The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-05
CONTESTANTS GET THE FIRST BLOOD Hearst and Harrison Are Fa-
 vored in Illinois COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED National Committee VIII Reconvene This Morning and Hear Reports
 of the sub-commlttee
 on contests.
COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED

to take up the contests for temporary seats in the convention. Tne main fight was in the Illinois case. which included the seats of John P Hopkins and Ben T. Cable delegates at large. and two dele- | gates from thirteen other districts. William J. Bryan. who has made the fight of the Illinois contestants a matter of his own. was one of the rrst to enter the committee room. having obtained the proxy of James c. Dahlman, national committeeman from NebrasKa. John P. Hopkins was there to fight for his own seat. holding proxy which he had ob- tained from Thomas Gahan the commit- tee member from Illinois.
 MT. Hopkins was confident as he en- tered the room. saying. 'The fight is just as good as finished Everything will be lovely"
 managers, said before the committee meeting that he had rot made a canvass of the committee, and was not In posi- ton to make predictions with confidence as to the result of the committees work.
 First Success Scored.
 The Harrison and Hearst factions scored the first success before the committee. As soon as the Illinois fight was taken up 1t was agreed by both sides that the better way to settle the matter was to permit it to rest with a subcommittee which should report to the national com mittee later. The important issue then came in the manner of the appointment of the subcommittee.
 Chairman James K Jones of the na- tional committee Is favorably inclined to | the Harrison and Hearst people, and they naturally desired to have him appoint the | committee John r. Hopkins made viz orous argument in favor of the appoint ment of the subcommittee by vote of the national committed The first indication | of strength came on the vote, and the national committee voted in favor of the Harrison and Hearst plan of selection py | 25 to 1b. Chairman Jones did not appoint the subcommittee at once but 1t wtll be composed largely of men favorable to the Harrison and Hearst interests.
 subcommittee Announced. The committee reconvened at o'clock | in the afternoon and Chairman Jones announced the sub-committeee, which listened to evidence in the contests as | follows: -t it'A-.-,l Illinois-wiule.a ,. Stone. Missouri chairman; Adair Wilson, Colorado; T, D! o'zsrien. Minnesota; Norman E, Mack, 1 New York; John T. McGraw, West Vir- | ginia-
 Resolutions--J's B. Breathitt Arizona, | chairman; w. B. Gourley, New Jersey; R. M Johnston, Texas; G. F. Williams, Massachusetts; II. T. Ellison, Virginia. Maine-J D. Eaton, North Dakota, chairman; Henry Lehman, Louisiana proxy); Marion Taylor, South Dakota; J. R. Jacobs, Oklahoma; J. M. Hulburt (proxy), Idaho
 South Dakota-M. F. Tarpey. Calror- mia, chairman-M. T. Miller, Oregoni T. L. Norris, New Hampshire; w. F. shee- han, New York (proxy; Wallace McLau- rin. Mississippi (proxY.
 Pennsylvania-Jame M. Head, Tennes- see, chairman R. R. Kenny, Delaware; Urey Woodson, Kentucky; Thomas Tag gart Indiana; H. B. Spalding, Indian Ter ritory.
 District of Columbia-K. B. Ferguson, New Mexico, chairman; J. s. M. Nell, Montana; w. H. Dunphy, Washington; G. P. Raney, Florida; D. H. Perry. Utah (proxy)
 Indiana-B. R. Tillman South Carolina, | (proxy), chairman; T. l.. Johnson, Ohio; Josephus Daniels, North Carolina; James P. Clark Arkansas; George, W. Green, Rhode Island.
 New Mexico--Henry D. Clayton, Ala bama, chairman; J. R. Ryan, Nevada; J. G. Johnson, Kansas; J. P. Seuter Yer mont: ]. B. Osborne Wyoming. The subcommittee went into session l Immediately following the adjournment of the national committee which wild meet again tomorrow at 10 o'clock at which time the suh-committees will report.
 Meet Again This Morning. The subcommittee which heard the evi- dence in the contests in the First, Second, Sixth and Eighth New Jersey districts ad- | journed after being in session for one hour. It will meet again at o'clock to- morrow morning and the members of the | subcommittee requested sides to the con- troversy to submit additional evidence at the morning session. The point on which the committee desired additional light was the number of men who were l denied admission to the floor, or were ejected from the state convention.
 The South Dakota contest flattened out and the regular delegate was not dis | turbed.
 A long and bitter fight was waged be- fore the subcommittee that heard the contest in the twelfth Ohio district, where | C. D. Seviers and John c. Pugh, two Hearst men. are seeking to unseat James Ross and c. F. Gillian.
 | It is claimed by the contestants that they were not given sufficient time prior to the state convention to certify all of their delegates and were thereby deprived of 176 votes. The subcommittee decided to report in favor of the contestees, Ross and Gillian.
 In the contested case in Tenth Indi- | ana district which was referred to sub | committee, of which Senator Tillman was chairman, 1t was decided after both sides had been heard that the case was not one in which the national committee had juris- diction, the regular delegates having been | duly declared elected by the Indiana state convention, The fight in this dis trict was between the Hearst and Parker factions. The result of the decision of the subcommittee is that the Parker dele gates, Daniel Smms and Martin Kruger, committee by the subcommittee as the regular delegates from the tenth district.
 Looks Like Hopkins.
 After an almost continuous session of tional committee, to which was submitted the evidence in the fourteen contests in the state of Illinois, went into executive | session at midnight, with every indfca- | tion that their verdict would be victory for John Hopkins and his faction. | In the afternoon the Second Third, | Your liver.