The Dickinson press., 1898-10-01
Doings Of Democrats.

Doings of Democrats.
Stark County Democrats Hold q fiarmoni-
ous Convention and Nominate q Ticket
Miss Saunders for Observation-Disclosures
missioner and Clerk Of Court Left Vacant.
Monday morning the delegates who
had been elected at the various precincts
in Stark county on Sept. "a, assembled at
the court house for the purpose of plac-
ing lin nomination a democratic ticket
and e%lecting five legislative delegates.
]. H. Caldwell was made temporary
1chairman and G. S. Cryne, secretary.
VIM. Ray moved that the chair ap-
point a credential committee of three
and the following gentlemen were named:
]. H. Field, G. S. Cryne and Hugh Nc
Clement.
On motion of VIM. Ray the chair ap-
pointed the following committee on
nominations and order of business: VIM.
Ray, J. H. Fried, G.S. Cryne,D D. S.Forbes,
o. E. Foote.
The credential committee reported the
following delegates as entitled to seats in
the convention:
Dickinson Precinct No. 1--Wm. Ray, W. Il.
Walton, ]. H. Field, Robert Lyon, Joe Fread,
John Flynn, Thos Bothersom.
Dickinson Precinct No. III. A. Palmer, o.
E. Foote, Jas. Zahraduik, J. E. McCoul, John
Martin, (proxy to McCouD.
Belfeld Procinct-J. b. Bird, Thos. Lynch,
(proxy to Bird)
South Heart Precinct-F. NJ. Gilman, VIM.
Kennedy, (proxy to Gilman)
Lehigh P~recinct-James Harrington, Richard
Sullivan.
Gladstone Precinct-G. s. Cryne, Ed. Bond,
John Flynn.
Taylor Precinct-D. s. Forbes. L. L. Lewis,
(proxy to Forbes) John Mccarthy.
Richardson Precinct-Hugh McClement, Jas.
REILLY and Henry Lindan proxies to McClem-
ent.)
Antelope Precinct-Thos. Callahan, Paul
Horn. John Conlin (proxies all to D. s. Forbes.)
springvalo P~recinct-Poter Wagner, Peter
LEM, Otto and Vim. Alpert, VIM. Dittburner
u proxies to Wagnor.)
On motion the temporary organization
was made permanent, and the conven-
ton adjourned until 2 o'clock p. m.
On recovering the report of the Gre
dental committee was accepted and the
delegates were seated. There was a lit
tie discussion over the seating Of J. E.
McCoul, some arguing that until recently
he had been A.. republican. After inves-
tigation all objection was removed.
The chair announced that the next
thing in order was the nomination of off
GERS. In the case of sheriff there were
two nominations-Stone II votes and Nc
Coul 8-but for all other Offices there was
but n nomination and balloting was
unnecessary. The offices of commits
sioner for End district and clerk of dis
trict court were left vacant out of re-
spect for Geo. w. Lee and Jas. G. Saun-
ders, who it was conceded would receive
nominations for these places on the re-
v publican ticket.
TICKET IN ORDER NAMED.
Register of Deeds-E. Deffebach.
Treasurer-L. L.. Levi
AUDITOR. A. McGregor.
Sheriff.. P. Stone.
Attorney. H. Field.
County Judge-M. II. Linsley.
Clerk of Court
Superintendent of Schools-Ida r. Saunders
Coroner-Peter Wagner.
Justices-Peter LEM, L. D. Dohrman, O. E
Foote, Thos. Oukrop.
Constables-J. B. Bird, Richard Sullivan
: John Mccarthy, Rhinehart Rixen.
Commissioner End Dist
Surveyor
Assossor-1st Dist,-John Flynn.
End ~Dist.-James Harrington.
-3rd Dist.-Dan 8. Forbes.
LEGISLATIVE.
The following legislative delegate:
were chosen to represent Stark county ir
the 3Ist district democratic convention
to be held in Dickinson at 10 o'clock a
m, Oct. I. VIM. Ray, w. H. Walton, D
S. Forbes, ]. H. Field and Thomas Gala
han.
COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
TayIor-L. L. Lewis, chairman.
Dickinson No. 1-Wm. Ray.
Dickinson No. lila. Palmer.
Springvale-Peter LEM.
South Hearth. NJ. Gilman.
Belfeld-J. B. Bird.
Gladstone-G. 8. Cryne.
Richardton-James REILLY.
Plum Creek. H. Caldwell.
Farmers Valloy-Pat Keogh.
Lehigh-James Harrington.
This concluded the regular business
of the convention.
Col. H. M. Creel of Devils Lake, can
didate for Congress on the Independent
state ticket, was introduced and asked t
address the convention. Col. Greel re
sponded by saying that owing to tn
~lateness of the hour he would only max
a few remarks. He stated that he wa
in favor of retaining all the foreign ter
ritory over which the American flag no,
floats; he wanted a bounty OF hides
wheat and on all of our exports, as ii
this way we could stimulate our shipping
Commemorative more competition TO
our products by building up a market a
San Francisco, etc. He said that i
elected to Congress he would work faith
fully for the interests Of North Dakota
His remarks we're we'll received.
"Many have said their children would
have died Of Group, if Chamberlain
Cough Remedy had not been given,
write Kellen & Ourren, druggists, Sea
view, Va. people come from far an,
near tn pet II and sneak Of IL in the hiph