The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-24
Contest So Close that Two Delegates
Tried to Settle 1t by knitting and
Shooting Each other.
ENTHUSIASTIC MlSSOURIANS
LARGEST REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
EVER HELD IN THE STATE.
Revolutions CONCENTRATING the Pres
and FavOrinG Nicaraguan Canal.

DAYTON O., Aug. 23-The preliminary
meetings by counties and congressional dis
tricts to-day and tonight, of the delegates
to the Democratic state convention, indicate
that the Bowling men, by close margin.
defeated the Allen o. Meyers regime. The
latter are, however. fighting in all the COM
mittees tonight and will continue the fight
in the convention Tomorrow at which time
trouble is expected. At the meeting of the
Third district delegation this evening a re-
volver was drawn by one delegate and a
knife by another. In this district are the
delegates from Montgomery and Butler
counties, both of which are contested Ex-
Congressman Sorg is from Butler county,
and ex-Collector Bowling is from Mont
gomery county. Sorg is considered the con-
servative candidate for Governor next year
and Bowling is his manager.
At the meeting of the committee on cre-
dentials tonight there was bad blood from
the start. Allen O. Meyers was selected as
member of this committee and the Dowl-
ing men were weaker this committee
than on other committees. This committee
will be in session all night and if Meyers
wins on it he Will make close fight to-
morrow with the contested Bowling dele
gates unseated.
tions: First district, T. ]. Mulvihill; Second,
]. NJ. Smedes; Third. Bowling, James A.
Gilmore, antiDowling, A. j. Farrell
Fourth. Geo. w. Moore: Fifth, Gale B. Or
wig: Sixth, Galen l. Kline; Seventh, j. r.
Marshall; Eighth. II. Walter Doty; Ninth.
N. ID. Cochran; Tenth H. l.. Chapman;
Eleventh, John NJ. Van Meter; Twelfth
George M. Morris; Thirteenth, E. B. Fin
ley; Fourteenth. J. P, Seward; Fifteenth, A.
J. Andrews; Sixteenth, Charles ]. Lynch
Seventeenth. j. "A. Mcdowell: Eighteenth,
James A. Rice; Nineteenth, r. w. Padden
Twentieth, L. H. Eggert: Twenty-first, l..
A. Russell
New State Central Committee-First dis
trict, John Hagerty; Second. Lewis Rene
lin: Third. Bowling, S. NJ. Griffith; anti
Bowling, w. C. Ely; Fourth, John T.
Kenna; Fifth, w. w. Wilson; Sixth E. B.
SEWERS; Seventh, w. S. Thomas; Eighth,
John p. Bremen: Ninth, John Boland;
| Tenth John L. Patterson: Eleventh, P. NJ.
Cullinan; Twelfth. j. Ross; Thirteenth,
Frank DORIS; Fourteenth, Chas. Ferguson;
Fifteenth, E. w. Kennedy: Sixteenth, w.
Bigger; Seventeenth, Isaac Hill; Eigh-
teenth, Francis D. Miller Nineteenth, c.. A
Corbin; Twentieth, c. p Smith; Twenty
| first, Harry Wilson.
The committee on permanent organization
tonight selected Congressman John j.
LentZ for permanent chairman. Horace l..
Chapman, the candidate for Governor, was
the other candidate, and the vote stood:
Lentz. II; Chapman, Z. While Lentz was
| considered a compromise man. the Bowling
men claimed a victory in the selection of
Col. w. A. Taylor as permanent secretary,
as the Myers men had opposed him vigor-
Ously.
Owing to the pending contest, the state
central committee tonight made only a
temporary organization, but the ballots in
dicated plainly that there were compromise
members holding the balance of power, who
favored some one for chairman not connect
ed with either the Bowling or Myers fac
tions
The committee on credentials tonight
seated the seventeen contested Myers dele
gates from Butler county, and the thirty
one Bowling contested delegates from Mont
gomery county, a gain of almost two to
one for Bowling. AS Griffiths name was
reported for the Third district committee
man temporarily, this means that Bowling
will be the state committee again, and
he was so selected tonight.
The committee on resolutions agreed cas-
lily on state matters and on free silver, 16 to
l. and the Endorsement of Bryan for 1900,
but spent the night discussing the annexa-
ton of new colonies, and a subcommittee
| was appointed to draft a platform and re-
| port to the full committee before the con-
vention assemblies tomorrow noon.