The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-05-14
FRACTIONAL DIVISION AND BITTER FEELING
IN DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE
HAWLEY ELEMENT REPRE- sENTEO l. DAY. r. l..
PERKY AND FRANK MARTIN WAS
THE NUGENT
Nugent Names Pence.


of Joseph II. Pence before the com
mittee. He denied that the democrati
party of the state was divided int
factions; said 1t was idle newspape
talk, and pledged Pence to work TO
the whole democratic ticket He sal
Governor Hawley had pledged him hi
loyal support for the United State
senate If he were successful at tn
primaries, and that he had made
similar pledge to Governor Hawley
He thought the chairman should be
Boise man. as there is much organ1
cation work to do and that a Bots,
man could do this work with less la.
Dor and expense than man in a re.
mote part Of the state.
The nomination of Pence was SEQ
onded by Walters of Canyon county.
Day Pleads for Harmony.
Harry L. Day of Shoshone county
made a strong talk for harmony. He
considered it poor politics to elect
Pence chairman because he was
SO closely identified with the Nugent
faction. He thought also that the
craftsmanship should be taken away
from Boise for the reason that Boise
was the hotbed of factionalism. He
thought it was all nonsense to say that
the democrats are to have a walkaway
in Idaho this year. He said that Will
son won in the nation because the re-
publicans were divided; but now in
Idaho the bull moose are getting back
into the republican ranks and the re-
publican party will present a solid
front at the coming election. He
placed Frank Kendall of Twin Falls
in nomination as man free from
fractional entanglements, a loyal dem
ocrat and a man full of pep and gin
ger.
Mr.. Day in the course of his re-
marks presented a letter written by
John S. st. Clair of Silver City to
Regain of Boise, in which he
said Owyhee county democrats Were
so disguised with the fractional fight
in the party in the state that they
to keep away from the
altogether and would have
done so but for the fact that they UNI
derstood that resolution was to be
pledging the party to state
wide prohibition.
John F. Nugent dared Mr.. Day and
Mr.. Regain to make this letter public.
Perky Talks for Moore.
Judge Perky made an earnest talk
in behalf of the election of Frank L.
Moore Of Moscow. He spoke of Moore
rs a big, broad, brainy man against
whom no opposition could be raised.
He spoke earnestly against the cleo
ion Of Pence and said the choice
would be peculiarly obnoxious to him.
Nugent interrupted Judge Perky to
lsk If he did not consider Pence well
Qualified for the place.
by temperament, no, he is not fit"
vas the response HE is regarded as
he right hand of John +. Nugent, and
or that reason it would be unfortun-
tie to elect him.
Martin for Harmony.
Frank Martin made a strong plea for
arty harmony. He thought the COM
nittee should work for the party as a
Whole and not for fraction of the
arty He opposed Pence as strong
Iugent adherent and he opposed Ken
all as a strong Hawley adherent. He
aid there had been too much talk
lready Of the Nugent- Elder Alexan-
err faction and the Hawley- Perky
dubois faction. He wound up by
ominating Walter Griffiths of Cald-
veil for chairman and made a strong
rgument in his favor.
Lippincott of Boise county said that
9th Nugent and Hawley had friends
I his county, but what the demo-
rats were praying for was a program
nat would enable them to get togeth-
r and work for party victory from
~ " DOllOll.
Social Session Asked for.
After more wrangling, in which
ersonalities cropped out occasionally,
rank Martin moved for an hours
social session" to see if all factions
ould not get together. Nugent OPP
osed this and demanded the regular
rder. At this point it was that Mac
eth informed Nugent that he was
ggng the grave Of the Idaho demo-
'acy, and Frank B. Kinyon dubbed
,acbeth the sexton Of the Idaho DEM
,racy.
Judge Perky deprecated all talk of
ave digging. He said there was no
I'll for such talk and he still thought
! factions could get together and
their differences. The re-
ut of the ballot on the motion for a
cess was 16 in favor and IA against,
aking it look a little ticklish for the
ugent forces.
Unite on Griffiths.
After an hours caucusing the COM
lttee came together again. Harry l
Day withdrew the name of Ken I
III and announced that he would be s
ad to support Walter Grifiths. He
ought he was far enough away from {