Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-15
COMMITTEES ROUTINE WORK.
Hearing the California Conte sts-All
Friendly to Mckinley.

st. Louis, Mo-, June 11.-Chairman
Carter was prompt in calling the ma
tional Republican committee to order At
10 o'clock today, Notwithstanding the abb
sence of fully half of the members. The
davis work was begun with the hearing
ginning with that of the Third district.
The claimants in this case were on one
side c.. NJ. BelshaW and w. b. Parker,
and on the other Denison and Hoch-
heimer Congressman Hilborn appeared
for BelshaW and Baker.
Mr.. Hilborn gave an outline of the
grounds of the contest. claiming that
Messrs. Belshaw and Parker were tho
regular nominees. their selection having
been made by the convention which re-
suited from primaries, while Denison and
Hochheimer were chosen by the dele
gates selected by appointment. The
state delegation had endorsed the pro-
ceedings of the convention which chose
Belshaw and Parker by seating the dele
gates to the state convention chosen by
it by a vote of s to /. lie said that
both delegations were friendly to Me-
Kinley.
Judge Thompson of Ohio represented
the interests Of Denison and Hochheimer.
He contended that the committee could
not go into the irregularities of primaries
on county conventions; said that as there
was no district committee in the Third
district the state COMMITTEES bad appoint
ed the district delegates and that the
committee had proceeded i'll the regular
manner to call the convention. Further
more a large proportion of the so-called
primary convention delegates were APP
pointed, as were the delegates in the
other convention, by the superior commit
tee. Mr.. Payne moved that Messrs.
DeniSon and Hochheimer be placed upon
the rolls and the motion prevailed with
out division.
The contest in the Fourth district,
including the greater part of the city
of San Francisco, was waged by Messrs.
w. w. Montague and Samuel NJ. Short
ridge against J. S. Spear and III. |. 10
walsky. who claimed to be regularly Sc
lected delegates. This contest has been
a very spirited one from the beginning
and is claimed to have resulted in one
murder. Mr.. Shortridge was the spokes-
man of the contestants. The state COM
mittee had, he said, recognized the con-
vention by which he ana Montague We're
chosen and intimated that the other con-
vention was controlled largely by the
proxies of the members of the state COM
mittee which called the convention chos-
en- by questionable means. He claimed
to represent the almost unanimous voice
of the Republicans of the state.
Judge Thompson, speaking for Spear
and Kowalsky. said the only question
at issue was whether there was quo
rum present of eleven members of the
state committee residing in the district
and he claimed that there was such Il
quorum irrespective of the proxies. AS
to the proxies, it was charged that the
men who had given them had after
wards been paid to make affidavit as TO
the means by which they were obtained.
Mr. Shortridge declared in reply that
the first meeting was practically a proxy
meeting and that the regular commit
teemen were notified of the meeting.
Spear and Kowalsky are Mckinley men
while Montague and Shortridge are said
to be for Allison. Spear and Kowalsky
were seated.
Mr. Payne afterwards moved recon
sideration of the vote by which this con-
test was decided, but the convention
decided by an aye and nay vote, IA to
26 not to reopen the case.
The contestants from the Third Ala
bama district which was passed yes
terday did not appear when the district
was reached today and on motion of
Committeeman Youngblood. s. S. Booth
and John Harmon were seated. They
are Mckinley men.
There was considerable interest in the
contest from the Fifth Kentucky dis
trict, which embraces the city of Louis