Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-20
CAPT. ELDRIDGE CHOSEN
To Represent Whatcom County
in the Republican National
Convention
Nine Delegates Elected to Urge
His Candidacy at
Seattle
A Spirited but Friendly Con-
test. FairhaVen Gets Two
Delegates

DGlN6 dASo
The principal interest i'm the Repub-
lican county convention held at What
com yesterday centercd i'm the choice
Of candidate to be supported in the
state convention by the delegates from
this county as "a candidate for delegate
to the national convention, TO be held
i'm Minneapolis in June. Long before
the convention assembled the friends
of Harry Fairchild, Edward Eldridge
and Edward Fischer We're getting i'm
their work" among the delegates on
the street Senator Richards, Frank
Kingdom, Tom Nicklin, w. l.. Patch
and Others did good work for Fairchild;
Hugh Eldridge, J. w. Ivey and some
of the pioneers" pulled for the pa
triarch Of the party in Northwestern
Washington, while J. =. de Mattos, A.
II. Morrison and other Sehomc men
worked zealously for Mr.. Fischer.
Long before the convention assembled
it was evident that the fight would be
between Eldridge and Fairchild, and
that the Fischer men held the balance
of power, which would probably be
used to assist EldIidgc. Shortly before
3 O'Clock Chairman de MattOs, Of the
county central committee, called the
convention to order i'm Purdy'- hall,
and Secretary Romaiup read the official
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gatiOual church of WhltcOm, Invoked
the divine blessing, and tine chairman
delivered a short address, from which
extracts are quoted as follows:
Gentlemen of the Republican County
COuvcuti0n:-It is with great pleasure
that ! welcome you tD our beautiful
citv which but four short years ago
was but struggling village, 20 city
only Boo name, bat now the fourth ln
our adopted state, containing thousands
where 10 d.d not contain hundreds Of
inhabitants Compared with the other
municipalities ON our own Puget sound
she appears superb i'm her beauty and
magnificent iu her lOycluo-- and i-
Justly entitled To- receive from every I'M
habitant of WhatcOm county the -pou-
taueOu- and heartfelt Offering of love
anu INl'AfH W lINll We tl~7'lAlNl' I'''Al
years hence for the same purpose that
brings u- together today, in all human
probability, YOU will behold a grand,
united city stretching from Squalicum
creek TO pOc's point, not "a gap inter-
vening, filed with large and we'll
stocked mercantile houses and private
residences, i'm their architectural splcn-
dor yiciug with those Of any other city
i'm our commonwealth.
Here we are i'm the most northwest
.erly county in our grand country, the
most remote from the pOpulOu- and
elictc East, for the first time IN our
history 10 participate in the choice Of
our chief executive. To those who are
with Us today, who came nearly forty
years ago to this then almost terra
incOgnita, it must seem like the full
fruitlOn Of dream that existed but In
their fancy, 10 those many years. To
think that a. those quadrcnnial periods
have come and gone, time and again,
that they could have no say; to think
that even the anarchist and hOOdlum
who had but recently entered the gates
of Castle Garden could cast his vote in
the great metropolis Of the country,
holding that city and the Empire
l0ldlt III Illt AIlIdlllDlll VI lllt
Democracy, and sometimes, as in.
stanced eight years ago changing the
IOlitical complexion Of our govern.
ment and, but for a Repu blican senate,
saddling policy Of free trade with its
direful results upon country which
for years had been enjoying the most
unparalleled prosperity IN the worlds
history, under "a benefcent and wise
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tough, but now that we have thrown
Off the garb Of territorial servitude and
assumed the splendid robes Of state
! hood we are fairly "in it, The center
| of population each decade advance,
| further west, till now it is in the stat,
| Of Kansas, and the political power and
supremacy which the eastern states
/ have, from the formation Of the gov
ernment held with an iron grasp is
| but as surely coming toward the Occi
dent. The homestead, pre-emptior
and other land measures which have
been inaugurated and carried out boy
our party, and the national aid givei
TO transcontinental railroads have
more than all else, populated our coun
try until now we shall soon see the bes
built road in the United States, with
OUT any HDNellliltilldl diuS pass ll1 id-
Hill and find its Fair Haven on Bell
ingham bay"
Expressing the hope that he woul,
"not be considered presumptuous" fl
50 doing, the speaker paid an eloquen
tribute to Jas. @. Blaine, preferrin
him to all Others for the presidency
and expressing preference for Algel
Clarkson, Lincoln or Gresham owe
President Harrison, whose position o
the silver question seems not to accor
with Mr.. DE Mattos pers nal view
Continuing he said:
"The Democracy often say that I'll
mission Of the Republican party hi
e ended. Not so, say we; the grandei
Itriumphg of auy marty ever organize