The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1896-09-25
SLICH'S CONVENTIONS
Thursdays Three Hinged Circus Not
Howllng Success.
POPULISTS WANT SLIGH'S SCALP
Middle of the Readers Raise Particular
Sheol With the Dark -Visaged Gen
tleman Who Wants to
Be Senator.

The "rump' republicans, under the
leadership Of DR.. Sigh, held their
county convention in the court house
yesterday G. w. Morse presided and
at 10 so O'Clock he called them to or
der, f. II. Coy acting as secretary. A
committee on order of business was
appointed, consisting OF J. A. Feather
man, Frank Durand and W. w. Royal,
after which the convention adjourned
until 1 O'Clock p. III. Upon reconven
ing at the appointed hour, the report
Of the committee was read and
adopted. 1t recommended the nomi-
nation of officers in the following or
DER Clerk and recorder, county COM
missioners, treasurer, public admlDis-
traitor and state senator, this being the
Offices allotted to the trump conven-
tion by the populists and democrats
| The convention then proceeded with
the nomination Of officers in accord
ance with the order of business
adopted.
John A. Featherman nominated
Daniel Arms for clerk and recorder and
he was nominated by acclamation.
W. ". Royal nominated J. A.
Featherman, of New Chicago. for
county commissioner, and Joe Dixon
nom mated B. II. Dunshee for the same
Office. This was the only Office in
which there was a contest The vote
resulted III the nomination of Mr.. Dun
shee by vote of II to MIR. Feather
mans 8, Messrs. Durand and Sigh act
ing as tellers.
B. H. Duushee placed James K Par
dee ia nomination for treasurer. and
he was nominated by acclamation.
J. M. Sigh named Judge R. M.
Ferguson for public administrator, and
he was unanimously chosen.
j. K. Pardee nominated DR.. James
M. Sigh for state senator. and, Of
course, no one opposed him in his own
convention, and he was nominated by
acclalnati on.
The willy doctor. who has been run
ming the populists and democrats for
the past few months, upon being called
for, arose aud made few remarks.
He said that he felt that he could hard
| ly afford to accept the nomination on
account OF the expense and loss of time
involved, but coming as it did, so un-
aniomusly. he felt that he would accept
it. He talked of the issues Ct the cam
paign and thanked the convention for
the honor.
DR.. Sigh then introduced the fol-
lowing resolutions, which were adopt
ed:
Be 1t Resolved, That the county CEN
tral committee be and is hereby author
lied, instructed and directed to fill any
and all vacancies for any and all
offices to be filled at the next general
election to be held Nov. 3, 1896, whe-
ther said vacancy Or vacancies occur by
the failure of this convention to nomi
nate or whether said vacancy Or vacan-
cies occur by death, resignation or
otherwise And be it further
Resolved, That said county central
committee be and is hereby author
lied, directed and instructed to do any
and all things which this convention
might Or could do if in session.
The convention then took a recess
until O'Clock for the purpose of rati-
fying the nominations which the dem
ocrats were presumed to make.
THE SLIGH DEMOCRATS.
The democrats met at the court
house and followed out the programme
outlined by Ringmaster Sigh and they
danced to his music and the crack OF
his whip. Peter Gallagher acted as
chairman and Frank d. Brown as Sec
retary.
E. H. Cam pbell kicked over the
traces Things finally settled down
to the Sigh plan and went pretty
smoothly and the following were
named as the nominees:
Sheriff, Finley Mcdonald.
County Commissioner, James Nc
Donel.
Clerk of the Court, Harry Wilkerson.
Assessor, Will Neu.
Surveyor, E. A. Cralle.
THE SLIGH (?) POPULISTS.
The populist was the third conven.
tion of the day and for good, live
scrapping it took the cake. The other
conventions were mild affairs, indeed,
when com pared to it, and the great
three -ringed circus of the day came
the principal "ring' This conven-
tion was held at the city hall. Frank
Hunter presided and Jimmy Duffy
was secretary.
1t had been rumored about the city
for several days past that the "pups'
would not take the decoction prescribed
by the ubiquitous DR.. Sigh and that
there was good deal of ground fol
this suspicion The Mail representative
found quite evident upon attendance.
The great fight was on DIR. Sligh.
There was large proportion of the
delegates who were willing to make
any sacrifice on earth, but they swore
they would never consent to the nomi.
nation of Sligh.
Jimmy Duffy, Harry Lewney, Ernest
Firchau, Ed. Long, Tom China, Mr..
Crabb, Fred Kramer and half dozen
others composing at least half the con-
vention opposed Sigh with all the ora
tory for what populist is noted.
Lewney and Duffy led the fight and
introduced a resolution to the effect
that the conference report be adopted
with the exception Of that part refer.