The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1904, Page 3

fHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1902 3 HOPKIN FIGHT MAY GO 10 THE FLOOR OF CONVENTION linois Display Great Bitterness. National Commit- tee’s Decision Not Final. ST. LOUIS, July 5—The National ittee held this afternoon what will have been its last meet- ng. The reports of subcommittees appo ed to hear contests in the States of Illinols, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Dakota and the District of Co- se reports in every instance recom- the placing of the names of the estants on the temporary roll call ended he convention one contest | was successful. The majority of the contests w g0 before the committee on credentials. Palmer Woods of Honolulu was to- day declared a member of the National . to succeed Willilam H. wall, deceased. esolution was adopted providing gates from the Philippine and m Porto Rico be g the convention but no vo! all have been fixed on commending the work of , Yames K. Jon and C ress expressing his preciation of hi tional committee that n of t rous Hopkins r by seats ss ousted f the committee on creden- s of the sub-committee | FARST MEN DISHEARTENED: = and defeat n of mittee if beaten there, I This threat T faction, argument that won committee would mmittee T > convention. John P. Hop- knew we would. g else for the eps may be effect. Our be- ‘ e Hopkins faction eat for W. J. Bryan, who f 0St a P onal e greater part of the contests seats for of the committee is far- said, “and means that few men is to stand be- s of the majority of the ved by then adj ch the National rned DISPL N r——————— JAYS OF RANCOR. 2 the Illinots de | hirteen districts and two of delegates at large, and was one of ,, tested before as onl The bitter < come later before the com- t credentials, and it is almost e contest to the floor of will go here and be 8Y. last t night the retorts tee was compelled to r, and once sug: n from Tilinois of the hotel a nduct their argu-, minds were made up ide to ¢ heir nded work were inst the secretary vention, Ge ative of con- ¥-third District. that t the names in the th Katy declared Brennan ates selected s and twice Brennan had thrown it ™ M of the distriet cau- the floor, and be had found ft there mitted it to the committee, This ought Brennan to his feet with an sioned denial, closing with the aration; “Eversybody knows that T 1d not do such a thing.” This calleq forth jeers from the contestants, and Brennan took his seat in silence, BARNIZS ASSAILS QUINN, An ecrimonious fight took place at the hear of the contest in the Twen- ty-third District. Here it was admit- ted that General Alfred Orendorff hag the credentials com- | Factions| mbia, were heard and concurred in. | | upon the regularity of the proceedings. | the home of Frank P. Quinn, who acted | Barnes, contestants, | practica 3 i gy g = T en selected by a regular and a bolt- g caucus as well, and that later his name was removed and that of Dun- can C. Best substituted. Best insisted In the xteenth District, which is as ¢ rman of the convention, R. M who presented the case of the declared that the names ates as announced by Sec- an constituted a clear case of forgery, and asserted that the state- | contestees were not en t, because any man who a signature would commit | * asked Quinn. | hom do you mea “I mean the man who altered the] names on t report of that district) replied Barnes. “I do mot | who did it, but whoever he was | he.can put the shoe on and wear it.” ‘ n took the floor in his own de- nd declared that the statement | ad been made by the contest- | the list of delegates from the Sixteenth t had been read to the conven , were absolutely false. | The scenes in {hese contests were | ated In all of the oth- ers, and both sides were determined to | carry the it to the court of last re- | sort. | e | TAMMANY FLIPFLOP. | rst men were | Ceases and Then Suddenly Renews Tts | Anti-Parker Campaign. | ST. LOUIS, July 5.—Tammany fur- nished one of the few sensational in- cidents of the y by swiftly back- | tracking on a semi-official announce- ment that it had dropped its opposition to Parker. During the forenoon the organ n wed it to become | known through some of its most prom- inent representatives that it had de- cided to join the Parker forces. After | didacy yded the hear- | of silence and apparent po- s, late this afternoon it its warfare against his can- and Senator Dowling, Charles A. Towne, Bird S. Coler and Bourke | Cockran to poll the delegates and ask for votes against Parker. Sen- ator Dowling, on behalf of Charles F. Murphy, made this statement: “Judge Parker cannot be nominated. We have 400 votes, more than one-third of the convention, pledged