The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-25
'LEADESRHIP IS LACKING
Neither Faction Has An Ac- knOwledged Head.
In Tennessee, Carmack VIII Lead the Delegations al. St. Louis and In- struction. for Judge Parker
 Are Probable.

Columbus, Ohio, May N.-The prelimi- nary meetings today of the Democratic State convention, which opens here to-
 morrow demonstrated that the conserve l tives were in control two to one on their | opposition to Hearst, but divided among themselves on Presidential preference for James Kilbourne of Columbus and Jud. son Harmon of Cincinnati and other l propositions.
 These preliminary skirmishes also l demonstrated that neither "the old guard. known as the conservatives, nol the Hearst-Bryan-Jo Johnson men," known as the radicals. has a leader.
 l. Mayor Johnson of Cleveland who has been the recognized leader in his party in Ohio for the past two years, was to- day unable to control the votes of the
 two State Committeeman from his own
 city whom he had put on the committee
 one year ago and the same was true of other members of the State Central Com
 mittee whom he had selected.
 While there was no leader on the ground, there was much comment tonight that the old following of John R. Mo
 Lean, publisher of The Cincinnati In-
 quirer. was again in control Mclean
 had previously declined to allow his name to be used for either district delegate or
 delegate at large. and he was said to be out of politics. but now he is expected to
 succeed himself as the Ohio member of the Democratic National Committee and be a factor at the St. Louis convention. Captured JohnaOn's Committee The Mclean men not only secured a
 majority of the delegates, but also con trol of the so-called Johnson State Com mittee." The state Committeeman from Cleveland even voted to seat the Mclean oN a were contested by Johnson men.
 i The old State Central 'Comnlittee was in session ali afternoon passing contests 1 by counties Instead of by districts.
 The round up of these contests was as
 follows: Conservatives. Clernopt, q; Hamilton, ~; Madison. {: Montgomery, e4: Summit, B. Total. 9S. Raricals: Franklin, s5 and Miami. :. Total. 4z. Unknown, but supposed to be radical:
 Cuyahoga, a. If the 73 votes of Cuyaho-
 ga County, headed by Mayor Johnson. cooperate with the radicals, it means two Congressional districts, which. with the Twelfth makes three districts that the radicals secured in the temporary
 contests while the conservatives secured six. When the delegates met by Congress sionaI Districts at p. m, the conser- vatives carried thirteen out of the twen- ty-one districts for members of the new
 State Central Committee and other com mitees. The radicals have representa- lives on these committees only from six
 districts, the Cleveland district being
 classed as doubtful.
 The new State committee. on ac- count of protests, did not organize but adjourned, to June g. The committee
 on resolutions got Into fight on en- dorsing the Chicago and Kansas City l platforms, and is holding an all night session, as is the committee on cree | dentials. The latter committee considered the | contests by districts while the State
 committed called the counties. In this | order, the State committed was par tially reversed on the third district,
 when the two delegations from Mont gomery county were given a half vote each. It was evidently reversed in the l 120th district, and the conservative del- | egation, headed by James Ross, was seated by a vote of 14 to 5. with two not voting, instead of the Hearst del- | egation.
 The committee on resolutions refus-
 ed to osre-affirm the Chicago and Kansas City platforms and left the enuncia- tion of national principles to the St.
 Louis convention The platform se-
 verely arraigns the national and State
 administrations. Resolutions for the
 endorsement of James Kilbourne for
 president were defeated. The resolu-
 tions provide for the unit rule at St.
 Louis.