Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-29
Chairman Takes No Action.

Ventlon seemed no nearer getting to-
gether.
Chairman Takes No Action.
Maintaining a sphinx-like silence the
chairman stood on the sidewalk outside
Masonic Hall. and all the efforts OF the
Costello, Newman and other factions
failed to prevail upon him to hurry up
matters. Another half hour passed. while
with his feet.
1t developed early that no credentials
had been issued to the delegates by
Chairman Kelley. although he had been
directed by the committee yesterday TO
issue them.
The ground given by Mr.. Kelley's friends
for his not having issued certificates
of election was that the central COM
mittee had not complied with a rule
handed down by the democratic ma
tional committee to the effect that the
central committee should count the
ballots after the Judges and clerks OF
election had submitted their return 10
the committee.
Kelley's friends declared that the com.
mittee had not properly performed its
ONCE. but had accepted the returns of
the judges and clubs without further ex-
animation.
Mr.. Kelley himself said nothing
Newman Charges Repeating.
Edwin A. Newman. head of the New
man wing of the party. said this morn.
ing. in advance OF the convention:
Il charge the Costello faction with
wholesale repeating at the polls Mon
day." said Mr.. Newman. I'VE are COL
lecting many affidavits to prove this.
For instance. in the second district lOl
Costello voters registered from a small
al
said they thought the hotel had 5OO
rooms. AS a matter Of fact, We have
1t from the manager OF the hotel that
only six persons are boarding At the
hotel, and of these only three sleep at the
hotel. This was one branch OF the army
OF repeaters which went from poll to poll
voting for Costello nominees. In some OF
the districts men were nominated on the
Costello ticket who had not given their
consent-in fact. they had protested
rules of the election require that nomi-
nees give written consent to their nomi-
nation.
The Costello faction. controlling the
democratic central committee placed its
own judges and clerks where Ii saw mt
challenger and he was driven away from
the polls by the Costello people.
Plea for Clean Politics.
II am making this fight, not because
OF my desire to be continued as national
committeeman from the District, but In
the interests OF clean politics In the Dis
trict OF Columbia. ! predict that within
| short time We will have q legalized
primary law, with penalties attached for
its violation, and l have always been in
favor OF such law. though l opposed
the Bristow bill because / thought 1t did
nnv,6
Mr.. Newman denied that any PROPOSE
ton had been made by his party to the
Carr-Darr and Mitchell factions TO unite
against the Costello party He said that
presidential primary also. since he
thought in that way the residents OF the
District would have been able to go on
| record for Speaker Clark Overwhelmingly
For nearly seven hours yesterday the
members OF the central committee were
locked in the offices Of J. Fred Kelly.
chairman OF the committee. In the Ouray
building. going over the results Of the
election. The final canvass of the votes
showed that the Costello wing Of the
party had carried fourteen of the twenty
two legislative districts. The ofYicial re-
turns give the Newman faction six dis
tricts. one district to the CarrDarr fac
ton. supporting Woodrow Wilson for the
presidency. and one district to the Mitch
ell faction. supporting Gov Harmon for
the nomination. The certificates of the
judges In the third and seventeenth dis
tricts were rejected by the central COM
districts were sent on to be counted by
the committee on credentials at the con-
vention today.
Total Vote Of Each Faction.
Based on the judges certificates accept
ed by the committee. and the majorit,
reports of the judges in the other two
districts. the Costello vote was ASH
Newman received 3.251 votes: Darr.
Carr Benton captured $50 votes. and the
Harmonites received 344 votes. From
these figures Costello won by q plurality
1890
Clark forces forty-two delegates in tho
city convention. which met this morning
The other tickets combined had only
twenty-four delegates
The official votes of the various dis
tricts as disclosd by the canvass yester-
day were as follows:
First district. Costello, 367; Newman,
80: second district. Costello. All; New
man, 2O1: Darr-Carr- 224: third
district. Costello. III; Newman. 274; Har-
Newman. 141: Darr-Carr-B Benton. 46: fifth
district, Costello, 10. Newman, 334; Har-
monites, 6; sixth district, Costello. 103;
seventh district. Costello, 225; Newman.
eighth O1StTlCt, 1OStcllO, 10. new
man. 176; Darr-Carr-Benton, 128; ninth
district. Costello. 50; Newman. 66: Har-
monites. 1873: tenth district, Costello, 1876;
Newman. 81; Darr-Carr-Benton. 10;
eleventh district. Costello. 121: Newman.
214: twelfth district. Costello. 1853; New
man. IS; thirteenth district. Costello.
234 Newman, 2O2; fourteenth district.
Costello. 1871: Newman. 154: Darr-Carr-
Benton. 100; fifteenth district, Costello.
307: Newman. 1O2: Harmonites. 90: six
teenth district. Costello. III: Newman.
1852: Darr-Carr-Benton. 81; seventeenth
district. Costello, ia: Newman. 1l5: eight
zenith district, Costello. 231; Newman,
1871: nineteenth district, Costello. 295
Newman, 189: Darr-Carr- Benton. So;
twentieth district. Costello. 233: Newman.
So: Decentralization, rs: twenty first
district. Costello, 200: Newman. 1O2: Darr-
Carr-Benton, 3, and twenty-second dis
trict, Costello. 1877; Newman. Ill, and
Darr-Carr-Benton, 191.
ASSIGNED TO FORT BLISS.