Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-08-04

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The Dubois faction, being in con
ltiol OF he committee. then proceed
ed tn cali the roll Of counties f.!
cGntesting delegations, 40 contest
was filed except in Ada county.
! his contest has been instituted bl
dubois followers on the grounds
that the regular delegation named
had bolted the Twin Falls conven
ton and the further conten ion thar
in the recent convention in Ada
county this faction refused to ad0pt
resolutions VIII ch had been present
&c pledgine is delegates to the con.
vention to support the party and
platform at the state convention. no
matter which faction was in con
tro'. Other grounds taken are that
the Ada county convention deposed
its county central committee and
chairman without having incorpora
ted this in its origin call
The contesSing delegation from
ada is here, headed by Dir. J. NJ.
Noodhurn, the dcposed chairman 1t
tests to be presented in the conven-
ton by the anti-Dubois faction arr
il Bingham county, where a trump
coup delegation was named at the
instance of Mormon sympathizers il
ioise City in order to deDose tn
re gularly- elected delegates. Ere
mont Oneida and Bear Lake coun
ties all Mormon strongholds, viii
also be contested by the Mormon
faction on the ground that no regu-
lar Democratic organization exis s.
there, the claim being made that
delegates from these counties arr
American party delegates. Will
rothing has developed, as yet it il
understood that the anti-Dubois fol
lowers will also bring in a contest
in the Bonner county delegation or
the grounds of technical violation
e the primary law.
At O'Clock tonight II Mormon
sympa.hizers comprising the dele
gates and followers, caucused and
mapped out the program to be fol
meeting at the convention. 1t was
decided to have both steering com.
mittee and a legal committee to look
latter their interests. Karl Payne OIL
Ada, John c. Rice of Canyon and F.
E. Fogg and j. O. Bender of Nez
Perez were named on the legal CON-
mittee, while on the steering COM
mittee w. B. Mcfarland OF KOOte-
mai, J. T. Pence of Ada, c. o. Stock.
slayer Of Blaine. J. D. Millsap OF
Fremont and Carl Davis of Gilmore
were named.
1t was decided to go before the
central committee with the object
of entering protests and other meth.
DDS Of laying the foundation to take
the matter into the courts for ad.
jrdication in event that the Ada
county delegation was denied seats
and the convention was controlled
by Dubois. II the latter program !.
carried out. 1t is not improbabl.
that the Mormon crowd will hold a
separate convention and name an
entire state ticket. The Mormon
crowd. in It's caucus. announced that
1t had at present 166 delegates and
would be in control of the conven-
tion. They claimed regularly elect.
ed and uncontested. Canyon. 20; e.
more. 8: Kootenai. Is, and Nez
Perez. FL. They contest and claim,
Fremont. ~; Oneida, 4; Bear
Lake. 2. and Bingham. IA. They
also claim to have In their caucr
Blaine, II: Bose, 10! Cassie. 3, am
Owyhee. z. There are 29s dele
gates to the convention. Necessary
tn choice. 149.
A careful comparison of these
figures with those claimed and
known to be Dubois followers shows
large discrepancy. In fact it is
known that a great many delegates
going into their caucus will jump
into the anti-Mormon bandwagon
whenever 1t becomes apparent tina
the latter will win.
In so far as candidates are con
cerned, there is very little talk
There are no avowed candidates for
any Office. 1t is believed that should
the anti-Mormon faction control
either Senator Heitfeld. Senator Du.
tois or Harry Day will be named for
governor. Should the Mormons
control the nomination will proba-
bly, go to either Judge C. o. Stock
slayer or John Nugent The latter
rs. however. being urged by his
friends for the United States senate
AS for the platform, nothing is
being discussed except in it's rela-
ton to the Mormon question. 1t is
believed that there will be consider
able fight over the question of local
option or state wide prohibition. It
Is most certain that this question
will come up in the convention, and
It is not likely that the party will
dodge the issue.