The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-08
YATES Faction WILL
CONTROL CONVENTION
Hopkins Will Receive Strong
Endorsement for Sen
ator.
MASON ARRAIGNS HIS ENEMIES
Declares Governor and His Lieu.
tenant Have Conducted Cam
paign Fraught With
Briberies.



Springfield, Ill, MAY Richard Yates
Governor Lorimer. Albert J. Hopkinp anc
Joseph G. Cannon have selected ticket Il
be ratified by the deIeg ates TO the Repub
| lican State Convention tomorrow. They
/ have also mapped ont a convention PRO
| gramme. 1t includes a set of resolutions
which the youthful Governor asserts are
Conservative" but which the Republican
following the plow in an. Egyptian stubble-
\ field will characterize as rank" They will
| laud Mckinley and Roosevelt to the heav-
| ems. and declare for Rocsevelt for Presi-
| dent in 1904 The State administration will
| be handed the best rose IN the bouquet. OF
course The State ticket. as agreed upon
| Is as follows:
For Clerk of Supreme Ccurt-Chris Manner
of Chicago.
For State Treasurer-Fred A. Busse OF
Chicago.
Kinney of Tamaroa
There will be a strong Endorsement of A
j. Hopkins for Senator.
Mason scores Administration.
The Yates crowd unQuestionably has q
majority of the convention.
Senator William E. Mason recognized this
to-nlSht, when he dictated for the press the
ioloWlng scathing arraignment of Yates
and the methods that obtained during the
canvas1 in the counties:
The action of the State Convention to-
morrow. whatever IL may be, does not set
Tie the senatorial fight by any means. No
state Convention has ever done what Gov
ernor Yates and his henchmen are trying to
do here tomorrow. He may possibly have
small majority on the question of indorse-
ment OF his candidate for Senator by to-
morrow afternoon. He has not the majori-
1.-THE pathway of the Governor and
his candidate hns been thus far
stufiing. bribery md broken inxtruc-
tfons. In the very county where this
convention fs held (Sangamon) the
delegates were elected by the most
corrupt primary ever known in any
party In any State. Notwithstanding
TINT the practice has been induIged
In In many other counties, the Cover
nor has got to continue to buy dele
vote is cast.
Il shall ask for a twenty minutes hear
ing on each side Of the question and also
ask for roll CALL but l have no assurances
thus far that We will be granted either. The
endorsement of any candidate for United
ssI, states Senator Is not provided for in the
call OF the convention. 1t would be unheard
of and unwarrsnted, and means the sure
defeat Of our Republican ticket in the coun-
~ and probably the defeat of our State
There was a time when the Republican
party owned a machine for legitimate or
ganization purposes. The question to be
owns and controls its machine or whether
the machine owns and controls the party.
Outside of all personal interest. I am hop
ing that the party and not the machine
may win
Senator Mason does not exaggerate the
conditions of the party, or misrepresent
tained his majority for Hopkins as thou
sands of Republicans all over Illinois can
testify.
Dawes VIII Oppose Any Enforcement.
Mr.. Hopkins declined to issue state
ment tonight. Mr.. Dawes has this to say:
ton Ia hnr
the question of the Endorsement of a sena-
torial candidate is involved to consider
able extent, in contests for places on the
State ticket, it is difficult to forteil the out
come Of an effort to instruct or indorse, and
l will not venture a prediction.
with the issue Of instructions thus in
volved, it's value as indicating trend of
sentiment in the rank and file of the party.
is essened. My friends in the convention
will oppose an Endorsement or instruction
for any senatorial candidate
The statements In this mornings Rroubic
as to the programme of the Malta In
control Of tine ne Republican patty were sub
Busse. for State Treasurer has swept all op
position aside. Len Small. after swearing
talking saucy by turns. issued a statement
during the afternoon. pulling from the race.
The next rose to wither was Begole Of
Belleville. He always has been a close
friend of Busse. and besides had very few
delegates. 1t was an easy matter for him
to pack his few belongings and cart them
" DuSst
Governor Instructs Delegates.
Then came dear old Whittemore, the Fall
stan of the party and its money bags. NO,
II isn't exactly voluntarily on my part"
acknowledged Whittemore, but when Mr.
Lorimer and his friends say git / think
the locomotive. 1t wouldn't be pleasant
to be hit by that machine"
The plain truth Is that Small, Begole and
whittemore were unceremoniously showed
off the precipice.
The convention will be a tame affair
Governor Yates and Mr.. Lorimer have been
busy all afternoon calling the different dele
cations before them in the Executive Man
sion and giving them general or special
instructions.
Yates VIII Control Committee.
While there is possibility Of the State
Committee being anti-Yates, it Is certain
that the Governors faction will add enough
members-at-large to give him a sure ma
jority-
repeat what was stated in to-day's Re-
public. The Yates -Lormer-H Hopkins-Cann
on On m ihe TSene
will be vote on the Endorsement of Hop
kins. but 1t will probably carry. There has
country on Cadyallader for Clerk of the
Supreme Court and thus defeat Manner and
break the slate. But 1t is not meeting with
much favor outside of the Central Illinois
counties
Charles Hertel of st. Clair, who was
candidate for Superintendent of Schools,
withdrew tonight. Mrs. Hester NJ Smith
and Professor Bayliss are fighting a hope
less contest against Kinney Mrs Smith
has a strong delegation from Pulaski head
ed by Judge Wall and George Martin, bat
ting for her, but it Is a lost cause
Mrs. Evans, the Taylorville candidate for
trustee of the university, ran in cold deck
on her lady rivals for the honor She
brought 200 Taylorville women here on
special train and captured TIE Republican
ment for herself in scene of riotous con-
fusion. Mrs. Anna Chacey of Hillsboro viii
be presented TO the convention. nothwith-
standing the Endorsement of Mrs Evans
by the Republican Women's State Club.
J. L. PICKERING.