Evening star., 1915-12-14

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the Macedonian cry uttered by the
democrats, which sent the democratic
convention to ST. Louis. Help MIS-
souri, or we perish at the polls" was
the appeal Missouri's eighteen cleo
toral votes and the United States sena-
torship were declared to be the STAKE
well worth playing for, Win tne
chances of winning enhanced py
arousing the republicans OF the state
The St I,ouis boomers dilated upon
the assurance of fair play from tne
newspapers and the promise tnat the
flames of factionalism would net Do
famed. even If they start.
This was the situation when tho ma
tional committee was called to order
by Chairman HiIles shortly after IL
o'clock. Col. William F. stone, ser
geant-at-arms, had arranged the red
room of the hotel to furnish the com
mittee and those in attendance with
every convenience.
Roll Of the Committee.
When Secretary James B. Reynolds
called the roll it was found that there
was only one proxy. that of the Philip
pines, which was held by Representa-
tive Miller of Minnesota. The roll OF
the committee was as follows:
Alabama, Prelate D. Barker; Alaska.
William S. Bayliss; Arizona, Ralph H.
Cameron: Arkansas. H. L. Remmel;
California, P. A. Stanton; Colorado,
Hubert Work; Connecticut, William r
Henney; Delaware, Coleman du Pont;
District of Columbia. Chaplin Brown;
Florida. Henry S. Chubb; Georgia.
Henry S. jackson; Hawaii, Charles A
Rice: Idaho. John W. Hart; III
nois, Roy o. West; Indiana, James
P. Goodrich; Iowa, John T; Adams:
low
John w. Mcculloch; Louisiana.
Victor Loisel: Mains, Frederick
Hale:; Maryland, William p. Jack
son: Massachusetts,. w. Murray crane
Michigan, Charles B. warren; Minh1
sofa. E. B. Hawkins; Mississippi. l.
B. Moseley; Missouri, T. K. Neldrins-
haus; Montana, Thomas A MARROW
Nebraska, r. B. Howell; Nevada, II. d
Maxson; New Hampshire, FREQ W.
Estabrook; New Jersey. Franklin Mur-
New York. William Barnes; North
Carolina. E. C. Duncan; North Dakota,
Thomas F. Marshall. Ohio, Sherman
Granger: Oklahoma. j. A Harris: ore
gon. Ralph E. Williams: Pennsylvanla,
Henry G. wasson; Philippines. II. B.
land, William P. Shefield: South Caro-
lima, Joseph w. Tolbert; South Dakota,
Charles H. Burke; Tennessee. Newell
Sanders; Texas. H. F. MacGregor; titan,
Reed Smoot: Vermont, Earle S; klnsiey;
Virginia, Alvah H. Martin. Washing
ton. S. A. Perkins; West Virginia. Vir-
gil L. Highland: wisconsin. Alfred T.
Rogers. and Wyoming, George e. Pex-
ton.
Executive Session Held.
Immediately upon assembling, the
committee went into executive session
to arrange the order of business.
subcommittee was appointed to take
charge. of the holding of primaries in
the District of Columbia for the elec-
tion of delegates to the national con-
vention. This committee, which viii
appoint an election board to sttpulate
time and manner of holding the prim-
aries, consists of National Committee
men Chaplin Brown of the District OF
Columbia, william ]. Jackson OF Mary
land and Henry S. jackson of Georgia.
subcommittee to prepare the call
for the national convention and rec
ommend the date was appointed, con-
sisting of Mr.. Perkins of Washington.
Mr.. Barker OF Alabama, Mr.. Stanton of
Barnes of New York and Mr.. Sheffield
of Rhode Island 1t Is understood this
subcommittee Will recommend that the
date for the holding OF the national
convention shall be June I. The sub
committee will report during the day
to the full committee.
To Give Hearing on Suffrage Issue.
Announcement was made that states
representing 294 electoral votes. or
more than a majority of the electoral
college. had ratified the new appor-
tionment fixing the representation of
the states in the national convention.
A committee on apportionment was
appointed. consisting of Messrs. Du-
pont. Remmel. Murphy. Harris. West
and Granger. =
The committee decided to give a hear
ing during the day to advocates and
opponents of woman suffrage on the
appeal for a hearing on the suffrage
question at the national convention.
The committee decided to allow each
city half an hours time in which to
present its claims for the convention.