The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-14
HEARST BOOM A FIZZLE
ExTRAvAGANT CLAIMS SIMMER $ TO FIFTY EIGHT VOTES.
But Few State Delegates Instructed for New York Congressman-Con- tests May Take from Him
 Many Ballots in List.

Chicago Chronicle.
 Despite the extravagant claims of the Hearst men in Illinois the actual re- suits thus far obtained in the currency of instructed State Convention delegates show only fifty-eight votes for the New York Congressman out of total of nearly 500 Willard F. Dunlap, perhaps the chief lieutenant of Mir. Hearst in Illinois, admitted yesterday that only fifty eight delegates had been instructed for his chief In addition to these, how ever, MT. Dunlap claims seven delegates in Clinton County and four in Crawford County. making a total claim of sixty nine delegates.
 The table of instructed delegates is as follows according to MT. Dunlap:
 Jenerson county. ..........S
 Franklin County. .. .. .. ....6
 McLedn county. ........-.......H
 VIII Sounty.' .. ...................H
 Marion County. e. .. ............10
 It is probable, however, that contest ing delegations will be sent to the State Convention from Marion, Jefferson, Franklin and Win counties. The Marion Democratic County Committee met at Salem yesterday under a call recently Issued by the chairman to determine the date for the selection of candidates for county ofiiees and to instruct for can didate for State Senator. After dispens- ing with this business the committee pro- ceeded, apparently without the color of authority. to name ten delegates to the State Convention and to instruct them for Hearst This action is denounced by prominent Democrats of Centralia as a high-handed performance, as heretofore Democratic voters have selected dele gates to State Conventions. A contest ing delegation will be sent to the State Convention Max Prill, a member of the Democratic State Committed was indors- ed for State Senator.
 Of the fifty-eight claimeds as instructed Hearst delegates, eighteen are in the Twenty-third Congressional or Crowley District, eight delegates from Jefferson and ten from Marion. Franklin County Is in the Twenty-fffth Congressional Dis trict. Mclean is in the Seventeenth and six delegates selected in Crawford Coun- ty, which also is in the Crowley District, four are claimed for Hearst and two conceded to Congressman Williams. The Clinton County Convention did not in. struct, but 1t is claimed by Hearst man. agers that It's seven delegates will go to the New Yorker six being members 1t is said, of the Clinton County Hearst Club. The two delegates from Edwards County will go to the State Convention under Williams's endorsement, and Wayne County's eight delegates are in- structed for Williams. Edwards and Wayne counties are in the Williams dis- trict. With the two delegates in Craw- ford conceded by Hearst to Williams, the Carmi Congressman has total of twelve delegates.
 This is the situation on the authority of Hearst managers. but there is little doubt that Mir Hearst will lose Craw- ford and Clinton and that unless he controls the State Convention he prob ably will lose delegates In Jefferson, Ma rion, Franklin and Wfl counties.
 Lines are forming for a hot fight in Cook County between Mayor Harrison and the friends of Mir. Hearst The Hearst people charge the Mayor with