The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-02-07
COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING
Insurgents Vote Against HOLDING n
Primary and Want the Central Con-
mittee to Name the Dalarat>.

lA"0Ay anu w dnC Tie CenCr0l Con-
I mittee to Name the Delegates
The meeting of the county
central committee last Satur-
day was called to order by Chair
man A. M. Nixon, all of tho
townships and precincts being
represented either in person or
by proxy except the first ward
OF Big Stone. After the chair.
man had stated the purpose Of
the meeting the following was
presented by G. S. Rix, who
spoke IN endorsement OF the res
olution:
Whereas, 1t is the concensus of opinion Of IL.
Republicans OF Grant County, South DskotS.
that the Roosevelt policies and ideaa are haartG
ly endorsed and favored, and
whereas, IT ie universally agreed that the
Roosevelt policies should be continued IN to
Whars.s On OF our national government, anA
iaVor the continuation of these principles ar11
favor Roosevelt or any other candidate for pred.
dent VINO ssponses and stand for these princl.
Whereas the Republicans of Grant count~
place principle above man, and
w hereas at this time there is no diepute h.
tween the Republicans of Grant county ss to ~,
policies OF administration. and
Wheress,the primary election law of l9O7, ,wise-
~ PROVIDES IN su bdivsion 3, section 81, thereof
that whenever the County Central Comm
by two-thlrds of the members of said Countv
COMMITTEE at q regularly called meeting ehal
the selection OF delegates from such county 70
the state convention, called to elect delegates =
the national convention, to justify the expense
Central Committee shall have the power to nane
the delegates from said county, and 1t 10 the dug
9th OF the :. chairman and secretary OF the County
Committee to Sign the delegate credentials and
whereas the expense of holding an election to
elect delegates to the State Convention who in
turn select delegates to the National RepubIicss
Convention, would be considerable, and
Whereas said County Central COMMITTEES.
believing. that the majority of the republicaa
voters OF Grant county are desirous of saving
such expense to the tax payers Of said county, lS
as much as there is no difference of opinion ~ fo
presidential policies.
cnnn, Therefore be i resolved BY the kepubloea
South dakota. that the county convention 70
select delegates to the state ton be dis
pensed with and that said committee do hereby
select delegates to the state convention 70 s.
held IN April, 1903, for the purpose of selec&iax
delegates to the National Republican ConycS.
tion.
1t was quickly seen that the stal.
wart delegates were going to
strenuously object to the resolu-
tion, both Mr.. Amsden and Mr..
Aldrlch stating that the people
OF the county should have the
right to a voice in this matter.
and that they were opposed to
having the committee take this
out OF the hands of the republi-
can voters of the county.
IL requir ed majority of two.
thirds to carry the resolu ton.
AS the insurgents saw they were
short of votes, Mr.. Rix stated
that he was willing to divide the
delegates selected, giving half to
the insurgents and half to the
stal warts, and J. D. Smull, also
on behalf of the insurgents.
offered to instruct for Taft: the
additional clauses were order ed
put in writing and were as fol-
lows
between the two Republican n factions and that each
faction select four delegates and further that
.ne aelesates from Grant county be and are here
bv Instructed to vote for dele gates to the nation
al convention favorable to VIM H. Taft for
president. -
A roll call Of the com mittee
gave a vote of Is for the resoiu-
ton and 3 against, and the reso-
luton was declared lost
A motion was made to make
the basis of representation one
TOR every Il or a MAJOR fraction
OF the vote cast for Governor
Crawford in 1906, and this was
changed to make the represen-
tatlon on basis of 10 or a frac-
ton thereof and adopted, and the
committee adjourned.
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