The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-07-28
STATE ASSEMBLY
RECOMMENDS
BOWERMAN HEADS THE TICKET
Rev. J. G. Tate Named for Representa-
tive No Recommendation for
Judge in this District.

All but one or two of the Is dele
gates elected to represent Hood River
county in the Republican State AS
sembly were present in Portland last
week and attended the meetings which
were held on Thursday and Friday.
They assisted in nominating the state
ticket recommended by the assembly,
named the Rev. j. G. Tate as Hood
Rivers choice for joint representative
and helped make the platform of the
assembly. The platform which was
drawn by a committee on which A. A.
Jayne was the Hood River representa-
tive indorsed the direct primary and
expressed the belief that the assembly
was not violation of the real spirit
of the law. The creation of the
office of Lieutenant Governor was
favored as well as the abolishment of
all useless and unnecessary Offices,
boards, commissions and clerkships.
The platform opposed the pending bill
providing for the election of the dele
gates to the national conventions of
the Republican and Democratic parties
at the expense of the people. 1t
favored an appropriation from Con-
gress placing the Indian War veterans
of the Pacific Northwest on the same
footing with the veterans of the Civil
War in the matter of pensions. The
platform favored "only such conserva-
tion to the public resources as will be
develope and settle the country" The
last paragraph to the platform in
dorsed the administration of President
Taft and pointed with pride to the
history of the Republican party"
The men recommended by the assem-
bly, were: Governmuor, Jay Bower
man, of Condor, president of the state
senate and now acting Governor
Secretary cof State, Frank w. Benson,
present incumbent; State Treasurer,
Ralph w. Hoyt, of Portland; State
Prirter, William j. Clarke, editor of
the Gervais Star; Superintendent
of Public Instruction, Prof. l.. r.
Alderman, of the University of Ore
gon Attorney General, J. N. Hart, of
Baker City; Supreme Justices, F.
A. Moore and George H. Burnett, for
six-year terms; Thomas A. Mcbride
and Wallace McCamant, four-year
terms Railroad Commissioner, Frank
j. Miller, of Albany; State Engineer,
Johh H. Lewis, present incumbent;
State Labor. Commissioner, o. P. Hof,
present incumbent; Congressman for
the Second district, W. r. Ellis, of
Pendleton, present incumbent; Water
Commissioner, second district, George
Cochran; Joint Representatives for
Hood River and Wasco counties, Rev.
j. G. Tate, of Hood River, and
Alexander Stewart, of Mosier.
Bowerman, the gubernatorial nom
inee, seemed to have control of the
assembly from the start and was
named on the first ballot. He received
GAS votes which gave him a majority
of 81. DR.. James Withcyombe, of
the Oregon Agricultural College got
210 votes and DIR. Andrew c. Smith,
of Portland, received l64 votes. The
most of the Hood River delegation
were in favor of the Portland physi
clan. He was given II votes and
Bowerman and Wthcyombe were
given two each. A. A. Jayne was one
of the seconds to the nomination of
DR.. Smith and said that the Hood
River delegation came unpledged to
the assembly and after looking over
the field had come to the conclusion
that the best man to support for
Governor was DR.. Smith.
Congressman Ellis was named as the
choice for return to Washington by
acclamation, after the name of j. s.
Dellinger, editor of the Astoria Astor-
ian had been presented and withdrawn.
The delegates made no recommenda-
tion for Circuit Judge in the Seventh
district, it being practically conceded
that Judge W. l.. Bradshaw, of The
Dalles, the Democratic incumbent,
will be elected without opposition.
The Oregonian said, Judge Bradshaw
has occupied the bench in that section
l8 years and no Republican was to be
found who desired to undertake the
task of defeating him"
In the joint representative assembly
of the delegates of Hood River and
Wasco counties it was agreed that
each county should have candidate
and the choice of the Hood River dele
cation was Rev. J. G. Tate. He is
welI-knOwn in Hood River and is an
excellent speaker. Rev. Tate is man
of strong personality and of decided
views with record of having always
been steadfast Republican. The
selection of the Wasco delegation was
Alex Stewart, the well-known mer-
chant, of Mosier.
County Chairman Chris Dethman
was the Hood River member of the
credentials committee. In talking to
the Oregonian before the assembly,
Charles I. Early, of the local deega-
tion said:
Gan the delegates will be down from
Hood River and all come free and un-
biased. We want the best assembly
to win. "