New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-15
WORK.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE SETTLES SOME
CONTESTS AT PHILADELPHIA.
(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

Philadelphia June 1.-the Republican Ma
tional Committee had another long and trying
day. wrestling with the intricaces of Republican
! faction feuds in the Southern States. It's de-
cision last night to bar from the temporary roll
both contestants and ccntestees in all save one
Congress district In Alabama reflects the natural
impatience OF a serious body of politicians with
the childishness and folly which mark the man
agement of party interests in the far South II
other States in the South, which also send their
fractional disputes to Philadelphia for settle
ment. should be likewise deprived In part of
representation in the convention. a salutary les
son would be taught the so-called Southern
leaders, whose only concern in politics seems to
be to compress the local party organization
within the limits of their immediate personal
followngs.
vice-Charman Payne Of the National Com
mittee indignant at the revelations
made in the Alabama contests that he drew up
and offered a resolution asking the President
to investigate the alleged interference Of Fed
eral office holders with the proper conduct Of the
Republican primary elections in that State 1t
was not considered desirable to press the resolu-
tion the committee holding that the exclusion
of fourteen Of the twenty two delegates from
Alabama would serve sufficient warning
to the offending party managers.
MI Payne is known especial champion
of the project to broaden the basis.of represen-
| tatiOn in the National convention by apportlon-
ing delegates to the various Congress districts
| In accordance with their actual Republican vote
The greater equity of such a system is undenia-
BILE, and its advantages are emphasized every
four years by the struggles among Southern
| politicians to grasp and exercise that excessive
power in National conventions to which they
are entitled by no contributions to party eff
! cheney party success. Few National con-
ventions willing to take the time to consider
reform far reaching in its effects as that
urged for several years past by Mr.. Payne. But
| 1t is to be hoped that the scandals of Southern
| representation may some time awaken the party
managers to the necessity Of providing IN Ma
tional conventions for fairer and more re-
sponsible expression of party sentiment in States
in which the Republican organization has shriv-
elled to the merest skeleton.
PAYNE DISCUSSES HIS PLAN.
In discussing his resolution asking for in
vestigation of the Alabama primary elections,
Mr.. Payne said to-day:
LAS is we'll known, the President expressed a
desire that his appointees should refrain from
undertaking to control the conventions in their
| several States and districts. The Alabama case
brought out the fact that such off1cehoders were
perniciousy active. and in many instances out
regeously This is the cause Of the action of
the committee in refusing to place upon the rolls
Of the convention any delegates from the State
at large and from several of the districts of Ala
bama The resolution introduced ac
count OF the feeling In the committee that some
action should be taken to prevent recurrence
of such bold defiance of the we'll known wishes
of the President.
II think the time has come when heroic meas
ures should be taken to prevent continuance
of the evil complained Of not only in Alabama,
but also fin ether States of the South 1 confess
that my eyes opened yesterday, and L no
longer wonder at the disfavor with which our
party is looked by the best people in the
South. Until our political men there exercise
different methods cannot expect the support
of the better element in the South who to-day
believe that the principles Of the Republican
party arp tbs principles which the honor and
the interests cf the country depend, but who are
prevented from cooperating with US On this &C
count"
The District of Columbia contest was settled
in favor Of J. 3. Jones ard w. c. Chase and
against TT. Robert ReybHrn and George w. Lee,
the latter g. cC!ored preacher.
Practical, tie enSiIa day wss devoted 20 the
Louisiana contest by the ccmrnittse. and the
controversy finally decided il favor OF what
is known the Yarmouth faction. headed by
Ex-Governor Yarmouth, against the Wimberly
faction.
oFFTCEHOLDERS OVERTHROWN
This is overthrow for the Federal office
| holders Of Louisiana, ten Of whom were on the
delegation headed by Wimberly, the Collector of
| the Port of New-Orleans. Although Wimberly
| is member Of the National Committee and
made the strongest possible presentation of the
| case, the committee by vote of % to IS de-
clared in favor Of bis opponent. Among the
men to whom thus denied seats in the con-
venton is William Pitt Kellogg, former Gov
! ernor and at time United States Senator
/ from Louisiana, who has been a delegate to
every Republican convention since 1860.
Yarmouth and his friends, who were success
| full to-day. represent the sugar planting inter-
ests of Louisiana, and the claim was made before
! the National Committee that recognition of this
faction would make II possible TO elect three
Republican Members of Congress in the State
/ At the evening session the committee took UP
! the district contests from Louisiana. AS nearly
! the same questions involved as in other
! contests. they were soon disposed of. In the LIST
! District c. w. Boothby and Walter L. Cohen.
! kimberley delegates in the lid District, Z.
Kuntz and Ernest Duconge. Yarmouth dele
gates; in the lid District Charles Fontalieu and
! z. Sorrell Kimberley delegates; in the WITH
District B. F. ONeil and F. M. WEIGH, War
! mouth delegates; in the With District David
and in the With District b V. Barand and L. j.
Souer. Kimberley men, were seated.
A motion entered to reconsider the lid
Louisiana District, and while the parties inter
ested consulting the With Mississippi Dis
trict taken up and j. w. Smith and J. T
| 1glehart were seated. The committee then re-
considered the lid Louisiana District case and
! seated Jules CodSchauX and ". D. Bekman
Yarmouth delegates This action gives War
mouth control of the State delegation
| The X1Ith New York District was then called
being the Hess Goddard case. Ex-Secretary
| Bliss is a delegate from the same district but
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