The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-25
IDAHO DEMOCRATS.
State Convention in Session at
Boise City.
CITY In A SETTLING CONDITION.
Convention Meets at 2 0'Clock-Temporary
Organiz ation Perfected Bitter sight Being
Made on the Guberna-o rial Candidates

state TO name presidential electors has been
called TO order, but nothing has been done
up TO this time that in any way clears the
political sky or enables one TO gain an idea
CT how the mixed and uncertain condition
of things will be settled.
Three candidates for governor are In the
field. Stevenson, who held the post by the
appointment of Cleveland; Burke the
north Idaho mine owner; and the big ranch
man and farmer Ballentine. Stevenson
and BGllentine are both here. Burke re-
mains at home.
The feryer and bitterness with which
the advocates of each man work for their
favorite and against his opponents is un-
surpassed by anything 1 have seen since
the Chicago convention. Stevenson is uu-
dcubtedly in the lead tonight and his man
ayers claim that he viii win on the first
ballot. This the Burke and Ballentine
men deny, but concede him forty ballots
Forty-nine ballots are necessary to secure
the nomination.
Stevenson and Ballentine come from the
same county-Ada, but Stevenson has its
vote overwhelmingly.
4he Ballentine men openly charge q
packing of the primaries.
Bingham county aud Alturas lead the
opposition to Stevenson and
LEAD IT WITH EXTREME RANcoR.
William Burke Of Salt Lake, is here
working like Trojan for Ballentine,
whose strength seems to lie in the fact that
he has never sought Office; that he led the
fight against the test oath DILL in the legis-
lature of 1890, aud that he is popular and
a representive farmer.
The Stevenson men charge him with
having walked out of the county conyen-
ton in Caldwell and his friends retort that
he did just right in doing SO.
The opposition to Burke centers in this
county (Ada) and the charge'is made that
miners union in his own county (Shoshone)
will not vote for him. An infamous and
libeIlous publication concerning his private
life has also been circulated here today,
which his friends repudiate with indigna-
ton, but which has undoubtedly affected
some VINO would like to support him.
Burke's friends say If that is to be the line
of the Republican campaign MIR. McCon-
nell had better look to himself with all the
speed at his command. His glass house is
said to be an
AMAZINGLY CONSPICUOUS TARGET
for stone throwers. The opposition to
Stevenson win combine on either Burke or
Ballentine if the first ballot does not send
Stevenson into the harbor. and it is to pre-
vent that contamination that his
opponents are bending their best energies
towards tonight. They will first try and
induce the committee on permanent organ
ization and order of business to provide q
two-thirds rule The chairman of that
committee however, is Costen, Stevenson
man, so that the outlook is not favorable
for success in that direction.
The night for governor is waged with so
much bitterness that the lesser offices seem
10 be lost sight of. 1t is known, however,
that some of Burke's friends wired him.
asking If be would take the nomination for
Congress, and that he answered saying his
interests would not allow him to leave the
state. Phil. Tillinghast has also refused to
run, but his closest friends say he would
reconsider" if either Burke or Ballentine
led the ticket.
CONVENTION MEETS.
The convention met at o'clock at the
opera house. which was completely filed.
The decorations were most profuse and
beautiful and the two immense crayon
pictures of Cleveland and Stevenson, done
by an undoubted artist, adorned the walls.
An immense
LIVE BALD EAGLE,
brought up by 10 Rich from Montpelier,
Mapped his wings on the stage and the
band in front dispensed patriotic airs.
Hon. John Ainslie called the convention
to order and made telling speech. His
statement that the prospects for success
never looked so bright as today ELECTED
cheers When he mentioned the name of
Cleveland the house thundered with ap-
plause He looked forward with Joy and
expectancy to the coming election; though
past the meridian Of life he would cast his
first vote this fall for president of the
United States and that vote would go for
oLEvEAND AND STEVENSON.
Mr.. Ainslie named the following temporary
officers: Phil Tllinghast, Latah county,
chairman; j. H. Wickersham, secretary
John Barkelow, sergeant-st-arms; Charles
Crouch, door keeper. George H. Storer,
assistant secretary.
Major Bryan and ]. G. Rich conducted
Tillinghast to the chair and there were
more cheers. MIR. Tillinghast made very
felicitous speech He was proud Of the
work done in Chicago; proud of the selec-
ton of Cleveland and Stevenson proud
over the first Democratic convention in
shfs vor5np state tn name nresident;ai a1e,
tors. The Democrats of Idaho had q se-
rious duty to perform to select men to
head the local ticket who would be in keep
ing with the great national leaders. He
referred TO the
TARIFF oUTRAGEs
had been fostered and protected and the
poor ground down; spoke of the rising tide
OF Democracy, rot only in the Union, but
especially in The state of idaho. He de-
nounced the Republican party, which he
said had given the state of Idaho civil
war TCheers]; he exclaimed that all the
recent labor troubles, from Carnegie in
Pennsylvania TO Shoshone county in Idaho
were
DUE TO REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION,
at which the house literally broke loose.
He characterized the Republican state ai-
ministration as the embodiment of corrup-
ton and imbeciity and only exceeded By
the choice OF it's officers at Moscow. Its
administration was so bad that the Repub-
licans had been forced to repudiate it. and