The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-06

first ballot, but the Territory committee
man on Resolutions. Roy Stafford is no
IN favor of ignoring the platform of 100
The delegation will vote for McClelia
should his name be before the conventio
after the first ballot.
The caucus elected George Bellamy
formerly Of Saline County. Missouri, it
| chairman. and the representatives ON tn
various convention committees are:
Resolutions, Roy Stafford; Credentials
William Burkholtz: Permanent Organiza
ton. Frank Stevens; Rules, w. VI. Wor
den: to inform nominee for President. W
NJ. T1lghman; TO notify nominee for Vic
President, d. V. Welty.
Tennessee.
Senator E. w. Carmack will represent
| Tennessee on the Resolutions Committee
and will oppose reaffirmation of the las
two Democratic platforms. He thinks
that the Mississippi coinage plank Is about
| the right thing, and himself was the au
thor of a plank similar to it for the Ten
nessee State Convention.
| The TennessA Ae delegation caucused yes
| terday morning and elected \. H. White
! chairman of the delegation. The commit
| teemen are as follows: Resolutions, Sen
| ator e W. Carmack; Credentials, James
John K Shields; Rules, George Milton;
! to notify the nominee for President, W.
A. Percy: to notify the nominee for Vice
President, T. l.. Thompson.
! The caucus elected r. E L. Mountcastle
| of Knoxville National Committeeman. The
| old committeeman. James \. Head. was a
| candidate for reelection. but was defeated
| by a small majority.
Senator Carmack of the Resolutions
| Committee will second the nomination of
| Judge Parker and has the Endorsement of
| his delegation for Vice President.
| Texas.
| Texas Is for Parker ana n conservative
platform. and one of her Senators, Charles
A Iv,,l1 L.,
| ton. while her other Senator Joseph W.
Bailey, is to represent her on the Resolu-
tfons Committee
The Texans held their caucus yesterday
morning at the New St. James
Room No. 332 is their Headquarters r
N. Johnston is National Committeeman.
t. W. Gregory Of Austin is the member
sraS of the Crsdentials dsI t Committee: William
Brs.ness. VI
Richard Mays of Corsicana. who is in
snarse s OF the Texas headquarters. and
setera! other delegates. say that the Lone
star State has no choice yet for Vice
President LUZ '''e
Montana.
senator W. A. Clark heads the Montana
delegation. AT the caucus of that delsrs-
ton In suite No. 52S at the Planters ves-
terday morning he was chosen chairman
as matter of course, and also as a mai
all the other places '''i
The Montana situation Is very different
from what It was at the last convention
a, AZ Kansas Essa City the delegation headed by
The lights of his life. but he triumphed
ana Is now supreme Martin MaGinnis
Mas selected as Montana's member of the
hesoiquons committee. He is a silver
man. but favors a conservative platform.
The Montana delegation has refresh-
Imentssand cigars for Its friends and is
time. eoou
Harry Galway is secretary of the dele
cation.
South Dakota.
South Dakota's eight votes will be cast
for William r. Hearst The delegation
was so instructed by the State Conven-
ton. and when the delegation held its cau-
Gus IN room No. l12 at the Planters yester-
day morning loyalty to Hearst was again
pledged.
Senator R F. Pettigrew was chosen
chairman Of the delegation, and will also
lutions Committee.
Chauncey l. Wood, from Rapid City. is
member of the Credentials Committee.
t he Is in favor of any move to beat Parker.
Inc entire South Dakota delegation is
very bitter against Parker. Senator Petit
grew is a loyal friend of Bryan, and will
stand with him. he states. in the making
OF the platform.
Kentucky announces twenty-six votes for
Parker. The caucus was held in the
Railway Exchange building at o'clock
last evening. A preliminary caucus had
been held earlier in the day, at which
Ollie James. Congressman from the First
DlStrlct. was chosen chairman.
Inc delegation came to the convention
pound by the unit rule. but uninstructed
Tor President. However, 1t has been
known all along that a safe majority of
the delegates favored Parker, and. after
men from the first four districts were
ready to climb into the band wagon.
h,I. me caucus was very peaceabe affair.
only contest was between Urey Woodson
and w. =. Haldeman of the Courier Jour
nal for National Committeeman. and that
VASE was quickly decided by vote. which re-
MGodson has been committeeman for
eight years. He owns the Owensboro
Messenger and the Paducah Democrat
r. G. Kern. a nephew of r. II. Kern of
81. Louis, IS one of the delegates from
the Tenth Kentucky District He favors
q conservative platform, and has no choice
lucky delegates seem to have given no
tfcrght to the second place on the ticket.
Mr. Kern expressed the sentiment of the
delegation when he said:
we are not much interested In the vice
presidency and would be willing to have
Judge Parker make suggestion 1t might
pS d boNu laeh 10 SeieCt SO0Q man from
Wisconsin,
Governor ]. H. Beckham was chosen for
member of the Resolutions Committee He
Is in favor Of a broad platform of the
ultra-conservative sort
Senator Joe Blackburn made the motion
In the caucus to have Kentucky commit
nerself to Parker. He said: while /
have never believed, nor do l believe now.
that Parker Is the strongest man we can
nominate. 1t is clear that he is the choice
OF the convention. and it is our duty to
Senator Blackburn stated that he orig
tnally favored German and that after Cor
man he preferred Mcclellan, but that the
action of New York made 1t inexpedient
to nominate Mcclellan. Germans name
was cheered and McClellans name brought
forth little noise. On the question of
platform he said: Make it broad enough
for everybody who ever was a Democrat
to stand on"
Wyoming.
wyoming. instructed for Hearst and
bound by the unit rule. is the last State
to be called in the convention. Some of
the delegates did not arrive until last
night. and thus far only the members of
the various committees have been se-
lected by the caucus
The committeeman are D. N Stfcknev