The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-25
DEMOCRATS RETURN
FROM CONVENTION
REPORT AN EXCELLENT TRIP
BUSINESS GOES
WE'LL

BUSINESS GOES
WELL
Travel-sta1ned and weary, the dele
cation from Latah county to the dem
ocrat1c state convention at Haley
consisting Of G. P. Mix, F. M. Green
Clayton Keane and Frank L. Moore
arrived home Thursday evening on thu
belated O. w. r. & NJ evening pass
enger train.
place in the non-irrigated regions
were near normal owing to the dry
summer. All desert ss.s.ons are dry
hot and dusty. The crops of the irri
gated sections, however, are very good
especially alfalfa and corn.
While several delays were met with
because of extra time needed for re-
pairs on railroad equipment, partic-
ularly locomotives. the trip was made
without serious Inconvenience. A two
hour delay was occasioned on the
Alta grade a few miles out of Star
Buck, WASH, on the way down, when
the Jim Hill mustard blocked advance
All the returned delegates are very
profuse in their praise of the hospi-
tality of the citizens of HALEY who did
everything in their power to make
the sojOurn in that city comfortable
and enjoyable. Hotel Accommodations
were splendid and the citizens ops1cd
their homes to make room for the over
flow that could not be housed at the
hotels. On Tuesday evening the dele
gates were given a rare treat consjt-
ing of game" dinner at which
fish, grouse and mutton" were served.
The business of the convention was
conducted very smoothly and with
dispatch, say the delegates. The meet
ing was called to order by the chair
man of the democratic state central
committee, Mr.. Pope of Boise, who
merely stated the purpose of the con-
vention.
Upon the selection of David l.. Ev-
ans of Oneida county for temporary
chairman and Miss Ludwig of Cassia
county as temporary secretary, one
delegate from each of the forty-three
counties present was appointed to the
committees on: (1) credentials; (2)
permanent organization and rules
and order of business; (3) platform
and resolutions.
The biggest contention came in the
committee on permanent organization
and rules and order of business, when
Frank l.. Moore, Latah county dele
gate, put forward for consideration
a resolution that all nominations for.
for state offices should be
made by two-thirds majority
The vote on the resolution result
ed in a deadlock Sixteen voted for
the resolution and sixteen against it.
there being only 80 counties represent
ed on the committee The resolution
was rejected by the majority faction
by the action of the chairman of the
committee who decided the tie by vot-
Ing against it.
The matter was, however, taken to
the floor of the convention by Mr..
Moore who made the minority report.
Again it was lost, this time by vote
Of approximately % to 70.
Upon the resolution demanding q
majority of the votes Of
.he convention for nomination hinged |
the big issue of the con-
namely the selection Of Moses
Alexander or w. M. Morgan as can
1idate for the gubernatorial ,ace.
Another point of conflict was the
blank in the platform reported declar
ng for the guarantee of bank de-
1Osits by the state. It was opposed |
~ a motion to strike from the report
hat plank
In this fight Frank Moore again
figured, leading the attack on the pro-
)osed plank on the grounds that no
uch tax burden should be saddled
N the people of the state at this
ruical time when taxes were so
leavy.
The exponents of the plank main
aimed that the money for carrying
ut the guarantee should be raised
rom the banks themselves, but the
pposition contended that that was
merely a form of deferred taxation
nd that the people would have 10
ay it in the end anyway
Alexander was nominated for gov
rnor by Frank Martin of Ada coun-
Y who had come to the convention
or that purpose. There were num-
er of seconds to the nomi.'atton
Finally gaining the floor, Mr. Moore
tated he had come to HALEY for the
urpose of placing before the conven-
on the name. of his friend, w. M.
[organ, but that owing to the fact
lat neither he nor Mr.. Morgan were :
| sympathy with the principal /.
lanks in the platform, he would not |.
resent the name of Mr. Morgan be-
IRE the body, but that he as spokes
ian of the Latah county delegation,
ould second the nomination Of Alex
nder :
Bert Miller of Madison county then
owed that the nomination Of Alex
lder as democratic candidate for
overnor be made by acclamatiOn. :
be motion was seconded and carried
In addition to the stand for a bank
uaranty act, the platform adopted at !.
le convention calls for the abolition
the cabinet form of state govern. !:
ent and the state cOnstabulary and
,r the abolition of the convention
7stem OF nominating in favor Of the :
atewide direct primary.
The state ticket is as follows:
Congress, First district George :
Tatters.
Congress, second district w. P.
rhitaker