The newspaper., 1908-05-08

Monday. the 23d of March, will go on
record as the day when the Demo
cratic State Central Committee of
Colorado took under consideration a
question supposed to have been
passed upon and settled in 1906 by the
state convention. 1t had long been evi-
dent that this meeting would be the
lJrgest in point of attendance of any in
recent years, and 1t was. From the
promptness with which the Denver
Denver controversy was taken up for
first consideration, there was an evil
dent desire to get at the big job first
and play afterward.
That the issue attracting such gen.
eral interest may be correctly under
stood, We give here the resolution
adopted by the Democratic state con-
vention in September. 1906, as follows:
THE CONVENTION RESOLUTION.
"se it resolved by the Democratic
central committee Of the city and
county Of Denver, Of which Fred w.
Bailey is chairman and II. D. Allen
Is secretary, is the duly organized and
regular Democratic central committee
Of the city and county Of Denver"
That was the party law so far as the
records showed and the former city
and county committee of the city
and county OF Denver OF which Mr.. Da-
voren has been chairman, has been
seeking 4 recognition by the state COM
mittee which would give them right
TO the use of the name Democratic"
for city election purposes. The Bailey
committee held the ground and was
firmly opposed to the denomination OF
present Mayor Speer as a Democrat
In order To get the use of the name, 1t
was necessary to get either the state
committee or the courts to give 1t over
TO the Davoren committee and cam
paign was accordingly conducted to
that end.
The Davoren people contended that
there was two distinct AMI separate
committees, one for the city purposes
and another (he Bailey committee) for
county and state purposes. and accord
fngly presented the following resolu-
ton:
THE oAvoREN RESOLUTION.
"Whereas, The last Democratic state
convention recognized the Bailey COM
mittee as the Democratic county COM
mittee of the city and county Of Den
yer; and,
"Whereas, The Davoren committee
is the duly organized city committee
of the city and county of Denver; there
fore, be II
"Resoived. BY the Democratic state
committee, that the Oavoren orsaniza-
tion is the regular Democratic city COM
nittee of the city and county Of Den-
YER; is entitled to the use Of the party
name in all city matters and authorized
to file a city ticket in Denver for the
MAY election under the name Dem
ocratic.' Be it further
Resolved, That we order the men,
bers of the Bailey county organization
to take part in and abide by the city
primaries to be held by the Davoren
committee under the rules Of our party;
and we further order the Dsvoren or
uapization to take part in and abide by
the primaries to be held by the Bailey
committee under our party rules for all
county matters in order that the DEM
oc-atic party Of Denver and the state
may rrese-t United front to the COM
mon enemy"
The above resolution was understood
to represent the interests of Mayor
Speer and was most vigorously sup
ported by Hon. Chas. J. Hughes. ap-
pearin., as attorney for the DavOren
committee.
Supporting the original resolution Of
the state convention. appeared Senator
Patterson and Governor Adams. These
gentlemen stoutly contended that there
was and could be no such thing pos