Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-06-15

ARTIN THE TRUE LEADER OF
BOLTERS AT TWIN FALLS
CORPORATIONS FURN ISHED
THE FUNDS TO MAKE FIGHT.

CORPORATIONS FURN ISHEDi
THE FUNDS TO MAKE FIGHT.
Wallace, June 15.-In view of thel
umber of distorted articles thatI
I. ave been printed about the recentl
@emocratic state convention at Twin
'alls, says The Times, it seems op-
nrtune that the exact facts of that
Dnvention be set forth briefly.
The fact that the Western Union
Telegraph company refused abso-
,utely to make adequate arrange
ments for handling the news reports
of the convention prevented dis
patches being sent, save to one or
two papers. The Western Union has
but one operator and he waa abso.l
1utely helpless when confronted with
the mass of news dispatches that are
always sent out at a Atate conyen-I
tion. This prew.nted newspapers
from giving tie details on the fol-
LOWING mo ming as is customarily
fhe case
. A'.er calling the convention to
order and after the official call had
been read H. w. Lockhart. stats
chairman, announced that the state
central committee had recommended
Glenn Mckinley for y temporary
chairman. Nugent Of Ada county.
then nominated X. I. Perky Of Ada
county for temporary chairman, The
vote resulted 14s for Mckinley Gin and
1ss. 1or Perky. 8s~
\ ' 3lartsr the Leader
The Perky forcs,.s were lead by the
notorious Frank MA.rt'n' who was
under indictment in. con- 'ection WIN
the stsunenberg land fl. ."os' , INTO
which Senator .Borah was a, us az
we'll as many other noted repub,>
cans. Although many local demo-
Gratis voted for Perky through error,
thinking he was the candidate for
the regular democrats. the vote
showed Perky was not elected.
But the Martin followers had come
To- the convention with the avowed
spurpose. o. rule or ruin Their de-
clarations Aprevious ITO that time
showed as much. They had even
,gone so far as to give out days In
advance, what their program would
be and the men they intended to
select a. delegates to the national
convention, were published prior to
the convention. ~~~. -. '~S
They came to the convention as
the agents OF the corporations that
have Selfish interests at stake. the
Mormon church. the Hartman rail-
roads, the sWeyerhaeuser timber SYM
daca&e. and the Gusgenheim smeiter
crust. They. had not been supporters
of the party for four years and their
object was, purely and simply one
of rule or ruin.
Consequently after Perky had
been voted down. and without any
excuse on his part, for there had not
been. the. Least nregulatity about thu
proceedings, Perky began calling M
followers together to carry out thu
purpose OF the Martin crowd.
Minority Bolted.
He tried to hold then rump con
vention in another part of the hall
The Mormon leaders began herdins
their brothers around Perky like 81
many cattle, while others tried tt
shoe them like flock of chickens
But the 132 who voted for Perky fol
temporary chairman did not bolt.
Out OF 29S votes to which tn
convention was entitled 1876 l.
Votes remained. This left onl!
102 Ia to the Perky crowd. AS
matter of fact they did not hav
this number. The delegations wer
bound by the unit rule and man,
stray delegates from the countie
that bolted stayed in the reg 'la
convention, but the b0lters vute'
them with the Martin-Peray crowd
under the unit rule.
AS an example, George e. Erb, o
Nez Perce county, whom the Perky
Martin crowd elected as delegate u
the national convention. did not par
ticipate in the rumr convention. III
stayed with the regular convention
and took an active part in the dell
beratiors nf The rernla- convention
Also Ben GRAY of Blaine county
whom the Martin crowd selected a
one of their delegates. refused Z
bolt. and STAYED with the regula
democrats. while many OF those VIII
did assemble with the Martin crow
left the regular convention wit