Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-24
SAY ALL OR NOTHING
Costello Delegates Resist
Compromise at Baltimore.
CLAIM THEY ARE REGULAR
Washingtonians Included in the Dis.
tribution of Honors.
DWYER AND BRIDE FAVORED.
Both Appointed Deputy Sergeants-
alarms of Democratic Conven-
tion-Others in List.
DWYER AND BRIDE FAVORED.

Special From a Staf Correspondent.
CONVENTION HALL, Baltimore. June
c4.-Outside the Office OF the national COM
mlttee, which met ut noon, all the leaders
of the District democracy stood today
hoping that fate would smile upon them
The three contesting delegations will have
a chance to make their claims before a
subcommittee this afternoon. The Cos
teilo democrats. the Newman democrats
and the Carr-Darr democrats will fight it
| out for the honor of representing the Dis
trict in the national convention which
opens tomorrow
No matter who wins. everybody who
waited at the national committees door
today was sore at T.. A. Newman, ma
tiorlal committeeman for the District,
because, it was claimed, he grabbed all
the tickets to the convention. Ten tick
cts are allowed the committeeman and
twenty-fOur are allowed the District del
egation. The Costello people, who claim
to be the real delegation. are very wrathy
over what they term the grab and
William Nick. Clayton, who stuck to
Newman like a standpatter. complained
because he had also been neglected.
Appeal to Be Made.
When they choose another committee
man for the District said Walter Cos
tello, I'VE will put this matter up to the
full committee and see who is who
The Costello democrats have said
they will make no compromise on the
contest. They will not accept partial
with them.
I TlxI-u D,-Ir
appointed deputy sergeants-at-arms for
| the convention today. Washingtonians
appointed as officers on the floor today
are j. J. o'Brien. n l. Bowen. special
officers: John Ready, jr. L. c. Newman.
Fred T. keefer, Z. 7. INLAND. Leo \.
Rover r. T. Newman, " FITZGERALD
and w. L. Mercer. ushers; A. W. NeaIe.
John j. Sullivan, Thomas F. Holden. r.
w. Bullock, jeremiah Lynch, Daniel
Sullivan and Harry a. Almond, assist
ant sergeants-at-arms. John j. Horri-
gan was appointed doorkeeper
District Partisans Busy.
With the national committee to meet at
noon today to settle contests, the three
contesting delegations from the District of
Columbia got busy In the early hours.
E. A. Newman. national committeeman
| mind made up strong to succeed himself.
| The Costello democrats. the instructed
! Clark people who gained permission to
| use the Clark emblem at the recent demo-
cratic primaries. are not quite SO sure to-
day that they want to wait for the demo-
cratic nominee to indicate his preference
| for national committeeman, and several
| of them have the lightning rod straight
up to the clouds. hoping that the lightning
will strike soon. Capt. John Miller would
i not object to the national committeeman
| ship neither would John Costello W. S.
Riley, r. E. Mattingly nor Charles New
man.
The Carr-Darr delegation, composed
| almost exclusively of lawyers, prepared
| early to engulf the national committee
| in a sea Of law. Henry Z. Davis, look
| ing bright and happy. was picked to pre-
| sent the case. On the other hand, T. "
Hammond one of the Costello delegates
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