The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-06-25
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REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Jefferson CITY, Mo. June 2i-RepubIicars
in attendance OF the State Convention are
so hopelessly divided that there is no chance
for harmnov OF any sort. After conven!ng
three times today the convention adjourned
tonight until a. m. tomorrow. when the
fight for harmony" will be made the issue
on the floor of the convention
Every convention committee, according to
present reports. will bring IN minority
report, though perhaps the Credentials Com
mttee may make report which will be
accepted without q scrap. However. Tub"
Becker. whose delegation was unseated, in
sists that he will take the fight before the
convention.
The Permanent Organization Committee
will have a minority report indorsing Ben
T. Russell for chairman. instead Of Editor
McJimsey, friends of the former alleging
that there was crooked work in the commit
Tee. In fact, crookedness seems to be the
talk OF the hour. Country delegates are
spending much time in discussing and
"cussing' the examples OF the Republican
party which have been manifest to-day.
LOBBY AGREEMENT
NOT IN DANGER.
National Committeeman Kerens's stock
took slump this afternoon. He was put
out of three committee rooms where he had
intruded. though he controls two OF the
committees-Permanent Organization and
Resolutions-by vote OF to I. He is
beaten in the Credentials Committee by the
same vote. This may defeat him to-mor-
row.
The lobby agreement will be kept. No
nomination Of United States Senator will
be made, so thorough is the lobby's control
of the organization.
One of the great fights OF the convention
is in tho Resolutions Committee. Kerens
has absolute control OF 1t. and he has Elade
Nathan Frank chairman. Frank has charge
of the national ISSUED. He insists on a
plank generally indorsing Roosevelt and not
mentioning Hitchcock. Akins's friends are
fighting for committee report pledSing
Missouri for Roosevelt in 1854 and commend
ing the Secretary Of the Interior.
Tonight it looks as though this will be
taken before the convention. Hereby
hangs a tale. 1t is said that KeTens has
instructed Frank and his other friends to
fight a 1904 Endorsement in the committee.
When the matter is brought before the con-
vention SO the story goes, he will make q
gTand-staud play for patronage by meta
phorlcally begging the assembled delegates
TO promise Roosevelt their support for re-
nomination.
This would be little less than comical.
Kerens promised four months ago to work
for Roosevelt in 1904. The scheme would
seem absolutely silly If other like manifes-
tations OF political 'sagaclty' such as the
lobby conference were not public property.
SUBCOMMITTEE HELPS
WITH THE RESOLUTIONS.
A subcommittee on issues has been an
pointed by the Resolutions Committee. It
consists of John II. Boutwell,, Bert Nortoni,
Eugene McQuillan. John II. Flanagan and
Dick Dalton. Flanagan and Dalton want
to deny specifically that there was a lobby
conference.
Frank said there was not. NortonI re-
minded the proprietor of the Star that his
own paper had stated that there was. He
also reminded the committee that the
Globe Democrat has told the details of the
deal both in the news columns and editori-
others were the ones to deny the facts in
connection with the Missouri Pacific con-
ference and not Republican platform.
1t is hardly "a that the committee
will have the nerve L. s.e.- hose facts.
The platform would be puuctL.ei by the
minority report The platform will proba-
bly, be finally fixed to suit the lobby and the
autiluhby. Denuuciation will not be fought
by the minority members Of the General
Assembly
The resolutions Will also probably aoFo-
cate the submission of public franchises to
the voters, a sad reflection on Republican
rule in ST. Louis. OF course, some sort Of
admiration will be expressed for the dis
crepancies'' as a State issue though the
business men among the delegates laugh
when they are mentioned The proposed
school-fund amendment will be condemned.
AKIES IN CONTROL
OF CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE.
A<ins's friends controlled the Credentials
Committee and put the screws to the St.
Louis contested delegations. The meeting
was acrimonious. There was harmony
With a meat AK on the outside of the COM
nlittee room door, and the St. Louis dele
gates seated and unseated cursed and
abused each other.
Members of the committee were called out
and interviewed by the factionalists. Inside.
Grant Gillespie was chosen chairman and
A p. Murphy secretary, by a vote of to
z Friends of Atkins were Fields of the
First, Spansler of the Fifth, Duncan of the
Seventh. Martin of the Eighth, Fryer of the
Ninth, Kamu1erer- Of the Eleventh, Rainey
Of the Thirteenth, Gillespie of the Four
teenth and Murphy Of the Sixteenth.
The committee seated the Remley or
Atkins delegation in Boone County and the
Cedar and Adair County regular delega-
tions. Both are Kerens delegations. The
Brewster or Kerens delegates of st. Joseph
were seated By q unanimous vote. the only