The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-27
PARKER'S FORCES
GETTING READY
TAGGART MADE CHAIRMAN.
DEMOCRATS HAVE STARTED PRE-
PAIRING FOR CAMPAIGN.

Indiana Mans Friends Forced EIec-
tiOn of Chairman of Democratic
National Committee Arranging
and Selecting Campaign Mann
gers-Taggart Goes to EsOpus To-
day-HiII Very Much In Evidence.
lis Committee Himself.
New York, July Interpretations
were fulfilled to-day when Thomas
Taggart of Indiana was elected chair
man of the Democratic National Com
mittee.
Indorsed by nearly every member Of
the committee, the day after the con-
vention adjourned at st. Louis, Ut
has been known ever since that only
the decree of Judge Parker in favor
of some other man, or the consent Of
Senator German to accept the place,
could prevent the selection of Mr..
Taggart. Neither of these contingent
cies arose and the Indiana man was
unanimously chosen to a place for
which he long has had aspirations.
Although the vote was unanimous,
il was not until it was actually in
progress that opposition to Taggart
was withdrawn. Beginning with the
return of Senator German, former Sen
ators Hill and Jones and other Dem
ocratic leaders from Esopus last even
ing, and lasting up to the moment
when the committee was called TO
order to-day, the strongest possible eff
fort was made to bring Senator Cor
man into the field or to arrange a
combination that would place some one
besides Taggart at the head of the COM
mittee.
Friends Forced Things.
Almost continuous conferences were
held, intimations of great financial ad-
vantages to the party were made, and
many expedients were suggested, even
to delaying the election until after the
committees visit to Judge Parker to-
morrow, in order to defeat Taggart.
But nothing could change the deter
mination of his friends to force an cleo
tion to-day and to compel a show of
strength. Failing to secure the neces-
sary condition to defeat Taggart, the
opposition yielded and the proceedings
of the committee were brief and har-
monious.
The contest for the other offices Gre
ated only a slight diversion and differ
ences regarding them, which have been
somewhat spirited for a few days past,
were easily adjusted.
The most important action of the
committee, aside from the election of
a chairman, was that of arranging for
a committee, or committees. to manage
the campaign. A proposition submit
ted by William F. Sheehan. slightly
modified upon the suggestion of Sena-
tor Bailey, was adopted. AS agreed to.
it is as follows:
Arranging Committees.
THAT the chair be authorized to ap-
point not to exceed two vice chair
men, as his judgment may determine;
that the chair be authorized to ap-
point an executive committee of not
less than five, nor more than seven
members; that the chair be authorized
TO appoint a finance committee of not
less than three, nor more than five
members, and If in the judgment Of
the chair these two committees should
be amalgamated into an executive
committee, then the executive commit
tee shall be composed of seven MEM
bers; that If at any time the exigen-
cies of the campaign should, in the
Judgment of the Executive Commit
tee and the chairman Of the National
Committee. require II. or II It becomes
advisable TO increase the number, that
they may select additional members,
not more than one from any one state
as members OF said executive commit
tee: that In conformity with a resolu-
ton adopted by the last Democratic
national convention, the members of
said executive and finance commit
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