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Show SIUIFE IN -S- CONVENTION - Hearst and OIncy Each . Claim Majority of Boston Bos-ton Delegates. BOSTON, April 26. The Democratic conventions will be held in all the four-. four-. teen Congressional districts of this Stat today to elect two delegate from each district to the national convention. Ten -of the conventions are to be called to order in. the afternoon, while the re-. re-. mainder, those In the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh districts, the so-called so-called Boston districts, are arranged for this evening . The friends of Richard Olney say that the delegates chosen must vote for Mr. Olney at St. Louis for the Presidential ' nomination. Inasmuch as the State convention con-vention passed resolutions making this1 obligatory. On the other, hand, the advocates of .William R. Hearst, led by George Fred Williams, declare that the action of the State convention is binding in no way upon the district conventions. The Hearst men have predicted that a majority ma-jority of their delegates would be elected elect-ed today. The friends of Mr. Olney make a similar claim. |