The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
LEWIS IS REELECTED
MINERS CHEER syfCroRY ovER
 WALKER.
Bitter Debate in, the Convention al ndianapsif5--- Delegate
 - Wants to @WaIk Over

Indianapolis, Ind. Feb. s.--zfter eel. reelection of President Thomas U Lewis and after the teliers had retired to count the ballots for yice-Presidsnt and Secretary Treasurer t the corven- tion os the United Mine Workers, of Amerfca today indulRed In an excited revival of the controvsrsy over inter- national -dlssentions between Lewis's party and the faction led by. his ops ponent for the presidency. John H. Walker. District President Of Illinois The teliers could not complete their count in time to report this afternoon and the argument on the floor ragged until adjournment at 6 o'clock.
 Speaking on an unsigned letter re- celved by some of the leaders, charg- ing that Ohio union officers had "sold out" to operators, G. w. Savage, Sec retary of the Ohio District. bitterly af : gaigned certain parties that not be- Ing in power themselves, would destroy the organization so as to destroy those that are in power.
 So far as he. personally, was con- rernsd. he declared that if the authors of the letter were made known to him and persisted in their attack ons his character. ehe would walk over their corpses or they should walk over his" ]"
 The leader of the anti-administration faction, President walker. of Illinois, then took the floor to say that ife. too, had been the victim of iibellons state ments one of them being that heS had proposed to steal slO,0O0 from the treasury of tho Illinois miners to be used in his election as national Presi- dent and in the reelection Of Francis Feehan, as President of the Pittsburg district. He said the congratulations was being exploited for the selfah ends of certafn of it's leaders.
 President Lewis followed Mir. Walk CT with acounter blast against his en- emies. He said the Ohio letter was the last link ina conspiracy to disrupt the organization because he happened to be it's President.
 He read from q special edition of q Springfield. Ill, trade paper, articles which he called "scurriiQua con- demning his administration ss corrupt and extolling Mir. Walker. He read letters to prove that this edftfon of the newspaper had been paid for by the Illinois officers.
 Frank Burlington. vice-President of the Illinois miners, addressed the dele Bates in defense of shimself and Mir. Walker, and further attacked Mir. Lew is and his supporters.
 Mir. Lewis was reelected President by s majority of 1T. sss votes over John H. Walker of Danviile, Ill Lewis re? celved ss,047 votes and Walker ee,1es.
 None of the candidates for Vice. President or secretary-Treasurer re- .ceived a majority of the votes cast and there was no choice for either of these places This throws the election into the convention.
 The vote for vice-President follows:
 W. D. Van Horn. Terre Haute. 4S,- sS6: John T. Dempsey, Scranton Pa. S0,901; Samuel Pascoe. Farmington. III. 2l,4Ie; E.. s. McCullo1gii,- Bay City, Mlch., l7ss07: C.. P. Gilden, Hazleton. Pa, 6,41s; W IT,. McCmskey, Merfden Mines, Mba, e.s2s; ]. ". Murray. Her rln. Ill, 15,11l. Necessary to choice.4 72,2s5.
 The vote on Secretary Treasurer was
 Edwin Perry, oskaloosa. Ia, 42.7s5; John Fahy. Pottsyflie, Pa, l2,s5s: George W. Ffartley. Shamoixin. Pa, Ia. 376: Joseph Pope. Betieville. 1lL. s2.-l s9s; John Fogk. Perth. ind, ii.sls.i Necessary toSa choice. 7i.e85.
 The other officers elected were aa follows:
 Auditors and Credentials Committee: John Mosstps North Lawrence, O.; Har- ry Baker. centervifle Ia; Patrick Fitz- simmons. Oiiphant. Pa.
 s Teilers: William Young. Ehrenfeld. Pa.; William F'itzsimmons, DunEaore Pa, and Arthur Blakely, Bonanza. Ark.
 Delegates to the American Federa- tion of Labor; T. c. Lewis, Bridgeport, O.; John Mitchell. Spring Valley. H.: John H. Walker. Danville, Ill.; W. B. Wilson. Blossburg, Pa: John P. White, oskaloose. Ia; c. W. Savage, -Colum- bus O.. and Frank ]. Hayes, Collins, vile. III. S }l