The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-03-15
TOWNSHIP CONVENTIONS.
List Of Delegates 0btainable~~All Tor
Dockery.

the court room Saturday Afternoon
at 2 O'Clock. >. W. Dooley was elect
ed chairman and DR.. Ballard, secre
tary.
y. A. Wade offered the following
resolutions which were adopted:
Resolved, That we, the democrats
OF Mt. Pleasant township i'll conven
ton assembled view with pride the
wise and economical government
given to our state by long line O
democratic officials in the past, not
the least of which il our present eff
Gent. business-like and conservative
administration OF Gov. Lon '.
Stephens and our present state Of
ficials
That We point with pardonabEe
pride. to the record OF that friend oil
the republic and enemy to the empire,
Hon ID. A. DeArmond and express
the hope that long years OF usefulness
to the party and the people may be
his.
That recognizing the honest pat
riotism and ability of that life time
friend of the masses the Hon. A. NJ.
Dockery We would earnestly recon-
mend that the delegates from Mt.
Pleasant township use all honorable
means TO elect IA delegation from
Bates county favorable to his nOmi
nation for governor.
Judge ". W Graves offered the
following resolution which was adopt
ed:
Whereas. We recognize that Hon
f. {. Crow has made one of the best
attorney generals the State of Mis-
souri, ever had: one who has been
fearless i'll the prosecution of his du-
ties, irrespective of influences; and
Whereas, We recognize that General
Grow has been especially friendly
toward the democracy of Bates
county: and,
Whereas 1t is being currently re-
ported that an effort is being made
to encompass his denomination at
the next democratic state convention,
Therefore, be it
Resolved, That the democrats of
Mt. Pleasant township do, in conven-
ton assembled, endorse the adminisss
tration of General Crow and
endorse his candidacy for renom-
ination to the office he now holds,
and we further declare that the de-
mocracy of Bates county should re-
sent the act of any man or set Of
men who attempt to defeat his re-
nomination.
L. W Silvers offered a motion that
the delegates to the county conven-
ton be elected by ballot and that the
polls be held open for two hours W
o. Jackson offered as a substitute
that the vote be taken by division
of the house which substitute motion
prevailed. Mr. Jackson then offered |
q list of names for delegates, who. he |
said, were all for Dockery and would |
vote for J ID. Allen and H. c. Clark |
Tor delegates to the statenominating
ID. A. Colver submitted n list who |
ne said, were not pledged to vote for
for delegates, but he under
stood they were all for Dockery.
The delegation presented by Mr..
Jackson was elected by more than a
our-tifths majority, only about p
Dut of probably 300 standing for the
delegation.
The delegates from the various,
townships as far IS we have been |
able to obtain them are:
Mt. Pleasant:-A. b. Owen. J. ". !
Mcclure, Dennis Thrall, Edgar Dali |
ton, n b. Mcfarland. f. c. Mudd. !
W, c. Eldridge, W. F. Hemstreet. B. |
F. Jeter, W. @. Jackson, Geo. Tits
worth, A. j. Wyer, Friend Carpenter. |
FL. c. Clark, j. D. Allen, Edgar Will
Jams, Thos. Smith, Ed. Childs, Sam
uel Levy, T. X. Lisle, W. r. Morrison.
{. r. Radford, VIM. Arnold, j. A.
Cobb, Tom Hodges, JAS. Warnock.
Usage II. G. Ellis, A. B. Stone. J.
h. DeJarnett, Ben Rand. r. f. Cock
Grill, Amos Manchester, Geo. Pear
son, Peter, Harvey, W. B. Williams,
c. NJ. Leedy, j, B. March. E. B. Bor-
ron, ". II. Allen, c. K. Walters. F. J
Wiseman, r. j. Hadley, Henry Christ
man, j. NJ. Heck, Jim Moreland. DR..
Hullett, Dennis Miller, Mark Pearson.
III. A. kimbrough. ". II. Ganawav,