The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-03-09
I'LL PRIMARY IN
STATE MEETING
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~ y Nugent and Assistant United
.atas ATTORNEY j. r. Smead led the
~ Nnrimary forces, while Harry L.
- and Rayenal Macbeth spoke for
~ urinary. The committee on reso-
,t;ons reported at s p. m. a majority
enort. signed by j, II. Smead, l.. Q.
Innes and David l.. Evans, which
flor extolling and endorsing the ad-
,ninistrations of President Wilson and
,,oyernor Alexander, recommended
that each county be allowed six dele
.,ates for every member 1t had III the
house of representatives.
The minority report, signed by
HARRY l.. Day and j. nj. Adams, also
andorsad the president and governor
and recommended that the counties
.a allowed one delegate for every 100
sotes cast for President Wilson 1t
onoted the preferential primary plank
IN the Baltimore platform followed by
provision that the delegates to the
# state convention be elected in pur
AL suance of this true progressive prefer
entail primary"
In moving the adoption of the ma
iority report, J. r. Smead said it
would be impractical on the basis of
81 the vote for president because new
ID counties had been created. precincts
IN had been cut up and no basis could be
arrived at.
III Harry L. Day stuck up for the Bal
"A timore platform which, he said, was
u the last expression of Democracy and
M should stand until it was amended or
repealed.
John f. Nugent opened the bag of
Al tricks when he defended the major
ity report. He said that all was har-
monious In the Democratic ranks at
present The provision in the Balti-
Il more platform was not mandatory, he
IA explained, and he read letter from
a National Chairman McCombs which
he construed to mean that preferen-
III tial primary in Idaho was unnecces-
sary.
If preferential primary were held,
admitted Mr.. Nugent, Jerome j. Day
would defeat r. III. Elder beyond
doubt. There could be no restriction
on the amount of money spent The
lead and timber men in the north
would poll for Elder In the south
81 The Republicans would control the
n Democratic primaries as they did on
other occasions. He alleged that Je-
j rome J. Day in 1912 had supported a
Il resolution against a preferential pri-
Il mary and in support Of the method
proposed in the majority report He
added that Mr.. Day opposed Panama
canal charges on coastwise traffic,
contrary to President Wilson's ex-
pressed views. He quoted a sarcastic
reference to President Wilson in the
Troy News, a Latah county Demo
cratic paper.
Il The minority report was rejected
10 to % and the other adopted.
The state convention will be held at
a Pocatello, May Is, at which the ma
n tional committeeman will be elected.
The vote by counties on the question
follows:
For the preferential primary-Bing-
ham, Boise, Bonneville, Boundary,
Clearwater, Custer, Gilmore, Gem, JEFF
ferson, Latah, Lewis, Madison, Sho-
shone, Twin Falls and Washington.
Total 10
Against the preferential primary
Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake,
Benewah, Blaine, Bonner, Canyon,
Cassia, Franklin, Fremont, Gooding,
Idaho, Kootenai, Lemhi, Lincoln, Min
idoka, Nez Perez, Oneida, Owyhee,
Power and Teton. Total %.
standing features of the Democratic
central committee meeting aftermath
is the criticism of Governor Alexan-
der who has been allied with the pref
erential primary faction, in permitting
one OF his own appointees, State Game
Warden Jones, to vote in the meeting
against the primary proposal The
governor Is charged with double deal
ing, 1t being asserted that he desired
70 be In position to point to his war
den's vote as evidence of his friend
illness for the Nugent- Elder Pence fac
uon, while retaining his hold on the
ay-Hawley faction.
Judging from the bitterness denoted
today, the issue will be threshed out
heatedly on the floor of the Pocatello
convention. Some of the leaders OF
both sides are urging a subsistence OF
feeling and express the belief that har-
mony will prevail at Pocatello
One OF the prime causes for the
intensity of feeling is the treatment ac
corded to A. w. Talkington of Idaho
county. He came to the meeting with
credentials from the county central
committee but he was unseated in
Iavor OF L. A. Wisener. postmaster al
1rangeville, whose proxy was held
ny National Committeeman Elder, who
nad recommended his appointment II
IS claimed there was no evidence pro
uuced showing that Wisener has beer
selected by the Idaho county commit
zee 1t Is also pointed out that hi,
position was presumed to bar hin
from active politics.
One other postmaster was represent
ea Dy proxy, held by the Nugent- Pence
Elder faction and tuo noStpoo Star,
were present in person and voted will
that faction.
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