Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1904 — HEARST HAS A DELEGATION [ARTICLE]

HEARST HAS A DELEGATION

Rhode Island Democrat* Seloet Six Wbo WUI Vot* for the Now Yorker'* * Nomination. Providence, R. 1., March 11. John j. Fitzgerald, of Pawtucket, leader of the Democrats In the state bouse of representatives, won a notable victory In the state convention which chose delegates to the national Democratic convention at St Louis. Fitzgerald elected five out-and-out supporters and one delegate who had been counted as an opponent but who voted with the Fltzgerald-Greene faction, which Is working in the Interests of W. R. Hearst for the presidential nomination. Having done this the Fitzgerald people permitted the leaders of the opposition, Colonel Quinn and Colonel Honey, to be named In completing the delegation. Following the convention a meeting of the six Hearst delegates was held at which the presidential candidacy of Hearst was Indorsed and resolutions favoring the adoption of the unit rule by the delegation In rotting were adopted. The delegates were not instructed;