Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-03-22
in VALLEY CITY
Republican Judicial Commit
tee Decide to Hold Conven-
ton in Valley City.
May Is Decided on as the
Date. Seven Members Pres
ent-One Absent.
Attorney SolIiday of Caring.
ton Elected Secretary Pro-
Tenn of Committee.

Pursuant to the call issued by Chair
Bartlett OF the judicial committee Of
the 5th district the committee held q
meeting in Oscar Sellers cffice in this
city Wednesday. There were present
Chairman Bartlett of Griggs county,
Secretary Wallace of Stutsmsn, proxy
Ormsby McHarg, Brown of Wells, Matt
son of Eddy, Davis of LsMoure, Solli-
day OF Foster and Coomb of Barnes
proxy for Burke. Weed of Logan was
unable to be present owing to the train
from the west being late.
On motion OF R. E. Wallace seconded
by Attorney Coombs, Attorney Solliday
of Foster was elected secretary pro TEN
to fill the place of Ormsby McHarg, now
in Washington. r. E. Wallace moved
that call for Judicial convention for
the fifth judicial district be issued, said
convention to be held in Valley City
May Is 1900. The motion was not sec.
oned.
Brown OF Wells offered the following
resolution as a substitute for motion of
Mr.. Wallace: Resolved that the call
Of this com mittee issued March 9th for
delegate convention to be held IN Val
Icy City is the due and official call OF
this COMMITTEES for the regular republic
can convention of the 5th judicial dis
trict to nominate candidate for Judge,
and We do hereby in all things ratify the
action of the majority of this committee
in issuing said CALL" The motion was
seconded by Msttson OF Eddy.
Mr.. Davis of LaMoure offered the fol-
loving substitute for the resolution Of
tered by Brown: "Resolved that the
call portion Of this committee issued
March 9th for delegste convention to
be held at Valley City N. D. May 18th is
hereby recalled in order that the con-
venience of the several delegates to said
convention may be better served and q
delegate convention he and is hereby
called to convene at the court house at
Valley City, N. D., at 10 a. Al. May 30,
1900 for nomination of Judge OF the 9th
judicial district, the representation to
said convention being the same as that
fixed by the state committee for the
state convention to be held ID Grapd
Forks July II, 1900" Seconded by Mr..
Wallace.
Mr.. Mattson moved that the substitu-
ting motion proposed by Mr.. Davis be
indefinitely postponed, seconded by
Coombs; carried, Mattson, Brown, Soil
day and Coombs voting in favor OF the
proposition Of Mr.. Mattson and Wallace,
Bartlett aud Davis against.
The consideration of the resolution
offered by Mr.. Brown was then taken
up, and the resolution passed, the mem
bers OF the committee voting as on the
previous motion.
1t was moved and carried that the
chairman and secretary prepare and
cause to be published in connection with
the call now being published, notice
that the committee will convene at 8 a.
m. on the date of the convention at KIN
dred hotel Valley City, to pass upon
credentials OF delegates and take part
in the preliminary organization of the
convention. The committee then sd-
journed to meet IN Valley City May u,
1900.
Mr.. Davis gave AS his reason for WISH
ing for the convention to be held May
80, that farmers and others who would
be delegates would be less busy at that
time than May Is.
A member of the committee, speaking
TOR the majority OF the mem bere, SAID it
was not the desire of the committee to
be placed in the position before the
public OF fsvorlng or opposing the inter.
ests OF any candidate for judge; and
specially not to take any action that
would lead the voters of the district, or
OF this county, to think the committee
were fevorinR or opposing either of the
factions in Stutsman county. All the
com mittee desired, be said, was to do
the fair thing by all parties as far as
they were able. The local differences
10 Stutsman county did not concern or
interest the people in the other counties
of the district. That the first call made
by the committee had probably been
made under misapprehenslon as to the
call having been issued for their meet.
ing, but, seeing that it had been
done, the committee deemed 1t wiser to
another convention at different date as