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Show IDAHO DEMOCRATS. State Convention Con v eues at Lewiston and selects Delegates to National Convention. The State Democratic convention to elect delegates to the national convention conven-tion met Tuesday afternoon at Lewis-ton Lewis-ton with John Ilailey, state chairman, presiding. There were 22S delegates represented. The full convention consists con-sists of 426. For temporsry chairman the Steunenberg Steun-enberg forces nominated 10. M. Wolfe of Elmore and the opposition II. C. Jackson of Ada. The vote resulted 114 each and the chairman declined to decide. On the second ballot the Steunenberg- forces lost three votes and Jackson was elected. This gave the appointment of credentials and other committees to the opposition. A recess was then taken which was subsequently made an adjournment until Wednesday morning to enable the Shoshone coun ty contest to be thoroughly thor-oughly investigated. |