The Washington herald., 1908-03-26
INDIANA FOR BRYAN
Taggart's Men Probably Vic
tOriOus in Hot Fight.
CONVENTIONS ARE EXCITING
Antis Hold Fort for Time and
Then VacRte IN Favor of the Tag
gErt Faction in the seventh Dis
trict-Boxing Methods and Fist
Fights In the Convention Hall.

indianapolis, March 95.-The meeting OF
the Seventh district convention this AFT.
ernooh was attended by numerous fist
fights and knockdowns. curses were hurl.
ed at each other by the Taggart men and
the antis, and the police had to be called
TO maintain order Each of the faction.
elected district delegates TO the Denver
convention and State convention. and tho
question of regularity will now go before
the credentials committee Of the star,
convention.
All the delegates elected and claiming tC
have been elected at the primaries yes,
terday afternoon and last night crowded
into the Criminal Courtroom this after.
noon. ard as soon as District Commit
teeman Koerbly called them to order. the
antis moved that Charles Clark be made
chairman.
This motion was declared out Of order,
but the ants voted anyhow. and Clark
was assisted upon a table from which he
was promptly pulled down by a half
dozen Taggart men. Around these had
assembled fifty or sixty men, and the
hght soon became general. three regular
boxing matches being carried on in one
part OF the room and two men being
knocked down in another
Antis Meet First.
Somebody named two men as delegates
TO the Denver convention, and Clark. with
two men at his throat and speaking so
low that he could not be heard three feet
away, put the motion and declared the
two delegates elected. State convention
officers We're similarly chosen. and then a
motion 10 adjourn was made and declared
adopted by Clark. who all the time was
in the hands Of stalwart Taggart men,
struggling to make himself heard Then
the ants, sixty-one strong, filed out Of
the room, leaving it to the Taggart men.
While the antis were thus forcing
through their programme the Taggart
men had named a committee on contests,
and the committee was holding meeting
in adjoining room The committee, Of
course, reported in favor of unseating all
Of the ants and seating the Taggart con-
testants, and the report was adopted
Recognize Taggart Men.
The report Of the committee added thir-
ty-three votes to the forty-fve uncon-
tested Taggart votes. and ne thus had a
clear majority. Delegates to Denver were
then chosen and the State convention Of
fcers were named As the ants refused
to recognize the district chairman or sub
NIT their contests TO the convention COM
mittee, there is little doubt but that Tag
CARTS men win be sustained and the two
delegates selected 20 Denver will be for
him for national committeeman
There were no contests in the other
twelve district conventions, and large
majority of the men selected are rec
ognized as Taggart supporters. thus insur-
ing his reelection as national committee
man and giving him the victory both in
his own district and the State at large.
Nearly all the conventions pledged their
Denver delegate to vote for Bryan, and a
resolution has been prepared for presenta-
ton TO the convention tomorrow indOrs-
ing his candidacy and instructing for him.