The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-15

of AIcLeansboro.
Attorney General-Albert Watson of
Jefferson county.
University Trustees-Mrs. Anna G.
Solomon of Chicago, Theodore c. Lohr
of CarlinsvilIe, F. B. Merrill of st. Clair
county.
DeIegates-at-Large to ST. Louis Con-
vention-John P. Hopkins, A. NJ. Law
renee, Benjamin T. Gable, Samuel Ais
chuler.
Chairman State Central Committee
John P Hopkins of Chicago.
BY vote of nearly 3 to 1, the Dem
ocratic state convention Endorsed Will
lam r. Hearst for president. The dele
gates to st. Louis were instructed TO
vote for Mr.. Hearst as long as his name
is before the convention.
The only featufe of interest in the
convention was the jolt which the state
chairman, John p. Hopkins. admins
tered to Mayor Harrison. The latter
and his followers were set down and
out and if they attend the St. Louis
convention it viii be merely as private
citizens. Harrison at first was willing
to accept the defeat he got at the Cook
county polls, but some iil-advised
friends urged him to come here with
brass band in the vain effort to get
aboard Hearst's aerop1ane. But Hop
kins controlled the convention from
start to finish. He might even have
prevented the Endorsement of Hearst
had he so willed, but for some reason
he let the matter get to a roll call.
Everything else fell into his net, how
ever, and Carter Harrison is the worst
beaten man in the state.
The Harrison party came solely from
Chicago and was pledged to the sup
port of Congressman James r. Will
Jams. Harrison was unseated as a del
egate, and took a train for home with
out going near the convention. Both
his faction and the Hearst party were
as nothing compared to the strength
and skilful management of the conven-
ton exhibited by Hopkins.
Never before in Illinois has there
been a holder display of ruthless gavel
rule than that exhibited by John p.
Quinn of Peoria, who presided over the
convention, both as temporary and per-
manent chairman. He paid no atten-
ton to men or motions when it did not
jibe with the interests of the Hopkins
plan for him to do SO, and in one in
carried before the Hearst and Harri-
son people had voted upon it.
The committee on resolutions finished
its work early, but it was decided by
the chairman to withhold it until he
knew what action the Hearst people
would take on the report of the COM
mfttee on credentials
There was a long wait of two hours
before this body was prepared to re-
port, and as J. J. Kane of East St
Louis, who was to read the report
came upon the rostrum, a line of police
officers marched in and suggestively
formed a long line in front of the
speaker. They were facing that officer
and it was suggested to them that
danger was expected from the opposite
direction, So they turned and con
frOnted the delegates.
The report of the committee on Gre
dentials was brief and pithy. It simply
said: I'VE believe everything done by
the state central committee in seat
ing and unseating delegates was just
and proper, and we recommend that
its work be indOrSed. -
Then came .bedlam. The Harrison
and Hearst people shrieked Roll call,
chairs, yelled Robbers Thieves, .
and few other things less polite. They
were so wrathful that they could not
wait to listen to the reading of a mi
nority report which recommended ac-
ton opposite to the report first read.
When quiet was finally restored the
ayes and noes on the substitution of
the minority for the majority report
was called for and it was lost. The
adoption of the report was called for.
IAN those in favor say aye
shouted Chairman Quinn.
Aye" came in thunderous shout.
Those opposed no
Bang went the gavel The ayes
have it," said the chairman, and then
No" yelled the Harrison and Hearst
men.
There We're more snrieks of Roll
call" and the chairman said:
You can have a roll call on the re-
port of the resolutions committee. We
will give you anything you want--after
a while"
That was all the comfort the Hearst
people obtained from the proceedings
until they were given a chance to vote
on the question of indorsing their can
didate in the st. Louis convention.
Pending the arrival of the committee
on resolutions a motion was carried di-
recting the convention to proceed with
the nomination of candidates for state
officers.
Before we proceed" said Chairman