The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-07-20
SOCIALISTS NOMINATE
Get Into the Game i'm Whitman
With Complete Ticket.
Trouble Experienced in Finding
Candidates, With Omces
Chasing the Men.

State Senator, Sth District-G W. Perrine
OF Colfax.
State Representatives, 7th District-C. N.
Hinchlitf of Colfax, John f. O'Del of Wilcox.
| State Representatives, Sth District-H Nj
Halstead Of st. John, Swan Nelson Of St
John.
Sherif-Jaues Jennings of st. John.
Auditor-J. NJ East of Diamond.
Treasurer z. Black Of Seats.
Prosecuting Attorney-Thomas Neill of
| Pullman.
Assessor-Roy E. Bryant of Pullman.
| Superintendent of Schools-C. f. Hoover
| of La Crosse.
Surveyor Guilford Miller of Wilcox.
| Coroner-Wm. Larkin of Hay.
| County Commissioners-2d District, Geo
Nelson Of Ewartsville; Sd District, 2. w. Cox
Of Colfax.
Whitman county socialists to the mum
Der OF 45 or 80 met in convention at tie
court house on Saturday, July IA,
adopted a combination spiel and platform
that for length gives the Declaration OF
Independence a run for first money,
nominated full legislative and county
| ticket, contributed coin Of the realm to
campaign fund, and girded up their
| common practice of the democrats to
| nOisily assert that their nominees are
the Simon pure result of the office seek
ing the man. People smile when they
hear 1T and pass on. But real exhibi-
! ton OF offices relentlessly chasing men
was afforded in this socialist convention
AS the work OF naming ticket progress
ed one after another declined to have
the honor OF a nomination thrust upon
him, until it began to look as though
they would have to fOregO placing a
ticket in the field, some suggesting that
parts of the ticket be left blank. This
state of affairs produced stirring ap-
peals to sOcialstic spirit and patriotic
duty, which finally brought the coy ones
around, and thereafter the nominations
were made amid fewer objections from
the victims and with less expenditure Of
time, the work of the convention being
completed in about three hours.
Convention Proceedings
Thomas Neill OF Pullman, called the
convention to order and read the call
&. n. Hinchliff of COlfax, was elected TEN
porary chairman by acclamatiOn, as was
also Z. A. Ross of COfax, secretary.
Chairman Hinchliff thanked them for the
honor, but thought it would have been
better TO elect a socialist longer in the
harness. He had but lately overcome
his prejudices sufficiently to declare his
true principles, which were those OF social
ism, and these were bound to prevail
sooner or later. He had been in several
parties, but expected from now on to
work with the socialists
The following committees were, on
motion, appointed by the chair:
Order OF business-J. M. East OF Dia
mond, 2. W. Cox of Colfax, VIM. Larkin
Of Hay, Chas. Griggs Of Colfax, ]. Fl.
st. Lawrence OF COlfax.
Platform and resOlutiOns-ThOmas
Neill Of Pullman, G. B. Kegley OF Ewarts
vile, Bert Hargrave Of Colfax, James
Jennings OF st. John, c. H. Pierce OF
Pullman.
The convention rested while the com
mittees worked. The report of the com
mittee on order of business, which was
| adopted, made the temporary organiza-
tiOn permanent, provided for the adop-
tlon OF a platform, the election of a
chairman and secretary Of the county
central committee, and the nomination
OF full legislative and county ticket.
The committee on platform and resO
lutions submitted the following:
Spiel and Platform.
We, the socialists of Whitman county in
convention assembled, do hereby declare our
allegiance to the principles of international
socialism, and earnestly invite all who are
interested in their own economic welfare and
that of their fellow man, to study this ques-
tion and thus obtain a knowledge of the eco
nomic laws which govern society and deter
mine the material, moral and social condition
of the people.
While socialism is an economic question,
yet inasmuch as capitalism has divided society
| into two hostile classes (the capitalist class
| and the producing class) and the capitalist
class is now IN control of the government and
conducting its affairs in the interest of their
own class, it becomes necessary for the pro-
ducing class to organize in the political field a
party having as its chief aim and purpose the