Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-08
THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

The minority reports that Mr.. Bryan
moved as substitute for the majority
report began thus: Z.
'IllinOis has a state central committee
with John p. Hopkins as it's head.
Finding itself in a sminority in the
state convention. said committee de-
liberately planned to override the DEM
ocratic vote of the state and secured by
fraud and intimidation a majority of
! the delegates to the national conven-
ton. To this end they brought contests
in Il number of districts outside of those
| controlled by the said committee and
placed their own men upon the tempo
| rary roll call of the convention.
Then they had n credentials commit
| tee made up and as far as possible had
the district members of the credentials
committee taken from the contest and
whom they had seated. This credentials
committee without intention to go into
the merits of the contest, seated the
| Hopkins delegates ip every instance.
| The minority Of their committee on Gre
dentials, presented Il report, but Mr.:
| Quinn. the chairman of the conventions
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 car
ried and refused a roll call, although
| il was' then and there demanded. g
in the hearing before the credentials
committe of this Democratic national
convention but very limited amount
of time was allowed for the cOnsiderar
ton Of this contest. so short a time
I that it was impossible to present the
evidence to the committee, the time
being consumed i'm the arguments made
by the attorneys for the contestants
and contestees. but the evidence as a
matter of record was Presented before
the subcommittee of the national COM
mittee on Monday, July t."
The report says that the contestants
supported their case by hundreds of af-
fidavits and hundreds of pages of docu-
mentary evidence but that the confess
tees offered no afiidavits and no docu-
mentary evidence except the report of
the convention 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 on
behalf of the conteStees especially as
concerned primary elections i'm the sec
ond, third and ninth congressional dis
tricts.
The report after further review of
the testimony, recommended that the
contcstees be seated from the second,
third. ninth, 18th, 18th. 10th. ed ana
25th congressional districts joining
with the majority in seating the dele
gates from the 2lst district.
Mr.. Bryan also entered into n sum-
mary of testimony concerning prima-
ries i'm the 9th. 10th, nth and 18th Con-
gression districts, pointing out in some
Of the primaries as he affirmed. the I'M
Just treatment to which the ma jorities
had been subjected.
Under all the circumstances" he
said. "the minority believe that it is
imperatively necessary that this con-
vention shall repudiate the outrageous
action of the convention of Illinois To
do otherwise is to disregard the prin-
ciples of the Democratic party"
Another minority report was present.
ed recommending the seating of the
following delegates from the District of
Columbia:
Herman j. Schulteis, William r..
Carr. Henry w. Sherman, Cornelius p
Keneally. Thomas F. Ryan and Ward
Savage.
When Mr.. Head moved the adoption
of the report, Chairman Williams asked
if there was demand for any division