The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-06-18

letter from Printiss Withdrawing the con
| test. but Booth announced his opposition
to permitting the withdrawal
| Herman was seated.
| Notice was given OF the withdrawal OF
the contest in the Eighth Virginia dis
| trict, and Shumate and Well were de.
| clared entitled to seats. They are instruct
| ed for Mckinley.
| A recess was taken until 2 p. m.
Afternoon Session.
| When the afternoon session opened the
| Delaware contest was called, but ex-
| Senator Higgins. heading one of the Del
aware delegations, asked that 1t sho1ld
| be postponed until the arrival of Mr..
| Addicks. who heads the other delegd-
| ton The state was temporarily pass III.
The Louisiana contests were then con-
sidered. All the seats from this state.
including those of the four delegates at
large and the II district delegates, are
contested. From the state at large the
chairman of the state committee certl-
fed the election of A. A. Maglnnis. II.
H. Hackney, e. N. Carney and A. Dough-
erty. All of these were instructed for
Mckinley.
OF the contesting delegates Hon VII
liam Pitt Kellogg and A. II. Leonard are
Tor Mckinley and Henry Dernas and J.
NJ Vance for Reed.
j. NJ. Behsn appeared for the Mag n
mis- delegation. He said there were two
republican state committees, but that by
which his convention was called was the
one which had made the fight of the re-
publican party two years ago and rep
resented the revolt against the rule Of
Mr.. Kellogg, who, he claimed was a
nonresident. He represented what he
called the new republican party which
mad grown out of the opposition to the
democratic party on the tariff but sli1
that the new republicans had not found
L agreeable to affiliate with the old re-
publican party as 1t had been managed
for years. They therefore met in mass
convention and organized a state com
mittee.
Mr.. Behan asserted that the republican
party had made very rapid progress
since It's organization and said that with
proper announcement Louisiana could be
made a republican state.
After Behan had concluded his speech
and without requiring any statement on
behalf of Kellogg, the Kellogg delega-
ton was seated.
In the First Louisiana district ex-Gov-
ernor II. c. Warmoth and Walter l..
Cohen Qor Mckinley were recognized
as the regular delegates.
The contest in the Second Louisiana
district was between Kimberley and
5mms, contestees. and Morris Marks
and Lucien Como, contestants. Wimber-
ly and Simms were seated. They are
Mckinley men.
The contestants from the Third Lou
lslana district Clark and Behan, and the
contestees, Cage and Calm. are all Nc
kinley men. On motion of Hahn both
delegations were seated. each of the del
egates with a half vote In the conven-
ton.
In the Fourth district the contest was
between Reed and Mckinley men. Neal
and Harper represented the Reed .ele-
ment and Ferris and Antoine stood for
Mckinley. Neal and Harper were seat
ed.
The contests from the Fifth and Sixth
Louisiana districts were settled with
out argument, Gonally and McGreen be-
Ing seated from the Fifth and Brooks
and Johnson from the Sixth. All are
Mckinley men.
This concluded the Louisiana contests
and the Third district of Virginia was
taken up. Waddill and Harris McKin-
ey men. were seated without argument.
Wilson of Delaware moved to reconsid-
err the vote by which Messrs Sapp and
Todd were yesterday seated from the
First Kentucky district.
Mr.. Yerkes. the committeeman from
Kentucky, favored the motion, basing
his argument upon the ground that its
adoption would promote the interests of
the party in that state
The motion was opposed by General
Clayton and others on the ground that
Its adoption would constitute bad prec-
edent and open the doors for similar
proceedings in many other cases. The |
molten was not pressed and no vote was
taken. 1t Will probably be taken up lat |
err
Hon. ]. Il. Addcks heading the dele
cation from Delaware which bears his
name, arrived at o'clock today and
proceeded to the hall where
the contests over seats in the repub-
can convention are being heard. He an
his readiness to proceed imme- |
diately with the contest between his |
delegation and that headed by Hon. An |
thony Higgins.
The committee then took n recess un-
til 1880 u. m.