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will raise the banner for the Costello
people if the matter comes to the floor.
| E. A. Newman says 1t will never reach
the floor. A Star man. saw him In the
Belvedere this morning:
THE other fellows charge that you
traded your vote for Parker 80 that they
would all vote for you In the contest last
night?' said the reporter.
''Tommyrot.' said Mr.. Newman; cit
was unanimous. 1 have always been
| Bryan man, and I am Bryan man, but
that vote last night on the chairman
| matter was not a test Of Bryan's
strength. In fact, l was not voting
| against Bryan. I did not trade my vote
that's the talk of defeated candi-
/ date"
| The Costello and Darr factions claim
| that the national committeeman who last
| night served on various subcommittee
to decide contests all agreed to stand
by one another. and that Mr.. Newman
sat in one subcommittee, while another
| contested candidate sat In the Newman
controversy, and that the two patched
i
pact When Mr.. Newman was asked
| about 1t he laughed and said. mot
chance"
May Desert Clark.
At any rate it appears that the New
man delegation instructed for Clark will
not stick to Clark II his votes begin to
drop OF.
LAS long as Clark has a show we'll
vote for him.. said Mr.. Newman, ''but
We think we will be released from our
obligation If he loses all chance Of win
| ming. After that we will vote for the
best man.
TT is too bad that New York is such
a big figure in national politics" This
is what Perry Belmont, delegate from
| correspondent today:
New York ought to be Of interest
merely to local politicians. Thare is too
much business in the state. and it is
| too great a community to have the fate
Of the nation decided by whatever way
her vote 10 cast. 1 am tired OF hearing
that New York can be bought or sold"
How will New York vote-for Clarke
Don't ask me; I'm tired Of that ques-
| ton, too"
John W. Kern Of Indiana walked by:
There" said Mr.. Belmont. rs q good
man. would like to vote for man
Mr.. Belmont was being escorted around
the lobby Of the hotels by w. F. Hart OF
| Washington.
District Joins in Alliance.
After q caucus IN E. A. Newman's head
quarters Just before the convention
opened today the District Of Columbia
delegation decided to enter a five-handed
alliance with the territories and become
an important factor in tho voting.
| The Newman delegation. therefore. will
vote with the delegates from Alaska
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines
This is q total Of thirty votes.
Action Of National Committee.
After hearing the entire District democ-
racy scored mercilessly by Henry e. Da-
Wis, who pleaded that the Darr delegates
are the only representatives Of q vote
clear Of fraud and trickery, the national
committee seated the Newman delega-
ton. The announcement was made at Il
o'clock last night after an hour and a
half of talk and after an hour OF DELHI
| Grafton. The winners are e. A. Newman.
P. T. Moran. Hugh F. Harvey. Samuel E.
Lewis, John G. Campbell and Bernard G..
Brown, delegates, and William Neale.
John Ready, Lewis p. Shoemaker, DIR. N.
B. Shade. Eli Sheetz and F. L. Siddons.
alternates.
This means, first of all, that e. A. New
man will succeed himself as national
committeeman. It was against him that
much Of the Costello fight was directed.
It also means in Difference to local senti-
ment that Clark will haxe six votes
from the District, but right up to
the last the Costello men declared the
Newman heart beats stronger for Har-
mon than for Clark. They also spoke Bit
terry Of Newman's voting for Parker.
Bryan made him-now see how he
treats Bryan" they added.
Contest Protracted.
| The contest Of the Districts three dele
cations was long and bitter. The sub
committee Of the national committee
which heard 1t was composed Of Messrs
Williams, Mississippi; Reed, New Hamp-
shire, and Johnson. South Dakota The
Districts representation was the largest
at the committee hearing. took more time,
mode more noise, divulged more personal
bitterness than all the other contests
combined.
After it was over. National Committee
man Williams said:
IF / had my way I would throw
out every QclcSdte TO the COHVeHttOH lIOHI
the District Of Columbia 1t is the worst
mess l ever heard of. The democracy
over there must be in q horrible state.
| The announcement was bitter blow
to the Costello factionists, who claimed
to have carried practically the entire city
and who were instructed for Clark first,
last and all the time. The fact that two
ballot boxes were seized by the police In
the recent primaries is alone responsible
for the seating Of the Newman delega-
ton. In those two ballot boxes were the
only votes counted. The others were
never counted by the democratic central
committee OF the District Of Columbia.
Those ballot boxes which were seized by
the police in riot happened to give
Newman a majority.
The national committee. despairing OF
any other way out of the difficulty. it is
said, decided the whole thing on those
two boxes.
At the opening Of the hearing Mr.. Will
Nams asked for statement from the
chairman Of the democratic central COM
mittee and half dozen men began to
talk before ]. Fred Kelley could be drag
ged from his place by the door. He was
officiating behind deputy sergeant-at-
| had q large bundle of papers and affi-
davis, which slipped to the floor later
| and caused a near fight between Mr..
| tello democrat.
Kelley's Statement.
| Mr.. Kelley explained that the late pri-
maries in the District had been held after