Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-01-08
DEMOCRATS HAVE
LIVELY SCRAP
The Peerless Leader Thrown
Down by National Com.
mittee Meeting
WILSON FAVORS BAL LT|MORE
Lie Is Passed, and Bryan Init.
mates That He Will Form
a New Party.


Washington, D. c., Jan. S.-When
the Democratic National Committee
went into session here this afternoon,
William Jennings Bryan at once be-
came storm center in an attempt
to have James NJ Guffey of Pennsyl-
vania thrown out Of the committee.
The roll call of the states had bur
started when the trouble broke.
James A. Weatherly of Alabama, was
recently selected by the Alabama
state committee to succeed John I.
Tomlinson, deceased. When his name
was called today, Mr.. Bryan asked If
| there was a protest. None being re-
ceived, the Nebraskan, who had bee1.
given an ovation when he entered the
room, moved that the selection be APP
/ proved.
Committeeman Brown of Vermont.
declared that affirmative action by
the National Committee was not
necessary; that the matter lay entire
ly in the hands of the State Commit
tee Chairman Mack sustained this
point of order. q appeal from the de-
cision of the Chair shouted Mr. Bry-
an. He declared that it was plain
there was a purpose to head off a pro-
! test against Colonel Guffey and that
the matter ought to be thoroughly dis
cussed At this interesting juncture,
motion to go into executive session
was carried and the doors was closed.
The Pennsylvania fight was planged
into at once. Representative A. Nit
chell Palmer contesting Guffey' S
place on the committee, was in the
room, holding the Utah proxy.
Mr.. Bryan's appeal from the ruling
a vote of SO to 13.
This indicated that the committee
was clearly against the Nebraskan in
his fight on Colonel Guffey, and that
the latter would be retained on the
committee beyond all resiion.
The committee set the time for
o'clock as the time for hearing the
Representatives of the various cities
bidding for the convention. AS this
time approached Baltinore's chances
seemed brighter. ST. Louis was Bal
tlmores strongest competitor. Den
yer, Chicago and New York were Il
the race. Supporters of Governor
Woodrow Wilson were throwing theiI
strength, it was said, to Baltimore
Governor Wilson reached this city to
day.
. Bryan Cheered.
When Mr.. Bryan, holding the Ne
braska proxy, entered the committe
room, he was greeted with applause
Each time he moved from one sea
to another to greet a friend, the al
plause was renewed. No other men
: ber of the committee was given
> demonstration.
Playing Politics.
, Although there are boomers" i
town for all the avowed presidential
: candidates, the members of the con
mittee seemed reticent in discussin
: the situation. There seemed to be a
opinion that the Democrats nigh
we'll afford to wait until after the RI
publicans have made their nomin;
ton at Chicago. 1t was argued tha
il Mr.. Taft were renominatcd
might be expedient for the Dem'
crats to choose an out and ouc prt
gressive. If Colonel Theodore Roos
} welt were nominated, it was said
might be good Democratic policy
] name man more conservative
than the former President.
Stone Deserts Bryan.
Washington, D. c., Jan. S.-The bi
ter fight in the Glffey case was une1
pectedly prolonged, delaying the $
r lection of convention city indefinit
IL. Senator Stone of Missouri, lii
long friend of Mr.. Bryan, spoke in b
half of Guffey. Mr.. Stone held a prox
d of Guffey. Mr.. Stone held prox.
His opposition to Mr.. Bryan was r.
garded as significant. Despite tn
protest of Mr.. Bryan and his threat t
appeal to the people, the conmitte
= voted in favor of Guffey, 80 to 1S.
f. l.. Mountcastle of Tennessee, wa
y declared entitled to his seat with onl
e. one dissenting vote. His place Q
Is the committee had been contested b
- John G.. Vertrees, who was chief cou
sci for former Secretary Ballinger,
Il the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation.
'r Lie is Passed.
IS Washington, D. c., Jan. S.-The
10 was passed in the Democratic natio
al committee late this afternoon al
~ w. J. Bryan made threat to "appe
Y to the people," if overridden by tt
O. committee in his fight to unseat G.
orel James M. Guffey, the nation
committeeman from Pennsylvani
This threat, coming Immediately ;
r, ter the Bryan-LaFollette conferen
s, of yesterday, renewed gossip as
IN the possibility of a third party.
le Colonel Guffey hurled the charge
le 'liar" at Congressman A. Mitch
ye Palmer, of Stroudsburg, Pa, who
,e contesting his seat.
r. The latter replied that he h
spoken the truth and that only G.
fey's age prevented him from MAXI
a personal matter of the affair.
ae Mr.. Palmer had freely charged
Ill his speech to the committee th
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