Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-06-14
Contests Oisposed OF.

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occupied the attention OF the commit
tee ON credentials for Il much greater
time than was at first expected, and
it was 9:35 O'Clock before the committee
had completed its work and reported to
the convention tina it was ready TO
make its report.
The credentials committee reported in
favor of the Cory stalwart delegation
from ~CodinGton, the stalWart delegation
from Fan River and h insus cent dele
CATION from Gregory county. On mo-
ton the report was adopted.
The committee on permanent or
ganiZation made the following re
port: For permanent chairman.
Frank McNulty. Roberts county; for
permanent secretary. j. w. Cone. Min
nehaha county; assistant secretaries. j.
l.. Todd. McCook county. and G. a.
Guaderson. Miner county.
Order Of Business Fixed.
The report on motion was adopted.
Chairman McNulty. on assuming the
duties of the position. thanked the con-
vention ana stated that owing to the
l%ateness of the hour he would not make
Il speech.
The committee on rules and order of
business reported that the business of
the convention should be transacted as
follows:
Report of the resolutions committee;
nomination of = United States Senator,
nomination of governor. lieutenant gov
ernor. secretary of state. state treas
urer, state auditor state Superintcnd-
ent, commissioner Of schools and pub
lie lands. attorney general. railroad
commissioned. appointment of Il state
central committee by counties: that
congressman he voted on separately;
that nominating speeches be limited TO
ten minutes e
Nomination Of Gamble.
Robert j. Gamble was placed in
nomination for an Endorsement for re-
election TO the United States senate.
The nomination was seconded by a
large number OF counties. The stall
warts here i%nterposed their first OBJ
lection to the program of the insur-
gents by placing in nomination Con-
gresham Eben w. Martin, OF Dead
wood, for Endorsement for election as
the successor of enato Gamble.
Nearly all the stalwart counties Sec
onded the nomination of Mr.. Martin.
On roll call The following counties
voted for Gamble:
Aurora. Beadle. Bonhomme. Brook
ings. Buffalo. Campbell, Charles Mix,
! Clay. Codington. Deuel.. Faux. Greg
ory, Hand. Hanson. Hutchinson. Hyde.
Jerauld. Kingsbury. Lake. Lincoln,
Mcpherson, Miner. Minnehaha, Moody,
Pennington. Potter, Roberts, Sanborn.
Sphinx. Sully. Turner, Union. Yankton.
The following counties lined up for
l.. w. Martin:
Brown. Brule. Butte. Clark. Dawson.
Day, Douglas, Fall River. Grant. Ham
lin, Hughes, Lawrence. Mccook, Mar
shall. Meade, Stanley, Walworth.
Total for Gamble. 90l; total for Mar
tin. 46S.
The result when announced was
greeted by prolonged cheers by the tri-
umphant insurgents, and repeated calls
were made for Senator Gamble, who
responded. He was given an ovation
| when he took the platform in answer
to the repeated demands. He appar-
entity was much Quebec by the conf
dence shown in him and the ribute
paid to him by the overwhelming vote
given him by the state convention at
ter one of the most memorable ante
convention campaigns in the history of
the state. He warmly thanked the DEL
egates from. as he stated. IAN over
lowing heart for their tribute of faith
IN him.
Martin a Game Loser.
Congressman Martin was then called
to the platform. He also was greeted
by cheers as he faced the convention
which had just voted against his ele-
walton To the seat occupied by Sena-
tor Gamble. He stated that he bowed
TO the will of the convention and that
we would continue to be Il loyal and
earnest supporter OF the republican
party and its candidates. He stated
further that the republicans of the
Black Hills you'd stand shoulder to
shoulder with their brethren east of
the Missouri river in the approaching
campaign and celebrate with them a
grand republican victory next Novem-
Der.
Mr.. Martin "a vigorously ciaeered
for his loyal sentiments.
congressman Nominated.
Philo Hall. of Bookings county. was
placed in nomination for congress by
the insurgents. A. w. Campbell, OF
Brown county. was nominated as Il
stalwart candidate for nomination to
congress. The vote resulted as fol-
lows: Hall, 9O2: Campbell, 467. Hall
| representatives in congress-.
! Mr.. Hall. who is the present attorney
| general of South Dakota. was called
to the platform and made a we'll re-
ccived speech in which he thanked the
delegation for the honor conferred
upon him n promised IL elected to
congress to do his best for the interest
of South Dakota and prove that the
confidence reposed in him was not mis-
placed.
w. H. Parker. OF Deadwood, was
placed in nomination as a Black Hills
candidate.
Charles H. Burke, Of Fierre. pres
II congressman, was placed in nom
ination as q stalwart candidate for re-
nomination as his own successor.
Frederick n. Emrick, of Rapid CITY.
was nominated by the insurgents Of
Pennington county as Il Black Hills
candidate for nomination to congress.
This three-cornered contest WAS one
of the features of the convention and
keen interest was manifested in the re-
sui of the %3allotiEg.
The vote as by :he sec
rotary was rs follows.
Parker. S40; l1mrick. %: Burke. 46S: