The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-04-22

Chairman M. j. McMillin at the
cor 1T house in Lamar last Saturday
morning at 11:30 when he called
the republican county convention to
order. They had been coming in
all morning, the last delegates arriv-
ing on the stub about IL o'clock.
Almost one hundred delegates be-
sides many visitors were present.
When the small amount of work to
be transacted is considered the pre-
sencs Of such large body aof men
and women, many of whom impress
ed one as men of large business
affairs, shows the. interest and en-
thusiasm prevalent in the party this
year, and the determination Of re-
publieans to continue the policies
and principles of the party in our
government.
At caucus of delegates from the
local precincts at the club room the
night before committees were appoin-
ted to look after decorating the court
room for the occasion, and this work
was we'll done by those appointed, as
all delegates and visitors were pleas
ed with the tasteful aud beautiful
arrangement. The national flags and
p ctures of some of the leading re-
publican presidents were the pro-
minent features of the decorations,
and it is hoped that this part of
the work of preparing for con ventions
will become a fixture here.
The delegations were arranged so
that all but No. 4 were accommodated
inside the railing, but the big dele
cation from the banner republican
precinct is almost convention in it
self and was as much in evidence as
a. il it had been in the inner circle.
Large delegations were present also
from the other Lamar precincts and
Holly, Granada, Amity, Wiley and
Hartman, as we'll as the country a.
round all those places. Nos. 5 and
6 were as usual we'll represented.
Taken as a whole it impr essed
visitors as a splendid body of men
and women representing the best
there is of intelligence and citizen
ship and earnest interest in the well
fare OF the government. Alook over
'the convention made one feel a pride
in being member of the party that
was represented by such gathering
and also feel that their presence on
such an occasion was good omen
of the result this fall.
The convention was called to order
at IL 80 by Chairman McNIillin, who
read the call for the state and county
conventions, and then asked for
nominations for the position of tenn
porary chairman. State Treasurer
A. f. Bent, who was delegate from
No. 4, was unanimously elected to
the position, and made short speech
thanking the delegates. h. G. Nc
Creepy of Holly was elected temper
airy secretary.
After an interesting tilt between
our leading parliamentarians, DR..
Hasty of the grand old Fourth and
Hon. A. N. Parrish of the Irish war',
which caused tangle that required
the efforts OF the chairman, secretary
aud liberal use of Chesterfisld's
Rules Of Etiquette to unravel, the
convention got down to work.
The temporary roll call WAS made
the permanent roll of the convention,
and is as follows:
Lamar No. IA N Parrish, G Q
Go dale, N N Mclean, w A Merrill,
W NJ Dickinson, D L Silver, john
Curry, O s Smith, J B Mourning. E
l. Koen, f r Jones, Charles Luck.
Holly No. 2-H @ McCreery, W
O Simpson, R I Walton, L NJ Ball
niger, w NJ Wright, w Wilkin, j
3 McMurtry, G R Appel, H Hardin,
NE Butler, W Emery, L F Mathew,
A McGoverney, Bert Hornbeck, ] W
Brice, A Pierce.
Granada No. 3-M F Dickinson,
FS Butcher, Mae Taylor, Addie Men
denhall, r w Mcfarland, @ X Hinton
GA Hunt, Joel knowlen, s @ Greg
DRY.
Lamar No. A e Bent, l. M
Markham, q NJ Ward, LII Hutchins,
LII Manville, W E Fee, ] s Hasty,
Henry Brown, D E Cooper, j W