Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-29
CLASH OF THE LEADERS
NORRIS AND ANT1-NORRIS ISSUE AT
KANSAS CITY.
The Factions Lining Up in the Fight
For Admission to the
Convention.

The fight between the Norris and anti
Norris District democrats for seats in the
Kansas City convention has been trans
ferred to that city, the leaders OF the con-
testing factions having left Washington for
the west yesterday, where they will i'm
mediately open the lines for the struggle
to get into the convention Mr.. Norris and
his followers left this city entirely con-
fident of being seated without any trouble.
The anti-Norris people are taking out with
them freight car load of pamphlets en-
titled The case Of the democrats of the
District-An appeal for justice and democ-
racy at the hands of the democratic repre-
sentatives of the convention"
The pamphlets contain pictures OF Mr..
Bryan and Of the six contesting delegates,
and its first paragraph states exactly what
its purpose is. This paragraph reads:
The loyal democracy of the District of
Columbia, firm in it's allegiance to the i'm
mortal Chicago platform, and mistaken In
its faith in the party's greatest leader,
herein presents to your august body for
careful, unbiased consideration, some Of the
reasons why the Bryan delegation from
the District of Columbia, composed Of Ed
win A. Newman, Robert E. Mattingly, Cot
ter T. Bride, Charles ". Slater, William
recognized and seated as the regularly
elected delegates from said District to this
great convention OF the national democracy
Instead of the body Of six o, fomp1gn ,na Of Of
J. Donovan, William F. Hart, John A.
Clark and William T. Whelan.'
Question of Loyalty.
The pamphlet quotes literally from the
local papers and from statements alleged
to have been made by the Norris people, in
an endeavor to prove that Mr.. Norris and
all of his followers have at all times been
opposed to Mr.. Bryan, and are opposed to
him today, and that they were not honestly
elected; and that the only really elected
delegates to the convention and the only
real followers Of Mr.. Bryan are the con-
testing. delegates, headed by Mr. Edwin
Newman. incidentally the pamphlet says
some very uncomplimentary things about
Mr.. Norris and his delegates. and some very
and his delegates 1t charges Mr.. Norris
with being bitter enemy of Mr.. Bryan
and devoted friend of ex-senator German.
sarcastic remarks about Governor John
Walter Smith Of Maryland, who has been
prominently spoken Of as a running mate
with Mr.. Bryan on the democratic ticket.
struggled to Save German.
In this connection the pamphlet has the
following:
Morris struggled with all his energy to
save German when the Maryland democ-
racy repudiated him, and he will NOW. and
has at all times, said he would vote for
German In preference to Bryan II the OPP
portunity presented itself, and who has
been more bitter foe TO the denomination
Of Bryan than Gorman2
Morris worked for and telegraphed his
congratulations to the gold democratic
dodger and German lieutenant, John Wal
ter Smith, who wis afraid to vote one way
or the other on the present monstrous re-
publican gold standard law when pending
in the HoHse Of Representative. said Smith
having been elected to the House on gold
democratic platform from the first district
of Maryland, and shortly before his con-
gressional term began elected governor of
Maryland on a platform which ignored the
name of Bryan, al reference to the Chicago
platform, or any of the great issues before
the country at that time. Smith lodged
this vote, although he agreed to stand by
the caucus of the democratic party in the
House when he was running for Congress
Norris telegraphed his congratulations to
him, but search the archives Of the tele-
graph companies for a telegram congratu-
victory in Nebraska in 1892 and no such
ccngratulatory telegram will be found He
served both God and mammon when he,
unlike the brave Bryan, accepted both invi-
tations to the Observation-Disclosures feast and
the one-dollar dinner given by the laboring
men in New York city. He declared, in
1893, that Babcock of Wisconsin, a radical
republican, but friend of Norris, was the
best chairman of the House District COM
mittee who ever filled that office, and in the
public print over his signature he declared
he wanted to see Babcock elected over his
democratic competitor"