New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-13
CONTESTING DELEGATES.
WORK BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN Ma
TIoNAL COMMITTEE
ADDICKs LIKELY TO BE SHUT OUT AGAIN
MOST OF THE CONTESTS FROM
THE SOUTH.
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Washington. June 1.-THE members of the
Republican National Committee who are TO be-
gin at Philadelphia tomorrow the consideration
OF contests for seats In the National Convention
will find considerable work cut out for them,
although, 1t is not to affect the prospects of
candidates for nomination. the results VIII be
regarded with less interest than usual. except
by the parties to the respective contests. This
is not to say. however, that some of the latter
do not involve serious party considerations
aside from those which merely affect individuals.
AS has been usual, especially in recent years.
most of the contests are brought from Southern
political ATTITUDES. the northern boundary of
which is Mason and Dxon's line. There are only
two originating north of that-a contest for the
seat of a single delegate from the XIXth Penn
sylvania District and the Hess-Goddard contest
in New-York. The remainder are distributed
over the region extending from Delaware south
westerly to and including Texas. and come from
States which, with single exception. In more
than a quarter of a century have not contrib
uted an electoral vote to the election of any Re
publican candidate on the National ticket.
ADDICKS MAKING TROUBLE AGAIN.
The single exception is little Delaware which
in 1896 chose Republican Electors in spite of
dissensions within the party created by a noto-
rious party wrecker This man. whose dollars
enabled him to defeat candidate OF his party
for the United States Senate and secure the cleo
ton of a Democrat. and also to create a vacancy
in the same body, leaving his State with single
representative, has again come to the front with
a contesting delegation to the National Conven-
ton. He has not p-ofited in the least by the
deserved treatment he received at the hands OF
no Matt in
when his pretensions were contemporary re-
jected and the door unceremoniousIy shut In the
faces Of himself and his delegates. His claims to
consideration In 1900 are even weaker and more
insolent than they were four years ago, after he
had been the cause Of a Republican vacancy In
the United States Senate in order that a Demo-
crat might be elected to fill 1T, thereby post
poning for two years the ascendancy OF the Re-
publican party to power in that branch Of the
National Legislature. A recent occurrence in the
Senate of the United States ought to have ad-
monished j. Edward Addicks and taught him to
realize that dollars cannot buy a seat in that
body, which appears to be the summit of his am
hition The "Addicks delegation" will probably
have to content itself with view of the ex-
terror of the commodious building in which the
Philadelphia convention is held.
FROM SOUTHERN STATES.
The other contests are brought from Alabama
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi. Tennessee
Texas. Virginia and the District of Columbia
Several of them signify only struggle for the
control Of the party organization with a view to
control the distribution Of future party favors
while two or three involve the principle of fair
and honest elections in a greater less degree
one of the latter is that from the District of
Columbia, In which allegations of fraud in the
manipulation of the returns of the primaries
for the benefit of the Administration" candi-
dates for delegates are supported by affidavits
of respectable citizens. According to these affi-
davits. the stuff1ng of ballot boxes and falsifi-
cation of returns at the primary election for
delegates We're never paralleled except in some
Democratic States and Congress districts in the
palmiest days of ,Tammany and Tweed. or of
the more notorious managers and benefciaries
of Democratic fraud in some of the Southern
States.
Another is the contest from Tennessee be-
tween the partsans of the factions represented
by Henry Clay Evans. the Commissioner of Pen
sions, who robbed of the Governorship a
few years ago, and Representative Brownlow
respectively. The latter is the Tennessee MEM
Der of the Republican National Committee.
Commissioner Evans although he Is not a
contesting delegate, will appear before the
testants. and. as he says tell them some
plain truths about the Republican frauds. com
mitted in the Tennessee primary elections for
the benefit of the opposing faction, to which
representation was arbitrarily denied In the
State Convention. The Tennessee contest In
wolves the entire delegation.
In Virginia the contest is confined TO single
distrct-the which formerly represent
ed in Congress by George f, Bowden, who is
the Virginia member of me National Commit
tee and the regular delegate TO the National
Convention. He is also a Federal office holder,
and therefore may have a sufficient pull to
enable him to retain his seat. Mr.. Bowden is
type of the Southern Republican element which
exists solely for the sake of Federal patronage
Alabama will send two complete delegations
to Philadelphia, and Louisiana will send three,
while Texas will furnish contestants for dele
gates large and also for six of the Congress
districts. Georgia and Mississippi will each
furnish to the National Committee and the Com
mittee Credentials work TO do on account or
one Congress district All these contests repre-
sent struggles to obtain retain control or the
machinery, and thereby voice in the distribu-
Of nat