New-York tribune., 1908-07-09
MC4RREN ROLLED FLAT.
Gufey, Beaten an Committee, Car
ries Fight to Contention.
IBv Telegraph to The Tribune.l

IEv Telegraph to The Trbune1
Denver. July S-The Bryan "stone crusher
was temporarily removed to the credentials
committee yesterday afternoon and after d
seventeen hour session was triumphantiy Wlth-
drawn. leaving the mangled remains of Pat
McCarren, the Idaho Mormons Boooy
Burke. of Chicago and Colonel Guffey in its
wake.
McCarren and the rest are stone dead as far
as this convention is concerned. but Colonel
cueev still retained a spark of life and was
able to crawl into the convention. emit few
roars of pain and rage and then once more
submit himself to the crushing process ne
was full of fight, had the backing OF seVerai
delegations and determined the puoilc
should know the exact merits of the Pennsyl-
vania case.
The struggles in the credentials commlttee
lasted seventeen hours During that time many
dire predictions made as to the result OIL
the national election. Bryan was seated In
about four-ffths of the chairs ana 1he "oih
NJ the committee might as well have been done
in ten minutes The action OF the hatlolai
committee was indorsed in all cases save that
=. co1onel Cuffev The decisions of the COM
mtttee were follows:
Tho Murphy Brooklyn delegation seated unan-
imously.
The Kerr anti-Guffey Pennsylvania delega-
ton seated by vote Of ~ to IA.
The Du Bois anti-Mormon Idano oeiesa'lon
seated by a vote of % to 70
The Sullivan Illinois delegation seated unanl-
mously. ,.-
The Tom Johnson delegates in the 1Sth ONO
District seated by vote Of "a to q
Iour of the Clayton delegates seated in the
District of Colombia and two Oh the Dare ihe,
oklahoma allowed fourteen votes instead OF
ten. 9. -
The Guffey crowd is determined to fight TO
49,. h,+tor .nd and Attorney General Straus of
,r.ry1and presented the minority report Ihe
antiDubois men have given up the hsht' l1ey
cav +hev, came to Denver to save the Demo
cratic narty in their state from the hahos ol
a "bieoted handful of Mormon haters lhey
came within two votes Of being seated.
rba idaho case was first called. 1t took six
hours TO decide 1t. State Senator Nugeht Ilaue
Tho nlea for the anti-Dubois delegation and en-
deavored TO show that the Dubois district con-
vention was irregular. Senator DUBOIS ap-
roorad for his own men and contradicted prac-
ticaliv' all the testimony offered by the other
eide In his speech the Senator charged that
the contesting delegation was composed OF Nor
mons wbereupon that delegation scattered III
th ,ocl, of the hall said he liar.
National Committeeman Roger Sullivan ar
,,,.d his own case while Judge William Prentiss
.,a caorse Mulligan made the argument for the
contestants The anti-Sullivan case was shall
Iow one. and the committee was or one nhnd
when 1t came to a vote.
M.cARREN- -CoLER VERBAL DUEL
When the New York case was called Senator
McCarren asserted that his delegation was the
cboice of the Brooklyn voters, that Brooklyn
wss necessary to the success of the Democratic
.r+v In New York and that unless his men
mara seated there was no chance of Democratic
victory.
BIRD coler argued FOR Tammany. He con-
erad himself to a scathing denuncation of Nc
Carran and the Brooklyn Democracy. He said
tha proo,lvn boss and ex-Lieutenant Governor
1,r,uia,,, F sheehan and Colonel Gufrey were in
Denver engaged in a conspiracy to defeat Bryan
ond tho Democratic party, that McCarren was
| "tied hand and foot to the Republican party in
New York and that he brought ABOUT the de-
feat of Hearst two years ago
Colonel Guffey was not present when his case
no. called and the committee almost too
tired TO listen TO any rrotracted argument, so
otter \ speech by John German. of Pennsyl-
| vania. and one by ex-RepresentatiVe Kerr the
vote taken.
Ton, Johnson argued the Ohio case, and by
ain. or assiduous mentioning of Bryan's name
+ the verdict After the meeting the hollow
a,,aa committeeman went off to bed. satisfied
| tba+ thev had done the bidding of the Com
| ,,oner" but sorry that they had taken so long
about It,
Three of the men who voted to oust the Cuff
fey crowd announced after they voted that II II