The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-06-15
OLD STANDPAT BOYS HAVE REUNION!
Heard the Republican County Convention

MI 1NAiffhAnt
The voice was aquoaky and pen
Grating
Mr. Chairman" II repeated.
and gentlemen ~ tho convention.
Beg pardon. ladies' and gentlemen
of the convention"
There We're seven women dele.
gates
The speaker cleared HIS throat.
and the long. silver locks on the
I'd mans head fluttered about In
confusion as he swung himself
around 20 scan his audience.
Not Like Old Days
His eyes took In the gallery Mt
the Armnry. hut there were only
90 or 30 visitors
II was not like In days OF yore
when the county conventions
would draw so many visitors that
tickets OF admission had to be re.
served
Ills eyes dropped 20 the eonvcn-
lion floor.
All Here It seemed like old
times.
There was the sign designating
the section occupied by delegates
from the 30th senatorial district.
over yondef WAS the 3Tth.
on his left sat the delegation
from the 3sth
Sight Looked Good
q, looked r cd 10 the old man. no
matter II the galleries WERE
muty and II the oaucusoa WERE
attended only by Reaniy COO
in the entire county.
Il looked good 60 him. even
though the chairman OF the credcn.
tiais committee reported that over
n precincts IN the county we're
not represented AZ all.
IL was county convention--and
n republican county convention.
That was what made tho old man
feel good. II was 30 much like old
times.
First One IN six Years
There hadn't been republican
county convention 10 King county
for ak years
In 1910 and IN 1919. the delegates
TO state conventions were hand
picked" By the county bosses
Tho direct primary law had
knocked the convention idea, any
how.
Conventions had nothing 70 do
any more except elect delegates
and mako platforms
They cant nominate candidates
for office. And there's wherc most
of the excitement In conventions
used 90 be.
A Regular Reunion
"Ah' Gone are the good old
times"
You could hear the convrut,er
delegates saying Il Co each other
Tho county convention used 20 b.
their stamping ground
Some Of the delegates never saw
each other except Et convention.
And the Saturday convention
brought many old.timera together
for the first time IN many moouH
i have been n republican all my
lifo." the old man. J. u. Metealfe.
from tho 5znd district. said with
deliberate. measured syllables. "And
I always will remain n republican
Applause. led by John Wooding
OF Auburn. LATE Hamilton OF
Georgetown and Dcs Moinen. Al
Rutherford OF Fail City. Albert
Hesa. George Rummens. Howard
cosgruve and speaker Howard TAs.
Tor
Il voted for Abraham Lincoln"
tho speaker said. slowly.
He swung himself around 10 sec
the effect OF that romArk.
His audience took the cue and
applauded.
Il voted for every republican
president after Lincoln" he con.
tinued. Il have attended republic
an conventions since was boy.
And know something about them"
a Hot Subject
Tho question under discussion
was the hotties, OF the day--nRrne.
~. whether the convention should
elect 81 delegates TO the state con.
vention with one vote each. or
whether It should select twice tha,
number. with one.half vote each.
II was the only question which
received any discussion on tho floor.
Everything else went through
without any debate.
"And tell you, feliow-repub-
lleans," the old man went on.
'thst republicans In the past
have allowed delegates 20 be
seated With only a haIf.vote
each, and republicans will con-
tlnuc 70 do so In the future"
Tho old man appeared 70 DO in.
dignant that any one should qucs.
ton that
Maybe he really was indignant.
or maybe he was only pretending
there was a real convention battle