The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-01-06
DEMOCRATS EXPECT
TROUBLE At MEETING
Many Fights Probable at Banquet
Of National Committeeman
Next Monday.
SOME WOULD GUST BRYAN
Wilson and Gaynor Mentioned as
Presidential Possibilities En-
thu>laSm Is Rife.

| WAsHINUroN. Jan 3 There is every
! indication. according to Chairman Nor
man f. Mack Of the Democratic national
committee. that the deliberations Of the
committee beginning at noon on Monday
! are TO continue through a couple of days.
! This was also the opinion of Herman
Ridder. treasurer and Trey Woodson.
secretary Of the committee.
The contests for committeeman in
Tennessee aud Pennsylvania were filed
with Mr. Mack to-day. Each consists
I Of fftv typewritten pages. H. f. J..
| Mounicastlc of Tennessee and Repre-
sentative 4. Mitchell Palmer Of pennsyl
vanin called on thairmen Mack to-day
and each contended that he had q votes
AT his back out of II total OF 81. About
half Of Tennessee is to come here and wit
ness the struggle practically for the CON
trol of their State during the Presidential
campaign As "a matter Of fact Mount
castle il on the roll Of the committee and
tul James NJ Guffey is on the roll as ma
ional committeeman for Pennsylvania.
| John !. Nertrers. named bv the Demo-
cratic State committee Of Tennessee a.
Nountcastle's successor as national com
nitteeman. and Representative Palmer.
named for national committeeman 10y
I the Pennsy ylvan:a Democratic State con-
| Ven,ion. are to appear before the commit
teeas contestants Senator Taylor is ocon-
duct the case for Nprtrr-s. while senator
ga of the same state i- to make the fight
! To keep Mountcastlr on the roll. Repre-
sentative Palmer is To argue his own case
| -
an able fighter. col Bryan. who H. To
arrive here on sunday. favor- the reten-
tiuu Of MuuntCastle. it the same time
he l. opposed to IA. retention of Guffey.
Several Democratic national committee
men to-day recalled that BRYAN in ths
instance was in about the same prediCa-
ment that he was "a number Of wears ago
in his quarrel with Roger E. Sullivan,
| Democratic national commit teeman for
Illinois. He then publiClv proclaimed
| that sullivan should he read ont of the
party heCaus. Of the latter'- connections
with wicked corporations Subsequently
BRYAN ral.nted and took Sullivan to his
! bosom. Bryan in lgs read Guf1ey ont
| Of til. party also because of his alleged
connection with wicked corporations
| Ite continued 20 refuse to CLASP Guf.v to
his eNpansiv. shirt FROM,
! tn. ST Louis folks who wan, the con
vention reached town tonight 100 strong.
They brought their fat check Of sljOWn
with them. They carromed onto the
Baltimore crowd h-adedh Robert Crane.
vino had tucked away in an inside pocket
a check for SlUr.mn. Gran" and the 81.
/ Louis folks IN the corridors of the New
/ " Hard hOtcl discussed the respective
merits of their cities Mr. Crane told the
~ l.ulu~ peopl" hat they had had three
, conventions. while Baltimore. had not had
a national cunNeutlon since Greeley
time IN lsi2 Mr. Crane went on to say
that they had AN Auditorium IN Baltimore
7 which would comfort ably seat ~ 600 and
added that no less a man than Teddy
, Roosevelt ha- spoken there to 10000
! people
! There l. - h- "a tine old -hindig over
the s-i-,l ION Ot a convent ION City. a. the
- Louis p"opl" are backed hv a business
m"n'- organization which does not pro-
! pose Ia hr defeated if argument and ora
I tory can prevail Then. too the COM
mir'+- i, 20 hav" an exhaustive discussion
Of The Presidential preference primary
/ nle-l ION. tor II i known tha' the friends
-
a. the adher.n'- of GOV Wilson in the
comml',-". favor such primaries There
are numh-r of CCl Bryan's friends mere
! who seriously doubt III. -yp.diency and
! p-rnaus the good taste of hi- appearing
I IL person in the coiumi'',- l. j. accepted
- "A fact that Bryan can have the proxy
o' the wa ,onal committeeman of hi
/ STATE. t'n BRYAN arrival he i fo TAX eup
with his friends the .Np-diency of his ap-
( p-aranC- IN the commute.
II was mad. Nnuwn to-day shat "A resp
> lntlon j. to he introduced in h" committe ee
suggesting the advisability of State Demo
: cratic ORGANIZATIONS adopting u rasOlu-
: ton taNoiabl. Ia the ahrogation ot IN.
ltwo-thrd- rul- The two-,hlrd- rui.
wa- first adopted III lSa. II Was dropped
III $50. bu' III lN'Ir wasr"vir-d. and from
that I'm" Democratic Pr-Ild-nlia ia candi-
dates have been named hy TWO third, Of
! h" nat tiOnal contention Rrpub liCan
Presidential candidates ar" named hy n
ma lorlty of IN" natloudl convent ION,
for number Of yeats many Democrats
haV" heii.Ned that their MAJ iona con
veution should adopt the method IN this
respect of the Re puhIicans The con
trntlon, however. To-day Wa that the
proposition to abrOgatc IN. two-thirds
rule should not 30 into eject in the ap-
proaChmg national convention. but that
steps should he taken AT the committe.
feasible To resclnd this rule and also the
unit rule, for II was insisted that the
two should stand or fall together in the
Democratic national convention of 1916 |
Gov. Wilson's friends hereabout TO- |
day We're greatly Disappointed in the ac- |
tion of the Democratic State central com |
mlttee taken AT Little Rock, Ark yester-
day. when the committee failed 10 order |
Presidential preference primary Gov. |
Wilson's campaigners have insisted that |
Arkansas ~ its State committee meeting |
would speak up for Presidential primaries
and II is known that Senator jeff Davis !,
was heartily in favor of such step lnas-
much as Alabama on the roll call in the ,
national convention is to start with the |
name of Representative Underwood for |
President Gov. Wilson, friends hope that
Arkansas through Il Presidential prefer !
cnce primary would be recorded next on
the roll call in the national convention /
for Wilson. There are Democratic author |
tiles here who said that because Col |
Bryan and Gov. Wilson favored Presi- !
dental preference primaries it must not |
he assumed that Bryan was committed |
in any way TO Wilson's candidacy.
Bryan they added, is to journey from
Raleigh, \: G., with .Josephus Daniels, !
an ardent Wilson man, and it was sur
missed that Daniels will pump into Bryan |
arguments for Gov. Wilson With the
arrival of several Of the New York Demo |,
Gratis To day prominent mention of Mayor