The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-14
CH0UTEAU COUNTY REPUBLICANS
Nominate Ticket That Deserves Hearty Support
BY All Members of the Party
Ragland-Wearn Rowe.
Riedel-A. Williamson.

upper Shonkin-H. Pend0ff, John Bishop.
Valleaux-D. Gilbert.
Warrick-H. Norden, H. Nay.
Whitlssh-H. r. Smith, Frank Lowe.
Zortmsn-Jack Luck. Geo. Heath, Jos. Brown,
L. 8. Goslin, W. johnson.
The committee on order of business
recommended that the temporary or.
ganization be made permanent, and
It's report was adopted. On motion,
81. B. Brooks was made assistant sec.
retary.
The committee on platform and res
olutions submitted report that was
practically duplication of the plat
form of two years ago. It endorsed
the Taft administered commended
the record made by the Montana con.
gressional deleg alton, and made sp.
preciative reference to the legisla alton
by which $40, 900, 900 will be available
for the completion of government irri-
CATION projects.
Then came the contest between the
machine and the anti.m achine forces,
! the nomin nation of q candidate for
state senator. D. S. Mackenzie, who
was supposed to have the endorsement
OF Senator Carter, was placed In nom.
ination by w. B. Pyper, of Havre, in
very eulogistic speech; Thomas M.
Everett, against whom all the avail
able resources of the machine were ar.
rayed, was placed in nomin alton by
w. B. Sands, of Chinook, in vigor-
Gus and pertinent remarks. The bal
loting resulted: Everett, So; MacKen-
zie, So.
For two repre- sentatives in the state
legislature, the names of A. H. Reser,
T. A. Cummings, b. F. Schwartz and
B. b. Weldy were presented. The
first ballot on this proposition showed
that A. H. Reser and T. A. Cummings
each received q majority of the votes,
but the chair declined to ott1cially On.
nounce the result for the alleged rea-
son that only 112 delegates were pre-.
sent and ia ballots were cast. 1t was
suggested that two delegates might
have used separate ballots for each
name, but this theory was rejected,
and second ballot ordered. The re.
suit OF the second ballot was: Reser,
63; Cummings, AZ; Schwartz. So;
Weldy, IL.
For county commissioner, the names
OF Jere Sullivan, Louis D. Sharp, j.
T. Berthelote and Frank Schultz were
presented, and it required four ballots
to make the nomina alton. Mr.. Sulli.
van withdrew from the race after the
third ballot, the final result being
Sharp. II votes; Berthelote. 80.
In making a nomin alton for sheriff,
it was decided by the convention that
the highest vote on the first ballot
should decide the question. and the
same ruling applied to nominations
that followed. The result of this de-.
parture from usual custom was the
nominal of some of the candid ates
by less than majority vote.
For sheriff, the names of George
Bickle, NJ. F. Marsh and 1. A. Nei-
baur were presented. The vote was:
Bickle, 81; Neibaur, 81; MarsL. Is.
The total of these three numbers show.
ed ia persons voting, the same total
as in the alleged irregular ballot for
representatives, but the coincidence es-
capped the attention of the officers of
the convention.
For treasurer, William r. Leet and
Henry Griesbach were placed in nom.
ination. The result of the ballot was
Leet 60; Griesbsch 81.
For county clerk, the aspirsuts for
nomination were ]. Lee Sedgwick,
Geo. D. Patterson and J. D. Savage.
The balloting gave Sedgwick 56, Pat.
terson IS, Savage 16.
For county auditor, Vernon Butler,
E. Frank Sayre, r. E. Hammond and
VIM. Kinder were placed in nomin.
alton. The vote was: Ssyre 80, But.
ler 81, Hammond q, Kinder 9.
For comfy attorney, the names OF
F. N. Utter, b. L. Powers and John
Collins were presented. The ballot
resulted. Powers IS, Utter %, Col.
Inns IL.
For assessor, the candid ates were
Phil Buckley, A. D. Smith and A. B.
Clarke. The vote was: Buckley So.
Smith "a, Clarke 10.
For county superintendent oi
schools. Miss Blackstone was renom.
mated by ACCLAIM alton. The nominee
was called upon for q speech, and
made acknowledgment in q few ap'
propriate remarks.
The following nominations were
made without opposition. A. W
Merrifield, for county surveyor; W