Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1904-09-23
A FEW DEMOCRATS NAME TICKET

A FEW DEMOCRATS NAME TICKET.
A Small Democratic Convention Puts Up
| II Ticket for Slaughter.
Enough democrats got together at
the court house last Saturday forenoon
at IL o'clock to pick out chairman
and secretary. Joe Applegate and
Mark Rich we're honored with those
respective places, and they went
through the formality of naming the
usual committees, just as they had
seen other conventions do. After din
ner they reassembled, together with a
few more democrats that had been
picked up on the streets and had Gre
dentials fixed up for them-so that all
the precincts were represented except
ing Odell, Beaver and Red Canyon.
They started in to do business by
nominating Geo. Highley, of Edge
mont, for representative. AS George
has been similarly honored by his
party before, and went down through
the valley Of defeat it was thought he
would just as soon do it again.
Wood Craven was then nominated
for county treasurer. He thanked the
boys for their goodness and told them
that he hoped he had made record
that would pull him through at the
polls.
Ed Ames placed L. B. Dings in nom
ination for auditor and as there didn't
seem to be only candidates enough to
go around no one else was suggegted
and he got it unanimously. Mr.. Dings
thanked them for the unexpected com
pliment and said that he believed be
could satisfy the people so that they
would never be ashamed that they had
elected him auditor.
Geo. Paine thought Jay Dudley was
good enough for clerk of the courts
and nobody disagreed with him, hence
he was nominated by exclamation. Jay
wasn't present, but somebody hurried
down stairs and brought him up all
out of breath-and greatly surprised
to thank the boys for their great devo
ton. He said he would try and con.
tinue to serve the people without eX
tending special privileges to anybody
and tavors for ali-or something of that
sort.
Geo. Paine took great pride in nam
ing G. B. Botham for register of deeds
and w. b. Dudley made forcefu
speech TO help along the nomination
for he foresaw Il contest--it having
been discovered that the party had
two men who could fill the bill ano
wanted the place. Mark Rich cheer
fully named j. g. Richer as a man vel
qualified to attend to the duties of the
office. This required the first and only
ballot of the memorable convention
and the result showed that 36 delegates
counting one man Il whole dslega-
tion in some instances-were actually
naming ticket for the whole county
of Fall River. Out of the SO Botham
received 26 and Richer 1O-and that
quite etfectually settled that terrible
contest.
The grave and dignified Capt. Segel
got the floor and told of the commend
able qualities that G. s. Eastman pos.
sessed as a fit candidate for states
attorney, but to make the nomination
still more positive and to convince the
delegates that Mr.. Eastman was the
man they wanted w. B. Dudley elo
quently told them of Mr.. Eastman's
many virtues and winning ways, and
that even though it meant dissolution
of their partnership he would, forego
that calamity for the benefit that W ould
accrue to the county in MIR. Eastman 's
election. Then of course Eastman was
nominated at once by reclamation.
He quickly answered the call for a
speech and fluently referred to his
republican competitors, Mr.. Juckett's
remarks when he was nominated by
the republicans for states attorney
! lA WA1Cu At UIdU 1MI. uCAeU
declared that it was necessary for him
to be elected in order that the Stat,
and National Soldiers Homes should
, be maintained-but of course it is Sc
easy for Charley to talk that he forgo
to keep track of himself and his moutI
made him say things that he shouldn't
have said in a thanksgiving speech
Anyway he convinced himself that h,
was going to be elected and would "de
business on the square,"
Capt. Phillips said that he didn'
think it would take an oratorical effor
to nominate their candidate for sheriff
and he would therefore simply sugges
the name of Henry Maryland the.
all acclaimed him nominated.
> Mr.. Marty was called for and said b.
was pretty short and not much of
runner, but that he would show then
that he could sprint next November