The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-16
THE M'KlNlEY WING.
Caucuses Held To Select Delegates Ia the
County Convention.

The Mckinley wing of the republi.
cans held Caucuses last evening to Sc.
lect delegates to the county conven-
ton. TO be voted for at the primaries
which are to be held this evening.
The attendance was not very big in
some of the precincts and in a few
cases there were more names placed
on The ticket than there were republi-
ANS present to select from. but tick
cts were made up in such precincts by
putting names on the list. of people.
who If they were not there, might have
been. In some few precincts the turn
out was fairly good and in one i'm par
ficular there was a total of So people
IN attendance. The tickets will be put
in the field at the primaries today and
tt is confidently expected enough who
are true to the faith can be rounded
up to elect the tickets by at least as
large a vote as there are delegates
on each ticket. This calculation will
doubtless prove safe should there be no
split and each delegate vote his ticket
straight.
After the primaries last evening a
love feast was held at the Harvard
block. on West Broadway, which was
largely attended, there being not less
than as or 100 present. who renewed
their allegiance to the @. q. Z. and
acquiesced in the assertions of the
speakers that I've are the people" in
so hearty a manne as to leave no
room to doubt they are convinced they
are the whole thing. Some Of the
speakers went so far as TO assert the
belief they would carry the coming
election n snow their I'M
der so deep they would lie %perenniaIly
buried beneath the drift. One had the
1emerlty, in explaining how he thought
TINS would be accomplished, to boldly
declare he believed the democrats who
were defeated In Wednesday, pri-
maries would bolt the democratic ticket
and vote with the s%traightout gold re-
puhhcans. Other speakers INDUCED in
like dreams till an outsider could have
been pardoned for wondering what
brand they had been smoking. II ali
served to work up a kim OF enthusi-
asm, however. which. as one sneaker
expressed IL, mad them feel indiyid-
ually as though they were no longer
the only pearl in the sand, or the only
PEBBLE or the lone kernel OF wheat in
n pushel, or cookie seed, or words
TO that effect.
Ihe hrst speaker OF the evening was
A n. foder, who. unlike those who
followed, could not see a very roey,
prospect ahead. StiIl as IL was nrin.
ciple they were fighting for hey sbouId
STAND together and get out at the pri-
49, NA AhF DtbDiE Know there
were a Few republicans left.
}. r. Davis told a story about Dioe-
enes or some other fellow who once ais
covered that he was not the only hon
est mar IN the country, and said he had
felt lk old Diog for a long time but
Ike him, he had awakened to a real
izafion he was not. This meeting con
Vlnced MIN he was not and he felt good
about it. The applause which greeted
his remarks when he declared the grand
old republican party had given the
country and its people all the blessings
they enjoyed, n that without lis
guardianship we should have beer worse
on than Spain. and wound up with the
assertion. which sounded sort Of IA
miliar, I'VE are h people" was con-
vinclng proof his hearers believed every
word he said.
The sensation OF the evening came
from the next speaker. l.. j. Hamilton
was called for and after apologizing in
advance for what he intended 10 in