The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-09-24
DETAILED REPORT OF
THE BOZEMAN Meeting
No Attempt to Control the Votes Of the
Delegates Upon Any OF the
Nominations Is Made.
[srEcIAL TO INTER MouNrAiN.l

ton met this morning the first business
taken up was the report of the committee
on credentials. The question of turning
down the Heinze delegation came up in
the report and it was recommended that
the delegation commonly known as the
kuinpers' be denied seats. The report was
adopted, despite the objection of a Heinzc
delegate who wanted to hear from "Fau-
gustus in an oratorical way. The commit
tee on permanent organization next made
It's report recommending that. c. W. Hoff-
man OF Gallatin county be made permanent
chairman and Harvey Bliss permanent
secretary. All the recommendations were
adopted and Chairman Hoffman was es-
corted to the chair. He made no speech.
w. NJ Bickford then read the platform.
1t was much after the same style as other
democratic platforms in the past. 1t took
up democratic principles and indorsed them
generally, declared for the eght-hour law
III Montana and pointed with pride to the
party Glittering gencralities were INDUCED
in and the platform viewed the republican
party with alarm. The Constitution Fol
lowing the Flag" and slap at trusts were
read and then the convention got in its an
piause and the platform business was done.
Nominating Speeches.
When the order of business recurring
nominating speeches was reached
Delegate Ewing of Cascade county
placed J. L. Leslie in nomination
for associate justice. Delegate Sutherlin
o' Meagher county sctoncco the nom,r.,
ton, and thfle was applause r. Il. PIT
cell placed Lee Word IN nomination and
w. w. Morris was on hard with a second
for Madison county It began to look like
a pretty go between two pretty good men.
Judge D. r. Smith of Kalispel then had
his inning. He was placed in omination
in an eloquent speech by Teton county
delegate and proclaimed as a r.an who
would tie strong kno. in the cords of
affection between the elements of the
party. He was given rousing round Of
applause. 1t was getting interesting.
Walter Cooper Of Gallatn county came
to the front with nominating speech for
Ed. Schar1ikow of Deer Lodge. The in
'frest moved up anorhe- notch.
Then the voting began on roll call
Nearly every delegation split. 1t seemed
there was no organized effort in clec.ioneer-
ing on behalf of the candidates. and the
votes were scattered in all directions.
Even Silver Bow split. That county put in
its vote solid" on every other question
but the judgcship, and then the delegations
threw down the reins and let the delegates
take the man they liked best.
The vote on roll call stood: Leslie, I63;
Word, III; Smith, 1856, and Scharnikow,
%. Tieie being no choice another bal.o:
was called for.
Judge Leslie Nominated.
When the roll call began the Splitting
continued. Cascade came up with a solid
vote for Leslie, Powell voted for Schar7
nikow. Ward got 38 votes in Lewis and
Clarke and Leslie got S. Flathead went to
Smith and all around it seemed to be
case of voting for the "favorite sons" of
each county.
When Missoula was reached on the roll
row sprang up. John M. Evans and
Henry c. Stiff locked horns on the vote,
Stiff saying it had not been properly
counted. A motion was made to call the
roll and the vote was not changed in any
important particular.
1t was known that Evans of Missoula
county would be nominated for congress
and it looked like an attempt to hamstring
him before the race began. No choice was
made on the second ballot and third was
called for. Then Cooper Of Gallatin with
drew Scharnikow's name and the Leslie
stock began to boom.
The hands of the clock touched high
noon when it was announced that Leslie
was nominated, the roll call standing Les
lie, a8o; Smith, I6a; Word, So; Schar-
nikow, 3, Silver Bow casting 100 for Les
lie and cinching the balloting. AS soon as
the Silver Bow vote was announced other
delegations focked to Leslie and practically
made the nomination unanimous before the
vote was announced. The customary mo-
ton to make it unanimous was carried
Judge Leslie was not in Bozeman, having
remained at home in Great rails, and thus
did not respond to calls for speech.
Nominating the Congressman.
Lee Mccullough of Hamilton raised his
eloquent voice in fiery nomination speech
placing John Morgan Evans of Missoula
in nomination for congress. The name Of
L. c. Parker of Granite county was pre-
sented but won no applause.
Then George Stanton placed the name
of M. P. Gilchrist of Butte in nomina-
ton and storm of applause went up.
John Walsh of Gallatin county placed
in nomination Caldwell Edwards, but
there was nothing doing. Caldwell was
not hot favorite with the crowd.
II. c. Stiff "butted in" and said he
represented small part of the Missoua
county delegation and took pleasure in
secondng the nomination of M. p. Gil
christ of Silver Bow county" /.
When the roll was called the vote
stood: Gilchrist, a36; Evans, 26S; Parker,
S, and Edwards, 3. Evans was carried to
the platform on the shoulders of his sup
porters. He made catchy speech, say
ing he was a Montana man from away
back and democrat tried and true.
Il am from the South, and my mother
named me John Morgan" said he, to
prove his claim to democratic blood
II. ]. Toomey of Powell county was
placed in nomination for chairman of the
state central committee.
The state central committee selected
followsI
Beaverhead, "A. F. Graeter; Broadwater,
Peter ]. Melay; Carbon, George G.
Hough Cascade, H. b. Mitchell Choteau.