The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-05-08
RE"UBiTc SPECIAL

| RE:"i'ai-Ic SPECIAL.
Peoria, Iii, May 1.-P=esident Mckinley
| has entered the Illinois fight here in = most
| pronounced way. His Comptroller Of the
Currency. Charles Il. Dawes Of Chicago. is
the CUilom candidate for temporary chair
! man OF The Republican STATE convention,
| acs.us; the candidate of the state Com
| mittee ana Governor Tanner. John }.
| Brown or Nan,ialia.
Cullon has taken stand for Mckin-
ley on every proposition. and now the
| President hceis the Macedonian cry for
| help from the senior S.nator from Illinois.
| This action Of the Cullom and Mckinley
| Republicans in opposing the choice Of ihe
| state Committee for temporary officers %
| the State Convention is without a precedent
| In this State. and has aroused all the pug
! nacity in the Tanner and Hanecy section q
| the party. Bitter are the words hurled at
| Culiorl by Lorimer. while Tanner and even
Hanecy. who IS skating on mighty thin ice
| express surprise at the action Of the Sem
! ator.
The Hanecy-Tanner legislative candidates
| have been induced to call individually on
! Cuiiom during the day TO protest against
| him taking hand in the fight. Many Of
| them have openly threatened To get the SEN
| atorial liver when the question comes up
| in the Legislature next January. No other
| recourse left Cullen. as a matter of
| fact. Tanner is present to-day and looking
| extremely We'll for a sick man. He is full
| Of bile. and his words drop vinegar when he
| refers TO cullom.
Tame. opposes CuiIom.
When asked if he would oppos" instvuc-
| tons for an Endorsement for Cuiorn. the
Governor said: Il should oppose it. We
are here to nominate a State ticket ana
| organize the State for the campaign, not
| To further the personal interests OF any i'll
dvilual. Senator CuIlom must take his
chances at the hands Of the Legislature
| Il would never do TO in9orse him for Sem
atcr in the State Convention. 70. il would
antaConze Il number of other men who
havs aspirations for that place. We shall
| have all We can DO TO elect the House with
| out saddling on ourselves the extra burden
of his Endorsement
| The Governor stopped a minute for breath
and then continued in harsh voice: u h.
Heve that the Endorsement Of Senator Cul-
lom would be menace TO the future rIe
OF the party, giving us two Democrats in
the Senate from Illinois In the swing Of
the pendulum which is bound to come
must have the State SO well in hand that
the Democrats cannot secure these two
hgi. Offices
The Tannar-Hanecy faction, which abso-
iutely controlled the State Committee.
agreed on John J. Brown for temporary
| chairman without much friction. when the
domination was made. Henry Hertz asked
for roll call, and il resulted in every
member Of the committee. except three.
standing by Brown. Twenty-GoUr ayts Were
registered. The negatives were cast by
Hertz. Poase and Ralph Bradford Of Pom
tlac, the Reeves representative on the con-
The Cullen leaders had been importuned
! =.
ti-TanreC candidates for Governor of the
necessity OF making open fight on the
Tanner Organization. The Senators 'tL-
| innovation to battle against the precedent of
nearly half 4 hundred years. fney went 10
| the Lorimcr and Hanecy and Tanner lead
| I'VE are asked to do this thing. 1t will
mean a nasty fight. and we don I care tn
| DO it All we ask is decent treatment from
| the officers of the convention. We do not
| believe the contested counties should have
| vote until their cases are resulariy sub
| mitted To the convention and tn" conven-
| ton. by call of counties. decides wfo are
| regular. We want IN" right To be rec"g-
niZa5 on every proposition. and We want our
| da,pan1 IL ,Ie make il fo- = ,.;,u of Tho
| counties recognized and IL a veriacation OF
| the roll Is desired 10y US. We want II con-
| cedtd to us without protest from the of
CuiIomites for Dawes.
These claims We're regarded as absurd.
! and no promises or pledges were offered as
| To the conduct of the convention, The tu!-
| Iom lieutenants were bluntly told that they
| knew the temporary officers we'll enough to
| know what they would do in case of a CON
! test between elements, and they might take
| them. or they might do the other thing
The Cuiiom faction deCided TO do the 9TH
| er thing and Mr.. Dawes. being willing, Was
| picked to lead their hopes Tomorrow
| beno,oa tba candidate Of senator Ccl!orn's
| friends for temporary chairman OF the con
vention, and ] have decided that | Will 90
| it. | am IN favor of an emphatic ind0rse
| ment OF the candidacy of Senator Cullom
! for Senator. and a declaration in the plat
| form that I; is the sense Of the Republicans
| OF Illinois that ne should be reelected to
| the Senate OF the United Stater.
Mr. Dawes. I'm conversation. frankly said
| that the intention WAS not to involve the
| subernatorial candidates in the muss. that
! i, was regarded as a matter personal To
| Senator Cul.om. 1t was also officially stated
| that former Governor ttfer would bc the
| candidate of the CullorI faction fox pcrma-
| nent chairman of the convention.
| The Tannerites at this writing have not
F'i.er. OF course, If Dawes Is elected tenn
! porary chairman, away go NanCieve and
| the long list Of temporary Tanner Secreta-
| yies of the convention.
| The Tanner people were surprised at the
| change OF front of the Cullom fellows. They
were counting on no opposition being OF
/ ferei to- Brown. and the naming of Dawes.
/ the Mckinley representative IN Illinois, was
| disconcerting. Lorimer heard it with a
! grave face-his face is always grave and as
emotionless As piece of pink-tinted mar
| bic. He had nothing TO say about il
! The matter has turned until Mckinley
| is now regarded much in the fight
! Cullorl. and little doubt is expressed about
| the ability of Dawes to win out. That the
| other faction was thoroughly demorafized
| and scared was proved by the ruTncrs soon
| current that Tanner had switched from
| Brown TO William J. Calhoun. The latter.
+. since his employment by the great Steel
| and Wire Trust attorney, has become
| identified with the Tanner faction. There
| was opposition in their own ranks TO this
| programme however, and at this writing
| the matter stands as between Brown, Tan
| nerite. and Dawes, CUllom- Mel ckinieyite,
| with the chances in favor of the latter.
| Tanner-Hn Losses.
| There is some speculation to whether
Chairman Ranrells of the State Commit
tee Will recognize a motion TO substitute
| Dawes for Brown. when he calls the con-
4 yention 10 order tomorrow noon. Little
| credence il placed in this, for the reason
| that there would be an instant riot and "A
| bolt. in which there would be bloodshed.
| l cannot describe the intense bitterness eS-
| listing between the two camps. match
| may be applied TO the magazine at any
| moment.
| The contest for Governor is clearing a
4 little. Many of the Southern Illinois dele
! cations arrived during the day. and some