Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — IDAHO REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

IDAHO REPUBLICANS.

Delegates Named and Delegate Dubois Indorsed. The Idaho Republican convention met at Boise City. Col. Charles A. Wood presided. The Hon. W. B. Heyburn, a jiromlnent lawyer of Coeur d'Alene, and George A. Black, a mining man of Hailey County, were elected delegates to the Chicago convention, with Willis Sweet and Joseph Pinkham as alternates. Delegate Dubois' action in Congress was strongly indorsed. Col. George L. Shoup was named for member of the National Committee. The delegates were not instructed. The platform opposes the division of the Territory and denounces “the efforts of Senator Stewart to eliminate Idaho from the map of the United States”; opposes the placing of lead on the free list; favors the Mormon test oath and opposes Chinese immigration.