Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-05-04
WOOD MEN ARE
VICTORIOUS
BORAH FAILS In EFFORT TO CON.
TR0L STATE CONVENTION AT
COEUR D ALENE CITY
CLAIM FOUR DELEGATES EACH
Looks Like at Least Six Delegates
from Idaho Are for Wood

The republican state convention
held at Coeur d'Alene on Wednesday
elected the following as delegates to
the national convention to be held
at Chicago in June:
At large-North Idaho: John P.
Gray of Coeur d'Alene, Stanley A.
Easton, Kellogg. South Idaho: Sena-
tor William f. Borah, John Thomas,
state chairman.
Alternates at large-Major H. H.
Armstead, Bonner county; DR. 0. d.
Pratt, Benewah county; F. H. Adams,
Mlnidoka county; Mrs. McDougall of
Ada county.
By congressional districts-First
district delegates: Harold Jenness of
Mamma; Henry NJ. Jones, Clearwater
county. Second congressional dis
trict: w. P. Guthrie, Twin Falls; M.
B. Yeaman, Idaho Falls.
! Alternates in congressional dis
tricts: First, j. w. Shook of Lemhi
county; Fred Crane, Kootenai coun-
/ ty Second district: T. N. Edwards,
Bannock county; E. M. Kennedy, of
Bingham county.
Six members of the Idaho delega-
ton are claimed for Wood, one is for
Lowden and Senator Borah will un-
doubtedly support johnson.
o. c. Wilson attended the conven-
tion as a delegate from Boundary
county. He states that the attempt
to control the convention in the inter
ess of the candidacy of Johnson was
a failure.
Senator Borah and his friends
made a determined effort to elect
delegates favorable to johnson. Borah
sent a communication to his friends
at Coeur d'Alene, it is said, stating
that If the convention elected Wood
delegates or men not in sympathy
with him he did not care for a place
on the delegation. Later Senator
Borah decided that he would be will
ing to go to Chicago as long as the
delegation was not to be instructed
The convention adopted resolutions
endoSsing Senator Borah's fight
against the league of nations "as
presented by President Wilson" but
did not as he requested, endorse his
fight against the league with or
without reservations"
Johnson forces in Idaho are claim
ing four of the Idaho delegates al
though they concede four to Wood
and it is known that one delegate,
Yeaman, is a Lowden man.
The work of the convention was
well mapped out at an early hour on
Wednesday morning when party lead
ers agreed upon a program which
was put through Wednesday with lit
tie discussion.
The first fight was over the tenn
porary chairman the strategic point
because of the power of committee
appointments. Will H. Gibson of
Mountain Home had been tentatively
agreed upon when the delegates from
the south had reached Nampa on the
way north in their special train.
When the Ada county delegates
reached Nampa from Boise Borah's IS
friends had Matched a scheme by
which Ed Frawley, a Boise attorney,
was brought forth for temporary
chairman. When the delegates ar
rived at Coeur d'Alene Wednesday
afternoon it looked as if Frawley had
been determined upon for chairman
and Mr.. Gibson shelved. Through
the activities of the Wood men and
an exhibition of their power in the
convention the Borahites were forced
to abandon their position and at 4
o'clock Wednesday morning the
agreement had been reached with
State Chairman Thomas that the for
mer secretary of state would be the
temporary chairman.
The convention was called to order
at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning
with Mr. Gibson in the chair. The
committees were announced by the
chair and adjournment taken to / &c
o'clock at which hour the delegates
assembled and put through the pro
gram as outlined by the party lead
ers in their caucuses.
The new element in American poll
tics, the ex-service men, entered upon
the arena of Idaho politics and "cop-
ped off" two delegates to the nation
al convention but were unsuccessful
in their fight against John W. Hart
national committeeman, whose scalL
they coveted 1t is claimed that with
the personnel of the delegation Sc
lected Committeeman Hart will still
be retained in his position as a re-
suit of polling the delegation in Chi
cago in June. An attempt to bring
the fight of the ex-service men to the
floor of the convention was thwarteC
under the rules governing delibera-
tions of the convention.
The order of business provided fol
the election of four delegates al
large, two from the northern con.
gressional district and two from the
southern. congressional district anC
the division Of the state upon the
conversational lines for the chOoSinp
of the two delegates from the soutf
district and the two from the north
The north presented the names Of
John P Gray of Coeur d'Alene anC
Stanley A. Easton of Kellogg fol
delegates at large from the nortf
and the south presented the names