The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-19
Convention of School Children
Choose Goddess OF Liberty
for Glorious Fourth.
THEY HAD A HOT CONTEST
Stampedes. Compromises and
Riot Calls Made the Conven.
tion Politically Life.
like.

q Sarah Blanche Gray. eompromis
s candidate. rode to victory on STAN
pede at the school convention hel
yesterday afternoon In A. o. U. "
han. and was selected 10 act as rod
dess of liberty in the coming parad
In commemoration OF the glorlou
Fourth. After the selection had bee,
announced by the chair and Mis-.
Gray declared elected. there was a
demonstration which lasted for sew.
eral minutes.
Before the convention was called "a
order the committee on credentials re-
ported. seating all delegates. The
radicals" headed by Miss Gertrude
upshur. were bitterly opposed to the
conservatives" headed by Miss Ellen
Nowlen. 1t was taken for granted that
the radicals supported the candidacy
OF William Randolph Hearst for the
presidency Of the United States. and
the conservatives dug up the little tin
hatchets and proceeded to keep the
convention from instruetlng for the
editor.
Candidates Nominated.
When the nominations were called
for the high school Immediately pro-
posed the name of Gertrude Upshur.
The mention OF her name brought
forth prolonged cheers from the rad.
icals, and there was an attempt to de- |
clare the nominations closed, which /
brought forth cat-calls and Kisses from
the ranks of the conservatives. Dele
gates sprang to their feet. The chair
IN vain raped for order. The police
inally quelled the disturbance and the
nominations continued. Another high
school delegate presented the name OF
Higgins. The convent NOM
mated Mamie Shanahan. Shiyely
chool nominated Maude Van Dusen: i,
Alderbrook presented the name OF ,
ethel Gerding. Amid the cheers OF +,
he conservatives the name OF Ethel
'owlen was presented by a delegate
rom the high school ranks. Armella !,
irussi was named by the convent. =
md just before the nominations were !.
Iosed Mcclure school came forward :,
18th the name Of Sarah Blanche Gray. !
liss Gray had about as much expec- .,
ltion Of being elected as Garfield in .,
convention now gone into history
The First Ballot. a,
Silence reigned as the first ballot IL
as called for. The Adair school led az
with two votes for Upshur and six -
r shanahan. Alderbrook gave three g
Higgins and one to Van Dusen. The %
gh school cast four votes for Up. a,
Iur. and the Upshur forces again ar
led to start a stampede and failed. n,
ney cast five votes for Gerding and n,
o for Nowlen. Shively cast one for
'rding and nine for Nowlen. The
nservatives attempted to start a th
impede In turn when the vote of the In,
lively school was announced, but the
air succeeded in restoring order. Ar
ylor school cast one vote for Grussi
four votes for Gray The result ed
the ballot stood as follows: Up Ga
lr, 8; Higgins. 8; Shanahan, 6; Van Ma
sen, / Gerding, 8; Nowlen, 13; s
lssi, 1; Gray 4. sor
The Second Ballot. Ina
.fter the first ballot the names OF oh
gins. Van Dusen, GerdIng and =
Issi were withdrawn. Then followed ce,
not session wherein both radicals A
conservatives attempted to secure Ski
votes of the released delegates. Ain
second ballot was called for and Hal
llted as follows: Upshur, 8; Shan Rot
n, 8; Nowlen, IA; Gray, 10. O
ne great gain in the Gray ranks son,
the surprise of the ballot While Ma,
third ballot was in preparation the H
test excitement prevailed. Sever wo,
attempts were made to stampede Eliz
convention for the several candi- q