The Dickinson press., 1900-10-06
Billings County Convention

Billings County Convention
The Voters Meet In Mass Convention and
Nominate County Ticket.
The Billings county republican mass
convention was called to order Saturday
afternoon at z o'clock, Sept 20, by Chair
man Henry Gilbert. The chair stated
the object of the meeting, viz, to nomin-
ate a county ticket to be voted upon at
the coming electlon-Nov. +.
The first thing in order being the
choice of a chairman, J. b. Stoddard and
]. W. Foley were placed in nomination.
A. L. Martin and w. L. Eaton were APP
pointed ~tellers, and the result of the bal
lot was, Stoddard So, Foley "A. Mr..
Stoddard was declared elected, and as he
stepped to the platform he thanked the
people for the honor they had conferred
upon him.
On motion of H. c. Miethe Howard
Eaton was elected secretary
On motion a credential committee, one
from each commissioner district, was ap-
pointed to make a list of the voters pres
emit H. J. Schultz, Ed. S. Foley and H. c.
Miethe were appointed. The report
showed 20 from district No. / entitled to
participate in the convention; End dis
uict, 50; grid district, y; total, 100.
On motion of w. M. futile, End by
Howard Eaton, Ed. S. Foley was nomin-
ated for the Office of county auditor.
Unanimous.
On motion of J. K. Moody, End w. M.
futile, Harvey Robinson was nominated
for treasurer. Unanimous.
On motion of w. M. futile, End H.
Schultz, Jeff Mcdonald was nominated
for register of deeds. On motion Of Geo
Myers, End by James Harmon and ]. A.
McGregor, F. Alden Eaton was also
nominated. E. E. Mikkelson from the
Ist, P. !. Pelissier from the end and w.
NJ. futile from the grid district were APP
pointed tellers. The ballot gave Eaton
60, Mcdonald Al; Eaton's majority 10.
On motion of Mr.. Paxon, end by Mr..
Martin, the nomination of Mr.. Eaton
was made unanimous.
On motion of w. l.. Eaton, and by ]
for register of deeds. On motion of Jas.
lis was also nominated. The ballot gave
Gilbert 81, Coils IL; Gilbert's majority
IS. On motion of Coils the nomination
IA NlAOSlI do llladS ulluAlllAlOhos
On motion of w. M. futile, and by w.
l.. Eaton, Norman Lebo was placed in
nomination for county Judge. On motion
of Geo. Reid, End by F. A. Eaton, ]. D.
Tomiachel was also placed in nomination
The ballot gave Lcbo s., Tomiachel 4S;
Lebo's majority s. On motion of Paxson
Lebo's nomination was made unanimous
On motion of w. M. Tuttle, end by ]
A. Ferris, w. T. Deuniston was placed
in nomination for office of states attorney
The yeas and nays were taken and Den.
niston was declared the nominee of the
convention.
On motion of p. J. Pelissier, and by H
Robinson, w. J. Follis was placed in
nomination for the office of sheriff. Unan.
imous.
On motion of w. M. futile Julia F
Martin was placed in nomination fol
office of Co. Supt. On motion OF J. A
Ferris, and by ]. K. Moo ", Rachael
Denniston was also placed in nomination
The ballot gave Mrs. Martin Al, Mrs
Denniston 81; majority for latter 10 On
motion of A. L. Martin, and by w. L
Eaton, Mrs. Denniston's nomination was
made unanimous.
On motion of Jeff Mcdonald, End by
H. Gilbert, Grin Kendley was placed in
nomination for office of coroner. Unani
nous.
For commissioner of the end district
]. B. Stoddard was the unanimous choice
Assessor-Ist dist, Geo. O. Reid; End
p. J. Pelissier; grid J. o. Grey.
Justice-Ist district, Jeff Mcdonald
End, ]. w. Foley and J.. A. McGregor
grid, w. M. Tuttle.
Constables-1st dist, c. T. Langley
and U. S. Arnett and Will Rozell; grid
Sam Pullen.
On motion Of Jeff Mcdonald, and BY
H. c. Miethe, it was voted that the mex
regular county convention should be (;
delegate convention.
1t was voted that the appointing of P;
county central committee should be lief
to H. Gilbert.
On motion of Jeff Mcdonald, End b!
w. M. Tuttle, it was voted that a mem
orial should be drafted and presented tt
the county board to the end that the.
should cause the matter of paying
a wolf bounty to be submitted to tn
voters at the Nov. election.
This completed the work of the con
%vention.
CONVENTION NOTES.
The general opinion seemed to b.
that the convention had nominated
strong ticket. Billings, the same as tw'
years ago, has but the one ticket in tn
field.
Geo. Myers withdrew his candidac'
for the nomination. of treasurer before tn