The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-18
LITTLE CHANGE IN ILLINOIS.
Dencen Gnins votes from che sherman
 Counties.

LITTLE CHANGE IN ILLINOIS.
 Dencen Gnins Votes from Che sherman l Counties. | Springfield. H.. May 17.-Conferences to
 break the deadlock in the Republican | State Convention seeming fruitless. the delegates faced prospect of further stubborn balloting J. H. Nevill of | Governor Yates's campaign committee.
 said that no agreement between Yates | and any of the candidates had been reached. but that if the balloting failed | to produce results before 4 o'clock this | afternoon. further efforts would be made | to get the candidates together. l The outlook today was that unless Yates should be beaten by a combina- ton to which both Lowden and Deneen were parties. the deadlock would continue
 indefinitely. During one of the confer ences the Governor is said to have made | the statement that since he had more votes than any other candidate he ought to be the last that should be expected l to withdraw. and rather than yield an inch he would let the convention ad- | journ sine die or take forty days re- | cess.
 Tn the Yates camp today there were | intimations that the Governor might execute coup today. There was some l depression among the Lowden men, who had expected substantial gains yester- | day, and who today seemed confronted l by a possibility that Colonel Lowden might be forced to a choice between Yates and Deneen.
 The Governors delegates decided to- day to march in a body to the conven- ton hall. Kane County on the thirtieth ballot, the first today, voted 26 for Lowden, leaving Yates.
 wilI County also transferred 25 votes to Lowden and the announcement was greeted by cheers.
 The ballot was concluded at 10:55 a. m., with but few changes aside from
 gains for Lowden in Kane and Will. A demonstration followed the announce ment of the result Yates men started rival demonstrations, holding up Yates cards
 Thirtieth ballot (officiaD:
 Yates, 43T; Lowden, 452; Deneen. 382; Hamlin. Ill: Warner 45; Sherman. S1; Pierce. 21.
 The thirty-first ballot was without definite result. The thirty-second fol- lows: Yates 42s: Lowden, 473; Deneen, 3s3; Hamlin. 1o9: Warner, 3S Sherman, 49; Pierce, 22.
 The conventinon hall was crowded long before the convention of the body in the evening" Governor Yates entered short ly before o'clock at the head of the Morgan County delegation and was greeted with an enthusiastic demonstra- tion.
 After order had been restored, Chair man Cannon called the body to order, and ordered the thirty~seventh roll call. The call was duplicate of the thirty sixth call. until Hancock County, F~s threw its force to Deneen amid a great demonstration by the Deneen men. Hen derson County followed by throwing It's four Sherman votes to Dencen. Madison gave five of it's votes to Deneen and Shermars ten delegates in McDonough, four in Menard and eight in Mercer went to the Cook County States attorney. The Deneen people went wild with excitement over the delivery of the sherman strength and the roll call was concluded amid great confusion.
 The vote as officially announced was as follows: Yates. 4s7; Lowden, 2s5 1-2; Deneen, 445 1-2; Hamlin, 109; Warner, S7; Sherman. 6; Pierce, g.
 The official vote of the thirty-etghth ballot was announced as follows: Yates, 490; Lowden. 393 112; Deneen, Al 1-2; Ham, lin, 113; Warner, 37; sherman. 2; Pierce, 9.
 The convention at S:25 took recess to Il o'clock tomorrow morning.
 The political leaders. including Senators Cullom and Hopkins and Congressman Lorimer. spent the entire afternoon in conference concerning which none of them would talk for publication.
 During the early part of the forenoon an effort was made to have Mir. Lowden to get out of the race and suggestions along this line were made to him by a large number of those who have been friendly to him. He was told that 1t was now evident the Yates people would not under any circumstances give him enough votes to bring about his nomlna- ton.
 The more loyal of Lowden's people re- fused to listen to this talk and they urged their candidate to stand firm. They argued that he was the only one of the anti-Yates candidates who had shown any considerable amount of strength and that there was no reason for him to quit.
 During the afternoon some of the Deneen delegates got together and pre- pared a telegram to President Roosevelt, protesting against the activity of the federal employees in behalf of Lowden. Older heads in the delegation pointed out that this would be suicidal as Deneen might want the assistance of the federal influence later and the message was not gent