Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-06-29

cali was read 10y The secretary. Little
time was wasted in oratory or speech
making and the convention got down
to business without delay. For tenn
1 porary chairman. \. \. Crane Of ilar-
/ rison was named by acclamation. and
Robt. ). McCrea. Of RathdrDm. was
chosen secretary. also by reclamation.
4 After a recess Of five minutes the
chairman announced the following
committees:
Credentials w. l.. kinnear, a. J.
Manor, Il. ". Wark, +. \. Crandall
and Peter Seth: order Of business,
l.. leitman J. r. Cook. Jr.. Peter ~
Johnson. j, Fisher and samuel Green:
resolutions Frank Wenz. Thos. lIy-
dorm, William Ryan. \. II. Noble, D.
". Budlong, andrew Christensen, j no
+. lust.
The convention then adjourned m
til Two o'clork Ia afford these commit
tees time to report. Upon rcconven-
ing the convention first heard the re-
port Of the committee on credentials.
This report showed that 81 precincts
were fully represented. one small pre-
cinct in the north and five in The eX-
IRENE southern part Of the county be-
ing unreprcsented. 41delegates We're
present and the voting strength of the
convention was -, very few proxies
being in evidence. The reports of all
three committees were unanimously
adopted by the convention.
The committee on order of business
recommended that the temporary or
ganization be made permanent. The
selection OF precinct committeeman
preceded the nomination of the ticket
and resulted rs follows;
: Priest Lake, 4. Mckinzie: Occur d.
, Alcne. George G. Thomson: Prairie,
Charles Crockett: Standpoint. |. Well:
Bellgroye. j. a. Larson; Naples, =. G..
Johnston Cocolalla +. i. Craig: SCnc-
acguoteen, Andrew Christensen: Lake
view, Chas Skeels; boundary. John
frtSch: Lconia, H. r. Gibson: Valley,
j. II. Currin: Lakecreef, II. Garwood:
Granite. \. j. Clark: Wolf Lodge, &.
r. Nudge: Mica Fay, J. II. Lyon: .Iiar-
lison. William Cry. st. ltlries, jos.
Cole: Boomers Ferry, 5. r. Henry:
knotenai, j. y. Carnegie: Clark Fork;
Y. ". Roth: Rathdrum G. l.. Heit-
man: North Side. G. l.. Slocum: state
Line. II. Poilid: Hope. X. Wanemak
er: Pos, Falls, }. A. Fisher; Priest
River, Thomas Ilydorn: Athol, Johr
Mcclellan. {. l.. l1eitman was chose!
: by reclamation to succeed himself Il
chairman of the new central commit
) tee.
The nominations were made in tn,
!. order which the candidates names ap
pear ut the beginning of this report
:, As they were nomina ted each candi
date was called upon for a speech ant
i nearly all responded with few bric
!, remarks which were generally 70 TN
! point and roundly applauded by TIL
- convention.
Dr. Carrie f. Iceberg was the onl
n lady delegate present and the conVen
:. ion did very graceful act by placinl
~ her in nomination for the lower brancI
=, of the state legislature, thus recogni2
- ing the farer sex of the county by 81,
ing them representation on the ticket
, She took no politicians part in II,
= proceedings and kept her place as D,
J comes Il lady, but any casual observe
Il could plainly see that not even th
E smallest detail escaped her notice. ]
. accepting the nomination with whc
her brief but well chosen words col
!. WINGED all that She is a lady Of aciio
as we'll us culture and refinement an
. we'll qualified to represent this count
- in he lower house Of the state legisl;
- ture in a manner which will relied
:, credit upon herself as well as the I,
publican pafty.
=, While the candidates for the legi
:, lature arc not pledged TO vote for an
- particular candidate for United State
- senator each volunteered expression
ri which leaves no grounds for ,donbtin
j. thar if CUR Legislative ticket is sn
i, cpsSful this fan Senator Shoup ma
- safely count on four votes from koot,
=. nai county.
- Tie convention vas composed /
80 representative citizens and their maj
- ner and actions would have convince
y the observer that they were deeply
-. earnest Great care WAS exercised
i the selection Of candidates with ii
=, result that ticket has been nomina
!, ed in which the enemy will fail To I'll
~ coyer.an element of weakness. The r
cord OF each candidate upon Il
~ ticket is absolutely above reproae
- and their competency and integri'
= can net be questioned.