The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-04-28
First Ballot Taken Without an
Election...Barry and Eaton
Neck and Neck...-Second
Ballo; Being Taken.

Convention adjourned until tonight
lat o'clock.
Nobody has sufficient votes on the
break 10 win.
The race just now is between Il.
Barry, OF Marshall; w. v. Eaton, Of
Paducah, and John NJ. Moore, OF Bal
lard. Most of Moore's delegates are
instructed for Barry as second choice.
This Includes Milan precinct, Nc
Cracker county. IL Moore gets out
OF the race Barry will win. IL Eaton
gets out Of the race his delegates will
go TO Moore, and Moore will win.
The Paducah crowd won on pre-
liminary organization and the report
Of the credentials committee would
give them 548 votes. The cFeden-
tiais committee also declared no Gre
dentiais had ever been received from
Hendren and Massac precincts, though
the delegates said they turned them
into the secretaries, who are Magis-
trate G. w. Emery and G. w. wal
tiers. Luther Graham is chairman OF
the credentials committee. These two
precincts have 247 votes.
w. A. Berry wished the report to
be adopted without any discussion.
The long delays are 10 wear out
the farmers so the Paducah crowd
can win.
When Chairman Fisher this after
noon asked for the report of the COM
mittee on credentials, NJ. E. Gilbert
produced the credentials for the dele
gates from Massac and Hendrenb
precincts and handed them in to the
chairman.
Luther Graham, chairman Of the
committee on credentials. reported
that the committee recommended
that delegates from Hendron's and
Massac be seated, and it was adopted
unanimously. Mr.. Graham read am
davits OF Claude Shemwell, who said
that there was no whisky In the Gre
dentials committee room and that he
was looking after the interest of
Barry.
Ernest Lackey, chairman of the
committee on permanent organization,
read the recommendation that the
temporary organization be made
permanent. and on motion of w. A.
Berry. ii was adopted.
Secretary Emery read the resolu-
tons refusing to endorse Governor
wilson's administration. but endors-
ing the Democratic members of con-
gress and also all Democrats now In
office in Kentucky.
On motion of w. A. Berry, Of Pa
ducah, the convention proceeded to
the nomination by the call OF coun-
ties. Jesse Nichols, OF Ballard, nomi-
mated J. NJ. Moore. Budgenatter, Of
Bardwell, nominated John Davis, OF
Carlisle. Alben Barley, of Paducah,
nominated w. V. Eaton. OF Paducah.
Judge r. e. Shemwell, of Benton,
nominated, e. Barry, of Benton.
Henry Hollins nominated B. ]. Wyatt,
of Marshall.
The endorsement OF the Democratic
state officials was meant for prison
officials, Eli Brown and Harvey Nc
|Cutcheon.
w. A. Berry challenged the right
Iof DIR. owen to cast the proxy OF
lBrinkley precinct, under a rule that
the credentials committee had adopt
ed. This rule was never read before
the convention. He said that Owen
did not hold the original proxy, but
Owen contended that he did, and a
bitter debate ensued, as the delegates
saw that they had been tricked. The
rule was not read before the conven-
ton until AFTER the report had
been adopted.
Mr.. Ray said that he knew Owen
held the original proxy. and Owen
produced the proxy.
BY framing up the rules of the
credentials committee. which were
adopted as stated before without be-
ing read before the convention, and
il is a fact that they were not read
this morning nor this afternoon and
that none OF the delegates knew of II
until the chairman used il as a club
on them when the occasion arose, the
Paducah crowd euchred Judge Barry
out of several hundred votes. The
rule was that none but the original
holder OF the proxy could vote II.
Many Barry men had transferred their