Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-02-20
The Republican
County Convention.
A Good Representation Regardless Of
the Very Disagreeable Condition
Of the Weather.

the 18th, at IL o'clock by Jules
Haumont, chairman of the county
central committee.
Herbert G.. Myers, of Wood
River precinct was elected tenn
porary chairman and c. h. Luce
temporary secretary.
On motion the chairman APP
pointed committees as follows:
Resolutions-A. h. Humphrey,
J. o. Taylor, II. b. Glover.
Credentials-J. II. Wood, Ed.
Hagen, Geo. w. Steel.
Permanent Organization--F.
C. Wilson, John Amsberry, O.,
T. Lewis.
Order of Business-Elmer Cam
non, j. E. Wilson, p. H. Marley.
An adjournment was then
taken until 2 o'clock, at which
time the convention was recalled
to order.
Mayor George of this city and
f. c. Wilson, of Anselmo yielded
to requests for speech"
The committee reports were
then filed. The report of the
committee on permanent organ
ization being that the temporary
one be made permanent. The
report was unanimously adopted
and, Chairman H. E. Myers, in
response to calls, took occasion
to make some pertinent and
timely remarks, seasoned with
a bunch of advice which, if
needed and promulgated will tend
to strengthen and be of vast ben
eft to the G. o. p. locally.
The report of the committee
on resolutions was read and
adopted as follows:
The Republicans of Custer county,
Nebraska, in convention assembled
again express our confidence in the prin-
ciples of the Republican party as laid
down in the last national platform, and
as developed, extended and promulgated
in recent state platforms, and as in
terpreted and executed by our national
and state executives.
We unequivocally endorse the admins
tration of President Roosevelt. We com
mend him for his courageous efforts tc
administer the law with equal and exact
justice to all interests. We especiail,
commend his recent message to Congress.
in which he outlines the issues upor
which the next national campaign will
be fought and in which he receeded no
from any of the advanced stands he ha
taken upon the enforcement of presen
laws and the enactment of new laws anC
, the enactment of new laws to cover de
fects and weaknesses in laws already OF
the statute books of the nation, to the
end that civic righteousness may be the
purpose of government
We express our appreciation of tn,
administration of Governor George L
Sheldon in that he has caused to be en-
acted into laws every party pledge of tn,
platform upon which he was elected, anC
has put Nebraska in line as a stat
thoroughly i'll touch with the nationa
administration, giving to its people
wise and economic government.
We commend the last Legislature il
that 1t promptly and willingly obeye,
the mandate of the Republican party a
, expressed in its state platform by enact
ing the laws pledged therein to the peopl
of the state.
We are in favor of an emergency cui
, rency OF some kind to be under tn
absolute control of the government, t
aid in relieving the congested conditio
4 that annually occurs in the moving c
) the produce of the country; in govern
ment and operated through the post offic
department and in a system of guarar
" teed deposits to depositors in hanks to til
@ end that the money of the country may /
n kept in the channels of trade where
i, belongs.
Above all we are in favor of a ia
. count and square deal and admonis
q our delegates to see that no backwal
Y step is taken in the convention thl
q meets in Omaha March I2th, 1908.
II WHEREAS, President Roosevelt HI
J eliminated himself frombeing the Repu
O licanInominee.at the Republican Nation
r convention to meet in Chicago on the
v. day of June, 1908, by declaring in a
vance that he cannot and will not acce
r the nomination of the party for thi
l. term, and
n WHEREAS, William H. Taft is in pc
feet accord with the plans and policies
hiSSiuSht NooSeVelt, therefore De II
J. RESOLVED, that the delegates fro
ir Custer county to the state convention
l. Omaha, be, and they hereby are instrut
ed to use every effort to secure the sele
ton OF delegates to the National conve
ton at Chicago who will support al
vote for William H. Taft for President
nominee of the Republican party for Il
year 1908.
es J. J. Rpder, of Lincoln, depu,
commissioner of labor, twas pre-
es ent and addressed the conve
tion, his remarks receiving Il
hearty endorsement of all prese
as was evidenced by genuil
applause.
The following were elect,
ID delegates to the State conventio
Robert Cato II. s. Waterbury
ii. Is. Glover Joseph Giddngs
"a Albert Schafer Julius N. Ottun
J, M. himberling Edward Squires
an kasmus Anderson A. Z, Streeter
?" A. L. Mathews William Davis
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