneIly appeared tirs
for the contestants ard told the conven
ton that his crowd were true populists
G whllo the other fellows were neelers il
+ the Interest of certain candidates WHIT
had taken an unfair advantage by calling
Gully on primary when there were tWt
i, election districts in Belt.
w. NJ, Murphy, for the other side, de
--.l .I 4lr o- q. a., -,,- 1-.l--
: who were repudiatod at the polls by tru,
: p%opulists and, being sore, called a caucu'
Of their WI next day on the fiat. Their
the committee explained their position
and on vote the convention by a vote o
- TO . adopted the report Of the com
mittor on credentials.
=, At this J%uncture John Sweeney, one o
/ the Bot delegation, announced his dis
gust at tho decision and bolted tn
:. convection all by himself,
= Thr Committee or order of business re
ported he order in which the nomlna
tione rhould be made, which appears
hereafter. The report was adopted.
q The rJmmitteo on resolutions reported
Il as follows, through ChAirruan Aaron
James
I'VE, the representatives OF the PEG
:, pie'e party in Cascade county in Onven
rlur as+embicd, reaIirm our steadfss'
;. adHerracn to the principles and deciara
tons Of Tne peoples party rs se' forth il
tho platforms at Omaha and st, Louis
citing ,aoae as held most sacred by ue
the pressing need Of which called on
I. party into existence, The free and I'M
!, limited coinage of both gold and silver
at II ratio of Is to j.
= "Go~rnmcnt ownership anil contro
of all railroad, telegraph and telephone
lines.
THAT the burden Of taxation be
equallzcd by laying a tax upon all in
!
| "lhr adoption of the initiative and
referendum system of legislation.
"lIoDJing, as we do, the incorporation
= of those cardinal principles of our party
: into the laws of our country as the only
hope for the perpetuation of our repub-
lie and the preservation of the liberties
of the people, we would be false to our
profession as populists and patriotic cit
liens If, at this suDrpmr m of our