The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-17
LOCAL POLITICAL FIELD
What the Parties and Candidates
Are Doing.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Nominations Will Be Made Monday.
Convention vii Be Held at the
Margaret-Populist Primaries
To-Day-Other Things.

There now remains but two days
until the democratic county conven-
ton meets. The convention will meet
on Monday next. The Margaret has
been secured for the occasion, and the
delegates will have all the room they
want. There will also be plenty of ac-
c~ommodations for spectators.
The convention will select the dele
gates and a~lternates to the state con-
vention and Will also nominate candi-
dates for the county offices and for the
legislature. The convention is called
to meet at 2 o'clock. 1t is probable
that IL will be late at night before the
business is finished up, as there are a
great number of candidates for the
offices, and the balloting will consume
a great deal of time. The convention
viii consist of LAG delegates.
The %populists of the county will hold
their primaries to-day to select dele
gates to the county convention. which
meets in this city on Tuesday next.
The convention will select 10 delegates
and 10 a~lternates to the state
ton, to be held the following day. The
apportionment for the city of Ana
conda is four delegates and four alter
mates from each of the six wards. Car
roll, north, will have three delegates,
and Carroll, south, four. The pri-
HldfltS tO-udy VIII De neiQ between 4
and z o'clock p. m. the polling places
for the primaries in the city will be as
follows:
First ward, Anaconda rewer bot
Ting works; Second ward. Edwin Stall
1ard's, Commercial avenue: Third ward,
Ieck's carpenter shop, Third street:
Fourth ward, John Williams boarding
house, Front street; Fifth ward, For
tiers building; Sixth ward, No. 701
East Park Carroll, north,
Flood house; Carroll, south, Grant
house.
The regular or gold republican party
will also hold its primaries in the coun-
ty to-day. The a-pportionment for
Anaconda is as follows:
First ward. 6; Second ward, 5; Third
ward, Z; Fourth ward, 9; Fifth ward. s.;
Sixth ward, 6; Carroll, north, .; Car
roll. south, 2. Just where the gold re-
publicans are to find enough men to
make up the delegations is hard to
guess. The county convention to which
these delegates are to be chosen meets
at Deer Lodge on Friday, Sept. %, and
the state convention Sept. "a.
The general convention committee
! held another meeting last evening.
i The finance committee reported having
4 collected the sum required for hacks,
etc. The committee was discharged.
The committee on accommodation re-
ported that first-class quarters for $50
men had been secured, and that more
were coming in daily. Judge FitzPat-
rick was appointed a committee of one
70 see about the hiring of hacks. 1t
was also decided to appoint a recep-
ton committee of six citizens, which
the chairman will do to-day. There
will be another meeting of the commit
tee this evening at 8 o'clock.
In addition to the list of candidates
published in the Standard a few days
ago. the following additional names are
mentioned: George 5. Miller, the pres
ent county assessor, will be a Candi-
date for reelection on the democratic
ticket. The populists talk of Lon Bur
nett for sheriff and ]. J. Ryan for
county clerk and recorder. Fol- the
other offices the %populists ave so far
nobody in view, so 1t is said. The re-
publicans whisper about that A. d.
Peck may be a candidate for unit
clerk n recorder, and hat G. S. +.
wisner has an eye open for the office
of county treasurer. John Ebenhack
is said to be out for the office of JUS
tice of the peace on the republican
ticket.
There is a good deal of talk about
fusion between the silver republicans
and populists on the county ticket, but
nobody seems to know just what will
oDIt ~ ~ 49, "a 49, SANA
those who are supposed to know the
most freely admit that they cannot tell
anything about il until after the state
conventions are over.
Everything seemed to be quiet in the
silver republican amp yesterday after
the battle in Thursdays convention.
A good many of the republicans ex-
pressed their regrets that any contest
had arisen, but they declared that once
IL broke out. ii had to be carried
through to a finish. 1t is said that the
Lesser faction was offered all sorts of
compromises in the committee meeting,
when the delegates were selected, but
that the advances were all rejected.
1t is also said that there came pretty
near being warm times in the commit
tee room. and that one of the men,
bers of the committee went so far as
to call another member a liar and other
pet names.
Percy and yelling Napton, the latter
a candidate for county attorney on the
democratic side. came up from Deer
Lodge yesterday and spent the day in
Anaconda, presumably on matters re-
lating to politics.
Held Up and Robbed.