Show daiji 1 in J S L burke barteis is the choice for governor THE PLATFORM it harilas tin marmon and ana 0 the party to da ao th tham n Su justice stice lide DOISE GITY idaho aug 24 the convention inet inel at 2 0 clock ut at the opera house which was completely filled fill cil the decorations vere inere most profuse and beautiful and tile two crayon pictures of cleve canil lanil and stevenson Ste venion done by an undoubted artist adorned tile the walls ill an immense live bald eagle brought up tip by joe rich from montpelier flapped his wings on oil the stage stace 0 and the hand band in front dispensed ed patriotic airs hon john ainslie called the convention to order and made a telling 0 speech his statement that the prospects for success never bool looked ed so bright 0 as today elicited c cheers h ers e wh when e n he mentioned thu the name of cleveland tile the house thundered reil with applause ile ho looked forward with joy and expectancy pec tancy to the coming election though past the meridian of lire life lie would cast his first vote this fall fur for a president of the united states and that vote would go for cleveland and stevenson mr anslie named the following C temporary officers phil 7 letah latah county chairman J 11 II wicker wick er secretary john barkelow Dar kelow sargeant at arms charles crouch door 1 creeper ceper george 11 storer as tant secretary major bryan and J C rich conducted ducted Tilling ba t to tile the chair and there were more cheers mr made a deiv very felicito speech lie ile wait vas proud of the work done in chicago proud of the selection of cleveland and stevenson proud over the first democratic convent convention ionin in this young tate state to name presidential electors the democrats of idalio idaho have a serious duty to perform to select men to head the local ticket who would be in keeping with tile the T great piear national leaders adera lc ile he referred to the tariff outrages and the F force oice bill allowed how the rich had lieen been foRt fostered ered and protected and the poor ground town down spoke of the raising title tide of democracy not only in the union but especially in the state of idaho lie denoun denounced cid the republican party which he said had given the state of id idilio ho civil war cheers lie he exclaimed that all ohp recent labor trouble leF from carnegie in ill vannia to shoshone county in idaho were due to republican corruption at which t lle house literally broke loose ile c characterized barac the ic publican state blate administration as the embodiment of corruption and imbecility and only exceeded by the choice of its officers at moscow its administration admi nitration was so had thit that the lt publicans public ans had been forced to repudiate it and with inconceivable gall th they ey had asked the voters of idalio idaho to return that party to power again 0 applause on motion of mr lamb tue the following were appointed a i commit tec tc e on in credentials credentia lr II 11 K hartley ada john condon altaras alturas Al luras J V K brennan 1 bear baar lake G fletcher bingham ISing liam A Tur turner tier boise e J M pierce Ii erce cassia green white elmore J IV Cross Cros iuan sinan idaho ja Gra graham liam kootenai J C C 1 llata stugh elatab A E fritz frit leahi lemhi F J mcinni logan P M davis ne Z percee NV C oliver oneida On eidi Ilc lael el llyde owahee owyhee A k J bev ler sili shoshone ps hone A B anderson washington an ali invitation from the rapid transit company per ller gifun george leor ol 01 ainslee was extended to the convention to visit the boise N aitor jum an adjournment of one hour wag trai then taken on assembling reassembling re tile the committee on credentials through green white chairman airman di submitted it a report div ing gnp the names of dinty four dele gate sates 13 present i in it pei eon 0 or r by proxy every eve kv ry county ol of the vig eighteen lAcen was ie presented and the gati gathering ering included as fine it ii looking barnest set of men is as ever assembled in any idaho deliberative body boda the mornion mormon counties sent up ill including J C so gomo me familiar face rich rich and several others oth cri who took an active part in 1 all the proceedings the following were appointed a committee on permanent org organization aniza 1 and order of business causten joics densen Ilita baugh divis davis hardin II ardin graham wickersham kertz brown pence the follo following wim 0 were appointed a committee on 1 platform aa tforia and resolutions george ainslie ada W B bryan alturas alburas Al J C aich bear lake jarnes james NV W eden bingham james mcdevitt boise S johnson cassia john fondon condon custer P J sullivan elmerc J IV talking 0 on idalio idaho W J mcclure kout koot anai J walker latah A Frit sab lembi E J mcginnis logan J w V reid nez berces 11 W T oliver oneida E S howe owahee owyhee william saxon shoshone A sanderson San derion washington ington chairman Cli irman impressed on oil the on permanent organization tho the necessity of providing 11 i for the election of a central comi committee cominiti early and 1 not lot leaving KO 50 important I 1 i matter till the last thin tin the convention then adjourned till at I 1 11 