State ex rel. Scharnikow v. Hogan

The relator’s argument is that the delegates chosen in the counties composing judicial districts to represent them'in the state convention called to nominate a state ticket are authorized by the practice which has prevailed in the Democratic party in this state, until it has grown to be an established custom, to join-in a judicial convention, and nominate candidates for the district judgeships, without regard to whether they have been directed by the electors, through the county conventions, to do so or not; that the bolting delegates from Deer Lodge and Granite counties, by their behavior in…