Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-08-24
REPUBLICANS TO
GATHER SEPT. 8
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met at the office of the chairman,
Judge F. F. MACEDONIAN, Saturday eve
ming, and decided to hold the party
primaries on Saturday, September /.
to elect 88 delegates to the county
convention, the date of which has not
been fixed. The Democratic state COM
mittee has been called to meet at
Butte next Monday to fix the date for
the state convention. When this has
been done, Judge MACEDONIAN will an
nounce the date for the county con-
yention, which will be held about one
week before the state gathering. J. A.
Weaver is the present committeeman
for Fergus, and expects to attend the
Butte meeting. An effort will be made
to secure the Democratic state conven-
ton for Butte.
The Democratic legislative slate
will not be fixed until some definite
word is received from B. G. White as
to his wishes. Mr.. White had been
practically decided upon for state SEN
atOr when it was given out that he
would prefer the nomination for coun-
ty commissioner, with the promise
that he should be chairman of that
body if the Democrats were success
full. Whether this correctly represents
Mr.. Whites wishes or not is a little
uncertain, but il it does, H. L. DeKalb
will undoubtedly be party candidate
for state senator. The city attorney
states to those who have approached
him on the subject that he would not,
under any circumstances, oppose Mr..
White, and will only allow his name
to be considered in case the wool grow
err is out of the race for senator. Demo
cratic aspirants for the house are very
scarce, and about the only one who
is spoken of in that connection is
Charles Easel, the young Kendall ora
tor, who is relied upon to catch some
Socialist votes.
]. C. Huntoon, of this city, is now
spoken of as a candidate for the NOM
ination for state senator on the Re.
publican ticket. Mr.. HuntoOn has been
urged to go before the convention, and
while at first he would not entertain
the idea, it may be said that he is
now considering it.
BY far the most interesting scrap
that has developed in the Democratic
camp thus far is over the nomination
for county attorney. Roy E. Ayers,
the present incumbent, expected that
his record with regard to enforcing
the law against gambling would re-
ceive the endorsement of the conyen-
ton without any contest. He has not
wavered in the least in regard to this
matter, and only last week made a
mild raid" at the Silver Dollar. Learn
ing in some way that quartet of gen.
tlemen had been occupying the room
ON the upper floor for several hours. Mr..
Ayres gained entrance to the room.
There he found the four gentlemen
sitting about in easy and reposeful at
titudes. discussing the weather, crops
and other exciting subjects. There
were some cards on the table and
some chips as we'll, but nothing re-
motely resembling money was in sight,
and the raid" ended right there. Yet
Mr.. Ayres was probably right in his
surmise that these men had been play
ing poker or some other game favor
ed by sports. The evidence of it was
lacking, that was all. The incident on
ly shows that Mr.. Ayres is consistent,
and that when he said all gambling