Evening star., 1912-06-27
CLARK FORCES TURN TRICK
Newman and Carr.Darr Factions Are
Steam Roller Victims.
FORMER TO PUSH THE FIGHT
Threatens to Contest Action of Gre
dentials Committee on Floor
of the Convention.
From q STAT COrreSpondent


was elected democratic national commit.
teeman to succeed f. A. Newman, after a
caucus of the successful Costello demo-
Gratis shortly before / o'clock this morn
ing The whole democratic organization
of the District was changed in that eau
Gus and the Costello democrats. bitterly
denounced by both the Newman and the
Carr-Darr factions in the credentials COM
mttee room last night, are now the VIC
tors and In control.
The same caucus elected. w. S. Reilly
chairman of the delegation; James Easily
Smith, member of the committee on Gre
dentials: John B. Colpoys. committee on
resolutions: Walter Costello. permanent
organization; r. E. Mattingly. committee
on rules: T. V. Hammond. committee on
notifying the presidential candidate;
Charles Newman, committee on notifying
the vice presidential candidate; John s..
Miller, secretary.
The balance went up with Newman yes
terday but it went down at night. and
today the Costello democrats have the
power The Costello democrats came to
the convention with the firm intention or
sitting in the seats marked ID. OF e.
But the national committee played poll
tics and tossed them out and put the
Newman people in.
Man the Steam Roller.
But" says Champ Clark's headquar-
ters, this won't do" So when Walter
Costello got into the credentials commit
tee Lafe Pence and Jerry South manned
the steam roller. Jerry pulled the lever
and turned the steering wheel and Late
pulled the whistle Toot! loot! Costello
twenty-three, Newman twelve. Carr-Darr
three. Good night!
E. A. Newman said very little last night
when they outvoted his delegation ana
took away their credentials. All he
would say for publication was:
They packed the committee. The
Clark headquarters did it. l am going to
take this fight to the floor of the conven-
ton"
It was a plain game of politics. Every
one admits it. No matter what the merits
of the case were, the Clark people had the
votes in the credentials committee the
same way that Newman had them in the
national committee. and you should nave
been there to hear the silver-topeued
Lafe Pence appeal to the Clark votes in
that credentials committee. He has the
voice of a Bryan and he was in fine form.
II ever he gets to speaking in the con-
vention they will sit up and take notice.
Jerry South Subs for Bell.
Jerry South took the place Of Bell OF
Indiana as chairman of the credentials
committee when at last the Districts case
was reached after the committee had
heard contests from 9:30 in the morning
until 7:3O at night. The committee had
been giving speakers an hour and forty
minutes apiece in some cases, hut when
they got to the District they cut 1t down
to ten and twenty minutes
hA 10
saw Mr.. South because they had heard
intimations that he had Instructions from
the Clark Headquarters to get those SIX
District votes. They growled just the
they claimed they were sacrificed in the
national committee for a half dozen votes
for Parker.
They went at the speaking with a vim
but produced few facts that haven't beer
common gossip around Washington ever
since that memorable day when the de-
mocracy went to the polls a month ago
James Easby-Smith presented the Cos
tello case in concise legal manner. F. L
Siddons did the same for the Newman
two Of them with considerable anima
tion.
Remark Causes Laughter.
He reiterated the charge that E. A
Newman stood them up against the wal
and demanded that he be made nationa
committeeman" Then he added:
Where We invited him to go was no
to the national cnvention.'' and this re-
mark brought laughter from the commit.
tee.
Lafe Pence was the added attraction
as it was mis- first appearance as a speak
er in these exciting and numerous Dis
tFict of Columbia contentious. He started
of, by letting everybody know that the
Clark people would be glad to see the
Newman delegation seated:
Some of our politicians he said, "ar,
professional boilers. They get seats nj
matter who wins. Some of them are pro
fessional national committeeman. In the
brief OF an opposing faction Walter Cos
telo is put down a SalOOnkeeper. In
fact, he is a saloonkeeper. That Is the
way he makes his living In the same
brief f. \. Newman is put down as q
national committeeman. He is nationa
committeeman. That's the way he makes
his living. His business is to run fol
national committeeman. It's mania
with him."
Dilatory Tactics Charged.