Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-21
ROW OF DISTRICT DELEGATES
Dir. Dickson Refused to Give Me-srs. Davis
and Norris Their Tickets.

and Norris Their Tickets.
syesial Dispatch to The Evening star
CHICAGO. June H.-The District of Columbia
delegates got into delightful row late yester-
day afternoon To give interest 10 Tie occasion
and to prove that they not entirely insig-
nifcant in an affsir Of this sort. Mr. Dickson
a. the national committeeman. was given the
badges and tickets Of the delegation and a. he
disputed the right of Nessrs Davis and Nor
us. he refused 10 give them either the badges
or tickets or to recognize them as delegates
until the case hsd teen passed on by the COM
nlittee on Credentials
Foreseeing some such Grouble as this Messrs
Davis and Norris had protested against the
tickets being given 10 NJ. Dickson. but it is
the custom to give the tickets To the national
committeeman fer distribution. and the national
committee refused 10 DEPART from the. custom
on this occasion. Mr. Dickson locked the tick
up in the safe and then selected two friends
o. represent Eim in a mission TO negotiate with
the two deleg1-es FOR a compromise by which he
Dickson, should retain his place on the national
committee.
There was "bang-up row. as soon a. this
course was followed, and the regular delegates
carried the matter TO Chairman Brice. who as
sured them that while he had 10 right to in
terfere in what Mr.. Dickson might consider the
proper course in this matter they should not be
deprived OF admission to the convention, az he
would see that they got admission tickets if the
difficulty were not settled before the time for
the meeting Of the convention.
Mr. Dickson, in explanation of his course,
said that it was the duty of the members Of the
national committee To give the tickets and
badges TO the regularly elected delegates. The
title Of Mes-rs Davis and Norris to their seats
was in question. and he therefore did not feel
that II was right or proper for him to give
them the badges and tickets until they had been
put on the roll Us delegates by the committee on
credentials.
So far the issue between the contrasting
delegations from the District is concerned VIM
Dickson has the best of it TO the extent that he
has the tickets in his pocket and refuses to
yield anything to Norris and Davis As a MEN,
Der Of the national committee Dickson has had
the inside pull and has set up things so strongly
in his own favor that he seems TO be able to
control matters despite the merits OF the case.
Both Davis and Norris have been working in
the dark and up to this morning were not even
AWARE that Dickson had filed formal protest
with the committee on credentials. As mat
ter Of fact the contest is not 80 much over the
question Of seats to who shall be the nationa
committeeman
II it comes TO a case Of compromise Dickson
will consent that Henry Z. Davis shall be ad
misted a. his colleague, provided that hs
Dickson retains his place on the nationa
committee. The brief Of Norris and Davii
cites that Dickson and his friends participated
In the Willard Hall convention and made nj
protest after they had been defeated until thu
national committee assembled in Chicago
Dickson has quietly worked the southern mem
hsxs Of the committee on credentials by init