Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-04-01

In pursuance tc call issued by the
secretary of the city Republican CON-
mittee, the faithful members of the
party met in the court room Friday
evening to nominate a ticket for the
coming city election.
Hon. John ID. Waite, chairman of
the committee, spoke TOR some mo-
ments, outlining the object of the
meeting, stating. among other things,
that it is the desire and hope of every
Republican to do those things most
likely to work for the well being of
the city of Lewistown. With that in
mind the city Republican committee,
the Republican aldermen and the
mayor had held a meeting in the Ar
gus office on Friday evening, March
10Th, and talked over the best mode
of procedure during the coming city
election. At that time a committee
was appointed to confer with a com.
mittee of Democrats for the purpose
of talking over a fusion of the two
parties in the city election. These
two conference committees met in the
Office of Cook & Hilger on the 22nd,
and the following non-partizan ticket
was agreed upon:
Mayor. L. w. Eldridge; treasurer,
G. o. Shafer; magistrate. +. F. Mac
Gowan; alderman first ward, w. s..
Smith; second ward. ]. E. Pinkley;
third ward, N. j. Littlejohn.
1T was expressly stipulated. how
ever" continued the chairman, that
these nominations would have to be
ratified by the separate meetings of
the rank and file of Democrats and
Republicans and we are here tonight
to take some action on the matter.
Nominations for chairman were
called for, but upon motion the pre-
siding officers continued and the cleo
tion of officers was postponed. r.
Won Tobel moved that 1t be the sense
of the meeting that non-partizan
ticket be placed in the field for the
coming election. The motion was Sec
onded and upon a vote by ballot was
carried unanimously. Upon the mo-
ton of G.. w. Cook the secretary was
appointed committee of one to ascer-
tain the action taken by the Demo-
Gratis, who were assembled under the
auspices of the Jefferson club and
pending his report recess was TAX
en-. After about half an hour the sec
retary returned and reported that the
Democrats had indorsed the non-par-
tizan ticket by practically a unani-
nous vote and had appointed David
Hilger and E. G.. Worden to act with
a committee of Republicans to file
the nominations. Thereupon, by a
unanimous ballot, the Republicans
assembled voted an Endorsement of
the ticket, Secretary Watson having
first announced that Messrs. Matt
Weber, G. o. Shafer, F. F. MacGow-
an and W. s. Smith had declined the
nominations made by the socialists
on Thursday evening.
The chairman appointed F. e.
Wright and o. w. Belden as commit
tee to attend to the filing of nomina-
tions. Nominations for ward commit
tees being in order the following were
named and duly chosen:
First ward, j. L. Beebe. ]. W. Arthur
and A. B. Lehman; second ward. Pet.
er Shields, F. q. Smith and Ed.
Wright; third ward. G. NJ. Stafford
A. w. Stoddardand G.. A. Parrott. The
name to be given the ticket precipi.
tated some discussion. but the matter
was finally left to the committees ap
pointed to file the nominations. A
motion was carried that in case of a
vacancy occurring on the ticket the
place should be filled by some mem
ber Of the same political faith as the
retiring member.
r. Won Tobel moved that ]. D.
Waite and Halsey r. Watson be elect
ed to succeed themselves as chairman
and secretary of the city Republican
committee. The motion was second
ed and duly carried.
The meeting was entirely harmon
ious in every particular. all who par
ticipated being clearly of the opinion
that the best interests OF the city car
be best conserved by adopting the
report OF the conference committee
There were a couple OF socialists
present, who had no more sense oi
the propriety Of things than to remain
though they were neither included In
the call for the meeting nor their
presence desired by any OF those par
ticipating. But what they saw and
heard certainly gave them very little
comfort, for their little socialistlc con
clave OF the night previous was hand
ed several pretty stiff roasts during
the course Of the evening. and th'