Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1904-07-16
THE JUDICIAL CONVENTION.
Hon. s. E. Wilson, of Bot Springs,
Nominated by the Republi-
cans tor Circuit Judge.

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Nominated by the Republi-
cans tor Circuit Judge.
The Seventh Judicial Circuit Conven
tion met at Rapid City on Saturday
afternoon at $50 p. m. Chairman BOYD
read the call and Il. L. Grantham o.
Custer was elected temporary chairman
and H. Goddard secretary. The chain
on motion appointed the following com
mittees
Credentials L. S. Gull, Mr.. Nevin and
G. Schlining.
Rules and order of business d. r.
Wood, J. II. Juckett and James Boyd.
Resolutions II. d. Clarke, Joe Bruins.
chmidt, c. w. Brown.
Permanent organization Chas. Conger,
J. Eastman and II. Goddard.
The committee on permanent organ
izstion made the temporary organization
permanent. The committee on creden-
tials reported as follows: We your
committee report the following delegates.
as entitled to seats in this Convention
the delegates and alternates from each
county to cast the entire vote of that
county, and then followed the names of
the delegates.
Your committee on resolutions re
specially submit the following:
The delegates in the Seventh Judicial
Circuit convention, in convention as.
sembled do hereby affirm our allegiance
to the Republican principles that have
made the United States the foremost
country on the globe.
We hereby pledge our hearty support
to President Theodore Roosevelt, who
has shown that courage, pertinacity and
strict integrity, backed by active work,
can accomplish the greatest achieve
ments. With his active mind he organ
lied the Panama Canal. gave home gov
ernment to Cuba and has pade the
greatest progress with the Philippine Is
lands that the people can take care OF
and will give THEM home government
when ready Has made the United
States a power to be respected and look
ed Up to.
To our candidate for Vice President,
Senator Fairbanks Of Indiana we pledge
our support satisfied that he is man
who will lend added strength to the
party.
We are in hearty accord with Senators
Gamble and Kittredge and Congressman
Burke and Martin and state administra-
tion and pledge them our hearty support
satisfied that they have done everything
in their power to further the prospects
of their constituents.
Resolved, that the Judicial Central
Committee be and it is hereby instruct
ed to apportion the delegates to the mex;
Judicial Convention upon the basis of
the vote cast for the Republican Can
didate for Circuit Judge at the 1904 cleo
tion instead of on the vote for Govern
or
Judge l.. S. Gull then nominated S. II
Wilson for Circuit Judge and b. r.
Wood seconded the same.
The motion of &. Schlining, seconded
ID. b. Murray of Pennington county that
the nomination of Mr.. Wilson be made
by acclamation was carried unanimous.
IL. The selection ofthe Judicial Central
Committees from the three counties, of
5 members each, was as follows:
Pennington, James Boyd, John f.
ID. b. Murray, Charles NJ.
Cation, Alex. Madill.
Custer, VIM. Nevin. Sr., John Beatty,
w. F. Hanley, Joe Brunschmidt, Isaac
Ainslie.
Fall River, L. S. Gull, N. S. Dryden,
John Burke, II. Goddard, 4. s. Kelly.
Resolutions replying to an attack on
Hon. s. E. Wilson and the delegates
from Custer and Fall River counties,
the same were then intro
duced and ordered sent to all the Re-
publican papers in the circuit.
After speeches by S. f. Wilson, II.
Goddard, James Boyd, Chas. Brown, J.
Burke and w. F. Hanley the Conven-
ton adjourned.
L. L. GRANTHAM, Chairman.
II. GODDARD. Secretary.