The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-07
STATE ROWS
 ARE DECIDED Acts Quickly on the
 Contests. DEMOCRATS HEAR CASES Guffey and Roger Sullivan Are
 Victors. Senator DuBcis of Idaho sad Tom Johnson of ohio Are sustAined--.
 Pat MeCaren Is Tsrcwn

Committee disposed of all contests be- fore 1t with the exception of those of Pennsyivania and Idaho. which went over until tomorrow morning.
 The general result was to sustain the delegates who came with creden- tials from their State and district con- ventions. A total of seventy-six seats were involved in the contests from Illinois, New York. Pennsylvania, Ida ho. Ohia and the District of Columbia.
 The work was done by six sub-com- mittees, four of which reported today to the full body. Roger c. Sullivan or Chicago was an easy winner or the twenty contested seats from Cook county which were disputed by Robert D. Burke and his associates.
 Senator Fred T. Dubois was sus- tained by the subcommittee which heard the Mormon contests from Idaho, but the committee was not ready to make it's report to the full committee before that body adjourned
 Tom Johnson of Cleveland was winner in the Nineteenth Ohio District where he triumphed before the Nation- Al committee The Rockwell delegates P. P. France and A. J. Holloway. were displaced and the two Johnson deie- gates. W. J. Flaherty and E.. F. Rein- iehl, seated in their places.
 In the Ninth ohio District, the Gar her faction retained the two contest ed seats over the protests of Johnson.
 McCarreu Was Abusive.
 Patrick McCarren of Brooklyn was ignored in his contest against Charles F. Murphy for the twelve seats in Kings county. New York. Before the sub committee he became so abusive of the Murphy and coier men that he was not permitted to proceed. and the meeting was abruptly adjourned with the decision to take no further action on the contests. The full committee sustained this action without debate.
 Tn the District of Columbia contest. where the entire delegation or SIX uneYYsbers was involved. the committee divided the seats between the two con- testing parties
 The faction headed by W. M. Clayton. whaeh held the credentials, got four seats. while the remaining two went to the contesting delegation of Charles W Darr
 Joseph Howley of the Thirty first Pennsylvania District whose right 10 his seat was disputed by MT .Guney' was, sustained by the -committee. It was eontended that Howley was not Democrat, but had organized q party of his own, called The Bryan party The Pennsylvania contests that in- voIved eight seats in the city of Phil- delphia and three fin Ailegeheny county provoked probably the most bite discussion that was placed before any fthe sub committees. Charles DaIv of Philadelphia appeared for the contestants and arralgned Charles F. Donnelly and Thomas J. Ryan, the leaders of the Guffey faction In these districts in the bitterese manner. He charged that the eight Guffey delegates were elected by the aid of Republi- cans and that the rankest frauds were perpetrated.
 Both Donally and Ryan, who spoke in support of the regular delegation replied in kind to the charges. Ryan became bitter in his denunciations oi Daly, called him puppy" and up" start" and finally grew so violent Tn his denunciation that Committeeman Allison of Virginia called him to order and caused him to withdraw his state ment.
 The subcommittee took the contests under advisement and will report to- morrow morning.
 Roger Sullivan Wins.
 The Illinois contests were also frauRht with personalities and bitter denunciations of opposing sides. Roger Sullivan addressed the subcommittee in defense of the regular Cook county delegation, asserting the entire regu- | larity of proceedings in connection with their selection.
 SuIlivan's chief contention was that | the illegalities charged by the Burke | faction did not apply to the election of delegates to the national convention under the law and reference only to state conventions In this he was sus- tained by the subcommittee. | ~ nahIfnan of Omaha V- ans close adviser. was one of the three members of the subcommittee who de- cided the Illinois contest in Sullivan's favor, the two members Atwood oi Kansas and Wade of Iowa. being also strong Bryan supporters. Mayor Dahl man stated after the subcommittee at After the decision the Burke men de | egates were unable to establish thu | charges of illegality as far as the1 l applied to a national convention. | journed that the contesting Burge del | clared that they would carry thei case to the committee on credentials and if defeated there, to the floor O | the convention.
 Leaders of several of the contest delegates. incensed by their defeat | charged that the subcommittee wert packed against them. Little hope wal expressed however. by the opponents of Sullivan. Guffey Murphy and D' Bois that they would win later.
 The matter of whether Oklahoma should be allowed fourteen seats al accorded by the national committee o eighteen as demanded by that stat' was passed along to the credential committee. But fourteen however, vii appear upon the temporary roll call.
 The national committee adopted suitable expression of sorrow for thu death of James K. Jones of Arkansai the former national chairman.