The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-09
FIGHT CROWS
 VERY BITTER Guffey Loses in Creden- tials Committee. BIS DELEGATES ARE UNsEATED Fourteen States Line Up With Him
 h Protest. xaese states Are Anti-Bryan aad TAeir Attftude Is Regarded as show
 sng signiacant Under-
 current sf Sentiment. 
BIS DELEGATES ARE UNsEATED

Denver, Juy S-The supreme ngnt of today ragged about the contest over the Pennsylvania delegation ana the displacement of Colonel James M. Cuff fey, Of Pittsburg. for he is the leader Of the Pennsylvania Democracy. h. tense interest has been awakened over this all night light. which eliminated al 10 o'clock this morning when the clement friendly to MT. Bryan secured a complete victory before the Com mittee on Credentials.
 This was but the prelude to con- test of intense bitterness on the floor of the convention today as Colonel Guffey and his lieutenants announced their decision to fight to. the last ditch. 1t was not alone a personal contest. but one to some extent involving the Presidential nomination itself, for if Cufgey should be finally and decistyely unhorsed before the convention today, 1t meant that the one rallying point of the anti Bryan forces had gone to pieces, whereas a Guffey fight on the aoor of the convention meant the first ,.nhow down" of a roll call between the two eIements--Bryan and anti- Bryan.
 Guffey was fairly stunned when word was brought to him of the action of the comraittee.
 Gan it be possible" he said. "tnat
  senting the sovereign State of Penn gylvania, men holding certificates un- der the great seal of the Common wealth has deliberately taken placer
 The report of what had been done was laid before Colonel Gufbey by John M. GArman. former Democratic State Chairman of Pennsylvania. and the Rennsylvenia member of tho Creden- 1saas Committee. All night he had stood at the door of the committee ro0ms refused a place owing to the pending contests. but always on guard. without food or relief, through the early morning hours until the final action was taken.
 Immediate steps were taken to car ry ths contest to the floor of the con- vention and Colonel Guffey Issued the following formal protest.
 s'Fennsylvania delegates came to this convention elected under the statutes of Pennsylvania, their elect. ion being certified not alone by the Commissioner of the District but by the Secretary of the Commonwealth os Pennsylvania. Not c shadow of com. pIaint was made as to any of these delegates. This delegation was certi- aed to the National Convention by the Chairman and Secretary of the State Central Committee of Pennsylvania. Notice of contests in a few districts were filed with the National Commit tee A sub-eommittee of the National Conmittee was appointed and a full and absolute hearing given the con- testants. The subcommittee ruled unanimously in favor of the certified delegation. The National Committee as body. unanimously adopted fhe report of the subcommittee and this action made the right of Pennsylva- mia in the preliminary organization nk Nnfh4ma rnarlA Anf right to sit and participate in the business of the convention The dele gation, prior to the meeting of the convention. caucused for the purpose of organization, forty-seven out of a total of sixty eight participating"
 Colonel Guffey is prepared not only 10 contest for the supremacy of his delegates. but he is preparing to meet a personal attack o1 tho floor his ann intuition bags being hastily fillcd with a full complement of heavy shot to meet the attack with all the force at his command.
 This Pennsylvania nght Involving as ct does. the anti Bryan opposition, is absorbing the attention of delegates and is the topic of discussion.
 The vote in the Committeo on Cre- dentials of the Pennsylvania contests showed fourteen States. including New York. voting with Colonel Gufrey's forces. AS the latter arc anti-BiYan the attitude of these fourteen States was regarded as showing a significant undercurrent oe sentiment. The tour teen States voting with the Gufrey forces were:
 New York. New Jersey. Texas, Viz ginia, West Virginia, Delaware, uli- nois, Ohio, Minnesota. Georgia, Louis iana Kentucky. Maryland and Tennes. see.
 A minority report from the Credan- tials Committee is being prepared by Attorney General Straus of Maryland. and it Is expected the representa- tIons of the fourteen States who voted with Guffey will sign the minority report
 State Senator Dimeling. Chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Central Committee. this afternoon said:
 ssrhe six seats. being the entire del. egation from Idaho. were contested and notwithstanding this fact they were permitted to name members of the va- riOus committees. In Pennsylvania the contest only involved eight and one half seats out of sixty-eight, but the State, by the action of the con vention yesterday. was deprived ot rep. reseutation on every committee. includ- ing the Platform Committed Porto Rico and even Hawaii have members of the Committee on Resolutions, but the great state of Pennsylvania was