The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-04
DAY ENDORSED
BY DEMOCRATS
COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE
SUPPORTS HIM FOR NATIONAL
COMMITTEEMAN
Eighteen Delegates Named to Attend
State Convention at POcatellO
May 18th

The democratic county central com
mittee of Latah county at its meetin.
yesterday afternoon adopted resolu
tions lauding the administration o
President Wilson and Governor Alex
ander, and condemning the action o
the state committee in refusing to pro
vide for statewide primaries in. tht
selection of delegates to the state con
vention and permitting the voters
preferential choice for national com
mitteeman The committee endorsed
Jerome ]. Day of Moscow for nation
al committeeman. Eighteen delegates
were named to attend the convention
The meeting is said to have been
the most representative in attendance
in the history of the county committee
"a of the % precincts responding. II
appears that there was a lively con-
test over the form of resolutions.
The "a of the % precincts of the
county represented at the meeting
were as follows: Bear Creek, W. R.
NTcGraw; Cora, D. p Kidwell; Corn
wall, L. L. Spray; East Moscow, Joe
Kimberling; Four Mile, George Chan
ey; Gold Creek, U. Leinhard; Gold
Hill, J. P Alexander, Harvard, J. e.
Johnson; Helmer, NJ McGray; Juliaet-
ta, N. NJ Talbot; Kendrick, H. P.
Hull; Little Potlatch, M. Mutually;
Mountain Meadow, William Smith;
North Moscow, B. c. Dowdy; North
Troy, F. NJ Green; Palouse, William
Thompson; Potlatch, Walter Fiscus;
Southeast Moscow, J. j. Keane; South
Troy, R. S. Mushlitz Southwest Mos
COW, r. w. Morris; Thorn Creek, G.
Ebel; West Genesee, John Lorang;
West Moscow, J. w. Reilly White
Pine, L. G. Verden.
The following is the report Of the
resolutions committee:
Moscow, Idaho, April 8, 1916. We,
the members of the Democratic Cen
tral Committee of Latah County, Ida
no, legally chosen as the official rep
resentatives of the Democratic party
in this county, at the primary cleo
ton in 1914, now assembled in conven-
ton regularly called under and by
authority of the Democratic State Cen
trail Committee, do hereby
Resolve, That we congratulate the
people of the United States on the
foresight and wisdom they exercised
in 1914 by rejecting the candidacy OF
two former presidents for reelection,
thereby setting the seal of their dis
approval on the incompetency OF the
previous two Republican administra-
ions and electing that sedate, wise,
patriotic and fearless scholar and !
Woodrow Wilson, who by
lis calmness, patience, and stead
astness adherance to a definite, fixed |
policy during time frought with both |
Internal and external national danger,
las succeeded in keeping the nation
,ut of the cataclysm of a worldwide
var, and has preserved peace within
md national honor and dignity with
ut the borders of the country; who,
" his wise suggestions to congress
as, with the aid of it's Democratic
lembers given to the country the
reatest piece of financial legislation
yer achieved, insuring us for all time
gainst the panics and financial strin-
encies heretofore inflicted on the
ublic by unwise, Republican legisla- |
on; who has kept faith with the peo-
lie in their demands for a downward
svision of the tariff, for child labor s
,gislation, for an income tax law re-
uiring the wealth of the country to
ear it's just proportion of the burdens
taxation and for the encouragement
I, a merchant marine; whose inter-
It in the great agricultural industry
the country has resulted in the en-
.tment of the agricultural extension
IL to increase the efficiency of the
rms and secure to the farmers, many
,nefits they never enjoyed before,
ho has encouraged the appropria-
ons of millions of dollars for the
instruction of permanent highways :
ID directed much other legislation .
which is directly due our present
a of unparalleled prosperity. :
That we congratulate the .
ople of the state of Idaho for their .
sdom in turning from the muddle ]
AIDED financial policy fastened upon !
em by incompetent Republican lead !
) and electing for chief executive of (