The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-04

mittee will meet for the purpose OF
hearing evidence in a number of con-
tests and deciding in favor Of dele
gates who are to be seated under tenn
porary roll call.
The real fight in the majority Of
these cases will come before the com
mittee on credentials. The principal
contest will be In Illinois, where pro-
tests are made against two of the del
eeates at large, VIM. Perkins and Der
T. Cable, and twenty-six other dele
gates, two from each OF thirteen dis
tricts. The base of contest in all these
cases is practically the same. 1t being
alleged that the Hopkins faction in
the Illinois Democratic Convention ar
bitrarily unseated delegates of the
Harrison and Hearst factions. for pur-
poses of their own, without a shadow
of cause. The Hopkins men, on the
other hand. claim that the original
elections were void and that the ac-
ton taken at the Illinois State Con-
vention when the delegates of the
Harrison and Hearst people were I'M
seated was only righting a wrong pre-
vicusly committed.
The Harrison men seek to substi-
tute the names Of their men for the
Hopkins delegates in the second, third
sixth. ninth and tenth districts. Eff
forts will also be made to unseat the
Hopkins delegates in the eleventh,
twelfth. fifteenth. sixteenth, eigh.
teenth, twenty-flrst, twenty-third and
twenty fifth districts.
The fight for the seats in the Illi-
nois delegations takes on additional
interest from the fact that William J.
bryan has entered the lists actively
against the Hopkins men and will lend
all of his influence to unseat them. lie
declared today when discussing the
fights tfat are to be made tomorrow
before the National COMMITTEES:
In my opinion there Is no more
important question before the public
today that whether a few men. one
OF whom happens to have gavel In
his hand, shall override the wishes OF
the voters who have selected certain
men to represent them in convention
The people elect their men and should
have them. but in some cases OF late
It does not look to me as though they
were getting them. / am opposed 70
such things from every standpoint
1t was thought today that Mr.. Bryan
would be n member of the COMMITTEES
on credentials and thus be able to help
his friends in Illinois from the inside
of the committee, but he said this aft
ernoon that he would not be a men,
Der of the credentials committee. as
1t was necessary for him to be on the
committee on resolutions and he could
not very we'll be on both committees
as they would in all probability be
meeting at the same time.
The Hopkins men contend that the
National Committee will not be able
to take cognizance of the contests In
Illinois for the reason that there
was no bolt from the State Convention
by either the Hearst or the Harrison
men and that the National Commit
tee cannot take up contest unless II
is a State matter Differences arising
from district caucuses. they claim, are
not within the province of Nationa
Committee.
In addition to the contests in Hi
nois, there will be a fight for all OF
the seats of the delegates from tht
District of Columbia The Hears
management claims, in this connec
ton. that arbitrary rulings by tn,
chairman gave the seats unjustly t.
delegates who are friendly to German
Practically the same ground of arbi
trary ruling is made the issue in tn,
terth district of Indiana.
Other contests that will come befor,
| the committee tomorrow morning ar,
| from the second Maryland district, tn,
twelfth Ohio, the FIRST, second, third
| fourth and seventh of New Jersey.
was said tonight by several members
| of the National Committee that thu
! hearing of the evidence in these con
tests would not consume a great dea
| of time and that the main fight woult
| be made before the committee on ere
dentials in the majority Of cases.