The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-09
Badly WOrsted in Encounter With National Chairman
 Norman E. Mack
LIE PASSEp AND THE
 SESSION GETS HEATED
Fight Precipitated by Bryan Prevents Choosing Convention City and Naming the Date-Guffey Is
 Seated Despite Opposition

Seated Despite Opposition
 ~ssrnsrgton, January s.-William J.. [ Bryan made his fight in the democratic national committee and lost. He made HCol. James M. Guffey, member of the q committee from Pennsylvania, the issue, and the committee declined to unseat Col one Guffey by vote of 90 to 1S Mr. Bryan once appealed from a decision of Chairman Mack and was defeated B to lS
 The committee session was marked by extreme Bitterness of feeling. Once the lie was passed and blows seemed immi- nent. MT. Bryan from first to last was the central figure and the fight he pre- cipitated at the very moment the com mittee was called to order lasted through out the day.
 So much time was devoted to the con- tested seats in the committee that mat ters of choosing convention city, fixing the time of the gathering, and adopting a form of call to include the ''permissive primary plan of selecting delegates went over until tomorrow
 Baltimore stood out tonight well to the fore of all her competitors. The repre- sentatives of that city proudly displayed d certified check for $100,0o0 as their bid for the convention. St. Louis seemed to hold second place, with Denver and Chi cago under consideration and New York far behind The committee will meet at 10:30 tomorrow and the representatives Of the various cities will begin presenting their claims at Il o'clock. Many members of the committee favor June 9 as the date for the convention This would be just one week after the republican con- yention in Chicago.
 In Executive Session
 The committee began it's sitting with began his fight they were closed and re- mained so.
 It is said there was no mincing of words by any of the speakers, but at the end of the day apologies were offered and when adjournment was taken all mem- bers seemed outwardly to be on the best of terms.
 Colonel Guffey hurled the lie at Rep resentative A. Mitchell Palmer of Penn sylvana. who was contesting for the seat: Later Colonel Guffey declared his temper momentarily had gotten the better of him and he was sorry. MT Palmer said that although he had been continue ro .1asor 1nnffrfhgiy flor the party. MT Palmer had previously as- serted heatedly that if it were not for Colonel Goffey's gray hairs, matters would have had Il more personal aspect MT Bryan, arraying himself against some of his friends of old. including National Chairman Norman D. Mack and Senator Wm. J. Stone of Missouri, fought desperately to the last and had tho committee in a turmoil of excite ment He had been greeted with cheers when he entered the room, bear ing the proxy of Nebraska. MT. Bryan said he would leave Washington, prob ably early tomorrow
 Bryan Attacks Guffey
 MT. Bryan inveighed bitterly against Colonel Guffey and is said to have been unsparing in his arraignment of the Pennsylvania member. The feud be- tween the two men is of old standing. Representative Palmer had accused Col onel Guffey of consorting with the re- publican machine" in Pennsylvania and of disluyalty 10 his party. MT. Bryan repeated all of this and more. At the end. it is said, he had no apol- ogies to offer and undoubtedly he will carry on his fight against Colonel Cuff fey.f
 At one time during his impassioned appeal to the committee to rid itself of 'Guffey and Gnffeylsm," MT. Bryan went so far as to threaten "an appeal to the people" if the committee should decide against him. The threat had no effect. Mr Bryan said that thrice he had been a candidate for the presidency and that 6,500,000 voters had stood back Of him. They were all democrats, he asserted. and 1t was to the democracy that he would make his appeal. If this committee does not do the right thfng,' he declared, "the people will do the right thing"
 Immediately the report spread that MT. Bryan had threatened the organi- zation of third party. This came ou top of the conference between MT Bryan and Senator LaFollette late yes terday and was given credence in some quarters. MT. Bryan, however, laid em- phasis on the fact that it was the dem ocrats to whom he would carry his ap peal, and the third party talk died away for the time being.
 Alabama Fight
 Mr. Brgan's first fight came with the calling of Alabama on the roll of states. A vacancy fro mAlabama had been filled by tiie democratic state committed MT. Bryan moved that the selection of state committee be confirmed National Committeeman Brown of Vermont made the point of order that no such action was necessary; that under the rules laid down by the last national convention the na- tioEaI committee had no. right to go back Of the state committees choice.
 Committee leaders had pleaded with MT. Bryan during the morning not to make an issue of the Guffey matter al | this time. that Colonel Guffey clearly had majority of the committee in his favor and that the fight would result in noth- ing MT Bryan would not listen to this suggestion.
 Chairman Mack, Thomas Taggart, John T. McGraw Roger Sullivan and several | others then held a hurried consultation and agreed upon the programme which . meant defeat to the Nebraskan.
 Chairman Mack sustained the point of . order and MT. Bryan at once appealed | from the decision of the chair. He saw in this ruling the defeat of the protest against Colonel Guffey. MT. Bryan seemed to realize from the first that he was beaten. but he went into the fray urdaunted. MT. Mack was sustained. 33 10 13 The vote b ystates was as follows Ayes, Alabama Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho. Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine l Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan Min nesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hamp- shire. New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Yer mont, Virginia, Washington. West vir- ginia wyoming. Alaska and Hawaii: nays. Colorado, Delaware Louisiana, Ne braska, New Jersey. OSegon, Rhode Js- land South Carolina, South Dakota. Utah, Wisconsin. District of Columbia ard New Mexico.
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