New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-07

caucus adjourned with Blaine feeling aroused to
q high pitch
BLAINE CONTESTANTS LET IN.
HARRISON MEN FAR FROM SATISFIED WITH TIE
WORK OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE.
Minneapolis June G.-The shouts, singing ana
band music Of the political clubs draw people
from every direction to the lobby and corrdors
of the West House. All day long score ana
sometimes three-scOre Of eager watchers nave
steadily surged TO and fro around Room NO
122, seiziug every opportunity to get at those
inside TO secure an inkling OF the way IN
which things were going in regard TO the con-
testing delegations The struggle between Iiarr-
son and Blaine seems 10 be growing 60 close rs
to make possibility that on the decisions Of the
Committee on Contests will rest the party nomina
Lion The crowd outside the room was
made I'D largely of colorcd men, but
occasioually leaders Of the two forces
were on hand to learn and report how the fight
was going. The news received was far from
cheering to the Harrison men. who had been
counting on almost solid delegations from South
ern States. In many instances they were able 10
hold their ground, but the fight was losing one
ON the whole and in Alabama they were cepcci-
ally hard hit, the anti-Moseey faction capturing
all except three Of the contested seats.
numerous in this convention, and the
Preliminary Committee on Credentials found their
task hard and difficult one. the
speakers being excited and oftentimes discurslvc
40 that the work Of selecting a temporary chair
man had to be postponed. The Harrison men are
angry at the way IN which contests have been
decided. They complain that evcrythin> Is gong
against them and threaten to make fight on the
National Committee all along tie llne. Some OF their
best friends are advising against this course, as IL
ia almost certain that the appeals from the de-
cisons Of the regularly constituted tribunals
would be adverse to them, and defeat In pre-
liminary skirmish might have an injurious effect
on the more important battle The Alabama contest
will lie rriel TO the full Executive Committee, but
whether or not the fight in this and other contests
will be carried further II is too early to say, there
being q different opinion as to policy
Tho first contest decided to-day was from Utah,
In which the regulars or anti" Salt Lake Tribune
faction won. This gives Blaine two votes. There
were two organizations in this Territory, eaci
claiming to be the regular party organization,
The Brady subcommittee, adjourned from last
night, met to-day, and, after five hours session,
decided against the protest Of Chairman Brady.
of Virginia. to recognize the anti-Moseley crowd
In most of the Alabama contests
The struggle In the subcommittee was earnest, but
Conger, of Ohio, and Filley, Of Missouri, outnum-
bered tho chairman Mr. Brady will submit
minority report The decision of the majority
! seats Long, Vaughan, Dawson and Cashier as
DELEGATES large; Hendricks and Fitzpatrick in
the lid District Wilson and Bland in the WITH :
Austin and Ashford in the With In the Vth
District the Moselcy men seat Bingham and
Walker In the Nth District one delegate from
zach side will Re admitted. The fight in Ala
bama grew out of the fact that enc wing OF tho
party refused to meet with the other. and the
defeated men claimed that they should be seated
as having held the regular State Convention
They filed affdavits from thirteen ont OF
the twenty members Of what is said to
constitute the State Committee, but they come
here as contestants on the fare Of the papers.
They are quite bitter over their overthrow and
said it was due to a deal by which their opponents
agreed TO vote for Blaine, and gave out warning
that the Blaine men would he disappointed when
the time came to ballot, as several oiice-holders
were in the delegation seated.
Take in ad contests
When the Louisiana contest was heard, there
was q most lively time. Ex-senator William Pitt
Kellogg and Ex-Governor II. G. Warmoth heading
their respective forces. Kellogg, who appears as
the regular delegate, prevailed before the sub
committee. beating Warmoth. who led the contest
ing delegation, in every district except the With,
where the subcommittee spit the twO votes evenly
between each faction In the lid and With dis
trcts the WaImoth men withdrew their contests,
and In the Ist lid and WITH districts they lost the
Aght This is Blaine victory.
Wright Quincy, the colored National Commit
teeman from Texas, defeated his competitors from
the Lone Star State, who are known the Lily
Whites" The point he worked to advantage was
that the contestants were an antnegro organi-
cation and therefore hostile to the principles of
the Republican party Tho point wah WE
taken, the committee deciding not to admn the
so-called Lilly White" delegation to the conven-
ton, it appearing that the color line was drawn
in the selection OF delegates, which action the
commitnee regarded as un-Republican, and they
decided therefore that the paper presented was
not admissible communication from Re-
publican body.
In the lid Georgia District Dublit and White
withdrew and G. =. Coleman and E. S. Richard
son were admitted. In the With North Carolina
the two regular delegates, Zeb v. Waller and
w. A. Bailey, were compelled to be content with
half vote each, and DR.. j. J. Mott who has for
years been one of the leading Republicans OF the