The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-10-17
REPUBLICANS REPUDIATE
BARELY ONE-HALF OF COUNTIES
ENDORSED STATE PLATFORM
AND TICKET.
Two of Them Voted Down Resolutions
Favoring State Ticket and Seven
Were Silent.

SEATTLE. Oct. 17.-(SpeciaD-
Returns received at the campaign
headquarters in this city from repupli
can county conventions which have
been held since the state convention
at Tacoma show that barely one-half
of them have adopted in their platforms
resolutions endorsing the state plat
form and ticket; that one has openly
repudiated the action Of the state
convention, that two have voted down
resolutions endorsing the state ticket,
that seven are silent, and that five of
these which endorsed the state ticket
and accompanied that endorsement
with the adoption of a railroad COM
mission plank, and that several other
conventions have in one form or an
other given evidence of very strong
Boxer tendencies.
AS might be expected Whitman coun-
! ty went to the greatest length in CIV
! ing vent to its indignation at the DOM
| nation of the Tacoma convention by
convention Whitman county adopted
strong resolutions commencing Gov.
Mcbride and condemning the railroad
lobby, and selected delegation to the
state convention pledged as individuals
to do all in their power to secure Nc
Brides nomination. Ignored, sighted
and snubbed at the Tacoma convention
those delegates returned home to
spread among the republicans of the
county their feeling of Indignation.
This feeling became so general before
the second convention was held that,
despite the fact that the convention
call excluded from participation in the
primaries all persons who would not
pledge themselves to support the state
ticket, the second convention adopted
this resolution:
Denounce the Lobby.
las republicans who believe in poit-
zeal honesty and political decency we
register our emphatic protest against
the shameless and degrading influence
of the railway lobby over the republ
can party of this state
Not satisfied with this denunciation
| of Of no
the Whitman county republicans went
even further and refused by signifi-
| cant majority, to adopt a resolution
pledging support to the state ticket.
Such a resolution was offered in the
convention by J. n. PickrelI, the we'll
| known Whitman county railroad leader
and voted down by a majority of SO
to 49, The resolution thus defeated
was:
"Resolved that we. the republicans
of Whitman county, state of Washing
| ton, in convention assembled, do here
by endorse the republican nominees
both state and national, and the plat
forms on which they stand, and we
pledge ourselves to give each of them
our individual support, and to use all
honorable means in our power to Sc
cure their election
Next to Whitman county Stevens
county went to the greatest length in
its republican county convention to
express it's dispeasure at the results
of the Tacoma convention. In the first
republican county convention in Stew
ems county the Mcbride faction of the
party controlled by a narrow margin
and had Il hard struggle to secure the
election of full Mcbride delegation
to the state convention. At the second
convention the Boxers were in flItl
and complete control as is evidenced
by the fact that resolution pledging
support to the state ticket was voted
down by a three fourths majority of
the convention. The resolution offered
and voted down was:
I'VE indorse the ticket placed in
nomination for the respective state Of
fees at the republican convention at
Tacoma. Especially do we take pride
in the excellent record of Hon. Albert
F. Mead, and we believe we have in
him a man eminently fitted for the re-
sponsible office of governor and We
pledge him our hearty and layol sup
port in this campaign
Held But One Convention.
Thirteen counties of the state NOM
mated county officers in their first
convention and so held no second con-
ventions. They are Chelan. Clallam,
Clarke. Cowltz. King. Pacific, Pierce
Skagit, Skamania. Snohomish, Spokane.
Thurston and Walla Walla.
Three counties, Columbia. Gar
field and Island are not reported. This
leaves 10 second conventions from