The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-11
JAMES I. LLOYD
 MADE CHAIRMAN MisSourian to Lead Congress
 sionaI Campaign OPPOSITION IS OVERCOME 
John Sharp Williams Was Opposed to Lloyd and Wanted a New Yorker for the Place, But Missouri
 Man is Easily Elected.

Washington, February 10-In the face of strong opposition by John Sharp Will Hams of Mississippi, leader of the mi nority in the House of Representatives, James T. Lloyd, representative from the First district of Missouri, was tonight elected chairman of the democratic con- gressional campaign committee, defeating his rival and MT. Williams candidate, Representative William H. Ryan of New York city, Fifth district of New York, by vote of 2S to IL Only one ballot was cast, and after it's announcement the election of Mir Lloyd was made unanimous on motion of Representative Fitzgerald of New York, who had the proxy for Mr. Ryan.
 Representative Frank Clark of the Sec ond district of Florida was unanimously elected secretary of the committee The appointment of a vice chairman and an assistant secretary was left, respectively to Chairman Lloyd and Secretary Clark, treasurer will be elected tomorrow. Two candidates for the chairmanship, Representatives Floyd of Virginia and Bowers of Mississippi retired from the race earlier in the day, after a prelimi- nary contest that lasted weeks.
 John Sharp Williams opposition to the election of Mir. Lloyd, the success or fail ure Of which was of as much interest to onlookers as the individual race itself, de- veloped about five days ago, when the minority leader began an active and viz orous, though quietly conducted. cam nf ( and the election of the representative rom Buffalo. In the lack of an open statement by MT. Williams of his req sons for opposing MT. Lloyd, two stories gained gratuitous circulation The first was that MT. Lloyd's adherence to the former candidacy of his colleague. MT. De Armond, for the minority leadership, was involved in Mir. Williams support of Mir. Ryan.
 The second was that MT. Williams be- heved northern man should be chosen as chairman of the campaign committee on the score that congressonally the south was solidly democratic and there fore the vote field lay in the north and should be captured by a northern demo- crat. The latter theory was, indeed. Droached In the committee tonight prior to the ballot, and it is declared that even some of MT. Ryan's supporters discred- tied 1t by the statement that the north and east were. friendly to democratic Con. gressiona1 issues, and the real fight lay in the west, the northwest and the middle vest; that Mir. Lloyd's knowledge of con- dltions in those section was a genuine as- set to the party. Mir. Lloyd went into the election tonight with b votes and gained eight from former supporters of Repre- sentatives Flood and Bowers.
 MT. Lloyd was placed in nomination by Champ Clark and the nomination was sec onded by Senator Stone and Representa- tlVes Kitchen, Gaines and Rainey. MT. Ryan's nomination was made by Repre- sentative Fitzgerald, who was followed in the speech making by Representatives Goulden, Williams, Hughes and Ans berry.
 After the election, MT. Lloyd declined to say at this time whether as has been rumored the democratic Congressional campaign headquarters will be removed from Washington to Chicago.