The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1908-05-22
CONVENTION NEWS
What Was Done by Republicans
Of North Dakota at MInot, &
sTALWARTs IN FULL CONTROL
Selected Delegates to National
convention.--kenn was
Made Committeeman.

EU0OS
The battle for the control of
the republican organization in
North Dakota was fought at
Minot Thursday and resulted
in the elimination of the in
surgent or so-called progressive
republican faction. The re-
gular republicans were in COM
plete control at all stages.
AS early as Monday leaders
of the warning factions began
to arrive upon the scene of the
forthcoming conflict. Tuesday
nearly all the big 'uns were
there and on Wednesday the
real battle took place. Both
sid es lined up their forces for
caucusing and it was found
that the regulars had a large
ma jority of the delegates.
Nearly 25O participated in the
stalwart caucus. The insur-
gents claimed 221 delegates to
the last but their real strength
fell far short of this number.
Without the votes of their ally
- Hansbrough - they could
barely muster 100.
Four contests were brought
before the state central COM
mittee Wednesday, from Dickey,
Rolette, Eddy and Mclean
counties. Mclean and Dickey
were given to the insurgents,
Eddy to the stalwarts and
Ro1ette equally divided; both
delegations were seated and
given half a vote. The COM
mittee also decided to recon-
mend United States Senator
Porter ]. McCumber of Wahpe-
ton for temporary chairman.
The convention was called
to order in Jacobson's opera
house at II: As O clock Thursday
morning by Hon. L. B. Hanna
of Fargo, chairman of the state
central committee, following
playing of The Star Spangled
Banner" by the Lisbon military
band. Rev. Robert A. Nc
Mullen of the Minot Baptist
church offered prayer, after
which NJ. H. Jewell of Bis
marck, secretary of the state
central committee, read the
formal call.
Chairman Hanna then an
nounced the selection of Sena-
tor McCumber for temporary
chairman and Geo. H. Stone of
Het finger county as temporary
secretary. Senator McCumber
was escorted to the chair by l..
A. Simpson of Stark county,
Tn os. Baker of Cass and A. l..
Woods of Grand Forks.
Ex-senator McCumber thanked
the delegates for the honor
conferred upon him in an ear
nest, eloquent and forceful ad-
dress in which he made a
strong, plea for harmony. He
paid beautiful tribute to the
republican presidents and COM
pared the work of Lincoln and
Roosevelt and showed how
each had assumed office at a
critical period and had made
good in the fight he had under
taken. Lincoln declared that
this nation could not exist half
slave and half free and had
spent the whole term in trying
to free the nation while Roose-
= welt declared that the nation
could not endure half trust and
half subservient to the trusts,
and what we need is a man ITO
carry out the policies so ably
begun by our president.
In closing Senator McCum-
ber made a strong appeal to all
republicans to forget their diff
ferences and rally around the
standard of the party. This is
the year Of complete primaries.
The people have the final say
on June "a and when they have
spoken let us stand by them q
united party.
On motion the chair then ap-
pointed committees of fifteen
each on credentials, resolutions,
rules and order of business and
permanent organization.
8The chairman announced the