Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-05
Sustained by Democratic Ma
tional Committee.
BRYAN Is DEFEATED
CONTRASTING DELEGATES IN IL
LIMOS LOSE THEIR FIGHT.
Matter to Be Taken to the Committee
on Credentials-Some Display
Great Bitterness.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST LOUIS July 5.-The subcommittee OF
| the national committee, which yesterday
| and last night heard the evidence IN the
| fourteen contests in the state OF ILLINOIS,
| today reported to the national committee
| that it was the unanimous opinion Oh 'he
members of the subcommittee that the
Hopkins delegates be allowed to retain
their seats. The report was concurred H.
and the Hopkins people will hold their seats
unless ousted by the action of the commit
tee on credentials.
The decision of the subcommittee was
based on the ground that the state conven-
ton was supreme; that fights In the dis-
trict caucuses are not proper matter 1or
adjudication by the national committee,
and that it is not the business of the ma
tional committee to go behind the record
of the convention as submitted to them.
This shows that the Hopkins people are
the regularly accredited delegates, ana De-,
cause of this fact the subcommittee gave
it's verdict for them and did not consider
that it had any right to go behind the re-
turns and take up the evidence submitted.
The fight should in the opinion OF the COM
mittee, have been made in the state pelore
the completion of the record of the con.
vention.
Hopkins People Sustained.
sustains the contention Of the Hopkins peo-
ple, who insisted yesterday in every con-
test the national committee did not have
the right to decide contests in district
caucuses.
The Harrison and Hearst men were great
Nv disheartened by their defeat, and an
nounced their intention of carrying the
fight before the committee en- credentials,
and If beaten there, before the convention
itself This statement did not alarm Cne
Hopkins people. who said that the argu-
ment that won for them before the national
committee would hold good before the
credentials committee and before the con-
vention also.
TT is all over said John P. Hopkins.
1--WE won as l knew would. There is
in fact. nothing else for the committee TO
do. What steps may be taken later will
have no effect. Our delegates will remain
just where the state convention seated
them
Defeat for Bryan
The victory of the Hopkins faction was
also defeat for w. j. Bryan, who has
made the fight almost a personal matter.
He yesterday attended the meeting of the
committee and showed his anxiety in every
way to win the seats for the Harrison and
Hearst people
The action of the committee is farreach-
ing" he said land means that the work of
a few men is to stand before the wishes of
the majority of the delegates. L have hopes
that the credentials committee will see the
matter in different light.
The contests in the other states were re-
ported by the various subcommittee as
previously announced and their action was
approved by the national committee, which
then adjourned
First Decision Reversed.
After the adjournment of the national
committee it announced by three diff
80 th1t
the report circulated early in the day to
the effect that the Hopkins people were to
be unseated in several districts was cor
rect. The first decision of the committee
was to declare the Hopkins men out in the
second, sixth, ninth, twenty-first, twenty
third, fifteenth and sixteenth districts.
After reaching this decision, the commit
tee went over the ground for the second
time and decided that they had no jursdic-
ton in the matter, and that the record of
the state convention should be held su-
preme.
Before the meeting of the committee
it was rumored that the report would be in
favor of unseating the Hopkins delegates in
the second, ninth. twenty-first sixteenth
and twentythrd districts.
The Hopkins people when it was reported
| to them that they We're likely to be I'M
seated in five districts, expressed them
selves as confident that nothing of the kind
would be done.
II am very sure" said Mr. Hopkins, that
the committee will take the stand that
fights in district caucuses are not matter
for a national committee. 1t will go that
way to the credentials committee and tilat
body will hold in the same way. 1 am
absolutely certain that we will lose moth
| ing, and will win all of the contests"
Hot Words Exchanged.
The fight in the Illinois delegates in
volved thirteen districts and two of The
delegates-at-lar and was one of the
fercest ever seen before any convention.
The hearing yesterday and last night be-
fore the subcommittee of the national COM
mittee was only preliminary exercise for
both sides. The bitter work will come later
before the committee credentials, and
it is almost certain at this time that if
there is any chance to get the contest to
the floor of the convention it will go there,
| and be waged with energy.
Several times last night the retorts be-
tween the contesting factions were If SO
heated nature that Chairman Stone of the
subcommittee was compelled to repeated
ly call for order, and once suggested that
the gentlemen from Illinois would find the
outside of the hotel a proper place to con-
duct their arguments If their minds were
made up for a bull fight"
Charges of high-handed work were made
repeatedly against the secretary of the
state convention, George E. Brennan, and
the representative of the contestants in the
twenty-third district, l.. NJ. Katy, declared
| that twice he had furnished to Mr.. Brennan
| the names Oh the delegates selected IN their
district caucus. and that twice Mr.. Brennan
| had thrown the list on the floor, and he had
| found it there and submitted 1t to the COM
| mittee. This brought Brennan to his feet
with an 1mpassioned denial of the asser-
| tons made by Mr.. Katy and he wound up
his defense with the declaration, Every
body knows that 1 would not do such a
thing" This called forth jeers from the
contestants, and Brennan took his seat in
silence.
An Especially Bitter Fight.
An especially acrimonious fight took place
in the hearing of the contest in the twenty
third district. Here it was admitted that