The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-09-21
The CONVENTION.
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Center, composed the convention.
| Adopted.
The committee on permanent organ
| ization made recommend alton that the
temporary org anization be made per-
manent and there was no dissent TO
/, this.
Mr.. Bentley as chairman of the
committee on rules, order of business
and resolutions, presented the follow
ing:
RULES AND ORDER OF BUSINESS.
| The rules and order of business.as hereby recon.
mended and reported by your committee. shall
| be 40 follows:
| That Roberto rules Of order snail govern this
convention, and that the order of nominations
| for the various and respective Offices shall be
had In the following order, to-wit: ONE CoUN-
| COUNTY JUDGE; ONE COUNTY AUDITOR; ONE
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS; ONE
CLERK OF CoURTe. ONE SHERIFF: ONE REGISTER
OF DEEDS; ONE CORONER; ONE COUNTY SURVEY
1 OR; ONE SENATOR, and Two REPRESENTATIVES,,
| that one representative shall be elected BY this
convention ata time And hat the method OF
voting by thle convention shall be oral votes,
as decided by this convention. the chairman OF
/ each township or precinct delegation shall an
nonnce the vote orally of his respective township
| or precinct TO the chairman of this convention.
That two tellers shall be appointed by the
chairman OF this convention to receive an0 tally
the votes, and at the close Of the vote on any
matter the chairman shall announce the resnlt
| of the vote.
| And that Immediately after the county titket
| shall have been nominated, including the legie
lative ticket, the respective commissioners de
/ tricts shall covene and organize their respective
| districts and place in nomination one commits
sioner, in the fret and second commissioner
oN Is Slins HSS?sy Your COMMITTEE
REPORTS AS FOLLOWS:
That the republican party OF Grant county,
having assembled to the call of the charmanof the
county republican committee, here in delegate
| convention, declare that the platform put
| forth by rhe republican convention At Sioux
Falis. on the fifth day. of June, 1906. be, and is
hereby affirmed and adopted by the republicans
! Of Grant county. and that we therefore announce
to the voters OF this county, that as republican
convention. we stand sqnarely upon the plat
| form, and most heartily endorse each and every
| proposition therein contained.
That inasmuch as the republican convention
| at Sioux Falls authOrizedt the recommendation of
. United States SENATOR we, therefore, acquiensce
In the selection made 1t said state convention
| and hereby instruct our legislators, chosen here
today, to use every honorable means to secure
the election of the Honorable Robert j. Gamble
as his own snccessor, and to be our next United
States senator. That the splendid services rem
dered by Mr.. Gamble. and his experience as
legislator, his sterling worth and integrity being
| ab,v reproach and known to every republican
In South Dakota, makes it most appropriate that
he should be chosen as is own successor.
railroad passee and telegra ph franks is an nn-
fair and dangerous custom. and we therefore i'm
pose upon our law makers, and our Legislators
selected here today and instruct them to use all
honorable means within their power to elimini-
nate such evils now going on within our state by
| a strict statutory prohibition of the same.
We, 4srepublcane, again instruct our Legislators
selected by this convention, to do all within
their power to place upon the statute books of
South Dakota comprehensive and practical
primary election law, and. as republicans. we
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this responsibility may rest, that the will OF the
people must and shall be respected. That a
ions since went 70 its doom because ofits refusal
in this county we'll in the state. to heed the
| demands Of an outraged pubic, and the voice of
| the common people That we recognize the De-
claratiOn Of Independence as our highest rule
and guide for our political conduct, and that the
nearer the reins of our government are handed
fcient union the safer the interestsof all con-
cerned. and that those who have stoOd the heat
and burden ofthe day to help bring about the poll
tica reforms about to take place 10 this state
entitled to consideration in preference to those
| who have been, as matter of public record and
| their public utterarces, hindrance and an
enemy to the wave OF reform that is sweeping
\ our great state
/ That as put forth in the republican state plat
| form, we are not unmindful of the benefit Of the
great railroads and other public corporations of
this state, and knowing an believing that their
public use has been of vastyalue to the citizens
| OF our state, and that the railroads are great
civiIizers of the world, that 1T would be folly to
! seek to antEgonze or inspire ing of hostili-
! ty toward them In the minds of the people Of this
state. or in the minds OF our legislators, yet as
1 republicans In convention here assembled, we do
believe in the law OF equal and just taxation, and
we therefore, do hereby instruct our Legislators
to use all honorable means within their power to
| help place upon the pages of our statutes such
| law as will require railroads and other public
corporations. and also private corporations, to
pay their jnst and proper share OF the public taxes
| We would cite our legislators, named here today,
1 Soo hat In 0Vr ctn fofn r,f na
| kota the railroads are paying two hundred and
/ fourteen dollars per mile, with an increase by
the state board OF equalization In August ofthis
| wear, of fifteen per cent while in our state of
! South DakOta. the railroads, doing heavier
! business than those of North Dakota, are pay
! ing tax Of an average of ninty-seven dollars
/ per mile, and that we most heartily condemn the
action OF our present state board of equalization
in their refusal at their last session in August of
this year. to raise the taxes on the railroads and
| railroad properties notwithstanding the people of
this great st.te by their vote in the spring cleo
tioa overwhelmingly demanded that railroad
corporations pay their just and propo' tionate
share of taxstion, and that the Legislators chosen
here today further instructed to use all means
within their power TO help the match less and
peerless leader Of reform in this state. who shall
| he elected by the people Of South Dakota as
their next governor by what believe the
| grapdest and greatest majority ever given to
single individual for the high office, governor Of
1 onr magnificent and wealthy young state. Honor
LII. BENTLEY.
Chairman.
Il The order of nOmin ations as pre-
sented above was q complete change
from the established custom of all
conventions held in Grant county for
the past seven or eight years, and an
effort was made to retain the order Of
nomin ations that had been established.
As there was no particular objection
to the resolutions it was moved that a
separate vote be taken on the resolu-
tions and the order of business.
Messrs. Fuller, Bouck, Aldrich and
L0wthian championing the dividing
OF the two questions, and Mr.. Bentley
cOntending that no separate vote
could be taken but that the order OF
; business and resolutions must be
adopted together.
Y The vote on the question for adop-
tiOn without division was 63 and So