, 1904-02-04
MEETING
TO ORGANIZE ALBANY COUNTY
REPUBLICAN CLUB HELD
AT COURT HOUSE.
Organization Effected and
Committees Appointed on BY laws,
Permanent Organization and Hall
Second Meeting to Be Held
Next Thursday Evening.

A meeting to organize a republican
club for Albany county was held at the
court house last night. attended BY
nearly a hundred signers of the call.
1t was a very successful meeting in
every way, SO successful, in fact, that
the guileless young man on the norm
fit of the bosses so virulenL that he
called the gathering a convention"
The preliminary steps toward tile per
manent organization of the club were
taken. and there will be a second
meeting a week from tonight at the
court house. when bylaws will be
adopted. permanent officers chosen
and the committee to secure a perman-
emit meeting place will make report.
Promptly at s o'clock Hon. Richard
Butler called the meeting to order. He
vas made temporary chairman. ard
Messrs. Z. a. Buck and Corlett Downey
We're nominated for temporary secre,
tary. Mr.. Downey declined and Mr..
Buck was elected unanimously. The
call for the meeting was read by Mr..
Buck and the business proceeded.
Judge Grant moved that a committee
of three be named by the temporary
chairman to secure a hall as the per
manent home of the club, and Mr.. But
Ter named Messrs. Grant, J. S. Atherly
and Ernest B. Davies.
1t was then moved and seconded,
and the motion prevailed. hat a COM
mittee of five, n from each of tie
city wards and two from outside the
city. be named to prepare a set of by
laws for the government of the club.
and the chairman named the commit
tee as follows:
First Ward-N. X. Boswell.
Second Ward-Will McMurray.
Third Ward-Joscph Lohlein.
Tie Siding-William Maxwell.
Little Laramie-C. II. Jones.
On motion of Mr., Gramm. a COM
mittee of five was appointed on per-
manent organization. consisting of
Messrs. Otto Gramm. A. B.. Hamilton,
p. H. Jacobs. Corlett Downey and H.
Ralph Hall.
Some discussion arose as to the pro-
priety of perfecting the organization
ot nnpa and Mr. rr,-, ,.,,ai 4L-t
the committee be given twenty min
utes to make report. This motion was
ruled out of order by the chairman.
On motion, the meeting adjourned
until Thursday evening. February II,
at s O'Clock. when the committee on
bylaws is expected to report and the
permanent organization will be- pro.
ceeded with.
Among the prominent republicans
OIL the county present were Speaker
Atherly of the last house, Hon. Will
lam Maxwell, a member of the house;
County Commissioner C. H. Jones.
Sheriff Alfred Cook. Prof. F. w. Lee.
Prof. William Marquardt, former
Mayor n. f. Spicer. Councilman Oscar
Rogers, County Treasurer w. l.. Hicks.
County Surveyor E. A. Buck. Under
Sheriff Charles Yund. Corlett Downey.
n. *. Boswell, Ernest B. Davies, A.
Erickson. A. Nichols, T. N. Davis, w.
p. Wright. State Fish Commissioner
S. II. Campbell, John H. Davis, Neal
Roach. Otto Gramm, Thomas Chaplin,
Russell Butler, l.. l.. Shaull. William
McMurray, Arthur Smith. DR.. A. B.
Hamilton, Harry Cordiner, F. Fl. Eggle-
ston. Frank S%pafford. Justice M. N.
Grant, P. H. Jacobs, John Sigman. N.
C. Peterson, f. d. Titus, James Mathi.
son. Corlett Downey, H. D.. Beemer,
j. F. Banks, H. Ralph Hall, George
Crawford, George Matlack. C. H. Hous-
ton. Elmer Lovejoy. A. ]. Wymore.
Charles Oakley. H. o. Decker, A. Arm
strong, ]. H. Jackson. DR.. H. L. Ste
vens, A. c.. Jones, C. M. Tegner, Ricn-
ard Butler. Frank C. Erwin and a num-
Der of others.