Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-14
CONTESTANTS MUCH DISTURBED.
Decision in Alabama Case Meets With
Their DisapprOvaI.

lhefr DiSapprOval
PHILADELPHIA, June 1.-THE contest
ing delegations to the republican national
convention are very much disturbed over
the action of the national committee last
night in refusing the Alabama men place
on the temporary roll of the convention
They express the fear that they may be
unable to obtain seats in the convention, as
in the rush of proceedings the committee
on credentials may not wish to take up
very much time in examining the merits
of the cases. Many of the contesting dele
cations are today importuning members of
the committee to decide their cases one
way or another In order that the states
may have full representation in the pre-
liminares of the convention.
The action OF the committee in the Ala
bama cases is said to have been largely
inspired by desire to discourage contests.
AS 1t makes little difference this year which
way the decision goes the committee thinks
1t would be very good time to inaugurate
a reform.
One member of the committee has sug-
gested that the various contesting delega-
tions should be made to agree among
themselves or be refused admission to the
convention; but the feeling displayed in
many of these fact;onal fights makes such
a course highly improbable.
Payne Resolution Will Fail.
While there may be some discussion Of
the resolution introduced by Mr.. Payne yes
terday. requesting the President to investi-
gate the Interference of federal office hold
ers In Alabama politics, that Is all that is
likely to come Of it. In discussing the sub
ject today, Senator Hanna remarked that
there We're enough Investigations going on
now and he saw no necessity for bringing
the President into the matter of the selec-
ton of delegates Other members of the
committee are of the same opinion, and
they doubt the propriety of passing such
a resolution.
Rebuke to Federal Office Holders.
The afternoon session yesterday was de-
voted to hearing a recital of testimony and
to arguments in the contest from the state
of Alabama. There were seven contests from
this state, including those over the repre-
sentation from the state at large and those
from the second third fourth, fifth, seventh
and ninth districts.
So palpable did 1t become that the fed
eral patronage was the principal object in
view that the committee was not long in
reaching a decision to practically exclude
all the contesting delegates from the tenn
porary organization of the convention ex-
cept those from the ninth district. Com
mtteeman Joseph Manley of Maine offered
the following resolution as the sense of the
committee:
Resolved That the committee declines
to place on the temporary roll any contest
ing delegates or a!ternates from Alabama,
in that A. d. Wimbs and j. w. Hughes
and their alternates be placed upon the tenn
porary roll.
This resolution was speedily adopted, and
it was hardly disposed of when Commit
teeman Payne, who had been acting as tenn
porary chairman, introduced the following
resolutions:
Resolved. That this committee requests
the President of the United States to direct
the proper officers to cause an investigation
into the acts and doings of certain federal
office holders in the state Of Alabama in
connection with the election of delegates
to the primary convention and to the state
and district conventions held in said state
to elect delegates to the national convention
to be held in Philadelphia on the 10Th in
slant, and If the facts as stated in the
hearing held before said committee regard
ing the contest in said districts and state
be true, this committee asks not in the in
terest of the republican party, but of the
country, that such action shall be taken as
the good of the public interest requires.
In presenting the resolution Mr.. Payne
said that he introduced 1t because of the
evident pernicious activity Of the office
holders in the campaign, and that he be-
ieved 1t would be very serious mistake
for the committee to fail to ask that Of
fetal recognition be taken Of this infrac-
ton Of the laws of the country.