W. H. Smith Nominated

W. H. SMITH NOMINATED

Democrat's Fine Candidate for School Commissioner

CONVENTION YESTERDAY

Drafts a Good Man to Make the Run for This Important Office

The democrats of Washtenaw have put a rattling good candidate in the field for county school commissioner. It was a case of the office seeking the man. Warren Smith declined the nomination. But the convention wanted him and it had its way.

The convention was called to order at 11 o'clock and Hon. William G. Doty was made chairman and Clifford B. Huston secretary. After appropriate remarks by the chairman, the following committees were appointed:

Permanent Organization and Order of Business- John L. Duffy, J. Manly Young, Eugene Oesterlin.

Credentials- Judge W. L. Watkins, W. J. Clancy, John Clark.

Resolutions- James S. Gorman, S. W. Beakes, Fred G. Schleicher.

After dinner Judge Watkins read the report of the committee on credentials and reported that none of the delegates wore any man's collar. Prosecuting Attorney Duffy read the report of the committee on permanent organization and order of business. The temporary organization was made permanent.

Chairman Doty made an eloquent speech, thanking the convention for the honor, doubly grateful because it came freighted with the memories of over 50 years of conflicts and victories of the democratic party in Washtenaw.

The committee on resolutions reported as follows:

The democrats of the county of Washtenaw in their first convention since the state election of last fall, congratulate the people of Washtenaw upon their significant disapproval of a "ripper" administration, as shown by the majority of 1,500 for Lorenzo T. Durand.

We congratulate them upon the election of the entire democratic county ticket.

We urge our delegates to the state convention to aid in securing as a candidate for the supreme court, a lawyer of legal mind and knowledge, honest and one of the people, who shall give the people exact justice without regard to the will of any corporation or corporations.

We commend the putting of coal on the free list, as a symptom that the republicans are becoming converted to the doctrine that the tariff is a tax.

We denounce the wasteful extravagance of the congress which has just died, after appropriating a billion and a half of the peoples money, a half more than any other congress has appropriated.

Frank Joslyn and Sid Millard were made tellers.

Hon. Jas S. Gorman spoke in feeling terms of Warren H. Smith as a proper candidate for the office. He wanted to know if Mr. Smith would accept it.

Mr. Smith said that he did not want the nomination. When spoken to concerning it during the past week he had declined it.

Dr. McLaughlin, of York, said that Mr. Smith, he knew, would be too good a democrat to decline his party's call and moved that the unanimous ballot of the convention be cast for him.

This was exactly what the convention wanted and Mr. Smith was nominated. He was called on for a speech. The call was unexpected, but he was ready for the emergency and showed himself a ready and polished talker and created one of the best impressions of any candidate ever before a convention. He spoke strongly for the schools.

As delegates at large Frank Joslyn, of Ypsilanti, and James S. Gorman, of Chelsea, were named. The district delegates were named as follows:

First district - Joseph Gauntlett, Eugene Oesterlin, T. D. Kearney, M. J. Cavanaugh, John McDougal, Jacob F. Schuh, William Walsh, Robert Shankland, Col. Frazier, D. A. Hammond.

Second district- John Gillen, Wm. H. Lewis, D. P. McLaughlin, Tracy L. Towner, James L. Lowden, John Dawson, H. P. Lighthall, Ira E. Wood, James Kelly, Frank Dettling.

The convention then adjourned.