The St. Louis Republic., 1902-07-11
DEMOCRATS RETURN
FROM SPRINGFIELD
All Pleased With the Work Done
in the Judicial Con
ventiOn.
ST. LOUIS WON MANY FRIENDS.
Had No COntesting Delegations
and Was With Every Win
ner-POIlard's Voice
All Right.

: Practically all the politicians who at
tended the State Democratic Judicial Con-
! vention were out of Springfield by yesterday
morning. The bulk OF the delegates depart
! ed for their homes Wednesday morning.
i the day Of adjournment. All of the evening
! trains out of Springfield were crowded.
| On the two Frisco trains which arrived
in st. Louis yesterday morning were many
! OF the delegates from the northeastern and
| southeastern parts of the State. They were
all feeling well over the nomination Of
Judge Burgess and Judge Fox, both of
, whom had received the unanimous support
OF the delegates from their sections of the
country.
Among the St. Louis politicians who ar
rived yesterday morning were Noses e.
Wetmore. c. {. Rainwater, Morton Jour
dan, L. +. Parker. Thomas p. Barrett, An-
drew f. Blong. Judge Hanley, Senator
Schoenlaub. Senator John p. Collins, John
H. BOogher, James Hagerman. Jr., and
Judge Thomas B. Harvey.
Governor Dockery. Secretary Of State
Sam b. Cook. secretary Of the State Com
mittee, J. Il. Edwards, Excse COmmis-
sioner J. N. Seibert. Railroad Commissioner
Joe p. Rice and others were also on the
morning trains.
st. Louis's Part in the Convention.
The ST. Louis delegation is particularly
proud Of the record which II made in the
convention. Harry B. Hawes, who manaSei
the politics involved in using, TO the great
est advantage, the 10 votes from this city.
received many congratulations yesterday
Probably no man worked harder to 'land"
candidates than did he.
Delegates from the country were heard
TO remark in all parts of the hall that Tor
once st. Louis had displayed the good sense
not TO bring dozen or SO contests TO the
convention. Usually St LOUIS and Kansas
City have stirred up ill-feeling by delaying
the work OF the convention in the Cieden-
5ials Committee, which was compelled to
hear the evidence in contests, which IN
volyed ward supremacy This was parucu-
larly true OF the Republican Convention
which met in Jefferson City.
St Louis cast practically its solid vote
for each OF the nominees. Ihis was not
done in band-wagon style, but in accord
ance with pledges, implied and explicit,
which had been made before the convention
assembled. Burgess, the first man Domi-
Though the leaders saw long before the first
ballot was taken that Sherwood could not
ful to him until the last glimmer of hope
had disappeared They then switched TO
Fox, who had secured second-choice pledges
from nearly all OF the St Louis delegates
All togt ther. the convention served to make
better feeling between the country and
city delegates. The efforts OF Kansas City
delegates and st. Louis fell fiat, as the
nomination OF Judge Valiant proved. st.
Louis never wavered In its support OF the
home candidate and won a reputation for
gameness by sticking to him when his de-
feat seemed imminent
POIInrd's Graceful Act.
Judge JEFF Pollard did a kindly act when
he quit calling the roll after the first few
ballots had been taken. Many supposed
that he wished to rest his voice and acribed
his absence from the stage to that fact.
There were two reasons for his retire
ment First and above ALL he noticed
that Judge Valiant, the home candidate
could be helped by a little judlcious work
among some Of the country delegates He
seized the first chance to mix with them
and secure more votes for the gallant ex-
Confederate. The end justified the effort.
good-natured Bob McClanahan to take
MS place. Bob is said to be candidate
Tor a position where his voice will be a
prime necessity and the Judge gave him a
mt by allowing him TO show IL OF be-
tore the convention Pollard returned 10
the stage about O'Clock and again had
the privilege OF letting out some Of his hest
tones Tor the benefit OF the delegates Hho
had climbed into the Valiant band-wagon.
partly as 4 result Of his own efforts
All Appear Pleased.
Expressions of satisfaction over the noni-
nations were general yesterday Even the
defeated candidates had no fault to find
that they would work as hard for 81 as IN
they had been nominated themselves
Ex-Governor William J. Store did NOT At
tend the convention, but expressed himself
SesIeroay as highly gratified with the work
zone there. The nominations are an
hrst-class," he remarked, ''and thev sbo,Id
command the full party vote something
WHICH beneVe they Will receive