The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-05-17
Illinois Republican Conven-
ton Still In Apparently
Hopeless Deadlock.
COMPROMISE CANDIDATE
All Suggestions Along This Line
Have Been Sat Down Upon BY the
Struggling Factions.
The Fourth Day of Balloting Finds
the Candidates In Relatively the
Same Position.

Springfield, ILL.,, May 17.-With it's
prospect Of compromise which will
deliver the situation, the Illinois Re-
publican convention is struggling
through its fourth day of battling for
candidate for governor. At $50
o'clock last evening the convention
took recess until 10 o'clock this
morning. The recess followed the goth
roll-call, the result of which showed
each candidate with approximately the
same strength he had when he entered
the convention.
The last ballot taken yesterday gave
the following results: Yates, 4S1 440-
40; Lowden, 4O4 335-77O; Deneen, 1872
545-770; Hamlin, lis Al ITO; Warner,
81 44O-770; Sherman, Sc 44O770;
Pierce, % 440-77O.
The conventions proceedings were
comparatively tame yesterday, and at
only one time during the session was
there any great demonstration. This
occurred when glee club was invited
to the platform to sing. Uncle Joe"
Cannon asked the audience to join in
the chorus and led it himself, taking
commanding position on the platform
and beating time with his gavel re-
versed for baton. He looked like a
dignified old-time singing master at a
country schoolhouse as he gracefully
swayed his body in unison with the
music and described the beats of the
inspiring tune with his improvised
baton. The great audience, with this
inspiration before it, SANG with will
and when the echoes of the chorus
of ''Illnois" died away a wave of wild
enthusiasm swept over the immense
hall.
The attendance showed no diminu-
ton in the interest attaching to the
convention. There was a steady down
| pour of cold rain all day and the hall
was close and disagreeable, but the
! building was packed with people who
sat through the monotOnous roll-calls
without the least sign of Impotence.
The tension was high and the nervous
anxiety with which the crowd watched
| quieting effect upon the gathering.
Order was maintained with compare.
| tive ease.
A number of conferences are in
progress today. One of them, brought
about by the federal influence in the
convention is attempting to select an
outside candidate, and the names OF
Walter Reeves, Ex-Governor Fifer and
several others have been mentioned
The federal influences attempted tc
have their men agree upon Congress
man Warner, but they could not get
enough votes, and the threat of Ham
lin and Sherman to nominate Yates ir
the event that Warner became a for
midable candidate, deferred them. The
Yates people are claiming that Sena
tor Cullom is exertng his influence
with pOstmasters in various por+s O
the state to get votes away from Yates
1t is charged that a Gallatin county
delegate who quit Yates did so in re
Spouse to telegram from H. M. Pee
pies, postmaster at Shawneetown.
The Yates and Deneen people are il
conference for the purpose of strength
| ohlAS I1CiI ICSChC dllidHSC, "AlSI Ii
designed to prevent the federal influ
ences from stampeding the convention
The failure of any of the Hopkins coun
ties to break from Yates indicates tina
Senator Hopkins has decided to sta.
with Yates in the struggle. although
the LOwden men still insist that the.
will get Hopkins as soon as the lat
ter's votes will be sufficient to settl
the contest