The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-07
IN THE DRAMA AT DENVER AND
REFUSES TO DECLARE
HERSELF.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETS
And Renders Decisions In Regard to
Contests for Number Of Seats
in Convcntion--Bryan's Nom.
inaton Is Certain.

whelming proportions. and the nomi
nation of the Nebraskan seems as
sured beyond any reasonable doubt
All efforts to unite on vice presi
dental candidate have proved futile
anF the convention win begin its
deliberations to-day with the contest
for second place wide open.
majority OF the Pennsylvania
delegation IN caucus named Col.
James NJ Gu1rey as national commit
tecman. I'm open defiance of Mr.. Bry.
an'R demand fer bis displacement and
on the heels of Guney's public ar.
raigument Of Bryan as n hypocrite.
migrate and falsiGer" A minority of
the delegation held rump caucus
which sought TO dopose Guffey from
leadership and install james Kerr. a
Eryan man, as Pcnnsylvania's leader.
The New York delegation appoint.
cd a committee OF ten to draft a plat
form and named Judge Alton B. Park.
er' the Democratic standard bearer
Of 1904 as the New York representa-.
tive on the platform committee.
Thc New York caucus was silent
On tue presidential and vice presi.
dental situation and New York stil
fails TO show her colCrs.
The Democratic national commit.
tee disposed Of all contests before It
with the exception of those of Penn
sylyania and Idaho, which went over
until to-day. The general result was
10 sustain the delegates who came
With credentials from their state and
district conventions.
4 total Of as seats were involved in
the contests from Illinois. New York,
Pepnsylyania, Idaho and the District
of columbia The work was done by
six sub-committeemen, four of which
reported to the full body.
Roger c. Sullivan of Chicago was
an easy winner of the 20 contested
seats from Cook county which were
disputed by Robert e. Burke and his
associates.
Senator Fred y. Dubois was sus.
tained by the subcommittee which
heard the Mormon contests from Ida.
no, but the committee was not ready
TO make its report to the full COM
mitiee before that body adjourned
Tom Johnson Of Cleveland was a
winner i'm the Nineteenth Ohio dis.
trict where he triumphed over the
subcommittee, winning out by vote
oi 26 to "a before the national com.
mittee. The Rockwell delegates. E.
q. France aud A. c. Holloway. were
Displaced and the two johnson dele
Gates, j. +. Flaherty and Il. +. Rein.
ocll, seated in their places. The vic.
tory OF Johnson uas only won after
The Cleveland Jman delivered an argu.
rncnt before the committee. In the
Ninth Ohio district, the CARRIER ,sc-
ticn retained the two contested seats
over the protest of Johnson.
Patrick McCarren Of BROOKLYN was
lsnored in his contest against Charles
J Murphy for tbs l2 seats in Kings
cornty, New York. Before the sub.
committee he became so abusive of
the Murphy and Coler men that he
wog not permitted to proceed. and
tao meeting was abruptly adjourned
with the decision to take no further
action on the contests. The full com.
nitteo sustained this action.
lp the District OF Columbia contest.
where the entire delegation of six
mesnber'3 was involved the commit.
tee divided the seats between the
twq eontesting parties.
Joseph Howley Of the Thirty.hrst
PENNSYLVANIA district, whose rigst to
his seat was disputed by GuRey. was
sustained by the subcommittee. Il
was oonteuded that Howley was not
q Democrat, but had organized par
ty of his own called "the Bryan par.
IS"
The Pennsylvania contests that In.
yolYed eight seats in PHILADELPHIA
and three in. Allegheny provoked hit
ter discussion. Charles DAILY of Phil.
adelDhia appeared for the contest.
nnts and arralgned ChaTles p. Don.
nelly and Thomas J. Ryan, the lead.
ers Of the Guffey faction in these dis.
tricts, in the bltterest manner. He
charged that the eight Guffey dele.
gates were elected by the aid of Re.
publicans and that the rankest frauds
were perpetrated.
Both DonLelly and Ryan, who
spoke ia support of the regular dele
Eation, replied IN kind to the charges
Ryan became bitter in his denuncia.
tlon Of Daily calling him puppy" and
'upstart' and finally grew so violent
In his denunciation that Committee
man Allison of Virginia called him to
order and caused him to withdraw
his statements. The subcommittee
took these contests under advise
ment.
Mayor Tom l.. Johnson OF Cleve-
land will not be national committee
man from his state. The Ohioans
held their caucus on the train, 33 OF
the. total of 46 delegates attending.
Johnson got only six votes, the other
27 being cast for Harvey CARRIER of
Columbus, former chairman OF the
Democratic state executive commit
tee.