against him. | He cannot be nominated. Only this aft- | ernoon we won three new States to our | caus It was said by other Tammany men that the real object of the fight ‘was | renewed started McClelian, but Senator Dowling pro- | tested that Tammany was simply | against Parker. Closing his interview, | he said significan ne that If there is any | | tion. g factions were of | 1at Chairman Stone | | tenant’s statements that there. were “You will see a very hard fight on the platform.” . Edward Murphy Jr. and William F. Sheehan were confident at the Parker headquarters. Senator Hill | : “Judge Parker may not be nom- inated on the first ballot, as delegations like to pay tribute to ‘favorite sonms,’ but he will be on the second.” . Sheehan sai udge Parker will be the nominee. Nothing can stop it nov Ex-Senator Murphy said: “My opin- ion of the situation has not changed and my attitude has not. No candidat has been nominated—not even Parker. Before saying anything further I pro pose to await the result of the conven The action of that body will set- tle everything and Tammany will be as loyal to the acts of this convention as it has been to the instructions of the New York State Convention.” Asked whether he stood for his lieu- | | l votes enough to defeat Parker, he said: | “1 cannot say; others are taking care' of the campaign.” ! rot SRR Pl PROTEST OF PHILIPPINES. | Delegates Object to the National Com- mittee’s Ruling. ST. LOUIS, July 5.—The Philippine delegates got together soon after the national committee meeting to-day and drew up a protest to the conven- tion. The delegates feel that the fail- ure of the Philippine Democratic plat- form, adopted on April 30, 1904, to de- clare for the independence of the islands is largely responsible for their treatment. This platform asks for a Territorial form of government and free trade on the same basis as Porto Rico. | ————— ! When a mother hustles her chil- dren out of the room when another woman calls it's a sign there is gos- sip in the air § M | ber of the resolutions committee. S TRIUMPHS OVER HEARST IN ILLINOIS PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS AND OTHER CHIEFS OF THE DEMOCRACY. CANDIDACY OF JUDSON HARMON IS ELIMINATED AND OHIO'S V the Aspi ST. LOUIS, July 5. At a caucus last- | ing several hours the Ohlo delegation | to-night adopted a r slution declaring | that the delegates shonld vote their | voluntary preference for candidates | for President A majority expr themselves for Judge Parker and since | | Oblo is under the unit rule this action is believed to presage the action of the | legation in the convenuon. It agreed, however, that the action of to- night should not be binding. stood that was was It is un- Judson Harmon's name withdrawn at his request, tele- | graphed to a close friend in the dele- gation. John R. McLean was elected national committeeman, Tom Johnson alone op- | posing the meotion that the election be ! made unanimous. hn A. McMahon | was elected over T Johnson as mem- Much feeling was manifested in the | dglegation at the action of the Parke men in withdrawing the name of Jud- | son Harmon. It was claimed that arlier in the day forty out of ferty- ix of the delegates had been Pledged to vote for Harmon for the Presidenc: and Hearst and McClellan men and all the factions oppdsed to Parker were urged to concentrate on Ohio’s favor- ite son. In the expres final vote stood McClellan, and Folk, ion of preference the Parker, 25; Olney, 2; Hearst, 4; rmon, Tom Johuson voting for the last named candidat | | { LAWRENCE TURNED DOWN. l | | H 1, Before the Illinois delegates met for their caucus th mored that the were about to boit | their Hearst instructions and come out | for Parker on the first ballot. There{ W » foundation for the rumor and | Chairman Fred J. Kern declared in his ddress that the delegates of Illinois | would be faithful to all the obligations | mposed upon them by the State Con- vention. Andrew M. Lawrence, who is one of the active managers of the Hearst can- didacy, was nominated for chairman of the delegation against John P. Hop- kins, who is personally opposed to Hearst. Lawrence received eight votes, including that of Hopkins, while the latter received forty-six votes. The Michigan delegation is evenly divided between Parker and Hearst, but with all the members present it is claimed that Parker will have a ma- jority of two. The Parker forces are under the leadership of D. J. Campau. The Hearst men offered to compromise the situation by voting for Campau for president, but he declined. As the unit rule prevails in the delegation, Campau hopes to swing the entire vote for Parker. ) BRYAN MAY SURRENDER. At the meeting of the Nebraska del- egation to-day, W. J. Bryan was ap- pointed to represent the State upon the committee on resolutions and there was afternoon it was ru- OTE PROBABLY WILL GO TO PARKER ‘How the Various State Delegations Are Lining Up for| rants for the Presidency. si n was reached, but the tendency is to accept the situation, if fairly liberal vote for the nomination of Edward C. Wall until he or some other candidate declarations can be obtained. Bryan | receives the nomination. probably will not make a platform With a divided delegation, the Ore- fight on the convention floor, He has | gon delegat met to-day, organized | not formally declared his position, but his fellow delegates thus interpret it. but did not come regarding the and elected officers, to an understanding Massachusetts elected William A. | Presidential nomination. Four of the . : | delegates are in favor of Parker, two Gaston nationa mitteema mal committeeman. vice, . o Hearst and two have hitherto George Fred William The delegation 1 | ; been classed as anti-Parker. W. F. appointed a committee of five to imme- | picner was: elected member of the diately make a canvass of the unin-| .. litions committee, C. D. Red- structed dclegations with a view 10 guig5 4 member of the credentials gathering in all the Olpey votes possi- | oo S FERIEE O L0 OOf A o ble. Massachusetts claims the vote of Maine for her candidate. Representa- tive Thayer, a member of the delega- tion, said after the meeting that the | tional committeeman to succeed M. A. Miller was postponed until a candidate for President shall have been nomi- situation was by no means regarded | tated: In order that Oregon's member a8 Rbpiidhs’ Liv Difeas 1»1 the National Committee may be in | \’S'; will vote for (.llmvv to the last,” BANRGEY WAL She hostiee, 5 . X The Montana delegation organized | | | ald he. otwithstanding the claims of the Parker leaders, we refuse to be stampeded. We don't believe Parker bas the necessary votes, and we do be- lieve that if we stay in the fight until Parker is defeated we will get the Hearst strength and finally win with the nomination of Olney.” to-day und elected Senator Willlam A. Clark chairman. The unit rule was adopted, but the consideration of can- didates was deferred until to-morrow. The following were elected to represent the State on committees: Governor Joseph K. Toole, permanent organiza- W. G. Conrad, credentials, Jo- TENNESSEE FOR PARKER. i seph Smith, rules and order of Lusi- tically for Park was the Martin Maginnis, resolutions; H. eting of the nnessee delegation, | , to notify the nominee for which organized and e € W. Heffman w elected cted off . R Mount was chosen al commit- | al committeeman. Senator Gib- man. It was decided to hold the Son was ahsent. His alternate, Joseph tmack boom for V. President in | Smith, i abeyance until the Presidential nomina- EbSihie dnL L e 4 ~ SELECTIONS. ion sha ave been disposed of. ; 7 The Nevada delegation met to-day s Iirg olegation, w r- > o he Virginia delegation, which ‘ar-} .53 ecteq George Russell chairmsn rived to-day, saw in an evening el e ” lo-day, saw In an evening paper| e tne gelegation. Senator Francis G. of yesterday that it was for Senatot}wicisndy was - sslected for ‘the com- Gorman for President. The delegates | on. resolutions, P. O Webber all signed the following declaration, | g0 " Co o0, "o Sharon for ~ules ritten by Senator Daniel: o S O “The chairman is herely instructed to | ;‘:}X‘lriz"‘“’,’;‘:":&ztcgria";':;s:; 0‘{: ‘;{é cast the vote of the delegation for Al-| (o iii / (,'”n;mm;P ton B. Parker as long as his name is| "7 00 OV ECE o cgation from bezoes thecanvention, Minnesota developed a warm contest When the: Selntion. mel . Mder Ml g ssely (00 Heazkt Aad ittt formially caspived fn lht? She Kahue. forces, and after a three hours' wrangle Instructed for Parker, the Texas del- | ne€0 B0 8 O 0 HE OTTE wIAngle egation at its meeting to-day had only | 2% "Oeer AEIOR B, DS ize. The meeting was entirely | 5 21® B o Reine 1D Dres e iy ERUTELY | tion of national commiteeman, and for harmonicas, 844 aithough no formall, je. i hafiol stood wt - tis, ietes resolutions were adopted. the unanim- gate Nye of Morehead, who h:;d Teadk O:Zr:de"::,m;::m?‘altzn::‘,‘:izt‘gfln ;‘:: considered an anti-Hearst man, finally o R M Tohnston was clected wa” | threw his vote to Hudson of Duluth, tional committeeman, Senator Bailey ::;:':‘:g :'x‘t';:‘g'ngdc;:m;:: ls_'“inz;"‘:l' member of the resolutions committee | {n° ¢ a‘:emnted & fally, with Jobn Llnz and T. W. Gregory member of the cre- 48 & .condidate for a place®on the reso- dentials committee. The delegation did | 1% © “87° F 0 OF & PIEE off the reso- with the Hearst delegates and the re- rot commit itself on the subject of the y . Representative T. H. Yioe Freasay, o ntaive; o & mainder of the slate was put through without opposition. Ball was selected to second the nom- The New Mexico delegation held its ination of Judge Parker and C. H. Smith to second the nomination of "h‘elcnucua this afterpoon and re-elected H. R. Ferguson a member of the Na- Vice Presidential candidate. Inquiry among the North Carolina delegation shows that Parker senti- | tional Committee. The delegation is ment is predominant, and as this del. | instructed for Hearst, but four of the egation is subject to the unit rule Par. | 9¢legation declared to-night they were Kker is assured its vote. arxious to vote for Parker, and would ) do so at the earliest opportunity that DELAWARE STANDS BY GRAY. |presented itself to break away from At an informal conference of the Del- | Hearst. some discussion of the position the];ware delegation early to-day it was State shall assume as to the platform. | decided that the delegation should Bryan's contention will be for the re- | stand by Judge Gray. While the de- affirmation of the Kansas City plat- | cision was not final, it was said that By a vote of 24 to 2 the Kentucky delegation decided to-night to support the candidacy of Judge Parker. The Alabama delegation resolved to form, but the delegation hecognizes the futility of such a stand. The discus- sion, therefore, was devoted to the con- sideration of what to do. No conclu- as yet the deiegation saw no reasonm to abandou its ““favorite son.” — e It can be stated on the best author- Reception to Utah Delega®s. ity that the Wisconsin delegation will ST. LOQUIS, July 5.—Utah delegates support Parker. . CONTEST —~ -~ + to the Democratic National Convention were tendered a reception at their State building at the World’s Fair to-day. ol ANTI-PARKER CONFERENCE. Jurist's Foes Still Claim More Than One-Third of Votes. ST. LOUIS, July 5.—A numbgr of the | | representatives of the oppesition to | Judge Parker met for conference to- day in Hearst's headquarters at the | Jefferscn and after adjournment gave | | out the following statement: | “After a consultation among the | members representing the various can- didates and delegates opposed to the nomination of Judge Parker, it was formally agreed among them that the | | nomination of Judge Parker im- | possible. The opposition represents easily much more than the one-third | of the votes of the convention neces sary to prevent a nomination, all of | whom agree not to support Judge | Parker's candidacy under any circum- stances. The discussion in the conference and elsewhere developed a determined dis- | position to at least make a test of | strength on the first ballot before sur- | rendering. The anti-Parkers claim | that even since the defection of Penn- sylvania they will be able to control | 100 votes more than the necessary one- | third to prevent Parker’s nomination but many of them concede the impos- | | sibility of maintaining their full strength thrcugh many successive bal- lots unless early inroads can be made upon the Parker strength. This dan- ger is made evident by conditions in | the anti-Parker delegations. Tt is | | stated, for instance, that fully one-half the Kansas and Colorado votes will go | to Parker on the first ballot and Mary land and West Virginia, which consti tute the base of German's strength, are ready to go over to the New York | candidate as soon as they can be re- leased from their pledge to Gorman. The West Virginia delegation is quite | at sea because Gorman has not yet i dicated his attitude. Senator Davis is holding them in line for the Mary- land man if they are needed, but once released all but twec of the delegates | will go to Parker. The claim was made to-day that Ala bama will lead off in the vote foi | Parker and the hope is expressed that | the example will prove strongly en- couraging to other’ delegations whose inclinations run friendly to the New Yorker. The anti-Parker men held a meeting | in the room of Senator Pettigrew to- night and discussed means to hold enough votes to preveat the nomina- tion of Parker. Besides Pettigrew, | there were present Towne, from the Tammany delegation; Hardy, from Delaware, and Tarpey of California. A committee was appointed to take charge of the anti-Parker movement, with a view of w ng upon a pro-| gramme of action. It was claimed by | those present that mere than 400 dele- gates were represented in the meeting who would not vote for Parker and | that they would be able to hold out until the New Yorker was defeated. - SECOND PLACE IN DOUBT. ST. LOUIS, July 5.—So much atten- tion hs been given to the Presidential nomination that no conclusion has been reached regarding the Vice Pres- idency. 'Several names have been mentioned and one or two active can- didates are in the fleld. The friends of former Senator Turner of Wash- ington believe that he may be nom- inated. Several Northwestern dele- gations from the inter-mountain coun- try are to be thrown for Judge Par- ker in expectation of reciprocity from those most Interested in Parker's nomination. Thus far no sign has been given by the leaders that a candidate will be sought on the Pacific Coast. In fact, some one who will add strength to the ticket in Illinois and Indiana is want- ed, and if a satisfactory man can be found in either of these States he un- doubtedly will have good support. The suggestion has been made that David S. Rose of Wisconsin might be selected, but that State refuses to have him considered, for fear that any- thing of the kind might be considered disloyal to E. C. Wall as a Presidential candidate. Benjamin F. Shiveley and John W. Kern of Indiana and David R. Franecis of Missouri have been mentioned in connection with the second place, but no effort has been made to obtain con- sideratiop for either of them. > | this dec | question. EMPIRE STATE CHIEFS SETTLE THEIR QUARREL Tammanyls Given Recognition by Hill Clan. Harmony Marks a Distribution of Honors. ST. LOUIS, July 5.—The meeting of the New York State delegation to-day was marked by a degree of harmony such as has not prevailed in this dele- gation at several Presidential conven- tions. It was rumored prior to the meeting that Tammany had practical- ly decided to retire gracetully from its heretofore emphatic opposition to Judge Parker and this was seemingly confirmed by what took place at the delegation meeting. In the first place, there was no ob- jection to the selection of David B. Hill as a member of the committee on resolutions, and this harmonious ac- tion was repeated when State Chair- man Thomas F. Grady of Tammany Hall was selected as the member of the committee on rules and order of business. Former United States Sena- tor Edward Murphy Jr. of Troy was made chairman of the delegation and Norman E. Mack of Buffalo was re- elected as national committeeman. James W. Ridgeway of Brooklyn, a McCaren adherent, was unanimously selected to represent the State on the committee on credentials. | COCKRAN'S FINANCIAL PLANK. The only spice injected into the meeting was the offering of a resolu- tion by Bourke Cockran, providing that “in the opinion of this delegation a plain statement should be included in the platform that the decision of the people on the money issue, as twice exemplified in two elections, should be the final settlement of the financial questicn and of vital importance in the next general election.” Cockran, in speaking of his resolu- tion and urging its adoption, said that the financial scheme as sented in the two last political platforms had | been discarded by the people and that ba: ion should be the s of the financial plank in the new tform. George Raines of Rochester opposed Cockran’s motion. He argued that there was no reason for an extremely radical course on the plank and be- lieved that the question could be safely left in the hands of Senator Hill. He moved that it be referred to Senator Hill, with power. This was adopted by a vote of 0 to 26 Senator Grady suggested that, should a resolution be introduced into the convention proposing an abrogation of the two-thirds rule and the adoption of.a majority rule, ew York should oppose it. Semator Hill remarked that | he thought that the matter could be intelligently acted upon by Senator | Grady in the committee on rules, and it was unanimously referred to him. CATERING TO BRYAN. The committee then adjourned, sub- ject to the call of the chairman Af- ter adjournment Delegate Bird S. Coler | said: “It is perfectly evident that Senator | Hilt and his following do not intend to definite on the going to stand are take a money take a half-way g0 as not thoreughly to displease Mr. Bryan and his small following.” The Tammany people are so confident that things are going to run smoothly that they have praecticaily decided order their special train to on Friday afternoon, expecting that the convention will be over at that time. s e GORMAN MAY PRESIDE. ST. LOUIS, July to leave —It was gossiped about the corrido to-night that the Parker faction had semt a request to Senator Gorman to preside over the convention. He had not been reached, however, having left his home for Washington. The Maryland delega- tion had no word from him amd his son, who is here, said that he had been unable to reach him. So ‘he matter is in abeyance. B — | HOUSEHOLD | And SPORTING SCALES. A USEFUL PREMIUM N, TO WANT ADVERTISERS |’ | in ! 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