Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-11

torial Convention ignored these teach
ings Has it bolted from she Rerubii-
can party In fact and in truth il has.
Look at
TIE OTHER SIDE:
At the action and proceedings of the
convention st Seattle. Have thev not
been such as to justify all Republicans
VINO desire TO retain connection with the
party or the Union in ignering the au
tDority OF that convention On one
side Is all that makes Republioanism
oeari ON the other a Territorial Cenyen-
ton claiming the power TO change and
reverse the policy and principles of the
| hepuoiicap party, and presenting a can
didate whose record on the question at
issue is appalling in its naked an-Re-
eD0 bllcanistn.
THAT CONVENTION,
i though, needs a thorough examina-
ZION. Can IL establish its claim to hay
Ele been an honest, representative, Re-
Fuoiiean Convention? We're no infia-
faees except those of pure Republican
Ism at work? Why should. il take so
decided departure FROM Republican
! precedent and Republican principle?
Let 1s look carefully into few of the
! best known
EAO1S.
The Convention which Assem- bled in
Seattle 90 September 4th, 1884, as a re-
preventative Republican Convention,
was only such in name. 1t was in real
itya Railroad Convention, dominated |
| and controlled by attorneys and agents |
1 of the Northern Pacific railroad Com |
i pany. 1t was net a representative con-
ventlou. beoanse iii a great number of |
cases the regularly chosen delegates had |
given their
To persons who would never have been |
chosen by the people to represent them. |
In the discussion of the proxy question |
by the Central Committee immediately
after the adjournment of the Conven-
| tion. it was stated, aud not denied, that |
but four counties, out of the thirty-three
in the Territory, had been represented
entirely by those who had been chosen
at the primaries. A number of counties
had no resident representatives what
| ever. The two elected delegates from
Stevens county, for instance, sent their
proxies to A. A. Newberry, Northern
Pacific land agent at Spokane Falls.a
he cast the votes of that couRty through
out the proceedings. In Lincoln county |
no primaries we're held. Two delegates
were appointed by County Central
Committee. which had no power and no
existence derived frsm any representa-
tive convention of Lincoln county Re-
publicans. Even these questionably ap
pointed delegates transferred their prox-
les to Others, of whom at least one was
a nonresident. These are but few of
many instances. The evil was so glar-
ing and undeniable that the Central
Committee, deriving power from this
convention on the same dag that the coa-
rention adjourned, passed a resolution
forbidding proxies in future congeu.
tions, although it had but ten minutes
before elected as its chairman A. A.
Newberry,the nonresident proxy holder
from Stevens county.
In addition to this, the instructions to
County Conventions were in many cases
openly disregarded. Note, for instance,
the action of the Whatcom county dele
CATION. The resolutions of the Couven
ton which appointed these delegates
will be found above. They are positive
in thsir demands for immediate forfeit
ure. Yet the Whatcosn delegation voted
| against forfeiture and against the for
feiture men throughout. In the minutes
of the Conventions, the solid vote of
Whstoom county is recorded as opposed
60 the forfeiture plank presented to the
Convention by the minority of the Gem
mittee on Resolutions. This is but Que
instance. There were number of 9TH
ers precisely similar.
How" it may be asked, ''can the
caarge thstthe
RAILROAD CONTROLLED
The convention be substantiated?" BY
a gfanoe at the records of the cOnveu-
A. -a.l
facts. Examine the evidence.
First-The entire temporary organiZ
alton was decided upon by a caucus on
the evening before the convention and
published, exactly as afterwards Sc
lected by the Posi- sT-lNTEILTGKNcER ani
the morning OF the day that the con-
ventloa met. IN this oaneus the NOV
lng spirit was Governor L. r. Ferry, a
/ member of the legal firm of McNaught,
Ferry, McNaught d Mitchell, which re-
presents the Northern Pacific Railroad. |
He it was who dictated to the caucus
the temporary organization, and who
made the motion that Miles G. Moore
be the caucus choice for chairman OF
the convention.
Second-Miles g. Moore, on taking
the chair on the following morning,
manifested his appreciation OF Gov
ernor Ferry's efforts bylappointing him
the member at large of the Committee
on Credentials, although he had place
on the floor of the convention only
through virtue of a proxy from King
county. The committee afterwards or
ganized by choosing Ferry as its chair
| man.
Third-The convention violated all
pfecedents set by Republican conven-
| tions by excluding the regularly chosen
and proper delegation from Yakima
con0ty. simply because the sentiments
| of that delegation we're anti-railroad.
| The only argument in favor of suoh ex-
| clusion was made bv the leader of the
bolting delegation from Yakima, Mr..
| Holton; and that argument Was based
| o. the proposition that the members of
the REGULAR delegation by favoring for
| feiturs and opposing monopoly, and by
| considering tn qnsstions OF forfeiture
and monopoly the main questions before
the people, had thereby passed beyond
| the limits Of the Republican party and |
were no longer members of that party
| That was the only argument offered, |
and the convention immediately en-
dorsed Ii by excluding the Yakima del
egation. According to this action of /
| the delegation James A. Garfield ts0slid /
| not hare beea alt0sncd 10 rote 10 a Re /
publican Primary IN Yakima cOaHfs. as /
he held and openly expressed precisely /
the same views as the excluded dele |
yates.
Fourth-Except IN one or two Gases |
no arguments we're offered on the rail. |
road side of any question. The rail-
road men simpiy kept still and then |
voted in solid block, always casting |
almost the precise number of votes that |
had been previously Published as the |
railroad strength.
Fifth-The convention nominated q l
candidate who vAs on record ~ having 1
taken the strongest possible non for /
feiture views. going even sarthes IA this 4
regard than ths cl&lms of tbs Northern /
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