Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-17

enthusiastic orderly ana respectaoie oe-
mocracy of this District assembled at the
polling places they found all OF the var1-
Gus polls in the hands OF self-constftuteo
dictators, who refused to the people the
right to organize their meetings. eise. thear
judges. secretaries. or watchers, indeed. re
fused them any voice or representation IN
the conducting of the polling. In many
cases the ballot boxes were In the hands OF
known republicans, of non-restdentS. crlml-
nails and disreputable characters, who open
~ stuffed ballot boxes refused and de-
stroyed ballots of reputable voters, as
saulted others and allowed a promiscuous
riff-raff to vote without question and with
out knowing whether they were democrats
or even citizens of the United States the
conducting of the polling was an infamous
outrage upon the franchise, the rights OF
the citizens and the sanctity of the ballot.
The counting was a most infamous fraud
and the entire proceedings an Insult TO
American citizenship and a disgrace 10 re-
publican government. In snort, majority
of the polling place were so infamous ana
disreputable that they were summed py
respectable democrats as would be PEST
house-indeed, respectable citizens were put
in peril attending them. and the pretended
returns and a blatant fraud and outrage.
Other Features.
The ignoring of the protest by the recent
convention was alluded to, and the claim
that the present contest was only fac
tional fight in the interest of local indiVld-
uals was characterized as contemptioie
Among the concluding paragraphs were de-
nunciations of trusts and monopolies, impe-
rialsm and miiitarsm and the following
declarations:
1--WE ask Congress, by appropriate legsla-
ton to come to our aid and prevent by law
such outrages in the future.
I'VE indorse the democratic principles as
set forth in the platform at the Chicago
convention, and denounce in the strongest
and most emphatic terms the anarchsm of
wealth, the criminal trusts and corporate
I'LL. sc ito1 to 10
production of necessities of the common
people, raise prices and rob labor of its just
rewards.
I'VE demand that the democratic national
convention refuse to seat in the Kansas
City convention these agents and tools of
the Standard OIL electric light, gas and
railway trusts who have stuffed the ballot
boxes, bribed the voters and by violence and
crime attempted to defeat the will of the
people at the primaries in the District of
Columbia on April TO- and are now attempt
ing to foiSt themselves upon the people and
the Kansas City convention as delegates to
that body in order to get votes to prevent
the adoption of antitrust plank in the
platform, and to defeat the nomination of
W. ]. Bryan. who is the peoples choice for
President.
I'VE declare and have good cause to be-
lieve that the outrages and infamies herein
set out were the result of conspiracy on
the part of certain tratorous money manip-
ulators. influential in politics and in collu-
sion with republican magnates and trust
promoters to defeat the will of the people,
emasculate the platform, betray our hon
ored leader w. J. Bryan. and repeat the
Cleveland infamy: and we denounce the OPP
posing claimants as the tools of such treach-
cry and treason"
On motion of Mr.. John Boyle the resolu-
lions were adopted by reclamation.
Delegates and AIternates
The election of delegates and alternates to
Kansas City was then in order
The vote resulted in the choice of the fol-
lowing: Delegates Cotter T. Bride Charles
w. Slater, Edwin A. Newman William
Holmead, j. Francis OMeara, Robert f.,
Mattingly: and alternates, j. Samuel Has
tings, Herman J. Schulteis, DR.. N. L.
Vowles, Frank Richards, John Schlotter-
beck, Milton II. Hawkins
Anti-NOrris Central Committee.
After the cheers had ceased the following
names were announced as having been
selected by the various district delegations
as members of the central committee op-
posed to the Norris committee: First dis
trct. Victor Boyer; second, w. f. Carr;
third, Chris Hager; fourth, James Gross;
seventh, John Boyle: eighth. Capt. ]. A
Collins; NINTH Charles c. Carter; TENTH
Moses Pack: eleventh, B. S. Donaldson;
tw elfth. p. f. O'Connor: thirteenth, John
Horstkamp; fourteenth, Herman ]. Schulz
tets; sixteenth, James F. Shea; seven
tenth, Robert E. Matdngly; eighteenth,
Fred A. Walters; nineteenth. Thomas F.
Ryan; twentieth, Edward V. Rice; twenty
fist, Or. j. ]. Sattery. twenty-second, An
drew Miller.
This business concluded the work and ad-
iClrnment followed