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Show WfiPK 'NAT My- 1 k .fill .fi-ll W&vlfi W i f PIP! FTFfl VVJ IBS LL LH Credentials Committee Fight Over Illinois Cases Daltimore, June 2C The twenty Roger C. Sullivan delegates from th ten congressional districts of Cook county, Illinois, were seated this a-ternoou a-ternoou by a vote of 40 to 10. A minority report will bo presented to the convention. Those who voted against the Sullivan Sulli-van faction were Little, Arizona; Crcswell, California; Califor-nia; Miller, Nebraska; Carney, Nova-da, Nova-da, Kelly, North Dakota; Moses, Oregon; Ore-gon; Young, Kentucky; McConnlck, Pennsylvania; Whltmore, Utah; Mol-nie, Mol-nie, Porto Rico. Baltimore, Juno 2C. Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago and Roger Sullivan, Sul-livan, national committeeman from Illinois, Il-linois, Indulged In counter charged before the credentials committee early this afternoon, over the police control con-trol exercised at tho Cook county Democratic convention Mayor Harrison Har-rison said ho had detailed 285 policemen police-men and 25 plain clothes men to preserve pre-serve order, whllo Mr. Sullivan charged charg-ed him with having forcibly controlled tho national convention. Baltlmoio. June 20. Tho credentials creden-tials committee at 11.39 o'clock determined de-termined to ask the convention to adjourn ad-journ until S o'clock tonight owing to tho inability of the committee to complete com-plete the work on the contest cases. Arguments on tho Illinois cases had not been considered at that time. The Illinois contest cases were the flret taken up when tho credentials committee mot today In a session held behind locked and guarded doors. Each side In the contests uas given 45 minutes for the presentation of aiguincn.ts. The contestants in tho case were tno Harnson-nearst delegates, dele-gates, who claimed to have secured an 'actual majority of voteb over the Sullivan delegates, who had been seated by the national committee. The claims of tho Harrison-Hearst delegates to the seats glvon the Sullivan Sulli-van delegates lu Illinois were presented present-ed to the credentials committee by Congressman Rainoy of that 3tato The point made against the contestants contest-ants was that they had not formally presented their contests to the Illinois state convention at Peoria but had kept entirely out of that 'onentlon. It was on this ground that the national na-tional committee gavo the seats to he Sullhan faction E. B. Tolman assisted In presenting present-ing tho evidence of the Hearst-Har.-rlson delegates in tho state at large and tho 20 delegates from tho Chicago district, Fiank Qulnn and Elsea Williams Wil-liams appeared for the Sullivan faction, fac-tion, asserting that the contesting faction by Ignoring the regular Blate convention had lost any claims it might have to regularity. A bitter fight was made by tho Illinois Illi-nois contestants on the rule of Roger Sullivan as national committeeman, T" " The Hearst-Harrison men claimed to havo carried a majority of Chicago precincts and to h$ytf .controlled the Cook county convention- They chaxg-' cd thdSullhan men lmd bolted that convention but that when the case of the Hearst-Harrison delegations was presented to tho credentials commit-teo commit-teo of tho Peoria convention, the Sullivan Sul-livan faction was in control and refused re-fused them scats nud tho contesting forces found It useless to go Into the convention next dav and renew their fight. Ohio Votes for Harmon. Tho state convention had instructed instruct-ed tho Ohio delegation by a vote of 600 to 235 to vote as aunlt for Governor Gov-ernor Harmon. Nineteen Ohio dele-gales, dele-gales, however, claimed tho right to violate these Instructions because they had been elected as avowed Wll-f,on Wll-f,on men in thoir respective districts. The 29 Harmon delegates held that because In the preferential primary vote Governor Harmon had a majjor-Ity majjor-Ity of 10,000 over Governor Wilson, tho instructions of tho Btato conventions conven-tions to vote as a unit for Governor Harmon for pdesident should bo enforced. en-forced. "There had been daily stories In the papers," Bald Mayor Harrison, that there was to be riot and blood shed, and, as mayor, I was appealed to for police to keep order. At the recent Republican national convention, I was appealed to by Mr. Rovell, Senator Crane, Senator Penrose, Mr. IHUea and Mr. Upham for the samo protection, protec-tion, and over 750 policemen were assigned as-signed to keep order at tho gathering." gather-ing." Roger Sullivan insisted on answering answer-ing Mayor Harrison, although members mem-bers of the committee wore anxious to stop tho Illinois argument, "That is a pretty story," ho said, "I want to tell this committee that Mayor Harrison's statement Is incorrect. incor-rect. Over six weeks before tho committee com-mittee met they planned to carry It through with tho aid of John A. Owen, county Judge." Mr. Sullvan declared election boards controlled by the Harrison taction had dominated many precincts. Notwithstanding their control there, he said, the Sullivan forces had a clear majority in tho state convention at Peoria. Tho sixteen Sullivan delegatos-at-largo from Illinois, having eight votes in the convention, wero seated by a vole of 12 to 9. A motion to beat the Sullivan men In the Seventeenth and Twentieth Illinois Il-linois districts carried. 3S to IS. Aftor a prolonged debato this resolution reso-lution was adopted, 22 to 15 "It shall bo tho rulo of this convention con-vention that all states tlia.t have been instructed by their respective slate Democratic conventions or by a ntate Democratic presidential preferential primary shal follow thobe Instructions so long as a majority of delegates from such stato are of tho opinion that such Instruction Is applicable " The folowlug substitute offered by J. J. Dunn of Nebraska was defeated, 22 to 15: "Resolved, That In casting votes on a call of tho states, the chair shall recoynlzo nnd enforce the rule enacted en-acted by n stato convention, except In such states as havo by mandatory statuto provided for tho nomination and election of delegates arid alternates alter-nates to national political conventions In congressloual districts and have not subjected dclogatcs so selected to tho authority o fthe Hlate committee or convention of the party, lu which. caso no such rule shall bo held to apply." ap-ply." Folowing the defeat of Mr. Duun'a substitute. Congressman 'Henry of Texns stated that ho would present to the convention a minority report on tho Dunn substitute. He was Joined Join-ed In thiB by the members of tho committee com-mittee who voted for it and by Chas Sprlcker of Massachusetts, who voted for IL on |