Show CAUCUS DIDNT BIND Democrats Discuss the Attempted Nomination of Moyle A story appeared in yesterdays Tribune Tri-bune headed ulcCune Members Bolted Bolt-ed in which it was charged that Mr AIcCunes friends had refused to abide by the decision of the midnight caucus cau-cus at which the name of James HMo H-Mo le was mentioned as a compromise candidate for Pnitf State senator The story is a deliberate misstatement of the facts in the case and its evident purpose is to cat rel1ections on the I I consistency of the members of the I Democratic part in the legislature who have insisted upon the light of the I majolltJ to rule I Th happenings in the caucus leading up to the mention of Mr Moyles name i I sh ow how baseless are the charges hat the lIcCune men bolted the caucus I cus President lebeker had constituted himself chairtnan of the caucus to save time and before any steps toward organization I i Tz nb kete I ganization were taken Senator Rawlins Raw-lins was asked to address the meeting 11 at once suggested as a method of procedure that the caucus take live secret se-cret ballots and that the person first rerelvlng a majority of the votes castS cast-S ld be the nominee of the caucus And then the antlIcCune men shd ed their hand refusing to adopt a caucus rule to bind them to vote for I ary one who might be named in the caucus Before Senator Rawlins could ftr another word Representative Cook I who has been one of the leaders of the antllcCune faction announced that hI would leave the caucus if IcCunes name were not eliminated from the list ef those to be voted for Represent tie Jackson said that he too would refuse to be bound by the caucus If lfcCune were chosen by it Senator Th mae stated that he would leave the C3utus if lIcCunes name was not left I on tile list The caucus threatened to break upright up-right here but the pleadings of Senator Rawlins Induced the members to take an informal ballot with the express understanding un-derstanding that that ballot should not be binding on anyone On that ballot A W McCune received 17 out of the 38 otcs cast the others being scattered unong eight different men no one of horn received more than 7 votes When the result of the ballot was announced the members again began to quarrel among themselves Over half of those present left before anything any-thing was done and at length despairing despair-ing of settling upon any one who had yct been mentioned Senator Rawlins stggested Ioyle President Nebeker 5mmpdlatel threw down the gavel and rushed for the door shouting uIIorles the man Moyle Ioyle As the members mem-bers streamed Into the cloak room PresIdent Pres-Ident lebeker cried All thqse in favor of 1Ioyle as the nominee of this caucus cau-cus say aye ad there was a chorus of ayes from half a dozen throats Whoa he put tile negative of the ques 1111 there was no response nearly all rtlr IcCunes supporters lad bone They had seen that any attempt to agree upon a candidate satisfactory to aU members would be futile and the anU2IcCune men had already debated de-bated the adoption of a caucus rule Several members who have voted for Mr IcCune regular were asked yes tlrrlnv for it statement In reeari in th caueiis and their alleged bolt Rlpresentatlve Lloyd who accepted I the result of the caucus and voted for Meyle said There was nothing binding i bind-ing about the caucus ior 110 rules Were adopted bInding anyone to abide by the decision of the caucus When Sen Lltor Rawlins suggested Tames H i MoyleS name there was much applause I and so vociferous was it that I tookil i as an Indlatoll that 1Ir 1Ioyle wiis the choIce of the caucus The mem I benz began to crowd out ImmediatelY and I asked several times If Itwas die I tncUy understood that Moyle was the choice of the caucus A lot of theni were all shouting Hurrah for Iole so I went upstairs with the understanding under-standing that we were to vote for MovIe and I did so But as no rules were adopted by which nay one was bound it could not be fairlY said that Moyle was actually fixed on as the choice of the caucus Senator Tanner saId that he dId not take part in the caucus after the informal in-formal ballot hence did not consider himself bound by Its acton I was all done by shouting sad he just a son as oyles name was mentioned a lot or them began to shout and left the room No one was gIven an oIPortul Ity to express himself against Moyle and he was not the choice of all the members by any means Said Representative Shepard There were ebarcely ten members left In the caucus when Moyles name was mentioned men-tioned We wernt bound by what they did I offered at the outset to let the majority in a secret ballot rule but they wouldnt agree to It so I quit Senator Smoot stated that had any rules been adopted by the caucus had the members acceded to the request of Senator Rawlins to take a secret ballot and let the majority rule he should have voted for anyone choen by the caucus But Ur IcCunes opponents would not agree to anything of the kind and hence there was no binding force in the caucus Senator Whitney said that on the informal in-formal ballot Mr McCune was well in the lead or all other candidates and he should have been chosen but the members mem-bers began to quarrel and he left before be-fore anything was settled I |