The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-19
ANACONDA news.
DEMOCRATS MEET TODAY.
County Convention Will Be Held
at the Margaret.
FOR THE COUNTY OFFICES
Fun Ticket VIII Be Nominated-A Fun
Attendance OF Delegates L. Ex-
pected-There Are Many
Candidates.

The democratic county convention OF
Deer Lodge county will be held in this
city to-day. The democrats are to nomi-
nate candidates for the following offices:
County attorney, county assessor. coun-
ty treasurer. ounty clerk and recorder.
sherih, public administrator, county
surveyor county superintendent Of
scnoois, coroner and six members of the
legislature. Forty-two delegates to the
state convention will also be selected.
Ihe convention will assemble at the
riga theater at 2 O'Clock. After
temporarily organizing the meeting will
take a recess for an hour or two in order
that the committees on credentials and
permanent organization and order of
business may have time to prepare their
reports. After reassembling the nomi-
nations for the offices above named will
be taken up.
1t is said hat there will be one or
Two contesting delegations from some
or the outlying precincts, but just what
the nature of the contests is is not
known, nor can il be told how much
time the contests will take UP.
IL Is expected that the convention will
run into the night, as there are likely
to be a goodly number of ballots on
many OF the offices. There are as MANY
as SIX and seven candidates for some of
the ofnces and to dispose of these will
require a good deal of time. Some of
the candidates for the nominations have
Withdrawn from the race, but there are
still enough left TO make the contests
interesting ones. TIL names of the most
prominent candidates for the different
offices have already been mentioned.
and the most of them will be in the
race, although a few have dropped out.
The candidates for sheriff are more
numerous than for any other office.
Those mentioned mostly are Billy Kelly.
James Shields, Jack Conley, Dan Dwyer,
c. X. H~ardenbrook and Martin Gleason. |
the contest.
For county attorney there are four
men in the race, w. II. Trippet, J.. IL. |
DUFFY, j. r.. BooIman and yelling Nap
ton.
For county clerk and recorder there
are NJ. Martin and M. NJ. Donoghue.
For county treasurer j. II. Walkup.
c. HI. Williams and b. F. Brown are
most prominent. l
For assessor George Miller is so far
the only name that has come to notice.
For superintendent of schools Miss
Quigley and Miss Gleason are mem
toned.
The other offices will doubtless find
aspirants in the convention to-day.
There are so many candidates for Iegis-
lative honors that mention of them is
impossible. All of the names heard are
those of representative citizens, and the
choice of the convention will be loyalty
supported by the entire democracy of
the county.
There will be 146 delegates in to-day's
convention. Those so far received are
as follows:
Anaconda-First ward-John Hamill,
II. Lightstone, A. Harrity, C. West.
F. Murphy, B. Mckinley, p. S. Camp
bell, j. V. Collins, f. j. Nadeau, II.
Sale.
Second ward-J. II. Durston, T.. ID. /
William Walsh. j. r. Toole. ].
Walkup, Mike O'Meara, j. c. Twohy. |
OLeary, George Gates, T. j. McKen- s
lie. Hugh DAILY. !
Third ward-Ed Burke. James John- I
'on' Thomas Mclaughlin, ]. E. McDon- {
aid, Pat Walsh, T. d. Fitzgerald, ]. II.
Casey, Peter Cox, j. ]. McGuinness.
Emil Hansen. r
Fourth ward-D. Shovlin, William
T. Murray, George Barich. +,
owen O'Neill, NJ. NJ. Donoghue, Will "
am Devine, p. Larkin. NJ. Corrlgan, NJ. 7
-arkin, Harry Hynes. Il
Fifth ward-T. F. Mahoney. Pat Shu- :
rue. Mike Kraker, w. j. Davis, John h
.appin, Thomas Mcguire, William Raw. IN
ohm Lawlor, George Burnett Phil Fee. e
ohm Schutty.
Sixth ward-Charles Gallagher, j. c..
cunningham, +. II. Murphy, A. NJ.
Walker, Ed Devine, William Kelliher. 4,
Ahearne, T. w. Sullivan, Pat 7!
,alton, John Fink. 4,
~Carroll-North precinct-Patrick Cud- o.
Thy, p. Y. Murphy, Charles Flood, q,
Coonan. -
South precinct-Charles Boylon, J.. J. &c
Harry Massman, J.. j.. DAILY, -
harles Mcdonald, Joe Mccoy.
Deer Lodge-North precinct-Tom Nc -
+. S. Davey, Alex Brown, John -
[cInerney.
South precinct-Alex MarcilIe. w. T.
James Conley, John Gerdts,
)hn Reid. ds
S~tuart-Frank Notes.-The, Thomas de
ord. fr
Warm Springs-Dr. O.. Y. Warren, ]. dr
pl
Silver Lake-W. ]. Hilbert, James
zach.
Gold Coin-John Kinney, James Rog-
Roach, w. w.
Goldman. r..
Cable-Albert Moag, william Parker. -
Mill Creek. Allen, Henry Parker,
II Lappin.
Helmville-James w. Geary. Tom =.
ullan, Will Mccormick. al
j.. Blood, George rande
The names of the alternates were Va
inted at the time of the primaries. "a
4 great many of the delegates from co,