The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-16
M'GEE THE WINNER!
Choice of Pennington
County's United
Silver Men.
PERFECT HARMONY

PERFECT HARMONY
.Reigms Supreme in the Conven-
1tSon That Names the Winning
Candidate for Circuit Judge.
The County convention of the
Peoples Party of Pennington
county to select 20 delegates to the
Hermosa convention to be held to-.
morrow, took place in Rapid City on
Saturday last. Nearly every pre-
cinct was represented, and those
who attended with the expectation
of witnessing fight were beautifully
disappointed, as not more har
monious conven tion was ever held
by the reform forces.
Edmund Smith, chairman of the
county central committee, called the
convention to order and DR.. E. F.
Doty was chosen as chairman with
Carl Johnson as secretary. After
the appointment of numerous com
mittees and going through the usual
amount of red tape customary before
conven tions get down to business,
the credentials committee reported
that % precincts were represented
by delegates.
A committee consisting of A, J.
Mccain, E. Howe, H. N. Holway,
Robert Scruton and Thomas Hale
was appointed to draft resolutions
and platform,
They submitted the following
which was adopted:
We the members Of peoples party
assem- bled in Rapid City hereby re-
affirm our faith and adherence in
and to the principles expressed in
the platforms of the two great ma
tional parties who united under the
banner of reform in the campaign of
1896 viz, the democratic platform of
Chicago and the peoples party plat
form of ST. Louis, especially those
two great principles of reform, the
financial issue and the adoption of
the initiative and referendum.
WHEREAS, it has come to the no.
tice OF this convention thai there are
several candidates from Pennington
county for the nomination of the
office of circuit Judge of the Seventh
judicial Circuit, therefore oe it
RESOLVED, that this convention
adopt the initiative $50 often invoked
10y Our party) and place in nomina-
tion the names of the several candi-
dates for said office and vote thereon
10y secret ballot in the usual manner
us1 til one of said candidates shall
have secured IA majority of all the
votes cast. The delegates voting On
said nomination and such candidates
SO receiving a majority of said votes
Shall be the choice of the peoples
party OF Pennington county to fill
said office; and be it further
REsoLyED, that the twenty dele
gates from this county to be select
ed by this convention to represent
the peoples party at the next Judi
clal convention to be held at Her
inosa July 18th, be and the same are
hereby instructed to vote for and u Sc
aai honorable means to secure the
nomination of such candidate.
The nominations We're next in
order ANN the names of C. L. Lewis,
Chauncy L. Wood and Levi McGee
were placed before-the convention.
Just before the balloting commenced
Jhauncey L. Wood asked permission
to make a statement, which was
granted. Mr. Wood stated that he
vas not poDulist of long standing
md in view of this fact his friends
ind himself had decided that it
would be unwise for him to make
he race Tor circuit Judge on the
'opullst ticket at this time, adding
hat whoever might be the nominee
u the silver forces at Hermosa-it
nattered not to him-he would give
ifn the heartiest kind of support
nd labor zealously for his election.
1r. Woods words were greeted
With hearty round of applause and