The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-10-22
DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION
TWENTY DELEGATES NOMINATE
PARTIAL COUNTY TICKET
Name Candidates for Representative.
Sheriff, school superintendent,
Commissioners: and wreckmas-
ter--The Platform.


The first convention held by the
Democrats in this county for num-
Der OF years assembled at Odd Eel
lows hall Monday afternoon. Only
five of the twelve precincts of the
county were represented and of the
twenty delegates present fourteen
were from the Friday Harbor and
San Juan valley precincts. Follow
ing is the list:
San Juan No. August. Wold, s. ".
Boyce, Ole Void, Norman Frazer, Nell
son Labar, b. Jensen, VIM. Schnman, Sr.
San Juan No. 2-P. A. Jensen, Steven
Sweeney, JOHN Wold, Frank Guard, Ben
King, Ed Delaney, Chas. Sutton.
San Juan No. "a. j. Lightheart.
Orcas No. 1T. II. Paxson.
Orcas No. 2-E. Langell, Will Langell,
Robt. Killing, Roger Cockerell.
Norman Frazer Was chosen chair
man and P. A. Jensen secretary.
The usual committees were appoint
ed and an adjournment taken to en-
able them to prepare their reports.
The shades of night began to fall be-
fore the platform committee COM
pleted it's work and reported the fol-
lowing endorsements, pledges, be-
liefs, declarations and denunciations,
which were adopted:
We hereby endorse and ratify the NOM
nations tor president and vice president
of Alton b. Parker and Henry G. Davis,
and the platforms of the national and
state Democracy as announced by the st.
Louis and Bellingham conventions and
pledge them our support.
We pledge our unqualified support to
the nominees on the state Democratic
ticket and especially commend the able
and consistent efforts now being made by
the Hon. George Turner and the Hon.
Steve Judson i'm behalf of the people Of
this state against the domination by cor
pOrate interests.
We believe that the paramount and all
important issue i'm this campaign-na-
tiOnal, state and county-is the question
of whether the people shall regulate the
corporations or the corporations dominate
the state.
Under the fostering rule of the Repub-
ican party the gigantic corporations and
trusts have flourished and attained to q
degree of strength and multiplicity never
known before.
The attention of the voters of the county
is called to the blighting effects of the
two trusts with which, by their proximi-
ty, they are most intimately acquainted
the lime trust and the fisheries trust.
The lime trust has forced out of exist
ence every independent lime company,
except one which the trust absorbed,
which has endeavored to operate in this
county during the past ten years. by cut
ting the price of lime to less than $l.0O
per barrel, and after forcing .he independ-
ent concerns out of existence, has arbitra-
rily raised the price 30 per cent.
We denounce the Wholesale impOrta-
tions of Japanese and other cheap labor
by one Of the members of the lime trust
to the detriment of the entire working
and tax paying class of the county.
The fisheries trust, after acquiring our
local plant, closed it down and has op-
Grated it but one season in four years and
then almost exclusively with Chinese Ia
Dor.
We call the attention of the voters to
the needless expense to which the county
has been put during the administration
of the present county officials in the way
of exorbitant mileage and printing bills
and needless deputy hire and the shirk-
ing of duty by certain of said officials.
We pledge our candidates, if elected, to
an economical and business like manage
ment of the county's affairs.
We favor non-partisan judiciary, ana
we point with pride to the past record OF
Hon. J. p. Houser. our candidate for SUI
perior Judge, while judge of this judicial
district, and cordially invite for him the
support of the voters of this county. re-
rardless of past party affiliations.
Following the adoption of the plat
form the chairman called for nomina-
tion, of candidates for the various
county offices, but there were few
an oppressive silence, in
most instances, following the an
of opportunities to Sc
cure more or less desirable places ON
he ticket. A partial ticket was
placed in nomination as follows:
For epresentative-August Void.
For Sheriff-Chas. Sutton.
For School Observation-Disclosures Nellie
sweeney.