Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-20
TODAY'S DOINGS.
Defeated Partly Badly Broken Up in
Spirit.

When the convention got down to work
this morning the Deer Lodge delegation,
which had been turned down to make
way for the delegation that bolted, APP
Piled for the vacant seats, through reso-
luton introduced by e. G. Day of Lewis
and Clarke county. The application was
opposed by John S. M .Neill on the
ground that the applicants having been
turned down by the state central COM
mittee and the committee on credentials,
could not be regularly seated. Edward
Scharnikow explained the status of af-
fairs relative to the selection of the dele
cation, and by reconsideration of the
vote adopting the report of the commit
tee on credentials, the applicants were
seated.
In connection with the matter, Paul A.
Fusz of Granite county, one of the dele
gates from that county who did not bolt,
was accused of being in league with the
boilers, but he denied the allegation and
his word was accepted
He cast the vote of the entire county
against seating the Deer Lodge contest
ants.
OF the 81 delegates who voted for the
adoption of the minority report of the
committee on credentials, u bolted and
held a meeting in Englehorn hall for the
purpose of taking preliminary steps to-
wards the organization Of another Sec
ton of the party. All declared they had
been unfairly treated. This sentiment
was embodied in declaration of inde-
pendence which is being scattered
throughout the state. An adjournment
was then taken until IL o'clock today, at
which time Chairman c. F. Kelly, ap-
pointed Harry Gallwey of Silver Bow,
John DunnOz of Carbon, H l.. Myers of
Ravalli, J. McDevitt of Teton, and
Daniel Tracey of Cascade, a committee
to select state central committee COM
posed of one man from each county.
The members of the state committee will
be empowered to call county conventions
In their respective counties. The address
formulated at the midnight meeting was
read and adopted, after which a recess
until o'clock was taken. Henry Mueller
of Butte has been chosen as committee
man to represent Silver Bow county.
The state convention of Boilers is
scheduled to meet in Butte.
Governor Smith, Attorney General
Nolan, Charles Hartman and Timothy
Collins are as badly broken up as the
party with which they are affiliated.
Their hopes We're centered upon the sue
cess of their contingent to control the
urfsted democracy and select it's own
men to manipulate the wheels of the
state government, but that contingent
having met the enemy and fallen, they
refuse to be consoled. The governor
b!ames w. A. Clark for it all, and is ably
seconded by other members of that fac
tion whose political ambitions have been
blasted by the breach in the ranks.
There is one noticeable feature in
prospective candidates for office. Yes
terday morning when the outlook for a
united party was bright. they were al
most as numerous as flies in q sugar
barrel; but since a fracture in the ranks
occurred, they seem to have rubbed
their names from the slate and gone-a-
fishing.
Their is still much preliminary work to
be done before the convention settles
down to real business.
Conference committees have been Sc
lected by each of the three conventions,
and they are endeavoring to reach an
understanding. There is a hitch, how
ever, and it may prove stumbling
block to the consummatiOn of the pro-
posed fusion.
The popuists and labor party want
Thomas Hogan for governor. but the
democrats do not Tt is doubtful if any
nomination will be made today.
On motion of Judge A. Fl. Barret the
convention this afternoon elected Walter
Cooper chairman of the democratic state
tcentral> committee and adopted a revised
plank in the platform pledging the party
to use it's best endeavors toward securing
liberal pensions for veterans of the rebel
lion and the Spanish-American wars.