Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-04-21
Democrats Of Chehalis County
Celebrate jefferson Day
in Aberdeen
GEO. COTTERILL SPEAKS
Tells of Democratic Achieve
ment. Resolution on North
Jetty Adopted

Inc second annual meeting OF Ine
Democratic Party of Chehalis Coun-
ty," followed by a Jefferson Day din
ner. was held Saturday night at Hotel
Washington. About fifty prominent
democrats from nearly all parts of
the county, including several ladies'
were present, and a real old time
democratic love feast was had.
After the excellent dinner had been
fully discussed, the organization held
a business meeting with President J.
]. Carney in the chair. After discuss.
ing the condition of the party in the
county and suggesting plans for a
more thorough organization in each
precinct, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Wat
son Vernon, Aberdeen, president;
John D. Ehrhart, Hoquiam, secretary;
and Geo. H. Shaw, Hoquiam, treas.
urer The following were named as
the executive committee: Jno. J.
Carney, Aberdeen: Dr. S. L. Moak, c.
N. Wilson and L. b. Bignold. Monte
sano; M. M. Wakefield, Elma; Jas. E.
Lyons, Cosmopolis.
Geo. r. cotteriIl Speaks
Hon. George F. Cotterill, of Seat
tie who was the guest of the evening,
delivered an eloquent address, in the
course of which he referred to the
democratic teachings OF Thomas JEFF
ferson, and compared them with the
utterances of President Woodrow Will
son. Pointing to the achievements
Of the democratic administration and
congress in the past year, Mr.. Cot.
terill said democrats have every
cause to feel gratifed. Party pledges
for tariff revision downward and a
currency reform that forever placed
manufactured and hysterical panics
on the shelf had been faithfully car
ried out, and more constructive leg
islation in the interest Of the gener-
al public had been written into the
federal statutes in one year than in
fifty previous years.
Referring to the Progressive party,
composed OF those who were driven
from the republican party by their
repeated betrayals by the standpat
leaders, the speaker said there was
no room in this country for two pro-
gressive parties; that the democratic
party had fully demonstrated that its
leaders as well as rink and file had
given such evidence of progressive.
ness as to justify the alliance OF ali
prefer principles to party labels and
leaders.
Mr.. Cotterill was listened to with
marked attention and was frequent
ly interrupted by applause, especially
when he paid a tribute to William
Jennings Bryan.
Short addresses were made by Wat
son Vernon, the new president Of the
Hon. Eldridge Wheeler,
of Montesano. DR.. J. A. McNiven,
Prof. McNeeley of the High School
Faculty, A. P. Wilson, of Oakville, ].
J. Ryan, Of Aberdeen, and Jas. z.
Lyons. of Cosmopolis.
Taken all in all the meeting was
one Of the best held in the county.
although not as large as was ex-
pected. This it was learned was
largely due to it's being held on Sat
urday night, night upon which bust
ness men in the various towns are
unable to leave their business.
J. J. Ryan created considerable
by introducing miniature
Democratic donkey and showing his
physical improvement in the past
year, and by his inimitable recitations
in the Scandinavian dialect, which
brought down the house.
Jetty Resolution
The following resolution concern
ing the appropriation for the North
jetty was unanimously adopted:
whereas 1t appears to The Demo
cratic Party of Chehalis County that
the commission Of an appropriation for
the extension of the jetty on the north
side OF the entrance to Grays Harbor
was evidently due to failure to und-
erstand conditions here and the COM
mercial importance Of Grays Harbor
present and future, Therefore
BE It Resolved. that The Demo
cratic Party OF Chehalis County, in
annual meeting assembled. earnestly
recommends further investigation in
to the requirements Of Grays Harbor
and Its potential Importance; the ser
ious loss to this section of the Pa
cifc Coast, and to the people who
have invested here upon the implied