Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1910-07-29
DEMOCRATS MEET.
Small Gathering of the Faith
full Last Saturday.

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state convention held at Minneapolis
yesterday.
The meeting was small one, and
no enthusiasm was aroused. The soft
pedal was used on the governship and
county option, the two questions
which have been giving Democracy
much anxious thought.
Col A. H. TaiseY, of Donneily, was
appointed temporary chairman, and
made a few remarks about the
growth of the Democratic par
ty, recalling the time when there used
to be only about six delegates and
hardly more than that many Demo-
cratic votes in the county. He be-
lieved that the Minneapolis conven-
ton would name candidate for gov
ernor whom the people would elect on
the record of Gov. Johnson's admin
tration.
Chas. Vaughan was selected as tenn
porary secretary and read the call.
Chairman Taisey appointed the fol-
lowing committees
Credentials-J. J. McCanney, @. l..
Perkins, @. e. Blackburn.
Resolutions-T. H. Mcguire, Walter
Borril, J. B. Ormond.
Permanent Organization-M. F..
Finnegan, VIM. Wagner, J. H. Nc
CURE.
The convention took recess while
the committee were preparing their
reports.
The credential committee reported
the following delegates entitled to
seats:-
Donnelly-A. H. Taisey, g. L. Per-
kins.
Horton-Dennis DeWane.
Hancock-C. G. Blackmun, James
Murphy, Albert Willett.
Synnes-Wm. Porter.
Morris, First Ward-M. F. Finne-
gan, Walter Borrill, J. J. McCanney,
T. Fl. Mcguire.
Morris, Second Ward-John Walz,
VIM. Wagner, o. F. Tewksbury, J. H.
Mcclure, Chas. Vaughan.
Darnen-Mike Mahoney, Patrick
Casey, Maurice Calvin.
The committee On permanent or
ganization reported T. H. Mcguire as
chairman and Chas. Vaughan as Sec
retary.
The report of the committee on
resolutions was read by T. II. Ma
guire, and was adopted, as follows:-
1--WE, the Democrats of Stevens
county, in convention assembled, do
again affirm our allegiance to the
principles of Democracy, founded by
the author of the Declaration of In
dependence, Thomas Jefferson, de-
Tended by Andrew Jackson, and later
employed to and for the use and bene-
fit of the citizenship of this republic
by the great democrat in disguise,
Theodore Roosevelt.
''It is with pain and painful thots
that we touch the painful chord of
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law enacted
in special session of congress in dl-
rect violation of the promise of the
republican party for revision down
ward of the tariff, which has incresa-
ed the cost of living enormously and
is rapidly reducing the ranks of la
Dor to the bread and water diet once
said to be good enough for them by
a republican candidate for the presi-
dency.
1--WE still believe and advocate a
government of the people, for the
people and by the people and extend
our encouragement and sympathy tOI
the progressive republicans who have
joined hands with the democrats in
a noble effort to free the American
people from the oppressive tyranny
of those political jugglers and guar
dams of monopolies and trusts-Jos-
eph G. Cannon and Nelson W. Aid
rich.
I'VE declare our fealty to the prin-
ciples of the conservation of our
natural resources and believe that
they should be restored to and saved
for the people and guarded against
the graft of monopolies. But the
principles of conservation we here
espouse are not the principles of Will
liam Howard Taft or his protege Rich
ard Ballinger, but the principles ad-
vocated and fought for by that great
patriot and statesman, Clifford Pin
chot.
eve feel and fully sense the state
wide and in fact nation wide grief
and sorrow caused by the untimely |
death of our illustrious governor, |
John A. Johnson, and we feel that
the great work he has accomplished i
will live after him and will prove a |