Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-08-03
STATE DEMOCRATS
GET TOGETHER and ARRANGE
FOR CAMPAIGN.
bryan Finance Methods Adopted.
All Members of Bryan Clubs will
be Expected to Contribute SI.OO.
candidates for State Offices arc
Plenty.

TACOMA, July 2S.-Every Demo.
| crat of Washington will be asked r.
dig to defray the expenses of the
present national campaign in this
state. If he belongs to a Bryan club
the club will be assessed by the state
central committee 81, and if he is
not affiliated with club he will be
asked in person to give a silver dol
lar to the fund. Such is the course
or action for raising funds for the
campaign adopted by the Democratic
state central committee, which met
mere yesterday. The meeting was
both for the purpose of raising funds
and bringing out state ticket.
Chairman George p. Wright. of the
committee, presided at the sessions.
In a speech made at the opening ses-
sion Wright predicted Bryan's cleo
ton and prophesised Washington
would join the procession of states.
giving their ELECTORAL vote.
The meeting was enthusiastic. and
smacked distinctly of the campaign
emotionalism of 1896. Among the
many other speakers that worked IN
the assembled Democrats to enthusi-
asm were w. H. Kneeland, of Thurs
ton; John Pattison, of Colfax: H. d.
Merritt, of Spokane; j. d. Medill, of
( l..
of Kalama; A. r. Titlow, of Tacoma.
DR.. y. X. Mead, of Port Angeles.
was named to take the place of E. A.
Fitzhenry, clerk of Clallam county.
who was elected Democratic elector
at the Spokane convention, but dis
qualified through holding office. w.
}. Byham, contractor of Vancouver,
was also named elector to fill the
vacancy made by the resignation of
Thomas M. Vance, of Olympia, who
was made elector at Spokane.
Instead of being paucity of can
didates for state offices, as has been
supposed by Democrats, the meeting
developed numbers, and there will be
plenty of Democrats in the field for
every state office. Among the candi-
dates for governor will be William
| Blackman, of Spokane; John Patter-
son. of ColfaX Jack Splawn of North
Yakima; Patrick Byrne, of Spokane,
and probably w. II. Kneeland, of
Olympia. Harry II. Collier, of Ia
coma, will be one of those who will
file for lieutenant governor. The De-
mocratic nomination for United
States senator is sought by Judge M.
M. Goldman, of Seattle; George +.
COtterill, of Seattle, and George Tur-
ner, of Spokane, leading Democrats
say, will be induced to come into the
race. II. d. Merritt and Wheat
Chart Jones, both of Spokane are
being urged to file for attorney gen.
eral. Otis Johnson, of Tacoma, will
be a candidate for secretary of state.
For land commissioner Albert +.
Schooley, OF Lewis county, will be a
candidate. For congressman of the
First district, James E. Bell, a veal
thy lumberman of Everett, will be a
candidate. In the Second district,
Maurice Langhorne, and A. H. Gar
retSOn, both of Tacoma, are in the
race. In the Third, William Good
year of Colfax, and w. w. Pullman,
of Spokane, and probably II. j. Snive-
ly, of North Yakima, will file.
Chairman Wright was given power
to appoint a committee of four De-
mocrats to assist him in organizing
all committees in the state where
Bryan clubs have not already been
formed State committeeman We're
present from twenty counties of
Washington, but there were. in adj
dition, nearly 200 Democrats from
different parts of the state here.