The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-19
AEti-Folk Forces Give Up. ana
Final Vote Is Twenty
Four to Seven.
REAL CONTEST DEVELOPS.
J. ID. Bvrnes, Elected Temporary
Secretary, Not Acceptable /"
Folk Men. and Decision VIII
BE Put to a Vote.
BY a STAFF CORRESPONDENT,

| BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT
! Jefferson City. Mo, July E-SmilinS
| effably and transmitting business in open
session. majority of the State Commit
| tee chose ". d. Vaniieer for temporary
| chairman OF the convention by a vote Of
% to at meeting held tonight in the
| Madison Hotel. II was the complete ma
| chine LAY down" which had been fore
| casted in The Republic.
The day Rad been devoted to working
| upon the committeemen to accept Nandi-
yer. They baked. protested and declared
| they never would; vet Folks overwhelm-
| ms majority in the convention stared
them in the face and they did.
| Tho anti-Folk strength however. played
| cute on the st. Louis election Of tenn
porary secretary. and a small-sized but
nevertheless ominous cloud IS III the sky
az consequence. Introducing him as
| the original Folk man" Committeeman
Phil Shaw placed J. d. Byrnes of Jeffer-
son County in nomination for the secrc-
taryship. against James Nolsn of Lewis,
the personal selection Of Mr. Folk. Byrnes
won bv "a to :.
When the change first became known
to Mr.. Folk. he said that he would be
satisfied with Byrnes. Hearing of the al
legged relations of Bvrnes with Butler
now Mcleod declared that a fight on
Byrnes will be made on the floor OF the
convention. Unless he can be very salts
faotorily explained, the action OF the
state Committee will he repudiated.
Doorkeepers. assistant secretaries. as
sistant sergca nt-at-arms were proclaimed
original Folk men.
FOUR COMMITTEES
One other point was developed to
which attaches She suspicion that fl Is
Of the fine italian variety On motion of
Virgil Conkling il was voted that the dis
trlct ceucus,s tomorrow shall choose
members for four. instead of three. con-
vention committees: thar III. duties of the
usual Permanent Organization and order
Of Business committees. shall he divided
and two committees formed. the one on
Permanent organization and the OTHER ON
Rules and order Of Business.
This is irterjectcL rs 4 plan To secure
control OF the Rules Committee. and turn
control OF the or,iar or nominations. How
ever. it Is a fCregone conclusion Tonight
that all four committees will he governed
by Folk men. Plans have been laid TOO
nicely and too accurately for any slips to
occur.
The choice OF Vanilyer means at, anti
Folk 'lay-down." 1t Is complete, for it is
about the last thing the State Com,uittee
would have done had it any option In the
matter But 1t promises well 70 far as it
goes. though the dove o. peace would
have stood better show had the Bvrnes
incident been avoided.
The -f.rtfer Folk plans FOR the organi-
zation Of the convention and Of the State
Committee, with one exception, continue
outlined yesterday. The exception lies
In the permanent craftsmanship Of the
convention 1t has been definitely decided
that Judge w. n. Evans shall! be the new
chairman of the State Committee. In
view Of this fact, Mr.. Folk is considering
whether 1t would not be better to advo-
cate another selection for permanent
chairman of the convention. Charles f.
Yeater is the most likely suggestion, and
the final decision now lies between Judge
Evans and Nj. Yeater.
VOTE ON VANDIVER.
Tho vote on Vandiver for temporary
chairman was as follows:
For Vandiver-Z. T. Crawford and John
C. Mills of the First: Virgil Conkling of
the Second. E. A Buntin of the Third,
w f. Spratt and W. L. Salmon OF the
| Fourth, George Lee Chrisman Chy proxy
of the Fifth. W. r. Anthony and W. r.
| Bowles of the Sixth 7. F. Mitchum and
Solon Smith of the Seventh. J. H. Edwards
and ]. A. Stewart OF the Eighth. Thomas
B. North of the Ninth, Henry J. Quellmatz
OF the Tenth. Phil A. Shaw of the Thir-
| teenth. George c. Orchard and o. S. Har
rison of the Fourteenth. Gilber Barbee
| and NJ. T. Davis of the Fifteenth and
| Frank Russell and A. L. McGlashan of
| the Sixteenth.
James J. Butler OF St Louis placed
| Frank NJ. Kleiber In nomination against
Mr.. vandiver for temporary chairman,
Kleiber received these votes:
J. c. Collett OF the Second W. T. Kemp
er of the Fifth, Brice Edwards of the
| Ninth, James McCaffery of the tenth. Har-
| ry B. Hawes Cby proxy and Thomas ].
| Ward OF the Eleventh. James ]. Butler
| and William J. Flynn of the Twelfth and
| Sam ]. McAiinn of the Thirteenth.
| The temporary secretary was elected and
| the order of nominations proceeded to ser
| geant-at-arms. J. d. Stark. the Folk
choice. was elected over 7. ]. Wells, by
| 20 to 10. j. G. Slate of jefferson City was
made doorkeeper and the Reverend Doctor
C. E. Patilo of the jefferson City Metho-
dist Church was named for chaplain.
| Minor positions were filled as follows:
| Assistant Secrttaries-Jas Hagerman OF
| St Louis and ]. w. Armstrong of Pulaski
| County.
| Assistant Sergeant-at-ArmS - 7. j.
I
| d. Layne, Steve Sedgwick, w. +. Mitchell
| ard E W. Herring.
| Assistant Doodkeepers-George NJ. Win
ton, Casper Welch. ]. A. 3iankeship. ].
| Sterling Price Smith. John NJ. Stevens,
| Virgil Conkling and A. l. Bristoe The
| choice of Conkling was in the nature OF a
| toke, he moving hls own selection.