The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-08
Democratic State Convention.

o'clock in the afternoon and remained in session until
midnight of the 9th of August. The convention nom
mated the following ticket
Presidential electors-Henry Heitfeld, Nez PIERCE;
Harry L. Day. Shoshone, and II. W. Lockhart
Bannock
Governor-W c. Whitwell, Lemhi county.
Lieutenant governor-Wiam Hunter Latah
county
Secretary of statc-Jesse ]. Walling, Canyon
county
State auditor-Frank J. Mcbride, Bonner county
State treasurer-William W. Brown, Idaho county
ATTORNEY genera-Edwin McBee, Kootena1 county
State superintendent of public Observation-Disclosures
Edna Gillespie, Bingham county
Inspector of mnes-John PRESLEY, Shoshone
county
Justice of supreme court-John NJ Flynn Koot-
ena county. -
United States senator-Wilam w. Woods, Sho
shone county.
The platform adopted ratihes the nomination of
Bryan and the Denver platform, favors the primary
law in force in Oregon, including statement No l.
endorses municipal ownership, local option, the IN
itiative and referendum and the recall grain and
warehouse law, employers liability law and the
election of United States by direct vote. 1t
urges the arbitration of labor disputes, demands
states antipass law and separate election of judges
and school superintendent On the paramount issue
the platform says:
We demand the determination Of poygamy and I'M
lawful cohabation within the of Idaho and the
complete separation of church and state III political
affairs. We pledge the people OF Idaho that IN the
event of democratic at the polls III Novem-
Der we will make effective by legislative enactment
the wise and patriotic declaration in state con-
stitution contained in section 3, art. 6.
On the eve of the departure of the delegates from
their homes for the of the democratic con-
vention at Wallace, the state nominating conven-
ton, it was given out by the newspaper organs of
IS
Mormon faction would organize itself into
vention of its own. This information dispensed
through interviews personal statements and the con-
lectures of the representatives of the press.
The first news that came from Wallace in relation
to the assembling convention confirmed the forecast
accompanying the departure of the delegates from
their homes. Immediately after their arrival, the
Mormon sustaining delegates hired hall and gave
their sanction to the public statement that they
would occupy the hall and hold boiling convention
and nominate ticket of their own
They appointed legal committee and announced
with considerable flourish of trumpets that they
were prepared to appeal to the courts in behalf of
the rump ticket they intended to nominate.
All this was done in defiance of the regular
vention called by the state central committee which
had provided a hall for the convention and named
the hour of O'Clock D. m of the 4th inst for the
opening of the convention.
The preparations of the Mormon faction for their
separate convention were made the Sd inst be-
fore any formal action had been taken to open the
way for the regular convention. The state central
committee had not yet met Nothing had been done
towards making up the roll of the convention. The
official representatives of the democratic party had
given no intimaton of their intentions and there
nothing beyond upon which to base the
volutionary preparations of the Mormon faction