The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-10-02
SYLvANITE-J. S. Fox.

SYLvANITE-J. S. Fox.
BAD RocK-Nathan Scott, w. Ryther,
H. Hunting, Frank Matyka, V. Lelikan,
John Modiselt, w. G. Nutter, VIM. Par
sons, Frank Moravetz.
After reading the foregoing list of dele
gates on motion, which was carried
unanimously, 0. G. Thompson was
elected chairman and Henry Boothman
secretary of the convention. Upon
taking his seat the chairman asked the
pleasure of the convention, whereuopn
it was moved and seconded that a com
mittee of three be appointed to oreport on
platform and resolutions and CON-
mittee Of three on permanent organi-
zation and order of business. A recess
was taken for the naming of these two
COMMITTEES.
Upon resuming, the chair announced
the committee on platform and reso-
lutions as follows:
s. D. Mccarthy, F. G. Bailey, VIM.
Vanderveer, and the committee on per
manent organization and order of bus
mess as: Geo. Ottawa, A. A. Schonfeldt
and F. L. Flinchpaugh. A motion
having been made and carried, the
chairman appointed a committee of three
to select thirteen delegates and thirteen
alternates to the State convention, to be
held in Butte on Tuesday. The chair
appointed j. G. Sullivan, Thomas Quirk
and VIM. Engle. A recess of fifteen
minutes was taken.
Before the committee were ready to
report the convention was called to order
and Mr.. Whiteside said:
I'VE have present in the convention, a
distinguished visitor in the person of the
governor of the state of Montana. It
gives me pleasure, Mr.. Chairman, to
move that committee of three be ap
pointed by the chair, to request Gov
ernor Smith to address the convention
and also to escort him to the platform -
The motion was seconded by at least
twenty members who were on their feet
at once shouting for recognation, The
motion was carried amid great enthu-
sism and the chairman appointed dele
gates Mccarthy, Ottawa and Hendricks
to accompany the governor to the plat
form. AS the governor moved down the
center isle in company with the com
mittee, the delegates cheered again and
again. The chairman pleasantly intro
duced governor Bob" who said:
Governor Smiths Address.
"Fellow citizens of Flathead county,
see that you are engaged today in hold
ing democratic convention. We have
had several conventions by that name
throughout the state in the different
counties in the past month. don't near
to say anything against democrats who
act from principle or who believe they
are doing what is right, but when the
democratic party takes under it's wing g
convicted briber before the whole worlc
and proposes to vindicate that man, it is
time for the honest thinking men in that
party to rise up and say no. applause,
mo party can ever become strong by
upholding wrong; no party can or viii
ever become weak by fighting that which
is wrong; there may be temporary dis
aster or defeat, but in the end gold viii
come out of the fire bright and true anc
better for it. Now, our republican friends
must not think that because we have g
little scrap among ourselves that they
are exempt; they are in this Clark fight
as deep as the Clark democrats are
they are just as willing to meet him in
the back alleys or dark corners as any
one else is. Why, in the city of Helena
on the 5th of this month, saw spec
tacle that ought to be demonstration
of republican purity; there we're foul
men at state convention that mum
bered over four hundred delegates; there
we're four men that they brought for
ward upon the platform of the conven
tion and the chairman called for three
cheers for four honest republicans. They
were SO glad that they could find foul
honest republicans that they called fol
three cheers, and then called for resolu
tions of commendation. applause, long
and continued.) One republican in the
audience who had given the three cheers
turned to me and said, did you ever SEE
spectacle like that in democratic
convention where they were cheering fol
honest men? said: No. sir; never
saw a democratic convention or gather