Gilpin observer., 1908-10-08

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that if Mr.. Seymour should be elected
to the Office the splendid work of the
Democratic board would be carried out.
Mr.. McFarlane's remarks were highly
complimentary of the good business
management of the Democratic COM
missioners.
AS soon as Mr.. McFarlane had finished
his speech Mr.. Seymour, amid wild
shouting, got up and declined and NOM
mated G. M. Laird. Mr.. Laird was
lost sight of in the persistent demand
made by the delegates for Mr.. Seymour
to run. y. w. Taylor, becoming dis
gusted with the shouting, addressed the
chair and in very sensible talk said
man ought to have the right to decline
nomination if he wanted to and that
he thought the convention was doing
very unwise thing in making man
stand for an Office against his will. His
talk, though, carried no weight and
after declining three times the nomi
nation was finally forced upon Mr.. Sey-
mour.
w. A. Funk was named for surveyor
and DIR. A. C. Asquith for coroner.
The nomination of justices of the
peace and constables required very lit
tie time. These follow:
L. D. Bloom and T. o. Davey, JUS
tices 1st district; Grif. Hughes, John
Kloer, constables 1st district.
AL Hartong, VIM. Burley, justices
End district; Joe Jones, C. R. Baer,
constables End district.
Chas. Niccum, Peter Peterson, JUS
tices Sd district. The constables in the
Sd district were left for the vacancy
committee to name.
When the naming of the constables
for the Sd district came up Black Hawk
was called upon for the suggestion of a
enfant terrible of Black Hawk politics,
made great grand stand play at this
juncture. Some one had referred to
him as politician and if the party con-
Quoting newspaper didn't refrain from
mentioning his name in the paper he
would either smash his face or would
get his smashed. "Dave Day will do
in Durango" declared the irate one,
''but we (meaning, presumably, the
Guggenheim emissaries) will not stand
for Dave Day here" OF course, the
pugnacious one was insinuating at the
writer, who cannot remember of having
ever even SO much as intimated that
the Black Hawk individual was poll
tician. While the paper probably has
made some mistakes at times, perhaps
some bad breaks, it has yet to make the
awful blunder of accusing Mr.. Dun
stone of being politician. The re-
marks of Mr.. Dunstone were wholly un-
called for and hardly any of the dele
gates knew what he was talking abont.
Some question was raised by Alfred
Skeels as to whether Ed. Mitchell, who
lives in Denver, had right to vote here.
Mr.. Mitchell appealed to Judge Hicks
who happened to be seated in the audi
ence, but the judge was averse to mix
ing with the Guggenheim bunch and
reserved his decision in the matter.
There is still doubt about Mr.. Mitchell's $
residence here.
Peter McFarlane wanted to have the
last word and spoke about a resolution
declaring for Thos. F. Walsh for U. S.
senator and pledging their candidate if
elected to vote for Walsh. He referred
to the action of the Democrats in naming
their man and not being afraid to let
the people know who they would send
to the senate if they had the legislature.
Mr.. McFarlane incidentally paid high
tribute to Chas. J. Hughes the Demo-
cratic nominee for the senate, saying
he was as honorable and as capable a
man as there is in the state. Ed. Nit
chell didn't favor any resolution. He
said there would be all kinds of candi-
dates for the office on the Republican
side. He spoke of Joel F. Vale. "Of
course" added Mr.. Mitchell, "he is a
corporation attorney, but there is no
way of getting around that" Just be-
fore that some had found fault with
Chas. J.. Hughes because he is cor
poration attorney. No resolution was
adopted, so Guggenheim will take care
of the naming of the U. S. senator. The
Republicans will have no voice in that