Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-03-13
COUNTY SEAT
MASS MEETING
Citizens Eliminate Personalities
Enthusiasm Prevails

meeting was held last evening at
McFarland's hall in pursuance to a
call for a meeting of the citizens of
the town by Hon. J. l.. McClear,
chairman of the county seat removal
committee, for the purpose of review
ing the work done by the committee
and also for the purpose of further
outlining the work for the county
seat campaign.
The meeting was called to order
by Hon. ]. L. McClear, who briefly
explained that the present executive
committee had been appointed by
committee selected and vested with
this power at mass meeting held
on October IL. He then ordered the
minutes of that meeting read Sec
rotary Shallis read the minutes. The
chairman asked If there was any OBJ
lection to the minutes and it was at
this juncture that Mayor Scallon
arose and presented objections.
which we're forerunners of heated
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by many prominent citizens of the
city. The minutes read that the
committee appointed at the mass
meeting should have power to APP
point an executive committee of 10
members. The mayor contended
that they should read that the COM
mittee was empowered to select the
names of 10 members and present
them to a subsequent mass meeting
for ratification. Judge Russell, after
the mayor had made a few brief re-
marks, stated that If it was as the
mayor represented it to be, the min
utes should be corrected. Robert Nc
Farland expressed the view that the
position taken by the mayor was
right. Robert Elder moved that the
minutes be approved as read. A sec
ond was secured, and upon a vote
being taken the motion was carried
by heavy majority.
Chairman McClear then addressed
the meeting, stating who the COM
mittee appointed were, and stated
that the men comprising it had been
selected because they were represen-
tative men of the city, mn of ability
and integrity, acquainted with the
people and the different portions of
the county, and by reason of these
qualifications fully equipped to plan
and carry on the campaign for which
they had been selected. He stated
that this committee had appointed
legal committee and a committee on
finance. That the legal committee
was composed of lawyers of the best
talent and that the finance commit
tee is men familiar with and well
yersed in their line of work. All the
committees had progressed rapidly
and satisfactorily with their work,
and that AT no time had any dissen-
sion ariseR among them. Petitions
were now in the field and would have
been more widely distributed were it
not for the fact that a feeling of dis
satisfaction seemed to have arisen
upon the part of certain citizens, and
the committee had decided that it
was the wisest policy to pursue be-
fore proceeding further to hold a
meeting and ascertain If possible just
what the grounds for dissatisfaction
were. The speaker impressed it
upon the citizens assembled that in
the coming campaign harmony was
necessary; that the people of Occur
d'Alene and their friends in this bat
tie were in no position to wage a
war among themselves. The work
OF the committee. he stated. was go
ing forward rapidly and satisfactor-
lily. Visits, he said, had been made
to the different portions OF the eoun-
ty, the newspapers seen, and were
working in cooperation with them,
and within two weeks they would
succeed in having the rolls of petit
ton filled with the necessary sign
ers.
A. v. Chamberlin then stated that
by reason of the fact that he had
learned that there was more or less
dissatisfaction existing as to the
work OF the committee and there
seemed to be a feeling that upon 1t
were certain men whom a number
felt ought to be on it, he would make
a motion that 10 more men be placed
on the committee to work with the
present committee. The names sub