The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-04-29
IT Is BRYAN OR BUST
Whitman Democrats Endorse
Kansas City Platform.
tiOnal Delegate and support
Il. A. hite Instead.

The democratic county convention to
elect twenty one delegates to the state
convention; was held in the superior
court room, in Colfax, Friday, April -,
being called to order by Henry W. Can
field, chairman OF the county central
committee, at l1:3O O'Clock a. m. The
convention was organized by the elec
ton of John PattisOn as temporary
chairman and W. A. White Of Palouse
as temporary secretary.
j. n. Janeway moved that the chair
appoint a committee of five on ere
dentials, three on resolutions and three
on permanent organization and order of
business. This motion was carried
unanimously and Chairman Pattiaon
took five minutes in which to select his
committees, during which time Judge s.
j. Chadwick addressed the convention.
Judge Chadwick congratulated the
convention upon the full representation
present and patted the members on the
back for the apparent display of har-
mOny with which the gathering had
started off. The speaker said that be
did not want to take the moss off the
tombstOnes in order to find an issue,
and did not believe that the democratic
party "OutO diiON lut ItpuUliCdu pdEJN
to take the democratic issue of a regu
lative measure whereby the people would
be given relief from railroad dIscrimina-
tiOn and control. He urged harmOn7
in all deliberations and condemned. as il
the custom of democratic orators, all
that is republican.
Chairman Pattison then announced
his commuters as follows: Credentials
t. G. Miles, Ed. Byrne, James Devine,
Joseph Rasor and Joseph Davis ResO
lution-J. n. Janeway, DR.. W. A. MOsier
and W A. White. Permanent organiza-
tiOn and order of bueiness-D. +. Staley,
r. 2. Turnkey and s. I. Laird. The
convention then took a recess until 1870
p. m.
Chairman Pattison raped the con
ntiOn to order at l:55 O'Clock and
called for a report Of the committee on
permanent organic alton and order of
business, which was adopted. The
report of the committee on credentials,
however, did not suit the convention,
and the committee was given five min
utes in which to revise and correct. I'm
mediately following the reading OF the
report there were half a dOZon demo
Gratis on their feet clamoring for recogni
tiOn from the chair, but the action Of
Chairman PattisOn in sending the com
mittee back seemed to have the desired
effect and all went well.
The committee on order Of business
placed the duty Of appointing COM
mittee Of five to select 2l delegates to
the state convention upon the chairman
and Mr. Pattison took five minutes to
name his committee, during which time
the convention listened to q speech by j.
n. Janeway, the pOpulist orator Of RO-
salia, who now says II am a democrat"
Jaueway made a harmony" talk and
received plenty of applause.
Chairman PattisOn named l.. w. Ian
ming Of Oakesdaie, J. n. Janeway Of
Rosalia, H. SchIaefer of Colfax, A. ,.
Baker Of Pullman and John BOyles Of
Cotton committee to select the delega
ton to the state convention. The fol
lowing were named by the committee
and approved 10y the convention: T. A.
White, r. z. Turnkey, Ii. o. Etel,
Eugene Brown, Fred Ratliff, c. ".
Waters, A. B. Barker, Harry Schlaefer,
D. +. Anderson, l.. F. Darr John SquireF,
d. f. Staley Pat Wynne, John Boyes
Ortis Hamilton, Mike ReisenOur, II, W
Garfield, George McCroskey, It. w. Sav.
age, John Pattison and j. ". Johnson
j. n. JanewaY, reporting Tor the com,
mittee on resolutions, read the following,
which was adopted by a unanimous
vote Of the convention:
'We, the members of Whitman county
democracy, in convention assembled, do here
by renew our allegiance to the principles of
the party as set forth in the Kansas City
platform Of 1900, and insist that no man who
was not good enough democrat to support
the party in 1896 and 1900 ls a good enough
democrat to lead the party in 1904
"We reaffrm our allegiance to the principle
of railroad control by the state, as initiated
by the democratic party and ably cham
pioned by our late Governor John R. Rogers,
through an aopointive, nonpartisan railroad
commission.
Whitman county being fourth in import
ance in the state, we believe that we are en-
titled to at least one delegate and one alter