The daily sentinel., 1908-06-06

ty in Palisade, a rock-ribbed repub-
lican district, in years. Mr.. Kluge
declared that reports from every pre-
cinct in the county told of enthusi-
asm among the democrats and much
interest in the meetings.
1T is the prime purpose of this
convention" said Mr. Kluge, ''to
elect good and true democrats, rep
resentative democrats. to go to Glen
wood and vote at the state conven-
tion for representative delegates to
the national convention, delegates
who will vote for William Jennings
Bryan for the democratic presiden-
tial nomination-Will Jennings
Bryan, the next president of the
United States.
On motion of DR.. S. p. Green, a
committee of five was appointed on
resolutions. DR.. S. p. Green of
Fruita, James w. Bucklin of Grand
Junction, Mrs. Whitney of Palisade,
Mr.. Moore of DeBeque and d. T.
Stone of Grand Junction were ap-
pointed on this committee.
The committee retired and formu-
lated a short but pointed and con-
vincing set of resolutions, which were
presented and adopted amid great
applause and much enthusiasm.
The resolutions were as follows:
''itecognizing i'm William j. Bryan
one of Americas greatest statesmen.
the ablest democratic leader and the
most fearless champion of the equal
and inalienablc right of man, we, the
democratic party of Mesa county in
convention assembled, hereby in
struct our delegation to the demo-
sx, OF.
and support delegates to the national
democratic convention whose first
and only choice for democratic can
didate as president of the United
States is and will be William J. Bry-
an, the great commOncr of America.
as. T.. GREEN,
"Chairman Committee on ResoIu-
tions."
Attorney Samuel n. Wheeler was
called on for an address, but Mr..
Wheeler was not in the convention
hall at the time. There were calls
for |. n. Bunting, but Mr.. Bunting
asked to be excused from making a
speech at this time, but declared that
he would be heard from frequently
during the campaign.
The secretary then read a set of
resolutions ehat had been passed by
the Palisade precinct primary, reso-
lutions declaring that the Palisade
delegates would only vote for dele
gates to the state convention who
would only vote for delegates to the
national convention that would stand
"first, last and all the time for Will
liam j. Bryan for president
The resolutions were heartily
cheered and met with general ap-
proval.
Mr.. Thompson of Palisade, who
presented the resolutions, was called
on for speech, and he made most
enthusiastic democratic talk.
Unlike the republicans in their
county convention. the democrats did
not pass a set of resolutions as long
as the moral law, claiming every
thing good for the democratic party
and damning the republican party as
a party of ruin and trouble-making-
a policy followed by the republicans
in their resolutions.
After the adoption of the resolu-
tions, the matter or electlng the II
delegates to the state convention was
then taken up and caused much dis
cussion and spirited action.
A motion that the II nominees for
delegates getting the highest num-
Del Oh votes SnOulu De declared elect-
ed, was defeated.
Then motion that no precinct
could have more than two delegates,
which motion was made by A. T..
Wharton, was passed by small ma
jority. 1t was then seen that such
a procedure as was provided by this
motion would cause great confusion
in cases where more than two were
elected from each precinct in the
balloting. A motion, made by Judge
Byers, to lay this motion ION the ta-
BILE until next fall" was passed by
safe majority.
On both of these motions a stand
ing vote was necessary to determine
which side of each motion had won.
A. r. Wharton tried to declare
that delegates could not be elected
owing to the laying on the table of
this motion, but he was declared out
of order and his point of order not
well taken.
The question was then brought up
whether or not the delegation from
each district should cast the vote of
that delegations absent members and
this caused much discussion. A mo-
ton was made that such a proc dure
should be followed.
Objection was made on the g"nunc
that If such a procedure was fol-
lowed, the report of the committed
on credentials would be abrogated