The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-01
Ada County Delegates Appointed.

democratic central COm1nttee unQer authority CoHl-
monty recognized by party usage and sustained by
supreme court decisions rendered in Idaho has ap-
pointed full set of delegates to the democratic
state convention to be held at Wallace Idaho the
4th inst
These delegates are designed to take the places of
the delegates named by county convention, the same
convention that named delegates to the state con-
venton at Twin Falls, already held, and they will
contest the right Of the delegation named by the
county convention to sit in the Wallace convention,
or any Of them
The appointments made by the chairman of the
county committee are based upon propositions re-
cited in the petition of democrats to the chairman,
given below, the petitioners believing themselves
fully justified in demanding delegation for
the reasons stated
The convention that named the delegates to the
Wallace convention objected to in the petition I'M
dertook to depose the regularly elected chairman
of the county democratic committee, DR.. WOODBURY..
It's attempted action is not recognized by the party
for the reason that county committees and the chair
man thereof are named at the biennial nominating
conventions and not at prior subsequent conven-
tions held for the purpose of naming delegates to
other conventions
The Ada county convention that undertook to de-
pose the chairman also undertook the same irregu-
larity in connection with the entire authorized COM
mttee and the Ada county member of the state cen
trail committee the democratic party. All of which
was irregular and unlawful and is not recognized
by the democrats of Ada county.
The petition asking Chairman WOODBURY. to APP
point a new delegation to the state convention at
Wallace runs as follows
Boise, Idaho, July 81, 19OS-To J. NJ. Woodburn,
NJ D. chairman of Ada county democratic commit
tee Sir: We the undersigned democrats of Ada
county, Idaho respectfully represent and show the
following:
That at a regularly called convention of the demo-
cratic party of Ada county held in Boise the
23rd day of May 1908, delegation of 81 persons
were elected delegates the state convention of the
party to be held at Wallace and Twin Falls in said
state.
That said convention which nominated said dele
gates aforesaid refused to pass resolution pledging
themselves to support the platform and the nominees
of the Wallace convention. That the delegates SO
elected attended the Twin Falls convention and re-
fused to recognize the regularly constituted author
tiles of the party, to-wit: The state central COM
mittee They refused to recognize the chairman of
said Twin Falls convention who had been regularly
elected by the delegates thereto and 1nstgated
riot the floor of said convention and bolted the
same and thereafter elected pretended set of dele
gates to the national convention at Denver.
Said pretended delegation elected were refused
recognition at the Denver convention, and the duly
authorized authorities of the democratic party in
Idaho upheld in every manner and the right OF
the state central committee of said party to decide
contests fully approved. That said delegation
refused recognition aforesaid at the Denver con-
vention is causing the regularly elected delegates
from Bingham county to be again contested, as to
their right to sit in the state convention has been
passed upon and affirmed by the party in the regular
convention both in the county, the state and the
ton
Now, therefore, in consideration of the foregoing,
we the undersigned democrats of Ada county, to the
end that the party in Ada county may be represented
in the Wallace convention, hereby petition and re-
quest you, as officer and chairman of the Ada
county central committee to appoint full delega-
ton the Wallace convention to be held in the city