Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1899-07-28
UNION COUNTY CONVENTION

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Saturday. Resolutions Adopt
ed and Delegates to Nit
cheII Selected.
INSTRUCTED FOR C. B. kennedy.
The Union county convention was
called to order by Chairman Bacon last
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
A. r. Jameson was elected tempor7
ary chairman and A. E. Linn temporary
secretary, and later on the temporary
Organization was made permanent.
The committee on credentials report
ed all but four precincts represented.
The committee on resolutions submit
ted the following which were unani-
mously adopted:
We, the Union forces of Lincoln
county. in convention assembled, fully
endorse the fearless and honest admin
istration of Governor Andrew E. Lee,
and agree with him that when the war
with Spain was ended by the ratiica-
tion Of the treaty of peace, that the
time for which the First South Dakota
volunteers had enlisted, was terminated
and that the regiment should at once
have been returned to the state and
mustered out.
4 We are proud of the record and sol
dierly conduct and heroism which the
South Dakota regiment has made in the
Philippines; they have made the name
Of South Dakota known to the world as
the home of heroes, they have made
every citizen of our state proud of the
state which they have so gallently re-
presented and when these brave men
come home, we favor giving them a
welcome commensurate with their
achievements.
/ We oppose the policy Of expansion
adopted by the Mckinley administra:
tion as in conflict with our Declaration
Of independence; in violation Of oul
Constitution and the inherent rights OF
man. We fully believe in the Declar
alton Of the great Lincoln: That thil
is county Of the people, for the peopl,
and by the people, and that no people
should be governed against their viii
or without their consent.
We condemn the action of the las
Legislature in submitting the amend
ment to the constitution known as th.
dispensary system without first giving
lit fair trial. The people having de
clared for it by referendm vote, thai
that vote should have been respected
and the policy honestly tested. The
referring of it again to the people and
the refusal of a Republican Legislature
to give it fair trial, we regard as an
insult to every elector who voted for it,
We charge the Republican supreme
court of this state with having used
their great power and judicial function
for partizan purposes and in the in
terest of the railroads and other
special interests in this state and of be-
ing absolutely dominated by the rail
road machine. That the rights of
every citizen Of the state not protected
by the machine are endangered and i'm
periled by the reelection of the present
court. We believe that the only way
to secure just, independent and hon
est judiciary is to select men on whom
the Republican railroad machine have
1 no influence and whose election was
not brought about by the railroad in
fuence
We believe and charge that the re-
nomination of the present judges was
the choice and dictation of the railroad
machine and that every citizen Of the
state, regardless of party, should see to
| it that these selections of the machine
are not ratified at the polls.
We take pleasure in presenting to the
Union convention to be held at Mitchell
the name of Hon. c. B! Kennedy, of
Canton as man thoroughly educated
in the law, Of wide experience in the
practice, and loyal to justice and right;
a man of pure moral life, of strict in
tegrity and fearless in carrying out his
convictions; man of courage and
loyalty to right: man whom we know
no machine or special interest could
swerve from the honest performance of
duty We request the delegates from
this convention to use all honorable
means to secure his nomination.
The following delegates and alter
mates were elected to represent Lincoln
county at the Union state convention
to be held in Mitchell on Sept. a.:
Delegates: E. W. Norton, N. N. Rom
mereim, o. F. Carlson, Tom Burke,
Thos. Wardwell. G. A. Heckmaster. A.
R. Jameson, Geo. Palmer, r. U. Brad
shaw, A. L. Anderson and A. E.. Linn.
Alternates: F. A. York, Ole l. Moen,
G. o. Knudson, A. J. Wimple, j. A.
Warner, Jas w. Fee, w. M. Cuppett,
Osmd Steensland, M M. Crowley, j.
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