The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-07-09

| The delegates hissed and cheered- Many
! delegates were on they feet Harry Eawe~
walked down the aisle advising the dele
! gates from St Louis TO keep quiet and i-;
I Ball proceed. He tried 10 gain recognition
after all had sUbsided. but Senator Frauk
FarTis OF Crawford County got the floor
Jen Pollard Takes the Chair.
At the same time. Z. L. Bail yielded the
chair 10 JEFF Pollard. who presided for
the next half hour Farris asked that the
Ball amendment De declared out OF order.
as the convention was rot yet permanent /
{ y organized. Pollard declared the point
well taken and the report Of the Com
mittee on Permanent OTganiZatiOn ard
order of Business was read.
OF cuurSe. the main feature OF this re-
port was the paragraph relating 20 the
form OF nomination. The report pronounced
T!on. The minority proposition was read
by PsytOn a Parks Of Henry County IN
which the so-called single-shct method was
advocated. The speech OF ar PARKS IN
support OF the minority report started the
orarOTiCal fireworks cf the day He said
that the compromise system Was unGeno-
cratic and unfair he Claimed tnat uhleT s.Sr
this system man with I'D votes could
command $50 votes and the nomination
Delegates. especially from the Kansas
City and the Sixth District called for Con-
r-ressman W : CJwherd. lie was recGg-
nized and made a ringing speech against
the compromise proposition
We want TO make nominations. ne
e,gS ..I- a psrnocratIc way with Demo
cratic votes We want fair deal 20 every
man. Don't let man having minority
OF the convention force his nomination by
open dIckers with his enemies
SPOKE for Majority Report
IA u.rfar then spoke for the majority
-aI.N-- claiming that precedentS uphe.d The
Convention in the system He named some
- the Judges OF the Supreme Court who
had been nominated by the stIdlSht-
his3let proposition. He cited the counties
15-1-L bsd bs+n instructed for three cand'-
dates and asked them how they int-ncei 70
they
SPEAKER James H whitecotton Of Monroe
County was then recognized i want iair5
Ecss he said. Il am against judicial and
Industrial trusts OF any sort. and am
aEafnst this form OF making the nomina-
tiOHs Only few bs ixsIcai xesaEf itP rom the state
Convention simply to take the matter out
ef politics Here We have proposition
which smells Of the lobby. We VII o- 90
IRE PaTt. cur 'u'y " We A
Nayor Reed of Kansas City pointed out
how five men could. under the system rec
or1mendei in the majority report. be
worked so that five men could be nominated
at the same time u would Ike 10 know
father this so-cailed compromise measure
Not one of them daTes-"
Result of the Roll Call
The tension in the convention was great.
tire house. This was taken and resulted In
the adoption OF the majority report by q
vote Of 5s3i7 TO Sl1iz.
The majority report Of the Committee on
Permanent Organization and order OF Bus
ness was then unanimously adopted.
JEFF Pollard Immediately presented Charles
I. Peers Of WaTrentOn as the permanent
chairman. Dave Ball then demanded
vote on the amendment which he had pr'-
scented 70 the report Of the Committee on
Resolutions. No speeches were mace,
though delegate from Kansas City EN-
phaSiZed the fact that the Fifth District
would stand by the amendment.
ha r
ried by a vote OF sol TO 49,. Nearly all
the counties voted for the amendment. The
following voted against the amendment:
Adstr, Barton, Caldwell, CaSs- Clay, Dade,
Dekalb, Davies. GaScOnade, Harrison. Iron.
Mercer, Monroe. Vernon and all but four
of the ST. Louis delegates. Some OF the
counties split their votes. among them be
ing Cooper. Groundy. Morgan, Pettis, Ray
and ST. Clair.
Recess was then taken until o'clock.
Vote by Counties.
The vote py counties on the adoption OF
the minority report was as follows:
Adair. no. 4: Andrew no. :; Afch,s1n. no. Z:
Aulrain. yes. Z; Barry. yes. 5: Barton, yss. 4:
Bone no. : yes 3: buchanan. iifst 'Distficj..
10, Is: BGtIer. no. J. Caldwell. no. 5: CaIiaWay.
no. 1. yss :: Camden YES. >: cape GlEdrdsau.
,sI HS S TsiO arr + ritan NJ Ge's na q @ rt stan rs q
CLARK. no :: Clay. no. }. yes. 4. Clinton. No. .;
no. q Dade 10 = yes. 4: Dallas.
YES. 2: Dayi.. no :; 1l! Dskalh; no :: r,I. DsHt.
Greene yes. Il. Grl1ndy. J. Harrison. no. =
Henry. yes. E: Hickory. yes. :: Holt, 10. {.
Howard no. = yes. 2; Howell. no Z; Iron. no,
/ yes !: lacks yes IS: Jasper. frs District.
no. ): Second District no. :: yes. >. Thi-d Dis
trict. no. 81: yes. 81: jefferson, nc. 2 yes. !:
Johns5n no. s: yes. /: Knox. 4: Bac.eis. no.
3: yes 1. Lafayette. yes. :. Lawrence. yes .:
Lewis yes. ,. Lincoln. yes Linn. no. s. Liy-
fn.ss-on, no, 3. Mcdonald. no. J. Macon. no. s.
yes 2: Madison, no !: YES. !; Mares. yes. J.
Marion. no. 6: Mercer. Yes. ,: Miller. no, ), Ms
sfssIpri no. ,, Nouiteau. no. ] ye-. 2. Monrle.
YES S: Montgomery. no =: YES =. morgan. no.
j: YES 2: New Madrid. no. ]: Newton. yes,
c: Nuiaway. no. 8; oregon, no. :: psage. yes. .
ozark yes. /. Pemiscot. 20. ,: Perry; no. ! YES.
Platte no t: Polk. yes. 4. Pulaski. no, . Put
nam no 2 Rails. ves. I. Randolph. no. :. yes. J.
Raw. no. =. Reynolds. no. 9 Ripley. no. .. -
Charles. yes. 3: ST Clair. yes. I. 81 FRANCOIS.
no . yes 5. Ste Cie--gieye. ye=. ,. - LOUIS.
no 5: St Louis City-F4rst Ward. nc. :: Second,
no 4: Third. no. 3. Fourth. YES, 3 Fisth, no. .
sixth no. ;. Seventh. 4. Eighth. no. ): Ninth.
yes 3; Tenth YES. 4: Eleventh. YES. 4: Twe4tth-
no 4: Thirteenth no. q: Fourteenth no .. Fif-
teeuth. no. 3: sixteenth. no. g. Seventeenth no. ::
tv-tfth. 10. {. INe-tN-slSth no @. = -nt2
Eighteenth. no ,: Sinsteenth no. ;: Twentieth.
~. .. Tw-nty-firSt No. ;. Twsutv-ss1 17n1- 20 -
Twenty-tlllrd. no. ;. Twen-y-fourth. 10. 3: Tven-
fy-hfth. no. 4: wenty-siNth. no. 3: Twenty -s=y-
.rrh no ;. TIyentv-eiChth. 70. 3. Saln. 8.
ye- 4: Schuyler. YES. 2: Scotland no. /: yes. ,:
Scott. yes 2. Shannon yes. ;. Shelby no. =
yes :: S:odddard. no. 8: Stcne. no. !. Sullivan,
no 8: Taney. yes. 2; Texas yes. 4. Vernon, yes.
9: Warren yes. !: Washington. no. :: Wayue.
yes. 5: Webster. yes. ,. Worth. no. Z; Wright.
yes :. Tota'. no. 5e5iz: yes. 5l7i1. -
JOHN B. HENDRICKS