The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-05
WARM FIGHT UPON
ILLINOIS CONTEST.
Both Factions Confident of Ultima te
Success.

bOth FaCtlOnS COnndent OF UItlmaIe
Success.
st. Louis, July 4.-The National
Committee met to-day to decide the
contests for seats on the temporary
roll call, and to transact matters of
. routine business.
1t was the general opinion. before the
meeting that there would be a warm
fight, particularly on the Illinois con-
test, as it was known that w. j. Bry-
an, who has made the quarrel of the
Harrison and Hearst people in that
state against John p Hopkins a mat
ter of his own, had secured the proxy
of James c. Dahlman, the national
committeeman from Nebraska, and
was to enter the meeting to make a
fight for his friends. John P. Hopkins
was also of the committee by virtue
of his proxy through Thomas Gahan
of Illinois, who is not in attendance at
the convention.
The promising prospects for a fight
were promptly realized when once the
committee was in session. A motion
backed by the Harrison and Hearst
people providing that all the contests
for seats under the temporary roll call
should be referred to subcommittee
which should report back to the gem
eral committee later in the day, pre-
cipitated the crisis. 1t is we'll known
that Chairman James X. Jones of the
National Committee is not a friend of
John p. Hopkins, and the Harrison and
Hearst factions hoped that in naming
the committee to decide the contest in
Illinois, he would name men friendly to
them and opposed to Mr.. Hopkins.
Bryan Made an Argument.
Mr.. Bryan made a strong argument
for the appointment of the sub COM
mittees by the chairman and John p.
Hopkins fought his own fight by ask
ing that all the contests be heard and
decided by the committee as d whole.
On the vote the Harrison and Hearst
factions showed the greater strength
and it was decided by vote of 29 to
16 that the chairman should name the
sub committees.
The Harrison and Hearst people
were jubilant after the adjournment
of the committee saying that they
had scored a success i'm the first round
of the fight and were confident that
they were started i'm the path that led
straight to permanent seats in the
convention.
John p. Hopkins, on the other hand,
was not cast down, but predicted that
he would not only win out on the tenn
porary roll call. but would occupy the
permanent seats in the convention. In
the first part of this opinion, at least
he was supported by a number of
members of the committee, who had
voted against his plea TO have che
contests settled by the national COM
mittee at whole.
subcommittee Named.
The committee reconvened at .
o'clock in the afternoon and Chairman
Jones announced the sub committees,
which listened TO the evidence in the
contests, as follows.
William ]. Stone, Missouri,
chairman: j. w. Wilson. Colorado; r.
O'Brien. Minnesota; Norman T.. Mack
New York; John T. McGraw, West
Virginia.
Ohio-J. C. Breathitt, Arizona. chair
man: w. B. Gourley New Jersey r.
NJ. Johnston, Texas; G. F. Williams,
Massachusetts,; j. T. Ellyson, Virginia.
Maine-J. B. Eaton. North Dakota.
chairman: L. r. Lehman. --; Marion
Taylor, South Dakota; J. r. Jacobs
oklahoma; j. NJ. Hurlbut, proxy,
Idaho.
South Dakota-M. f. Tarpey, Califor-
MIA. chairman; NJ. A. Miller, Oregon r.
L. Norris. New Hampshire; w. +.
Sheehan. New York. by proxy; A. j.
McLaurin. Mississippi. by proxy.
Pennsylvania-James NJ. Head, Ten
nessee. chairman; r. r. Kenny. Del
aware; Urey Woodson. Kentucky;
Thomas Taggart, Indiana; Mr.. Spald-
ing, -.
District Of Columbia-IS. B. Fergus
son, New Mexico, chairman ]. S. NJ
Neill, Montana; W. II. Dunphy, Wash
ington; G. p. Raney Florida Mr. 3er-
ry, -
Indlana-B. r. Tiliman. South Caro-
lima. proxy. chairman; 7. l.. Johnson,
Ohio, proxy; Josephus Daniels, North
Carolina James =. Clark, Arkansas
George r. Green, Rhode Island.
New Jersey-Henfy ID. Clayton, Ala
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