Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-08-31
PRIMARIES
ARE HELD
Republicans OF Lewis;own Meet and
Name Delegates TO the County
Convention September 3rd.
JOHNS DEMOCRATS WIN OUT
Both Factions Of Democratic Party
Put Ticket In tint Field. But the
Barnes Ticket Loses.

The Republican primaries were held
Monday, August 18th. and The polls
were open from o'clock to . o'clock
p. m. The voters living in west Lew
istown voted at the city hall, while
those in the east end We're accommo.
dated in the Walter Smith building
next 10 Culyer's hall. The voting
was light as there was no fight ov'
er anything and. unlike the Demo
cratic party in this county. the Rcpub-
licans are not split up into factions.
Many did not vote for this reason,
knowing that ther, was no fight over
the ticket and only one in the field.
The west end precinct was watch
ed over al the polls by T. j. Sher-
man, James Charters and A. +. Bebb
as judges, and James Charters acted
as clerk. In the east end the judges
were William Medirar. Pete Shields
and Chris Wiedman and Mr.. Wied-
man acted as clerk. In the west end
precinct there were 81 votes cast and
the following ticket went in without
any objections;
Delegates-F. +. Wright, Horace
Mouton. Gordon Shaler. Richard
Young. Rudolf Won Tobel JEFF Tubb.
Frank Day, L. W. Eldridge. d. c.
White. John Arthur. A. b. Lehman.
Alternates-Arthur stoddard, James
VI. Croft. p + Anderson. Horace Hill,
Vim. T. Mcfarland. viii Hopkins.
Geo. Day, j. ID. Waite, Harry Boggs,
Albert johnson, F. Z. Smith.
In the east end the vote was small
only a few attending the primaries.
The ticket elected follows.
Delegates-EmilJ Jensen, Z. W. Nor.
ton. Geo. Bradbury. Chris Wiedman.
VIM. Medigar
-ilternates-Pet. Shields. Ed. Me
Donnell. Oliver Jutras. jos. Pratt. j.
T. Clegg.
The delegates elected for the coun'
| ~ convention In the outlying pre-.
cincts. so far as is known, are as
follows
Gilt Edge-N. l.. Poland. w. w.
Badger. H. McEVony, Chas. Dunn,
Chas. Edwards.
Kendall-Tom Riser, VIM. Newton.
Paul Smith, John Jackson; alternates.
II. o. Wareham. A. b. Fox. !. A. Cross,
John Montgomery.
S,uart-Clyde Stephens ana Fred
Coos.
Garneill-Ed. Hart, p. r. Duffy,
Vim. T. Neill,
Ctica-Fred X. Warren, A. c. Green,
James Campbell, X. d. Arkwright.
Maiden-Victor langdoc.
Forest Grove-Sam Tyler, Dan
Bean.
Grass Range-Louis Place, Dave
Foreman.
New Yea-Joseph Meredith.
Moore-Al Fleming Chas. M.Clary,
alternate.
S,anford-Frank Mitchell, Thomas
Simpson, alternate. u. +. Stack, VIM.
AlhhOuSe, alternate.
East Fork-Ernesi Busch, J. NJ.
Weldon.
The barnes and Johns factions
OF the Democratic party have met at
the primaries and the banner still
waves over Jeff's cohorts. while over
the others IL the gloom OF defeat.
Some weeks ago the Democrats
marching under the Johns banner met
In the Democrat office and planned
their mode Of campaign and the 9th.
ers, who would not submit TO Johns
rule. put on their meeting un-
Ill Friday night, when a ticket was
selected Both sides worked hard to
get the upper hand and II was thought
there would be big time at the pri-
maries last Saturday evening.
The Johns crowd put the following
ticket iD the field and worked hard TO
e,et u:
East Levsistown.
Delega5 es-M ID. Kimball. jesse
Pinkley. Tim Crowley. John Hogl. L.
u. Worder
Alternates-Walter Knight. Frank
Tullock, +. r. MacGowan, A. J. John
son. p. Gibbons.
West Lewistown.
Delegaies-Julius Petersen, J. Z.
Lane. J. A. Weaver. Matt Webbtr,
Nels Nelson. VIM. f. Cori. j. w. kear-
ney. n l.. De Kalb. w. Gooch, II. c.
james. T.. o. Busenburg.
Alternates-Sam Anderson. Roy t.
Ayers. w. w. Kimball. F. Treacy. l..
w. Bowman, l.. S. Butler, G.. w. Can
non Ed. Bryant, T. j. Johns, George
Gordon. John Laux.
Opposed TO that was the Barnes
ticket as follows:
East Lewistown.
Dele gate-J. I. Corbly, Matt Regan.
A. Dahl. John Strong. Breck Orn-
baum.
Alternates--A. Mansell. John S.
Barnes. Dan Walton, Andrew j. John
son, Thomas Vehawn.
West lewistown.
Delegate-John Foster, John l.auX,
n. ]. Littlejohn. Hugh Wagner, J. w.
keaney. +. o. Busenburg, A. Van Id
erstine. NJ. l.. Woodman, Sam Ander-
son, Jake Harmon, W. II. Culver.
Alternstes-Matt Webber. J. T.
Wunderlin, J. Z. Lane. J. w. Beck,
Nels Nelson, George CORNELL. James
Blackford Archie Mcdonald, John
Raw. William MCLEAN. J. c. Walker.
The scene around the voting place
on the west side after the opening of
the polls at O'Clock D. m. was a
comparatively peaceful one and there
waa unrY little chaIlanzinu "a .....-