Arizona republican., 1904-07-27
Taggart, Chairman of the
 Democratic Committee
GORMAN WOULDN'T SERVE
The Indiana Contingent Was Ready to Fight for the Place, If Necessary. Even Against a Possible Expression by Judge Parker.

New York, July 26.-The national democratic committee met here today and unanimously elected Thomas Tag gart of Indiana as chairman.
 Urey Woodson of Kentucky was elected secretary of the committee by a vote of 8 to F, the selection subse- quently being made unanimous. Ed win Sefton of the District of Columbia was made assistant secretary. John l. Martin of Missouri was elected ser geant at arms and Samuel DcaelsOn of Tennessee assistant sergeant at arms.
 The effort made last night to induce Senator German to take the chairman manship of the democratic national | committee was continued. Leaders be gan their conferences early. Thomas F.. Ryan, who was delegate tO the St Louis convention from Virginia, but who is a New York business man, was one of the first to call upon Senator l German, but se:eral others followed ] him. Soon afterward the senator left the hotel and, it is understood. met | some men of this city wio desired tO lay before him reasons why he should become the head of the committee. In ! addition, Delancey Nicoll of this city. was in conference with several mem bers of the committee with a view to bringing about MT. Germans accept ance. It was said that a number of New York business men were willing 10 guarantee the raising of a good sig ed campaign fund if MT Gorsnan could be prevailed upon to act as chairman.
 Friends of Thomas Taggart said they were not in the least disturbed by the . l efforts n hrino Toh
 Kern. who has had charge of Taggart'- interests, said the attempt to elect Cor
 man now would result in his defeat. as the TaggaTt men had votes to elect the
 Indiana man and certainly would elect
 him. MT. Kern added that no verbal
 assurances that Judge Parker wanted
 some other man than Taggart for
 chairman would go with them. as they
 had verbal assurance that Parker
 would not interfere or attempt to die
 tate to the committee.
 There were busy scenes today around
 the rooms occupied by Corner Senator
 Hill. While MT. Sheenan and others
 sought Senator German and urged him f to stand for the chairmanship. Mir Hill
 remained in his room. He said the head
 of the committee was a great responsi Q
 bility and he did not feel like forcing ] uldH lO uUutIldkt uuLlGS -nRn so
 much depended upon it At the same r time MT. Hill has been subject to pres , sure from the New York men to se- , cure German to manage the campaign
 if that was possible.
 As soon as the doors were closed the
 committee elected the temporary of
 ficers. M. F. Tarpey. of California.
 was named for chairman and Henry
 Leyman for secretary. Norman F.
 Mack, member of the committee from
 New York, then presented an invitation . from the democratic club of this city
 asking the committee to be its guests between and II o'clock this even-
 ing. The invitation was unanimously
 accepted. MT. Mack also asked the , members of the committee to assem- \ ble at the Forty-seconG street station
 of the New York Central railroad to-
 morrow at 11:45 and take special cal
 to Esopus for the purpose of playing s their respects to Judge Parker. tn,
 democratic candidate. The members
 voted unanimously to go.
 Senator Bailey moved the committe.
 proceed to permanent Organization ,t About this time David B. Hill. William s F. Sheehan and August Belmont. al . with proxies, enterad the committc . | AOOAh' HOS udu DctIl III GOHICEEl ,, up to the hst moment but they Of Ia fered no resistance to Senator Bailey ,,- motion. John w. Kern placed MT
 Taggart in nomination, speaking brief ly about his ability and capacity as .a democratic leader. No oue else We ,- named and Taggart was declared tn st unanimous choice of the committee. ,d A delegation was sent out after NJ ! N1 rst -t,ra
 to mittee room. He thanked the com Id mittee for the high honor it had pai It him. He realized to the fullest OK n. tent, he said, the responsibilities c Il. the position. but he felt that. with in rs ticket and platform upon which tn pr candidates stood, the democrats woul IS win the next election. In order { r. do so he must have the full and cor
 dial support and cooperation of ever t. member of the committee and ever n- democrat in the country. He pro t. posed to discharge the duties of tn nt position fully and intelligently. NJ Id Taggart's brief speech was applaude SC Homer S. Cummings of Connecticr Id then placed Urey Woodson of Ken
 lucky in nomination for secretary an
 C. s. Vandueser of Nevada named
 A. Walsh of Iowa. He said It wa
 necessary in this campaign to wi ht some western states and the electiO ct Of Walsh woulc be appreciated. H III urged that the committee give tf o- west opportunity to oirry some , - 'heir states. Seconding speech, as were made by several members an /" then the only roll call of tha ,sessio .. followed Woodson receiving 35 vot,
 and Walsh twelve.
 Edward Sefton of the district of G
 lumbia was unanimously c1ected n.
 slstant secretary. The contest f,
 sergeant at arms was quickly dispose d. of on motion by Senator Bailey tn. -as John l. Martin of Missouri be electe ot to this position and that Samuel Dor fir nelson of Tennessee be chosen as a.