Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-05

| hopkins delegates IN all llllnolS con-
tests.
st. Louis, July 5.-The sub-commit-
tee reported to the national committee
today that it was the unanimous opin-
ion of its members that the Hopkins
delegates should be allowed to retain
their seats. The report was concurred
in and the Hopkins people will hold
their seats unless ousted by action of
the committee ON credentials. This
is the contest waged by NJ. F. Dunlap
against John p. Hopkins and Ben T.
| Cable as delegates-at-large.
Stnte Convention Supreme.
The decision of the subcommittee
was based on the ground that the state
convention was supreme and that
| fights in district caucuses are not
proper matters for adjudication by the
national committee; that it is not the
| business of the national committee to
go behind the records of the conven-
| tion.
The fight should, in the opinion of
the committee, have been made in
the state before the completion of the
record of the convention. This show
ed that the Hopkins people are regu-
larly accredited delegates and sus-
tanned their contention that the ma
tional committee did not have the
right to decide the contest.
Will Carry 1t Further.
The Harrison and Hearst men were
greatly disheartened by their defeat
and announced their intention of car
rying the fight before the committee
on credentials and if beaten there be-
fore the convention itself. This state
ment did not alarm the Hopkins peo-
pie who said the argument that won
for them before the national commit
tee would hold good before the con-
VentiOn.
Contests in other states were re- |
ported by various subcommittee and |
their action approved by the national |
committee
Contest subcommittee.
At the national committee meeting |
yesterday afternoon Chairman Jones |
announced the subcommittee which |
hears evidence in the contests. Among |
the committee were the following
members:
j.
Missouri, chairman: Adair Wilson. of |
Colorado; T. D. O'Brien. of Minneso-
ia; Norman E. Mack. of New York
John T. McGraw. of West Virginia.
Went Into Executive Session.
After a continuous session of nine
hours, the subcommittee to which
was submitted the evidence in IA con-
tests in the state of Illinois went into
executive session at midnight with ev-
cry indication that their verdict would
be a victory for John p. Hopkins and
his faction. The evidence in each case
is practically the same. 1t related to
the convention at Springfield, where
Chairman Quinn was accused of riding
rough shod over the rights of two
thirds of the delegates of names of
men not elected or even submitted to
the state caucuses as delegates to the
national convention. Quinn vigorously
defended his course in the state con-
vention, and John P. Hopkins made an
elaborate defense of all his actions
before and after the convention. The
statement of these two gentlemen sew
eral times provoked acrimonious re-
plies from the contestants and the de-
.
that Senator Stone of Missouri. chair
man of the subcommittee. suggested
the gentlemen from Illinois go outside
and settle their trouble.
Stone Puts a Poser.
Judge Thompson, of Jacksonville,
made the argument for the contest
ants. Judge Dunn, of Chicago. and ST. ,
las r. Cook, of East St. Louis, who ,
are seeking seats of Hopkins and Ca
BILE as delegates-at-large. He charged ;
fraud in the proceedings of the con-
vention. Stone asked why, if the seats
of Hopkins and Cable should be de-
clared vacant. the seats of the remain ]
ing delegates-at-large should not also
be declared empty, and if the proceed /
ings of the convention were sufficient ]
" fraudulent 20 throw out delegates
at-large they were not Of a character
to vititate the entire convention and
leave Illinois without representation. ]
Judge Thompson's answer was not
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