I 1 STILL IS IN SESSION the committee on oil plat platform forni anil and resolutions is still in session at a lute ate hour among 0 the planks adopted was one favoring the tha free coinage of silver in very strong language and the foll following on tile mormon rmon question we denounce the hypocrisy of the republican party in del dealing ing with tile he mormon question and whereas the test oath embodied in ill tile the constitution of tile the state of idalio idaho in relation to the elective franchise is sufficiently far reach ing to protect the rights of tile the hatate t ate and insure the rights of electors and whereas the me republican legislature 0 61 odthe the last session acs ion Jia havin gin view view the perpetual ual di csc ine ia of ha largo class ol of people known 6 iv t i as cormons mormons Mor mons t added to the constitutional provision an all ex post piato faclo condition and this long after afier the alie mormons cormons Mor mons through their president and people in the lie anict sol solemn cilin manner had abandoned all their teachings S and pr practices artices act ices and whereat Where the action of the mormon people in these respects has been accepted by the national democracy 1110 cracy in good faith therefore be it resolved that we brand the pro provision vision in the election law pa cd by the republicans of tile the last legislature iAla turc as unconstitutional anil radically ex post facto that we lemand demand lein dein in a nd its absolute and unconditional repeal and that wo we favor an all ini immediate mediate test case in the proper conits for tile determination of the constitutionality of said aid law in obder order that this prescribed class of citizens may exercise the right T of franchise at the coming election boise ida aug 0 25 the convention vet opened at 11 with an increased attendance tile nary skirmish h which was hotly contested showed tile the rela relative tic strength str eng thor of nond and his two opponents opp and how bitterly and closely the conven tion was divided the file fight was on the recommendation made hr bv the credential credentia lz con committee that john condon of altures alturas should be allowed to vote tile hie proxy for mcculle McCu lre the absent member of custer county con ions dons proxy had in the mails and as is it was known lie aias as a i burke mini mail the stevenson forces rallied against allowed allowing ra liim him to vote peed heed led tho the movement in I 1 favor of london condon and carried it amid a of cheers 48 to 13 15 the committee on permanent organization 9 a niza tion and order of busin business ciss reported in favor of making the temporary organization permaner permanent it and the mention of phil 9 tile chair ch airmans mana name was again cli the committee also recommended that the central committee be named first one Il lember of tach county and that national 1 at ional committeeman frank W dean bo be a member r ox ex I 1 that the vote on the nominees be 1 by ballot and governor the first office billed adjourned till I 1 on oil all reports were nero adopted except the clausie clause i elating to balloting which was changed to viva coee bocc some confusion and enthusiasm I 1 was caused 1 by y joe leichti eagle I 1 soaring out and LIU liontine 0 ON X REPORT FItS 8 J NV reed I 1 the clo eloquent quent orator from the north read tile platform and resolutions anil and when he took the stage 0 ile he n w ts met with a tempest of applause following 0 the alie resolution contained in ill y yesterdays ester days telegrams on the mormon question i t ibe rollow lowing paragraph we vo denounce the practices pric licea of the republican party now prevailing 0 in bin c hain county or of requiring cormons mormons i is to to pledge themselves to vote the republican ticket before thoy are arc allowed to register tile the democratic party pledges itself to even arid abid exact iuA uis itice icelo to tile the mormon people we denounce the late republican legislature 0 for it its imbecility and incapacity for abr its disregard aej of the welfare of the people and ciul for its wanton reckless s and extravagant 0 expenditure of the public money Illo neV the sections section of the plat platform forin calling forth the most enthusiasm were tile the clauses relating to silver naming cleveland Cler clarid denouncing and scoring general curti the strong treatment of tile alie mormon question got a tre men dious lourd of applause all and the ter terrific rifle scoring peering of the republican administration fairly set the house wild the following acle elected UK als the state central committee Il littee J 11 II wickersham ada colonel bryan alturas alburas Al J it 11 6 brennan Hr ennan bear lake J F taylor bingham S T davis davi boise J M pierce cainia 0 11 II Claw clabbon bon custer C NV hill E imore elmore A W talking 0 idaho W V 1 mcfarlane hine kootenai 1 P latah A J mcnabb abb limhi W B george logan P M davis nez perces J 11 V morgan oneida oncida hyde owahee owyhee A aulbach aulback shoshone frank harris washington 15 hiller J NV reed I 1 N coston Co aton 11 V 0 rane lane and J all bennett were ivere added to the committee from districts taft real tUu business siness then