Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1920-09-09
GREENE FAVORED
BY CONVENTION
Alma Man Is Given Endorse
ment AS the Candidate for
Attorney General.
DELEGATES ARE INSTRUCTED
Are Requested To Use All Legiti-
mate Means to Secure His
Nomination.

The fifteen delegates to the Re-
publican state convention TO be held
in Saginaw on September %, were
given binding instructions for James
A. Greene of this city, by the Gratiot
county convention held in the court
house in Ithaca on Tuesday, Greene
being a candidate for the nomination
for attorney general on the Republi-
can ticket. Greene, an assistant at
torney general of the state at the
present time, will be the only service
man on the state ticket this year, il
he procures the nomination at the
hands of the state convention.
When the resolutions committee
made its report, endorsing Greene.
and offering a clause in the resolu-
tions binding the delegates to Greene,
Newell Smith and G. II. Giddings.
delegates from st. Louis, made a
fight on the binding of the delegates,
claiming that it was not customary,
and moved the adoption of the reso-
lutions without the clause binding
the delegates. They were showed
under by an avalanche of votes, only
one member of the convention sup
porting them, when II. S. Babcock.
chairman, submitted the question.
The resolutions as drafted, were then
passed with just the votes of the two
delegates against them. This wa.
the lone fight of the convention, but
it brought out spirited flow of ora
tory for several minutes, in which
the opposition to the clause was
worsted.
c. j. Chamber, chairman of the
county committee called the conven-
tion to order at 1l:00 a. m. and called
II. S. Babcock of Alma to the chair
as temporary chairman of the con-
vention. o. L. Smith of Ithaca. sec
retary Of the committee, then read
the call for the convention.
Following the appointment of COM
mittees on credentials, order of bus
mess and and on resolutions, the con-
vention adjoured until 100 p. m.
When the convention reconvened,
the reports Of the committees on Gre
dentials and order Of business were
read and adopted. The resolution
committee then reported, and the
lone fight of the convention over the
binding of the delegates was started,
the resolutions being adopted in full
after the forensic display.
The resolutions follow:
Your committee on resolutions
beg leave to submit the following re-
port in the form of drafted resoiu-
tions as follows:
I'VE, representatives of the Repub-
lican Party of the County of Cratic,
in convention assembled affirm our
allegience to the Grand Old Party
and its principles, and believing that
that party stands now, as it has ever
stood, for progress, prosperity and
patriotism as exemplified by it's un.
paralleled political history since its
birth under the oaks at Jackson,
Michigan;
Therefore, be it resolved by the
Republicans of Gratiot County In con-
vention assembled that we pledge our
undivided and entire support and in
fluence during the coming campaign
to the principles of our party as
enunciated in its platform, and to the
standard bearers of that party, both
state and nation, and especially do we
pledge our support and energies to
the chosen standard bearer of Repub-
lican principles and Republican ideas.
the Honorable Warren G. Harding.
Republican nominee for President of
the United States, and to the recently
chosen standard bearer Of Michigan
Republicanism, that energetic, force
full and fearless citizen, the Honor
able Alex j. Groesbeck, the Republi-
can nominee for Governor of Mich
igan.
"Be it further resolved, that we
fervently pledge our support and in
fluence TO the election of Honorable
Joseph Fordney, as congressman
from the Eighth Congressional Dis
trict, who has so gallantly cham
pioned the interests of the people or
this district in the halls of congress,
and whose record as congressman
from this district stands without
peer in the halls of our national con-
gress.
BE it further resolved, that where
as. Gratiot county has candidate for
a position on the state ticket this
fall, which position will be filled at
the coming state convention at Sag
inaw on the 23rd inst, and as a tok-
en- Of respect and fidelity for our To-
cal candidate who is an honored mem
Der of the Gratiot Co. bar, and TO the
end that his candidacy may be fos-
tered and strengthened throughout
the state, we pledge our support and
influence to Major James A. Greene,
of Alma, for the Republican nominal
tion fer attorney general at the state
convention TO be held in Saginaw on
the, 23rd inst. and that the delega-
tion elected TO said convention from
this county be hereby instructed 10
cast its entire and undivided vote
and to use all legitimate means TO