The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-06-08
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Adopted At Fallon In
dorses Equal Suffrage, Recall
of Judges. and Instructs
for Champ Clark

ended at 2 o'clock tonight after one OF
the most fights IN recent po-
iitical history with two results accom-
plished, but with the principal business
Of the convention still to be disposed Of.
The Updike. Boyd ontest for q seat
as delegate from Washoe resulted in the
seating of Updike by an overwhelming
vote. The same vote demonstrated that
the Dickerson faction was victor in the
race for supremacy.
Second Days Proceedings
Fallon. June 4.-The following dele
| gates to the National Convention at
Baltimore were named late this after.
| noon:
p S. Carney. Key Pittman, Bob Doug
las, Sam Bedford. Phil Triplett and Col
Proskey. There was a contest over
Proskey. Proskey was placed in nomi-
nation by O. E. Mack Of Wsshoe. M.
B. Moore, representing 20 members OF
the Washoe County delegation. presented
the name of Ted Steinmetz. At eau
cuses previously held. the County dele
cations had endorsed Proskey. Other
~caucuses were held and it was decided
to stand by Proskey. On roll call the
vote stood Proskey 142; Steinmetz SO.
The a~lternates are l.. H. Kuntz. w.
j. Bell. Hugh Mcintosh. John McGrath
and Charles Stout.
w. J. Bell will be named as National
| committeeman and the convention will
adjourn this afternoon.
Former Coz. Dickerson Comes Back"
Fallon, June 4.-When Dickerson's
| steam roller was returned to lts stall last
| night it left in its wake the aattened
| figures of the so-called Boyd faction Of
the Democratic party of Nevada. con-
sisting of IL members Of the Washoe
County delegation. When its work for
the evening had beer finished James T.
Boyd, who was issued his credentials as
a delegate to the State Convention by
the County Central Committee of
washoe County. had been displaced and
Lee Updike was declared the winner in
the contest which started on the day
after the ballots cast at the primary in
Reno were counted.
Dickerson's machine had been well
fabricated and with the Updike- Boyd
controversy as the medium the former
acting and Lieutenant Governor dis.
played his ability to ''come back" after
his signal and crushing defeat two
years ago, to which defeat the Boyd
faction contributed no small iota.
l.. B. Fowler, a Reno lawyer who ap'
peared at the convention on a proxy
from White Pine County. represented
Updike before the committee and
charged that the ballots were tampersd
with after the official count had beer
recorded. He claimed that there wal
nothing to show that there had beer
anything crooked in the original count
His remarks were quite lengthy and
when he had finished a majority report
u~nseating Boyd was presented. There
was but one dissenting vote to the ma
jority report. Robert Richards pre-
sented a minority report ~favoring Boyd
Judge f. p. Langan. chairman of the
committee ON permanent organization
then reported and the report was &C
cepted. Dickerson Immediately placed
in nomination for permanent chairman
John Kuntz of Goldfeld and he wal
elected by reclamation.
A. B. Gray of Elko County was made
permanent secretary by reclamation
after which Fl. R. Cook, chairman Of
the committee on platforms and resolu
tions, submitted a report,
Platform and Resolutions
There was but zone resolution pre-
sented and it was adopted. IL deplored
the serious illness OF Senator George s
Nixon.
The platform after the sterotyp ped al
lusions to the sincere belief of the con
v~ention in the principles of Jeffer'
~sonian Democracy proceeds to declare
against the NEW nationalism" Of Theo
dore Roosevelt. 1t takes a swipe a
"the reactionary administration Of
President Taft"
The indictment of President Taft
by Theodore Roosevelt is ~concnrred in
and the latter is proclaimed the "mos
o.a,taoular camuat0nar hut tho moor
est performer in history"
The records of the State Senators and
Assemblymen Of he last Legislature
"who were true to their trust" is com
mended.
The efforts OF the majority in the
House of Representatives to lower the
tariff is endorsed and President Taft
is severely criticised for vetoing Demo