opened and amid amirr 1 jareb lgraham graham a young 1 ina rl of coeur dalene IAl cne took the bloor 11 and nominated john 1 burke for governor ilia his speech was a fine and eloquent effort and the tribute paid burke was a ina masterly sterly one ife he said north idalio idaho was the real battle ground of the coming 0 fight 0 burke was tile champion of labor the unanimous choice of the democrats of idaho lie he warned the south that the governorship did not belong C to it for life as a right and baid son in tile the noa north had come of age and at last demanded to be heard G 11 II abbott a farmer nominated L U A stevenson in a good speech and paid tribute to his flig C g 1 l honesty spoke of his past I 1 ecord decord as a territorial governor and said that no man inan more fitly represented the various interests odthe state J W eden of pocatello catollo Po made one of the most telling t speeches of tile the day in iian naming ling james M ballentine ile he paid hint him a great compliment CO in ill saying sayin lie fought almost al alone conein in tile idalio legislature t U r 0 against p that sole blot on idalion Id alios altos escutcheon the test oath law lair mr ballentine Bal lontine was a man inan of the people ali the candidate of no section or clan clail a man inan IN who ho needed no apology 0 and against whom the of scandal was never raised george ainslie made III an eloquent slice speech eli secund seconding ing stevenson J 1 Y reed the orator of the convention conven on ven tion made it a ea great speech in ill seconding beco adins burke in which he said mcconnell would use his office if elected with the sole view of succeeding george L shoup as united states senator Kni ator lie ho was immensely elle cred when lie said lie he spoke for t the lie dounn you anz democracy of idaho and said thatah much as n lie admired stevenson yi evenson and ballentine lie knew was no man mail who could meet follow uv up and rout mcconnell like burke ile he made a big point when lie said tile the minors had asked for an all increase of wages C and had been met 1 by free lend lead with a charge of powder behind it sam rich seconded the nomination of ballentine lial Dal lentino lentine the first ballot was taken amid br breathless ca silence and resulted stevenson lo 10 hauke 31 01 Ballen ballentine 19 IS as wa ans 3 necessary fo co a choice and another billot ballot was ordered at 4 1 four ballots bad been acell taken and a motion to adjourn until 8 was carried the next four hours were probably the liveliest ever wit witnessed hessed in ill the streets street of aloie the stav onson ons on men worked with the hie energy of despair to secure the one vote necess necessary ary to nominate him the burka Hurko men were led in brilliant shape by 1 reed aeed stearns steams and bryan condon massed the forces against the stevenson phalanx and hobnob hobnobbed bed the men if thein the inside sidn history hi atory of all the deals promises entreaties and threats made in those lour four hours could be written it would probably clial make e reading 1 that tha t would cause tile the peoples eyes cyca to bulge out both t the I 1 ae stevenson and burke m men en threw all their persuasive power on the bear lake delegation four out of five it is understood were willing a to go ga to curke burke if they could go as a unit but the fifth nian man held out SESSION at 8 the opera house was jammed packed to tile the walls by a pulsating cro crowd tile tho fifth ballot showed little result of all tile the labor or stevenson Stev unson had 46 burke 35 bal letine letin 15 gusler and shoshone changing to stevenson and two votes in shoshone leaving 0 stevenson and 0 going to mirke burke on the tenth ballot when bear lake fake county wis was called jo rich k inide a good speech saying ballentine ti tie was the choice but as it seemed impossible for him to win bear lake would cast its entire vote ote to tile tho man inan who it had confidence would carry the state for the th f democracy john M K burke the yells that arose defy description J W V eden swung ginghams Bing hams liams seven for burke oneida followed suit with three votes shoshone voted ei eight 0 ht for or stevenson and two for burke and that gave tile the nomi nation to burke 19 49 to 40 for stevenson en on A motion made the nov nota pation unanimous i tea three ringing cheers condon 10 richs eagle eaglet I 1 appal g its I 1 wings ings all n lul screaming able bird 1 atif freedom as 3 ked the c ww ml ili BM lor li t ti to 1 1 afi r I 1 I 1 ce byhro by Wro treo elo frank fran harris I 1 it 0 of a s ti t n ta 0 and COW colonel I 1 el J my jone rue were placed plated in noi licu ICU 0 ank denaut governor acs S ainslie said lie junes was a slate nominee uffe retorted ed that tha slate making was wag I 1 limited ruiel to Ada county which chic was 6 greeted with yells of applause the vote stood jones 51 harris 4 43 colonel jodes jades is the editor of the blackfoot tc VS the I 1 convention adjourned till borni morning at 10 unless a 11 new de deal nl i is s made ballentine will be all the lioi couf of the convention for congress congre 0 is though stevenson was feeling ver very v sore over his defeat and may effect some other deal |