The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-09-27
THE REPUBLICAN, STATE CONVENTION.
The silver plank Cut an Important
Figure In the Congregational Nom-
fuation-Jones HandIca pped.


inasion-Jones Handicapped.
The republican state convention at Spo-
kane adjourned late Wednesday night
and Yakima's delegation returned home
Friday morning. As stated last week the
successful ticket was Doolittle and Hyde,
for congress, and Dunbar and Gordon
for the supreme bench. For the state
senate for this district, d. L Lesh was
nominated on the first ballot, recei wing
the votes OF all OF the Klickitat delega-
ton and all OF the Yakima DELEGATES ex
cepting two-Mr. Lesh voting for W. l..
Jones and DIR. Hare casting no ballot,
Mr.. Jones might have figured around and
received the nomination, but Albert Say
lor and Jerry Rockford were there man.
aging his campaign and thus handicapped
his chances vanished as they alienated
DR.. Hare, who is said to haze favored
Jones and was doing missionary work
among the benighted Klickitaters.
After once being showed under the sill
yer plank-which is directly in conflict
with the plank in the Minneapolis plat
form-was carried, and this probably had
much to do with the nomination OF Hyde
who could not have stood on the plank
which Burleigh, Of King, and his asso-
cistes were trying to have incorporated.
Col. Hewlett received Ill votes and takes
his defeat philosophically and gracefully
The feature Of the convention was en-
acted when Judge George Turner, Of
Spokane, walked down the hall to where
the King county delegation was seated
and in reply to speech OF Mr., Burleigh
on the silver plank said:
Mr.. Chairman, the gentleman from
King PAGES up and down the aisle in an
imperious manner. which suggests the
cracking OF the whip. | wish to say to
him RICH. here and now that Spokane
and the state are tired of this King county
whip.
His tones in uttering the last sentence
rang through the hall with force and
earnestness. The Spokane delegates.
Pierce, Thurston, Whitman, part of Sno-
homish, Lewis and delegates all over the
great hall arose spontaneously with
wild cheers. They threw their hats. The
galleries took up the howl, and for five
minutes the convention was a bowling,
screaming bedlam. King and its allies
me. the demonstration with cheers for
King county. Chairman Goeghegan
raped for order. 1t was restored after a
hard effort, but Spokane and Pierce and
Whitman broke loose the second time.
They howled and screamed, threw hats.
coats, stamped their feet, pounded and as
a last resort slapped each other on the
shoulders, as if their joy would sweep the
universe. Judge Turner continued:
deny that Pierce or any other county
threatened to defeat the republican ticket
two years ago il the canal plank was in
serted. 1t was none other than King
county that threatened to defeat the
ticket II she did not get the ditch en-
dorsement.
Again the demonstration began, but
the chair suppressed it. Judge Turner
continued:
That ditch plank enabled King county
to roll up a tremendous majority at the
expense of the rest Of the state, and that
majority gives the county SO delegates
with which to come here and stiiie and
bully the honest sentiments of the state
The gentleman from King associates
greenbackism with free coinage and asks
what difference there is between them.
The man who cannot see the difference is
capable of believing that canal for pri-
waite speculation between Lake Washing
ton and Puget sound is matter of i'm
portance to the state. They say they are
for bi-metalism. Then why don't they
say so without cowardly, hypocritical
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