Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-10-03
LA PLATA
COUNTY
DEMOCRATS

| The Democratic county convention
was called to order this forenoon at
1890 by Chairman Rivers. Earlier in
the morning the delegates had eau.
cused and agreed on temporary chair
man, j. w Waters. and his nomina-
tion was made by Reclamation. Mr.
Waters, in taking the chair made
quite speech In which he referred
to the flood and Noah's ark and King
Solomon. eac., as though the people
of those times had anything to do
with the present day Democracy. He
also thought the men and women who
first settled America were imbued
with Democratic principles or they
would not have come TO America. Nat
urally. he condemned Gov Peabody
| 1t wouldn't do for any man pushed
forward by Democracy not to take
dig at the law and order governor.
| and to prove his assertions he quoted
Senator Teller And this remindg us
that Teller has many sins to answer
| for and great responsibility rests
upon him because he appears to be
| the patron saint and whenever our
Democratic friends want to score a
| point they Just refer to Teller. Mr..
Waters continued advocating har-
mony, saying La Plata was Demo.
cratic by $50 to 400 and that all should
unite, He said II was stated there
were Peabody Democrats He said no
man could be a Democrat and adyo-
cate Peabody and the quicker they
left the Democratic party the better.
He said he wanted consistent Demo
Gratis those who were Democrats
through thick and thin. nominated for
office
At the conclusion of Mr. Waters
remarks Herman Berndt was elected
temporary secretary and the conven.
tion took recess OF 90 moniues to
select the various committees.
Upon reconvening the chairman
announced the following committees:
Permanent organisation and order
of business-C. T. Morgan, John Nc
Coy. Dr. Newland George McGregor,
Charles E. Herr.
Credentials-Frank Rivers, John
Abbott. Stan Day. ]. II. Alexander.
John F. Bell
Resolutions-George West. w. T.
Darlington. Hans Aspas. VIM. Lewis,
Cy Graden.
Convention then adjourned until
o'clock.
The convention recOnvened short
ly after one. The temporary organiza.
ton was made permanent and then
came fight on the report OF the com
IN ant tuIu .sf l.
committee recommended that the
temporary roll call be accepted with
the exception Of the name OF j. C.
Sanford. owing to the allegation that
he was going to vote for Peabody
Stan Day, the other member of the
committee filed minority report
Then started the fireworks. j. II. Alb
bott made a fry speech in which Day
was roasted and also said the party
seat such man. not that he had any
thing personal against Sanford as he
considered him man OF honor. but
from principle. There were cat-calls
and Kisses. but the delegates finally
let Mr.. Abbott go down the line. a
full deport of which will appear Mon
day. w. A. Reese supported the minor.
ity report and charged that Abbott
was in the employ OF the Republican
party to create dissenslons In the
Democratic party. etc. The convention
adopted the minority report by big
majority.
Up to the time OF going to press
the convention had transacted the fol
lowing business.
A. F. Hood was nominated for
treasurer.
C. H, Conroy, for clerk
The seventh ballot had been taken
for sheriff, with six candidates in the
field. They were Jesse Stansel. 2s;
X. l.. Dale. 80; Frank Rivers, 20; Joe
Freed, l5; Jack Cunningham 49, The
balloting results were almost the
same in the seventh as In the pre-
vious ones and no sign OF break