The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-07-29
Grant Failed by a Very
Narrow Margin.
FAITH WAS BROKEN
At Certain Quarters Is Post
Convention Ciaim--lnside
Workings Of kennedys
Nc m n ton.


over James j. Grants friends are tell
ing just how near their companion
came to being nominated When the
Phelps delegates went over to Ken
lumbiana county delegation, and who
were doing the manipulating, were
not in the convention. They claimed
that they had made an agreement
with the leaders of the other counties
that there was to be no break during
the morning session, and for that rea-
son they were not on the ground.
They arrived on the scene just be-
fore the last ballot was called. Cam
eron rushed over to the Stark county
delegates and besought Rogers to
throw his 81 votes to Grant, promising
that The Speaker votes would also go
to him and nominate him. The Smith
crowd was also beseeched by Cameron
to stay away from Kennedy and let
the Colmbiana delegation line up AMI
nominate Grant
SIGNED BY CAMERON.
This request came after Colmbiana
had already cast her vote for Speaker
and while the Stark delegation was
consulting Rogers, who had charge of
the Phelps crowd, and George Clark,
who handled Smiths delegates, We're
of the opinion that Cameron simply
wanted to get a chance to nominate
Kennedy himself and that if they held
off he would on the next ballot throw
the entire delegation to the Mahon-
ing county man. They say that for
that reason alone they refused TO lis
ten to the proposition.
1t is said that Cameron was angry
after the convention was over and
blamed the Stark county fellows for
breaking faith with him. He insisted
that the Smith crowd had agreed not
to break during the morning session.
When Smiths delegates caucused,
Just before the morning session, there
were six of the delegates who de-
clared they would not go to Grant un-
der any circumstances. The others
would have gone had 1t been agreed
upon. The delegation was put unre-
gervedly in Clarks hand to WELD as
he saw fit, in the hopes of saving
something from the wreck. Both
Phelps and Smith have put Kennedy
under obligations nditis expected that
there was some kind of an agreement
as to future reciprocity.
CANTON CAME HOME.
The Canton delegation arrived home
Thursday evening at 5:24. The great
er part of them were wearing Kennedy
badges over the others on their coat.
The Grant crowd were boasting of
their loyalty to their leader, and the
Smith fellows were smiling over the
fact that they were in at the finish
and helped name the nominee. There
were some mutterings and threats OF
revenge upon the part of some of the
delegates, but in the main there was
li,tle bitterness. All agreed that the
man nominated was the universal sec
Dad choice of the convention. The re-
suit was denominated good politics. %
The promptness with which the
News-Drmocrat got the news to the
people of Canton after the nomination
was made, has been the subject of con-
siderable comment. This was made
possible by the fact that the Columbi-
ana Telephone company, which is a
part of the independent system to
which the Stark company belongs,
placed an exclusive wire in the con-
vention hall for the use of the News
Democrat, thus making it possible for
the paper to get the news thirty min
utes ahead of its contemporaries.
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