Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-07-26

plan to head of fusion by trying to
get a resubmission plank put in the
platform. This would have cost the
ticket a great many votes and was
also overwhelmingly defeated in the
committee on resolutions. Nothing
was said about prohibition, and the
laws on the statute book were to be
enforced as far as the convention
candidates could do SO.
The matter of going it alone, was
finally settled by the convention re-
fusing to accede to the demands of
the anti-fusion coterie by vote of
nearly 3 to l, but it was not taken un-
til all the speakers who desired,
had full opportunity to say their say
in the regular democratic way.
The anti-fusionists were mostly from
Jud LaMoure's county which is demo
cratic except it always elects Jud who
is republican. 1t was claimed that
few independents existed there and
in Cavalier county and that it was
better to have the pure straight demo-
cratic name on the state ballot, than
to have the independent-democratic
The speakers talked Of Thos. Jeffer-
son democracy, the age of the party
and their adherence to democratic
principles &c, and said everything
they could think Of to convince the
convention that fusion was not the
proper action but when Bolton Of
Walsh county asked how long it would
take the democrats Of Ncrth4 Dakota
to raise up 10000 votes which the in
dependentsIhad given to the ticket,
the arguments of the antis fell fiat.
The debate was sharp and brought
out good many telling speeches and
after it was all over everybody felt
better, the atmosphere was clear, and
a committee was sent to invite the
independent convention to participate
with the democrats in the selection
of a ticket. AS the independents en-
tered the hall the band played and
three cheers were given the new men,
bers. AS most of the independents
desired to retain their party name
for future use, that concession was
the chief thing they wished for, the
places on the ticket being considered
subordinate.
The democratic convention was
large in actual attendance, filling COM
fortably the big opera house. The
independents met at the court house
and filled the court room. The con-
ference committees agreed on the lead
ing offices each convention was to Sc
lect candidates for. The indepen-
dents could have had either congress
or governor. L. f. LELAND of LaMOure
was the choice for governor and could
have been nominated but he declined,
from personal reasons, to make the
race. Mr.. Houston of Hunter, was
nominated as a candidate by Walter
Muir, but the convention preferred
Ueland as it's choice. Houston a
wealthy man, the owner of several
valuable patents in connection with
the kodak, and is large farmer. He
and his family are in Paris, but he
wrote a letter saying he would make
the race and his friends said he would
put up properly for the campaign ex-
penses. He is loyal to Bryan and the
reform movement and was highly
as a good man, but
the delegates thought best to select
him. There was no candidate for
congress on the independent side, who
felt willing to make the race, and so
both the leading places on the ticket
we're filled, with the full consent Of
the independents, by the democrats.
A. NJ Hildreth the soldier attorney
Of Cass county was named for con-
yress, and Max Wipperman, the popu-
lar German hustler from Richland
was nominated by reclamation
for governor. The other places were
selected with a view of giving the
arger counties in the state full repre-
,entation on the ticket and represent