The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-24


der to show the state that even il the
mayor Of Seattle is . Republican, his
father-in-iaw Is on the right track.
Judge Junius Rochester suggested q re-
cess Of ten minutes to canvass the names
of the nominees as he elegantly termed
the process Of getting up q slate. During
the recess the delegates gathered into little
knots to form combines" and get their
friends in. but even then the interest was
l1nguid. ]. +. Ronald was the center of
one group. that from the Eastward; Judge
\ Rochester gathered the cohorts OF the Sec
ond ward about him: c. ID. Emery mar
snalied the Third, and DR.. Kloeber the
Fourth ward; while the country delegates
wandered disconsolately around trying .
dicker here and there, and feeling more
and more keeniy each moment that they
were most emphaticaily not Gin il"
Before the rolls were completed and J.
81. Carson again called the convention to
order the Ten minutes proposed mad length
ened into full half hour.
Judge Rochester moved that the thirty
seven having the highest number OF votes
be declared delegates to the state conyen-
ton; this was carried.
The chairman then began calling the pre-
cincts present. and the following delegates
were chosen by the votes set opposite their
names:
a. E. Shields s. John Morrow -. NJ J. Neil
roy Ga, W. C Faulkner 81, John Collins 50. J. p
Gleason 80, James wheelan %, W. z. Lockard
So Douglas Young IS, W. H. Dill IS. James shee-
han ~, A. Chiiterg 81, r. W. IVES hopf S. W..
II. White A, w. K. Andrews 81. J. III. Elder IS.
Judge Rochester "a. e. II. 6mithers 81. 7. n
Halter "A. z. =. Blaine A, ]. A. Nadeau 50. J..
P. Rich 81. II. Collins 49, p. McI-ain 6s.
r. jenkins So G. FL icost 40, r r. Morrow 81
Gustin c.. J. 5. Kloeber Sc, D. H. Gilman AZ, L.
c. Gilman A. w. d. Thompson 81. J. B. Mescslfe
81, J. Y. ostrander 80. Luke McRedmoad "A
Among those who failed to get enough
votes were d. L. Durie, J. NJ. Lyon, I. +.
Nunan, G. D. Emery, DR.. Roberts. r. s.
Wilkes, ]. Long, Percy Rochester and DR..
]. p. Sweeney.
While the vote for delegates to the
county convention wa. being tabulated
the election of delegates to the Tacoma
Club convention was taken up Mr.. Ronald
moved that the elections be made By accla-
nation. Judge Rochester said that the
motion. like most of those made
by the prospective candidate for
mayor OF Seattle, was incomprehensible.
Mr.. Ronald replied that the motion was
comprehensive, though the prospective
candidate for congressman seemed unable
to understand things clearly. Then fol-
lowed tilt between the two ward leaders.
in the course of which the judge expressed
desire that Mr.. Ronald bring more Mis-
souri, colonizsrs into the county. The con-
ven;ion became pretty well tangled at this
point, for it was clear that bat few of those
present knew exactly what they were talk
ing ABOUT. Motions 20 do various things
piled I'D, and the chairman finally straight
ened the snarl by putting the motion to
elect by reclamation. Against Judge
Rochester's protest that in this way Repub-
Iicans might be elected, for no one would
want to vote against nominee, the motion
was carried. Thus the convention sat down
with dull, sickening thud on the judge.
who had evidently q little ticket of his
own to put through. When the decision
to vote by reclamation was announced.
everybody jumped TO his feet and began
nominating his next-door neighbcr and
his friend. A mutual admiration society
of the ripest and juiciest sort ripened
rapidly, and every body named was elected
with shout. Judge Rochester snatched
few crumbs of victory from the yawning
jaws of defeat by getting up from time to
time ana nominating and having elected
| men whose names he announced after
consulting a small memorandum. But
the convention had gotten beyond the con-
troll of the boss. who couldn't keep every
body and any body from being chosen dele
gate to Tacoma at the suggestion of every
body and anybody. When the
thirty-seven were elected, after
ten minutes of bear garden.
which the chairman vainly tried to hold in
check, it was found that several desirable
men had been forgotten. Judge Rochester
settled back in his chair with a look OF ex-
treme disgust mitigated only by the redec-
ton that he had told them so. Then
several names were withdrawn and the for
gotten ones put in. making the following
the list for the Tacoma conventions:
Judge Junius Rochester, l. s. Booth, John
Collins. J. P Gleason, W. R. Andrews ". H.
White, T. n. Halter. w. II. Dill, ]. s Crockett,
H. Butler. J. C. Whitlock. Robert Fitzhenry, W.
Z. Lockard, W. C. Faulkner, Josiah Collins. IT,,
). NJ. Jones, Dr. ]. P. Sweeney, w. B. Grifith,
Z. NJ Mcintosh. Phil Rogers, ). W. Ashford F.
B. Morrill,, A. w. Salisbury, l. C. Gilman, w. H.
Moore. George Donworth, Douglas Young, T. T.
Nunan. Z. w. Barto. DR.. Henry Yamhill, J. T.
Blackiston, Alfred Battle. J. B. Metcalfe, J.
wheelan, Edgar Lemon. w. II. Thompson and
]. ". Gephart
Then the question of a new county COM
mittee came up. Judge Rochester and
Douglass Young wanted the committee
elected at once, as the present committee
was weakened by the death of Charles Nc
Elroy and the i'll health of Judge Roches-
ter. W. X. Andrews, however, came to
the rescue of the 6own-trodden country
Democracy by saying that the convention
did not represent them, and it would be
foolish TO foist on them committee which
they had no hand in electing They
wouldn't stand it. The city delegates
straightway concluded that the country
mourners had been crowded too much for
one day, and so the selection CT the central
committee was postponed till the county
nominating convention is held in the fall
The bruised and battered country delegates
began TO breathe again. and after the con-
vention they f1ocked around Mr.. Andrews,
whom they clearly regarded as their savior
from utter extinction.
Mr.. Andrews further distinguished him
self by mentioning that the Morning Jour
nal had strayed from the fold of Democ-
racy, and proposing that the convention
declare its confidence in the new organ of
the party, the Telegraph. The city MEM
bers of course voted for that, and the
country members, to many of whom the
existence of the Telegraph was probably un-
known, chimed in, because the motion was
made BY their defender
The chair was empowered to appoint a
committee of twenty-five to arrange for a
mass-meeting in Armory hall on the even
ing of the 18th, 10 flowing the state conyen-
ton. He was given until today to name