The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-16
Southern Delegate at st. Louis
Charges Corruption.
IN NATIONAL COMMITTEE
Asks Northern Candidates to
Keep Money at Home. :
NO CHANGE IN REPRESENTATION
After a Warm Fight and Some Sensa-
tional Charges the Committee Re-
fused to Pass the Payne
Resolution.

| nGSOtuuOUs
St. Louis, Mo, June 15.-The
National committee, by a vote of
81 to 4, decided that it was inexpedient
for the committee to make any recon-
| mendation to the National convention
regarding a change of the basis of rep
! resolution.
The matter came up on a resolution
| of Mr.. Payne, of Wisconsin, as follows:
Resolved, That the National commit
| tee recommend to the convention that
| hereafter the basis of representation
| from the several States shall be fixed at
four delegates-at-large and one addi-
| tional delegate for each seven thousand
votes and majority fraction thereof,
| cast in each State for the Republican
electoral ticket at the last preceding
election and that each territory and
| the District of Columbia be entitled to
six delegates and that the delegates be
| appointed to the several Congressional
districts of each State upon the same
| basis.
Mr.. Payne made a speech in support
| of the amendment, saying that the
| States which cast Republican votes
| should have an increased representa-
| ton at the convention and that the
| representation ought to be on the basis
of Republican votes. "If," he said, NE
| vada casts $4,000 Republican votes and
| Mississippi, for instance, casts the same
number, Mississippi should have the
same representation in convention that
| Nevada has, but cannot be under the
| present system" He declared that the
| Republicans of the North were en-
| phatic in their demand for reform in
this respect. He hoped that the time
| would come when the Republicans of
| the South would be able to cast an in
| creased vote and secure its being
counted, but under the existing con-
dition, he thought the proposed change
necessary and hoped the committee
| would recommend the change to the
| convention.
Mr.. Clayton opposed action on the
| resolution by the committee, contend
| ing that the question was proper one
| for the convention to deal with but
not for the committee. He, however,
would vote for the consideration of the
| question in convention and he would
not say that he would not vote for
| this or some similar proposition in the
| convention. but he did not believe
| the National committee had any
| power to consider it. His good friend,
| Mr.. Payne, seemed he said, to doubt
| the South. The Southern Republicans
| had been told that they must work
| out their own salvation and they had
| been trying to do that. Furthermore
he declared, growing very earnest,
| that they would have succeeded if
let alone. ''If Northern money had
| been kept out of the South there
4 l. ~ oh
| now made" as a Southern member
interrupted to say.
Continuing, Mr.. Clayton said he re-
| ferred to no special candidates efforts
to control in that section, but that all
influence from the outside was perni-
| cious. Yet bad as were affairs in
| the South they were no worse than
it had been shown here that they were
| in some of the great Northern States
| to which the resolution proposed to
| give more Republican representation.
He contended that the naming of the
| Southern contests had arisen out of a
misrepresentation of the power of
| committees, and gave notice of a reso-
| luton to have the National committee
more closely define this.
| Mr.. Howard, of Louisiana, supported
| the resolution, saying he hoped to
never again see a Presidential candi-
date nominated by Southern votes
and defeated at the polls. Mr.. Hill of
Mississippi, complained of Mr. Payne's
want of consistency in proposing to
take three votes from Mississippi, and
add six to the District of Columbia.
He denounced the plan as one calcu-
lated to disfranchise the South on the
Democratic plan.
1 ~,
| position, saying he never wanted to
again have to hear the recital of such
/ disgraceful scenes as had been de-
| tailed here for the past week.
| Mr.. YoungbloOd, of Alabama. made
| quite a sensational, though very
brief speech, in opposing the resolu-
1 tion.
1--WE will be all right in the South"
he said, "if you will only keep your
| Doodle and the emiSsaries of your can
| didates from the North at home. 1t
| is just as we'll to be plain about it;
| this is the influence which demoralizes
/ the South. Now, | repeat you must
keep your corruptionists at home and
your Doodle also"
At the conclusion of the debate Mr..
Clayton, of Arkansas, offered a resolu-
| ton to substitute for all motions and
amendments to the effect that the COM
| mittee shall disclaim jurisdiction to
make any such recommendation to
the National convention.
At the request of Mr.. Fessenden, of
Connecticut, the resolution was modi-
fed to read: "Tlat this committee
deem it inexpedient to make any
recommendation whatever to the Ma
tional convention on this subject"
The resolution, as modified, was