Show GAVE LLOYD A ROAST Candidates Object to New Primary Plan WARM MEETING LAST NIGHT i 1 Chairman Lloyd Called the Sleeting j for the Purpose of linking Down the I S Candidates but They Insisted Upon i Up-on Pronounced Ideas S on Committees Action in Adopting I New Priniary Plan Fisher Harriss 1 c Pointed Speech Whitaker and I Howolls Collided I II I I I For over two hours last night Benjamin 1 Benja-min Tiliman l Lloyd chairman of the I Democratic county committee was up against the hardest game lhat he has 1 ever tackled since his elevation to the I chairmanship For the period of time1 I above mentioned Mr Lloyd was IT and he had not fully recovered his I A mcntal equilibrium whun he was assisted as-sisted upon street car at 12 oclock I midnight and started for home P The meeting was primarily one oft of-t candidates and there were present Fisher S Harris W II Dale NIcol S Hood Charles Smith Brigham E I 5 West David L Levey J E Lynch Ham Naylor George Whitaker Sheriff I Uowells John Halvbrsen M S Wool ii ISV George A Wood Sandy Fowler vi Albert A Seare John T Calne W H Evans and others whose names MrS Mr-S Lloyd could not remember when seen t by a Tribune reporter just after he S had cmorgcd from the semicomatose condition in which the meeting had left him 1 t S It was shortly after S oclock when Mr Lloyd carefully locked the doors I oC his ofilce dropped the key Into his pocket and began a dessertatlon upon up-on the necessity of money In a campaign cam-paign Nobody left the room while he was speaking and all listened Intently Intent-ly as they couldnt very well do anything 1f any-thing else Then came peroration It which was a gentle Invitation for I everybody toUdlg up and Jingle on f the mahogany as Dale put It They Jill dug and jingled to the amount I of about 5 each S Then I S Lloyd wanted to quit but the boys S paid nit as they went for him hip I S Hud thigh and he wished in vain S again and again that Jim and Dave were nigh but his friends were few and he couldnt do a thlnp to stop the rumpus and hell surely say when you meet him today geewhiz but t didnt they bump me The trouble broke loose Immediately after the shaking down and without wasting any valuable time in preliminary prelim-inary W H Dale Fisher S Harris t Goorgc A Whitaker W U Evans I Joseph S Grow James Sabine and M t S Woolley proceeded to walk all over t the action of I the county committee in adopting the new primary system Dale thought It too late to spring such I S a proposition without having first considered S con-sidered It carefully and Harris found t that a job was being put up in some + S bodys interest Harris also said that it money could easily be used In such away a-way as to give one candidate a big advantage over his opponent The other 5 oth-er speakers sold othor things of a similarly sim-ilarly uncomplimentary ture to the political acumen of Mr Lloyd and hisS his-S associates While George A Whitaker was speaking Sheriff Howells Interrupted him by suggesting that Whitaker was a a candidate for a county ofilce himself 1 and should not criticise the committee Whitaker retaliated by insinuating that Howells only favored the proposition proposi-tion becauc he thought it advantageous S advanta-geous to him 1L John JCalne Chairman Lloyd and Shenff Howells were the only ones who spoke In favor of the new plan and I the antis overwhelmingly in the tt majority There was some talk Of taking aVote I upon the matter but out of deference to Chairman Lloyd whoso condition strongly indicated c collapse the vote was dispensed with The action of the J committee was also criticised in allowing 5 S allow-ing the county members to vote to sad I dlo the new plan on the city the contention S con-tention being that as the county was S not being considered the members 5 5 should not have been allowed a vote 5 It Is expected that Mr Lloyd willS will-S have fully recovered by today |