Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-17
PLAN TO CUT SOUTHERN
REPRESENTATION FAILS
Committee on Rules Rejects Burke's
Resolution.

| CONVENTION HALL. CHICAGO, June
! 1.-THE effort to secure a reduced repre-
sentation of delegates to the national re-
publican conventions again has failed. BY
a vote of "a to II the committee on rules
| today rejected the Burke resolution, pro-
| viding for such reduction. and also by
| practically the same vote tabled the Par
| sons substitute. Representative Burke
| and his sixteen supporters announced tina,
they would file a minority report
! The main opposition came from the
| southern states. Alabama, South Caro-
lima and Maryland bitterly attacked the
resolutions. the delegates from those
states taking the same ground as their
southern colleagues who spoke yesterda y
| that reduction in the representation
| would spell the disruption of the republi-
can party in the south. They had the
support of Gen. Powell Clayton, national
committeeman and delegate from Arkan-
sas, who maintained that the resolution
was simply a proposition ito cruelty the
colored man and divide his raiment among
| certain states north of Mason and Dix
ons line He declared that the negro
was loyal to the republican party; but.
IL he was cast to 1.-The enemy" there was
nothing left to him but to make the best
terms he could with those to whom he
had been consigned.
The democratic party will take every
negro vote it can get he said. and
democratic ticket. the democratic party
will count their votes north and south
! Besides, he said, the proposition was illog-
| ical.
Burke's Resolution.
| The question was discussed for two
| hours Yesterday afternoon without result
an adjournment being taken until o clock
this morning. The basis of the discussion
was the resolution offered on the floor of
the convention by Representative James
F. Burke of Pennsylvania providing that
| hereafter each state shall be entitled to
| four delegates at large and one DELEGATE
for each 10000 votes or majority frac-
ton thereof cast at the last preceding
presidential election. and two delegates
from each of the territories
| AT times the discussion waxed warm
| The opposition came entirely from the
southern states. II. II. Myers of Arkan-
| sas. w. II. Lucas of Florida, Samuel Da
wilson of Texas and r. H. Angel of Vir-
| ginfa vigorously attacked the resolution
claiming that the republican party in the
south was working under adverse circum-
stances in order to bring that section
INTO line. They were agreed that the
| resolution. If adopted. would work a great
hardship and would discourage their Or
ganization. They argued that the same
question had been brought up before and
had been defeated at Philadelphia, and
they pleaded with the committee to sub
init an adverse report
Advocating the Resolution.
Against their contentious, however.
Representative Burke and W. A. Guthrie
OF Indiana, George II. Sullivan of Mime.
sofa and G. c. Dawson of Colorado ma in
tanned that the proposition was fair
Delegate Dawson strongly urged the reso-
| luton insisting that If the south want d
an incentive to build up it's organization
the resolution afforded it because the
larger the number of votes cast for re-
publican electors the greater would be
| the representation in the convention.
In explanation of how the south will be
affected by the resolution. Representative
Burke said that. taking into account the
delegates at large, South Carolina would
have vote for every 600 votes cast,
whereas Pennsylvania. Colorado and many
other states would have but one vote for
every 10000 votes. North Carolina, he de-
clared would have one vote for every 800
votes. while New York would have but
one for every 10000 votes. The repre-
sentation from the state of Mississippi
would be practically unchanged.