The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-08

In those states and territories where
no contests have been filed, we carefuiiy
examined the original credentials of the
delegates and a1ternates, and find the
same to have been correctly certified
to the chairman of the national com
mittee and the roster as presented by the
chairman and secretary and submitted
to this convention for its temporary or
ganization is correct and accurate. and
we unanimously recommend its adoption
by this convention.
The committee says it gave all the
time it could to the hearing of contests
and after mentioning the contests In
various states says:
In Illinois the several contesting con-
gressional districts We're asked to settle
upon their representatives to speak for
all the contests in that state.
After such consideration it was possible
to give under these circumstances your
committee report that in each of the fol-
lowing contests that the delegations as
named by the national committee are en-
titled to seats as the regularly accredited
delegates and alternates to this conven-
ton. viz: The District of Columbia, the
First. Second. Third Fourth, Fifth and
Sixth districts of Pennsylvania: the en-
Twelfth district in Ohio; the Eleventh
district in New Jersey; the Second district
in Maine; the First, Second. Sixth, Sew
enth. Ninth and Tenth districts in the
delegation at large from Indiana.
Fight in Illinois
In the matter of contest in the Second,
Third Sixth. Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh,
Twelfth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth. Eighteenth
Twenty-third and Twenty fifth. and the
seats of Ben S. Gable and John P. Hop
kins from the state at large. in Illinois,
your committee recommend that the del
egations as named by the national COM
mlttee are entitled to seats in this con-
yention as the regularly accredited dele
gates and alternate In the matter of the
contest from the Twenty-first district of
the state of Illinois. your committee re-
ports that the names of Alfred Orendorf
and A. Bearman as delegates. and J. M.
Shumway and Jessie F. Griffin as alter
mates. are entitled to seats in this con-
vention as the properly accredited dele
gates and alternateS.
In the matter of the delegate to this
convention from the state of North Da-
kota who was killed in a railway accident
on his way to st. Louis, Jacob G. Birder,
It appears that the alternate of said
Thomas R. Shaw his proxy to represent
him at the convention, which proxy was
filed with your committee. We recon-
mend that said proxy be recognized and
that said Thomas R. Shaw be received as
the properly accredited representative in
this convention.
the island of Porto Rico and the Philippine
islands shall have in this convention.
your committee recommends that each of
said islands be accredited with six dele
gates and six alternates, and that the
names of Charles M. Boerman, Hubert E.
Shafer. D. NJ. Field. Miguil Sales, Dr. A.
from Porto Rico be entitled to seats in
the convention as the regularly accredit-
ed delegates, and that from the Philippine
islands Oscar Sutro. w. d. Wisdom Hugh
Bonner, Judge A. c. Carson, Berry Bald
win and c. w. O'Brien as delegates, and
that William N. Swarthout. Victor Del
pan. d. w. Yancy. L. ]. Lambert, ]. M.
Coin and T. Hodgson, as alternates, be
admitted to seats in this convention as
the regularly accredited delegates and al
ternateS
Bryan's Minority Report
The minority report that Mr.. Bryan
moved as substitute for the majority
report began thus:
with one John P. Hopkins at its head.
Finding itself in the minority in the state
convention, said committee deliberately
planned to override the Democratic vote
of the state and secured by fraud and
intimidation majority of the delegates
to the national convention. To this end
they brought contests in a number of the
districts outside of those controlled by
the said committee, and placed their own
men upon the temporary roll call of the
convention.
Then they had a credentials committee
made up. and as far as possible had the
district members of the credentials COM
mittee taken from the contestants whom
they had seated This credentials COM
mittee, without intention to go into the
merits merits of the contest, seated the Hopkins
delegates in every instance. The minority
of the committee on credentials presented
report, but Mr. Quinn the chairman of
the convention declared that the minority
report was only advisory and would be
filed for record. He then put the vote
upon the majority report and declared it
carried and refused roll CALL although ii
was then and there demanded.
Presentation of Evidence
In the hearing before the credentials
committee of this Democratic national
convention but very limited amount OF
time was allowed for the consideration OF
q fir11a hat nc
impossible to present the evidence to the
committee, the time being consumed in
the arguments made by the attorneys
for the contestants and contestees but the
evidence as matter of record was pre-
scented before the subcommittee of the
national committee on Monday July 4
The report says that the contestant
supported their case by hundreds of aft
davis and hundreds of pages of docu-
mentary evidence. but that the contestees
offered no affidavits and no documentary
evidence except the report of the conven-
ton officers, and no evidence at all but
their own unsupported oral statements.
The report then goes into a detailed
analysis of all the testimony offered or
behalf of the contestees, especially as
concerned primary elections in the
Second, Third and Ninth congressional
districts. Mr.. Bryan also entered into
a summary of testimony concerning
primaries in the Sixth Tenth, Eley-
enth and Twelfth congressional dis
tricts, pointing out in some of the pri-
maries, as he affirmed the unjust
treatment to which the majorities ha6
been subjected.
Under all the circumstances. he
said, the minority believe that it is i'm.
peratively necessary that this conven-
ton shall repudiate the outrageous ac.
ton of the convention of Illinois. To
do otherwise is to disregard the princi-
pies of the Democratic party
The report recommended that the
contestees be seated from the Second
Third, Ninth, Twelfth, Fifteenth Six.
teenth, Twenty third and Twenty-fiftt
congressional districts, joining will
the majority in seating the delegate.
from the Twenty-first district.
RI Bryan Speaks Bitterly
Mr.. Bryan said in support Of his mi.
nority report:
1 came to this convention in the hop.
: that We would be able to agree on plat
form, on candidates and have nothing t.
stir the feelings or rouse contention
still hope that we shall be able to agree
upon platform that will represent the
sentiments of all of us; that we can pre-.
sent 1t to the country as the platform of :
united party. I will 90 further tho :