Daily inter mountain., 1900-10-22

party; that at said convention there were
nominated as candidates to be voted for
at the general election to be held Novem-
Der 9th, 1900, for judicial, county and
legislative offices for which they were so
so nominated, are contained in a sched-
ule hereto annexed and marked "A"
*(EXhibit "a is a list of county repub-
lican nominations). That your relator is
the same person who is named in said
schedule as George A. Clark, as candidate
for member of the House of Represent
tatives for the County of Silver Bow.
II.
That on the 10Th day Of August, 1900,
a pretended call for the holding of pre-
tended republican caucuses, primaries
and convention in the County of Silver
Bow, State of Montana, was issued by
one John Bevan, and one W. H. Nichols
signing themselves res, octfuly, "Chair-
man and Secretary" and was publish
ed IN the daily newspapers in the City Of
Butte, Silver Bow County Montana,
Which pretended call was in words and
figures as follows, to-wit
The Republican County Convention
for Silver Bow County is hereby called
to meet at the Auditorium, in the City of
Butte, Montana, at 12 m., Saturday, Au-
gust 25th 1900 for the purpose of nomin-
ating candidates for the various county
offices to be voted for at the coming cleo
ton; and for the purpose of selecting
slxty-two delegates and sixty-two alter
nate delegates to the republican state
| convention which Is called to meet in
Helena, Montana, on September S. and
Tor the purpose of transacting such other
business as may properly come before
said republican county convention
PRIMARIES will be held in the various
precincts of the County on Monday, Au-
gust 10th, from to o'clock D. m., and
the places of holding primaries and the
irunDer OF delegates to which the war;
lous precincts are entitled, is hereby set
opposite the number of such precincts,
Representation in the convention is ap-
pofuoned among the several precincts ON
uhe basis or one delegate for each twenty
votes and major fraction Of twenty votes.
cast Tor the republican nominee for con-
gress in 1898.
Ihat pursuant to said call certain
caucuses ana primaries We're held in
very many precincts of the County of
Silver Bow on the goth day of August
1900; that said caucuses and primaries
We're claimed to be the primaries Of the
republican party of said county; that at
SAID caueuses and primaries there We're
elected delegates to attend a county con-
Nentlon; that said delegates numbered as
felator is informed and believes one
hundred and sixty-two Q62). That
thereafter and upon the 25th day of
August, 1900, at II O'Clock noon, a por-
ton of said delegates so elected as afore-
said met at the Auditorium in the city
of Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana.
Ihat said persons SO meeting as afor.,-
SAID organized themselves into con.
Ventlon by electing John Bevin as tenn.
porary chairman and Joseph Pyle as
temporary secretary, and A. A. Cross
man as assistant temporary secretary:
that said meeting then appointed a COM
mlttee on credentials, and a committee
on platform and resolutions and a COM
hlttee on permanent organization ard
order of business. That thereafter and
on the same day said meeting perman-
emily organized by electing Samuel H.
1feloar as chairman, Joseph Pyle as Sec
fetary, and w. D. Fenner and A. A.,
Cfossman as assistant secretaries. There
upon the chair appointed fifteen l5)
members of said convention as a com.
mitttee to select siXty-two delegates and
slXty-tWo alternate delegates to the re-
publican state convention to be held at
I1eieHa, september 9th, 1900.
III.
That said convention so organized as
aforesaid pretended and claimed to ba
the regular county convention of the re-
publican party OF the County of Silver
Bow That said committee on resolu.
tions in said convention presented a re.
port. and that report was adopted, and
among the resolutions SO adopted by said
convention We're the following:
To the Republican County Convention Of
Silver Bow County, Montana:
We, your committee on resolutions.
submit the following report:
We, the delegated representatives of
the republican party of Silver Bow
county, do hereby reaffirm our unfalter-
ing allegiance to the great principles of,
government enunciaated by the repub.
lcan party of the United States in the
platform adopted and promulgated at
the national convention held at PhiIa-
delphia on June 9Th, 1900.
We approve of the wise and patriotic
of President Mckinley
and his fidelity to every duty imposed
upon him by the exalted office that he is
so honorably filling. and We confidently
predict his reelection in November for
the ensuing term, and a completion of the
great work entrusted to his care.