The Washington times., 1901-10-19
PALMS NAME MAY STAND.
Efforts to Keep Coray Off the
Pennsylvania Ticket.
Elected Members of the state Com
mittee Declares the Filling of VI
cancy Was Done IIIegaIly-A DEM
ocrat shouId Have Been Chosen.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct B-As it
| looks now, E. A. Coray's name as the
substituted candidate for State Treasurer
will not go upon the official ballot in the
Democratic column. EX-State Chairman
John NJ Garman's objections to the plac-
! ing of Corays name in this column were
| taken up by the Dauphin County Court
today and 1t is doubtful whether any de-
cision can be reached before tomorrow
! night Lawyers agree that ii looks bad
! for Coray at this time.
| There were present at the hearing to-
| day State Chairman Greasy, eX-GoV
| Robert E. Pattison, Captain Hesson, of
| the Philadelphia Advisory Commit zee; eX-
| State Chairman Garman, and many other
( interested factionists. Coray was not
present, but his interests were looked
after by Chairman Greasy and his as
sistants John J. Green and Charles
Sharkey. of Philadelphia, represented
Patrick Donahue, the objecting member
of the Philadelphia committee, and Rep-
resentative NJ e. Olmsted, Charles II.
Bergner, and Grant Weidman appeared
for Garman. The other side was repre-
sented by Robert Snodgrass and James a.
Stranahan.
1t developed that the secretary of the
proceedings in his head and not upon
paper where it could be referred TO. His
minutes do not even show that the Demo-
Gratis made any nomination in a regular
way to any office. Counsel for GarmaR
presented testimony to show that the ac-
ton of the State Committee in expeiling
the Donnelly-Ryan members was arbi-
trary and contrary to all rules and prece-
dents; that due notice had not been given
all members of the committee Is provided
by the rules. and that, therefore, the sub
stitution of Coray for Palm was irregu-
lar and illegal.
1t was also brought out that the Has
son committee, when it went to Philadel-
phia to reform political matters there,
had exceeded its powers in recommending
the expulsion of the Philadelphia mem
bers of the State Committee. 1t was
shown that the province of this commit
tee was simply the correction Of alleged
evils in the city Democracy, and not in
the State organization. Garmau's strong
point is that the State convention adopt
ed a resolution providing thai all vacan-
cies CT the ticket should be filled with
the Democrats.
When Garman was called to the stand
he was asked to which party he belonged,
was n Democrat. He told how he had
introduced a resolution at the conven-
tion, providing for the filling Of vacancies
with Democrats, and the other side had
insisted that this should appear on the
minutes
p. A. Meinhart, the secretary of the
convention, was called, and explained that
Garman's resolution was an amendment
to a previous motion, and that he did not
know what became of it. As matter
of fact Meinharts minutes do not even
show that anyone was nominated at this
convention. Other witnesses called tes-
titled TO hearing Garmans resolution, and
declared il was adopted.
Patrick Donahue, one of the deposed
Philadelphia members of the State Com
mittee, testified he had never been noti-
fed of the meeting. which substituted
Coray for Palm. and other members tes-
tilted to the same effect.
Secretary Murphy, of the Philadelphia
City Committee, testified that on the ap-
bad remarked to Ex-Governor Pattison
that this committee was going to make
trouble in Philadelphia
Never mind" said the Ex-Governor
Il control that committee, and they are
my friends
Murphy said, in answer to questions.
that if the Philadelphia delegation, which
had beer expelled, had not opposed the
Hasson resolution, they would not have
had aEy trouble.
Governor Pattison denied that he had
said to Muri;i.. that he was in control
of the Hasson Committee. He declared
that he had discovered nothing in the
various wards Of Philadelphia but a
skeleton organization.
Argument in the matter will be con-
cluded tomorrow. 1t appears that Coray's |
status In the Democratic columns de-
pends upon the question whether or not
all the expelled members of the State
COMMITTEE from Philadelphia were noti-
fled OF a ,1t ting