The Glenwood post., 1912-08-03
Meet in First Comfy Assembly at:Rif|e
...Enderse President Taft and
c. c. Parks
MEETING MOST HARMONIOUS

The past week has been great sea
son for republicans in Garfield county
as well as in other sections of the
state. In one of the most enthusiastic
and harmonious gatherings of republi
cans ever held in the county the county
assembly at Rifle last Saturday nomi
mated a county ticket that is conceded
to be one of the strongest tickets ever
presented to the voters of the county.
The delegates to the state conven
tiOn are almost to man favorable TO
Taft and the sentiment of the assembly
was clearly indicated by vigorous
cheering at the mention of the presi-
dent s name by Chairman Noonan. Res
Olutions were adopted endorsing tie
national administration, condemning
the democratic, misft aggregation in
charge of Colorado state affairs and
special resolution pledging the dele
gates-ta the state. convention to sup
port G. c. Parks for governor was
passed with whoop.
A little after 10 O'Clock in the Odd
Fellows building at Rifle Judge
.Beardsley, chairman of the county cen
tral committee, called the assembly to
order and asked Austin Gavin to read
the call in the absence of Secretary
MacRae
Beardsley referred to the splendid
record of republican officials in this
county and the improved sentiment to-
ward republicanism which was shown
in the Glenwood vote year ago When,
if the democratic mayor was elected at
all it was by only one majority. He
said the democrats had been scared
ever since and last spring juggied
matters so that we could not measure
strength with them, but we had school
election and in that we showed them
few things. Judge Beardsley then
called for the nomination of tempora-
ry chairman and Judge Noonan was
named.
In assuming the chair Judge NOonan
admitted his embarrassment in not
having sufficient notice of the inten-
tion of the delegates to allow him to
prepare a speech. Notwithstanding his
lack of preparation, the judge made
an excellent talk and when he made
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wise craftsmanship of President Taft
he was greeted with applause from all
over the room. In fact it was very
evident that it was a Taft convention
and yet there was no disposition on tn,
part of the Taftites to take any ad
vantage of their strength or to embar-
rass those who might not fully agree
with them. In fact the whole plan
seemed to be, without any apparent
effort or discussion, to cOnciliate and
harmonize and when the assembly was
over it was the general comment that 1t
was one of the most harmonious con-
ventions ever held in the county. Aus.
tin Gavin was made temporary secre-
tary and A. j. Dickson and +. l.. Tom
lin were named as assistant secretaries.
The chair appointed as a committee on
credentials G. b. Coffin, W. s. Parki.
son, j. b. Hurlburt, c. d. Fuller and
Dan Flynn, and short recess was
taken. Called to order the committee
reported the delegates entitled to seats
and the following committees were ap-
pointed:
Resolutions-Olie Thorson, T. j.
Crawford, Marie X. Griffith, j. F. Hick-
man and J. E. sipprelle.
Order of Business-A. L. Beardsley,
o. w. Swanson, Josiah Reeves, M. H.
Streit and Mrs. A. L. Sebree.
Apportionment-J. E. Ethel, w. 3.
Parkison, F. E. Sweet, J. B. Hurlburt
and Bert Gregori.
After the announcement Of the com.