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Show Hearst Men Claim to lljjest Hand Have a Majority in the Democratic Stato Central Committee in Ohio. COLUMBUS. O., May 23. The Hearst men tonight claim a majority ma-jority In the State central committee com-mittee tomorrow, when contests will be determined from the following counties: Cuyahoga, 73; Hamilton, 43; Franklin, 35; Montgomery. 24; Summit, 12; Miami, 7; Madison, 4. Total, 200, The Bryan-Hearst men call themselves "the regulars," and the others "the reorganizes." re-organizes." Their opponents call themselves "the conservatives" and the others the "radicals." Tho Bryan-Hearst men's poll for the 723 delegates Is: Regulars. 351; reorganizes, reor-ganizes, 172; doubtful, 200; the last-named last-named Including the contested seats. Tho conservatives say the contest will bo decided In their favor by the com-l mltteo on credentials, no matter what tho State committee docs, that their poll shows 323 conservatives and 200 radicals, ra-dicals, without the 200 contested scats, and that when the convention Ls permanently per-manently organized any ballot will show 523 conservatives to 200 radicals. Under a rule of the last two Democratic Demo-cratic State conventions that were controlled con-trolled by Mayor Johnson of Cleveland, Cleve-land, the Stato central committee determines de-termines tomorrow morning which "contesting "con-testing delegation shall take part In the district meeting tomorrow afternoon to select members of the new State central cen-tral committee and members of the committees on credentials, resolutions, permanent organization, rules and order or-der of business. If the radicals succeed tomorrow their action will affect not only 200 seats In the convention, but also nine of the Congressional districts, with their nine members of the new Stato central com-Imlttce com-Imlttce and of the regular committees, Including that on credentials and on resolutions. These contests Include the First and Second Congressional districts dis-tricts at Cincinnati, the Twentieth and Twenty-first at Cleveland, the Third at Dayton, the Twelfth at Columbus and counties In threo other districts. W. L. FInlcy, tho manager for Hearst, as chairman of the State central committee com-mittee tails the convention to order on Wednesday morning. It. L. Starr, the nlm It-mo n nnil Mm roKt nf thn tlmnO- rary organization, are Hearst men. Separate conferences wero held tonight to-night by the opposing members of the State central committee. The radicals claimed control, but gave no figures. Tho conservatives claimed eleven of the twenty-one members sure, with three doubtful, and that they would control a majority of the districts and tho convention. con-vention. The most Interesting development develop-ment of these conferences was the announcement an-nouncement that Salen and Madlgan, State committeemen from the two districts dis-tricts at Cleveland, were counted with the conservatives, while Mayor Johnson Is credited with co-operating with tho radicals In organizing the convention. Johnson is for Folk of Missouri for President, but as his old friends are for Hearst, he has co-operated with them In the preliminary work of the convention. |