The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-09-29
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
STATE CONVENTION Held At Sc.
ATTLE ARnODY.
Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma
Each Get a Congressional Can
didate-Hodgdon, Million, Toll
man and Sweeney for Judges.
Platform.

man and Sweeney for Judges.
Platform.
Seattle, Sept. 27.-The Democratic
state convention met Wednesday at
the Armory in this city and nominated
three candidates for congress and four
for justice of the supreme court. The
congressional nominees are William
Blackman, Seattle; DR.. Pratrick S.
Byrne, Spokane, snd Dudley Eshel-
man, Tacoma.
The supreme court nominees are:
Short term-Warren w. Tolman,
Spokane: 30 Sweeney, Seattle. Long
term-C. W. Hodgdon, Hoquiam; E.
G. Million, Seattle.
At the opening of the convention Bo
Sweeney, of King county was named
as temporary chairman. After brief
address the chairman appointed the
usual committees and the convention
took recess.
It was after 4 O'Clock when it re-
assembled, and Mayor Floyd M. Dag
gett, of Spokane, was escorted to the
platform as the permanent chairman.
G. D. Eshelman, of Piercre, was
named as secretary. The credentials
committee reported no contests and
instructed any member present to vote
his full delegation.
The Platform
Following a brief speech by Chair
man Daggett, the committee on resolu-
tions presented the following plat
form, which was adopted:
The Democratic convention Of the
state of Washington, in convention as
sembled, express our allegiance and
belief in the principles of the Demo-
cratic party as announced in the plat
forms of the past, both national and
state, and we express our appreciation
and admiration Ct that great apostle
of Jeffersonian principles, Villain J.
Bryan, and in common with the DEM
ocracy of the nation We hail him as
our standard bearer for 1908.
We favor a graduated income tax,
and all necessary legislation to carry
it into effect.
The Democratic party has always
stood for the masses against the class
es; it is unalterably opposed to trusts !;
it is the enemy of monopolies, and we
are opposed to all tariff or other laws
which foster or protect such monopol-
les or trusts.
We are in favor of the election of
United States senators by the direct
vote of the people.
We are in favor of that Democratic
doctrine, the direct primary, which
enables the people to directly express
themselves upon all matters, and d.
rectly express their choice in the Sc
lection of national, state, county and
municipal officers.
For Better Highways
We recognize the vital Importance
to all the people Of our state, of the
Improvement and betterment of our
highways, and we favor liberal appro-
priations by 10th national and our
state government for the Improvement
of our highways.
We heartily endorse the aims and
purposes Of the Alaska Y ukon-Pacific
exposition, and we favor liberal ap-
preparations therefor by the state of
Washington and the government of
the United States.
We favor the initiative and referen-
dun as IN force in our sister state of
Oregon, and we favor the adoption of
a constitutional amendment to carry
out the same.
We favor the enactment of an eight
hour law for workmen engaged in un-
derground mining.
We favor law prohibiting false ad-
vertising for labor.
Want State Districted
We demand, in accordance with the
constitutional mandates of this state,
and the laws of the United States, that
the next legislature divide the state
into congressional districts, and we
condemn the past Republican legisla-
lures for the anarchistic refusal to do
so.
We favor an appropriation by the
legislature for the purpose of expand
ing the capacity and output of the jute
mill at the state penitentiary. This
we advocate both from a standpoint
Of humanity and economy.
We favor such modification of our
present road law as will guarantee to
different sections of the different
counties of our state the expenditure
upon the roads and bridges of the
different sections, a just and fair pro-
portion of all road funds in all sections
of the county, in order that one Sec
ton of q county may not be discrim-
mated against in favor of another