The San Francisco call., 1898-04-15
FOR WAR AND \ SOUND MONEY Oregon Republicans Send a Ringing Telegram
 to Mckinley.
It Declares Spaniards Should Be Punished and Pledges the
 Support of the State.
Conclusion of the Convention by the Nomination of TT. Geer for
 Governor.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ASTORIA, Or, April 1.-The Repub- llcan State Convention met this morn ing and contrary to expectation there was no contest over the election of tenn porary chairman. The delegates out side of Multnomah County, which has two delegations, held a caucus and de- cided to support w. L. Tooze of Marion County for temporary chairman, and he was chosen unanimously.
 After the appointment of the com mittee on credentials recess was taken until 1 o'clock
 Just before adjournment the follow ing telegram was ordered sent to Presi- dent Mckinley:
 With utmost confidence in the wis dom of your administration and pledg- Ing you the support of the State of oregon, we express our earnest convic- tions that the Maine was destroyed by design or criminal neglect of Spanish officers. and that this outrage is just cause for the United States to drive the spanish nation from the Western hem isphere''
 When the telegram was read the con- Ventlon rose en maSse and cheered wildly for Mckinley.
 when the convention reassembled thls afternoon the committee on ere denuals reported in favor of seating the Slmon delegation from Multnomah county The report of the committee was adopted by vote of 159 to 5S. A recess was then taken until 730 o'clock
 The platform adopted contains the following financial plank:
 We are in favor of the maintenance of the present gold standard; we are un- QCalfledly opposed to the free coinage oI silver and to all other schemes look ing to the debasement of the currency and the repudiation of debt. We believe that the best money in the world is none loo good to be assured by the Govern ment to the laborer as the fruit of his toll and to the farmer as the price of his crop. We condemn the continued agita- ton for free silver as calculated to jeopardize the prosperity of the country ana to shake the confidence of the peo- pie in the maintenance of a wise fnan- clal policy. We particularly condemn as unpatriotc the efforts of the free silver agitators to array class against class and section against section. We declare that the interests of all classes and of all sections of our country alike demand sound and stable financial system.
 Concerning the threatened war with Spain the platform says:
 While we deplore the imminence of war we recognize that the country is on the eve of war undertaken for the vindica- ton of the national honor and the per formance of a work dictated by every instinct of humanity. We declare that the administration Is entitled in this conflict to the confidence and support of the entire people.
 An amendment to the platform con- demning the action of the last Legis- lature for it's failure to organize and elect a United States Senator was de- feated.
 The following State ticket was then nominated:
 Governor-T. T. Geer, Marion County
 Supreme Court-Justice F. A. Moore (renominated).
 State Treasurer, c. s. Moore, Klam- ath County; Secretary of State, F. I. Dunbar, Clatsop County; State Printer, w. H. Leeds, Jackson County; Attor- ney-General, D. R. N. Blackburn, Linn County; Superintendent Public In- struction, J. H. Alderman. Multnomah County.
 T. T. Geer. the nominee for Governor, is the first native son of Oregon to re- oeive a nomination for that office. He was born in the Waldo Hills near Sa- lem, forty-seven years ago, and has lived a farmer ever since. He has been a member of the lower house of the Legislature for eight years and in 1891 was elected Speaker. He has al ways been a pronounced advocate of the gold standard.
 M. A. Moody, who was nominated for Congressman in the Second District, is a young man, and is also strong be- lieVer in the gold standard.