The sun., 1900-07-05
SALISBURY MAY
GET SIX VOTES
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Delaware Delegates Get in a
Deadlock Over National
Committeeman.
KENNEY NAMED A LOSER
lie Urged the Selection of Mayor
Rose, OF Milwaukee, for Tenn
porary Chairman ofNationaI
Committee Governor
Thomas Chosen.
special to The sun.

delegation arrived mere at noon yester-
day and almost at once got into tangle.
They are domiciled on the fourth floor
OF the Coates House. The delegation
which is headed by { nator Kenney, is
comnored of foI mer Congressman Irving
Handy State Senator Hezskiah Hafring
ton, John G. Gray, Edward D. Hearn
and John. Drat r.
The delegates stai Jed q caucus at 1
O'Clock yesterday a'nn4oon and tied
them Ives up IN a knot There was no
trouble over tae salection Of Senator
Kenney as chaiaman Of the delegation,
nor in the Y ion of Edward d. Hearn
for the Commit on Credentials, nor of
II kiah Harrington as an Honorary
Va P4esdent of the Convention, and Of
l.. Irving Handy for the Committee on
Resolutions, but when it came to select.
ing new National Committeeman to
succeed Senator kenney, then came the
rub, and a deadlock which could not be
broken, although the caucus was in ses.
sion for an hour.
Senator Kennev insisted in his desile
to remain on the committee, Lut he
could only corral three votes, and aftei
several Intellectual attempts to break the
daad 1ck tie caucus was adjourned until
tonight
The six delegates got together again at
s O'clock and went over the situation for
more than two hours withonS result
Senator Kenney insisted that he should
be reelected, but the other three voted
against him and he was up to stone
wall.
Former Congressman Handy, John G..
Gray and George III. Draper were the
three, while the Senator stood for him
self with State Senator Harrington and
Edward ID. Hearn. Mr.. Handy argued
that Senator Kenney had had high hon r
from the State, and it was time for him
to step aside for some other man. Sena-
sor Kenney pointed out the fact that
several other States sent their Senators
to represent them in the National Com
mittee, and he desired to continue in G
organization. The name. of Governor
Z. w. Tunnel, Joseph g. Gray and Jos.
eph Hill were presented successively as
compromise, but the three kenney
people stood out against all argument
and the caucns adjourned at late hour
without reaching a result.
! The delegation from present indica.
tions will declare for the free and un.
| limited coinage Of silver at ratio of le
to The attitude of the Diamond State
on the money question was practically
assured yesterday afternoon when ex,
Congressman L. Irving Handy was made
the member OF the Committee on Resolu.
tions.
Mr.. Handy minces no words in declar.
] ing himself. He says: II believe this
/ convention should not only reiterate the
Chicago platform, but should specific.
ally assert that the Democratic party il
in favor of bimetaism at the ratio o.
16 to without the aid or consent of any
other nation. At the same time | DE-
not think that the money issue is going
to be the paramount Issue of this cam
paign.
"But the Democratic party cannot af
+, ford to recede from the Issues it made
before the country four years ago."
Delaware may also cast it's Elk votes ir
favor of Willard Salisbury for Vice
President. This will be purely a com
plimentary vote, OF course, and the sub
ject of the Vice Presto ency has not beer
made caucus issue.
| Senator kennev at the meeting OF the
| National Democratic Committee yester
day placed in nomination for temporary
chairman Mayor d. A. Rose of Mil
waukee. The latter was so confiien
that he would be chosen temporary
chairman OF the convention that be made
no struggle before the national com
mittee and had his speech opening tbs
convention in every newspaper in tbs
country. In his stead and by vote
"a to % the national committee blast
his hopes and selected Governor Charlie,
S. Thomas of Colorado for the place. Tht
man who is supposed t, have brongh
b ,ut the downfall of Rose is Altgeld o
Illinois, who has long standing feue
with the Wisconsin man.