Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-20
C0CkR|LL IS OUT

There is CONSERVATION in the DAILY camp
posed as chairman of the state central
has been selected to take his place.
The change was effected shortly after 3
o'clock this afternoon, after one Of the
The central committee resumed its labors
at 2 O'Clock. Tn Clark men had been
gaining ground In the committee All day,
and the arbitrary actions of the chairman
during the afternoon ~alienated several
more Of the committee who were disposed
During the afternoon session Mr.. Neill
made q motion to refer all the contests
regarding delegates to 2 committes;
the motion. He also refused to entertain
an appeal from the chair
Then Mr.. Netll took the reins in his hands
AS the Clark people had IS counties in
their favor the motion carried:
Just at this moment the door opened
and about ten deputy sheriffs. who were
lowering for some hours around the hall
way way in rushed the lea al T Tnee otti seeri aeize Mu Naiii
and told him he was under arrest. An
other officer also seized him and the two
way. Mr.. Neill resisted. and several Of
his friends, including Dick Persell of Hell
ena, rushed to his rescue.
defied them to arrest him, and they decided
not to run their bluff.
Mr.. Neill was thereupon elected chair
man. He then called a meeting OF the
central committee for 4 o'clock this after
noon and adjourned until that hour.
The humid atmosphere Of Butte today
was intensified by the presence in the
city Of several hundred Clark democrats
from outlying counties, who, for more
than an hour about noon, stormed the
gates Of the Auditorium in a vain effort
to secure entrance. Behind the gates was
a low-brOWed Daily democratic deputy
sheriff with orders from his superior off,
Ger to allow no one to enter the hall of
the library building where the democrat
ic state convention was to be
held.
Early this morning about fifty men
employed in the DAILY mines reported at
the sheriff's office and were transformed
from the occupation of miner into deputy
sheriffs. After receiving their credentials
they proceeded to the library auditorium
and took up positions on the stairway
outside and the hallway and stairway in
side. where they became the prime SHOW
ers and ID when the Clark dele
cation others attempted to enter the
building.
While the Clark democrats were striv-
ing for admission the Daily men were
preparing the gigantic cat-hop, which
.N" : oOJCCl TIE ueIoat or Senator
w. A. Clark as a delegate to the national
convention. This was sought to be ac-
compllshed through the medium of the
state central committee, which was in
session at the McDermott hotel. and
Whlch was known to have strong lean
lngs toward the Anaconda Democracy
Al l2:3o O'Clock Chairman Cockrill ar
raveu at the library building and an
nounced that no meeting would he hold
until O'Clock in the afternoon.
f1eaded by a band, the Clark deleeatee
Ilarcneu IN a body to the Auditorinn
apout 1850 O'Clock in order to be on the
sIound early. They filled every ayaila-
leading to the convention hall. Thomass
hllg'aion, grapsing an American flag ir
mis- hand, was in the lead. Mounting the
steps, the crowd arrived ait the big iror
gate on the stairway, which barred theil
Iufuner progress. For an hour the,
other until big globules of perspiratior
dropped from their brows. The lam wa,
SO great that a couple of men becam,
exhausted and only saved thernselye,
from peing carried out by seeking relic
in the library room.
The crowd amused itself during tn,
long wait by indulging in good naturet
Irepartee and some that was not good ma
tured: Some reckless individual yellet
to Khgallon to hand down the flag which
he proudly held aloft. This prompted
patriotic citizen to make the reply tina
old glory had never yet been pulle.
down, and never would be. "You neve
held it up yelled some one, the pa
triotic man subsidized. Another individ
ual on the outside remarked that h
thought he could get in. You can |
you send for Campbell and his Skeleton
!, key" said some one, and the crowd yell
ed.
About the hour set for the convention
,