The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-02-02

and that the Republican organization
in The county was corrupt and non
re resentative, and it was resolved by
SAID assembly that new political
party be formed, and it was resolved
that the best interests and welfare of
Roberts county could be best subserved
by forming new Independent party
to represent and advocate these prn-
cipIes so discussed, and that said party
he known as the Roosevelt ndepend-
ent Republican party or ticket, and
said assembly nominated a committee
of six persons l,amcly, g. f. Riley,
Summit; f. f. Yahn. Wimot; a. j.
Norby. Sisseton; Chas Dahl, Enter
prise; John Teare, White Rock who
were given full charge to formally or
ganize said party throughout the pre-
rin"ts of Roberts county, and to call
/ S sequent meetings or conventions
and to do all other acts usually con
ferred upon executive committees of
political organizations. That the meet
ing OF October LIST organized itself
regularly, and all parties taking part
therein were electors and tax payers
OF Roberts county, and was in all re-
| spects conducted in accordance to the
general parliamentary rules governing
assemblies of political character, and
was in every respect representative
gathering of electors
That thereafter, and ON October 10.
1904, al the instance oi the said eX-
ecutiVc committee. a convention of the
aAhcren1s OF the Roosevelt lndepend-
| cat Ecpel lican party was called in the
orteIyou b iidng in the city OF Sis
seton, and a county ticket and a com
plete legislative ticket was regularly
nominated and certified and filed in
the office of the county auditor of said
county to be placed upon the ballot
at the November election That the
said convention was represented by
electors and tax payers generally
| throughout the county, and was con
dIcted fairly, and that the minutes of
said convention We're taken during
the progress of said convention by the
secretarv appointed for at purpose.
and were reduced to VIZ ing in the
convention while the same was in SEES
sion, and We're read alCWG to the con
Yention That al said IT, and while
said convention was in So ion, mo-
ton WIS / j. j. ade and conded and
agreed to hy a rnanimops o,e OF the
electors present, that the executive
committee heretofore selected by said
Hocsevelt IndeDendent Republican
party, he. and they gre az powered
/" ct for said party in ecuting and
ling certificate of nomination, fill
ing vacancies caused in such ticket
through whatever cause, and to alter
change or modify the name of said
party in the same manner and with
full force and effect, the same as if
such acts had been done by the electors
of the Roosevelt Independent Republi-
can party there assembled. That said
SeHntive committee was by motion
ade, seconded and carried, en-
wefcd and authorized to ACT for said
par,s in all things the same as said
convention might
During the past year there has been
a growing sentiment among the elect
ors OF Roberts county that reform in
local uolitics was necessary to the
hest interests OF the people of Roberts
tration under the Republican party
was eXtravagant, and that a primary
election law should be established.
These ideas of reform resulted in the
October LIST assembly of electors be-
fore described, and that the electors
assembled at that time were entirely
Independent from the Republican or
ganization Of Roberts county and were
in no manner connected with the Re-
aolican party organization of said
county, ana the principles advocated
and the issues raised by said independ-
ent party are ret only easily dstn-
1rishaele and generally recognized by
electors as differing from the prn-
cicles of the Republican party, but are,
as matter of fact, A N T G o Nj S.
TIC TO THE REPUBL ICA N
PARTY PRiN ES, and
that since April 5, 1904, the Roosevelt
Independent Republican party have
openly advocated these principles and
there has been a general agitation and
discussion among the electors through
out the county, who have openly taken
sides either with the Republican party
or with the Roosevelt Independent Re
publican party in support of the prin-
ciples represented by the latter, or
in support of the principles represent
ed by the Republican party in said
county. AT least three newspapers in
Roberts county have advocated the
principles of this independent party
since the month of March, 1904, and
public speakers representing the prin-
ciples of the Roosevelt Independent
Republican party have made school
house campaign throughout the
county; they have made political adj
dresses to the electors in support of
these principles, while on the other
hand the Republican party has called
to its aid the newspapers and public
speakers, who have been sent out
throuehout the county to address the
voters and electors in an attempt to
| antagonize the principles of this new
party and the claims of the Roosevelt
Independent Republican party, and the
issues raised by political campaign
between these two parties are clear
and distinct and we'll understood by
a large percentage of voters, and in
stead of being any attempt on the part
of the supporters of said party to hold
out to the electors and voters that
they represent the Republican party
and the Republican principles in Rob
| erts county, there has been an open
and we'll recoonized mint effor% "a