New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-18

at the election OF IIesluOHV W A4t'
declaring that there ought to be change IN
the Government of the State. No aIusion Is
made to resumption or finance
THE VICTORY A BARREN AFFAIR.
BUTLER THROWS AWAY THE PRESTIGE OF REGULAR
NOMINATION BY VIOLENT PRoCEEDNGs-INcI-
DENTS OF THE DAY.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
WORCESTER Mass. Sept. 17-General Butter
won barren victory IN Worcester to-day he mas
spent his money like water to pack Democratic
caucuses all over the State and actually secured
majority of the regularly elected delegates to the
convention tOdayin order that he might secure the
prze of the regular Democratic nomination; ana he
then allowed 1t all to alp through his fingers by the
bad management of his friends. The nomination
he did get will be worth very little more to him
than one made by any other mass-meeting Of his
friends 1t lacks all the authority with which he
hoped to go before the people as candidate OF one
of the two old established parties in the State ana
il makes it almost impossible for him to have any
standing in the genuine Democratic convention
which will meet III Boston next week. The Batter
tail did wag the Democratic dog but it wagged 1t
30 furiously that it shook it of, and the dog feels
better to-day.
General Butler had captured majority of the
town delegations but not of the State Central Com
mittee. 1t was credibly reported at o'clock this
morning that the committee had decided not only to
give the organization Of the convention to the anti
Butler men, but to issue tickets to sufficient num-
Der of cOntestng delegations to put the Essex
statesman in minority. The State Committee
had not of course, formally agreed to any resolu-
ton of this kind, but 1t had determined that no one
should be admitted to the hall where the convention
was to be held without ticket, and that the com
mittee should decide who were entitled to receive
tickets
THE HALL. sTORMED AT DAYBREAB.
This determination caused the most intense ex-
citement among the Butler men who still thronged
the headquarters at the Bay State House, which
the General had provided, 1t was quickly deter
mined to steal a march the State Committee, and
TO take possession of the convention room early in
the morning
During the night, a back door of the hall was
broken. The main entrances were unlocked; and
o'osol00ir morning siro 'sslor began 10
go in and take their seats, They sleepy lot,
very few of them having retired at all during the
night and many Of them having INDUCED very
freely in liquid refreshments that did not contrib
ute to clearheadedness or wise proceeding. tenn
porary chairman was chosen and very disorderly
meeting was organized, about twenty-five or thirty
men being present.
Each speaker at this meeting as he recOg-
nized declared that he would never leave the hall
until General Butler nominated to be Cover
nor. This resolution was a little shaken about
o'clock when there prospect that the men who
were holding the fort would have to do 1t on
empty stomachs. A goOdly supply of baked beans,
crackers aud cheese, rolls and coffee, had been
gagged and was deposited at the street entrance to
the building, but the janitOr would not allow
it to be taken into the hall. About the same time
the Mayor Of the city arrived and posted force of
policemen the stairs, with orders to allow no one
to pass up. But hunger, like love, laughs at lock-
smiths and guarded doors. A rope was soon pro-
cured. Communication was established with the
besieged party by window, and the contractor was
able, as he said, "to provision the Army of the
James, Twenty-Five OF thirty Butler who
were refused admission to the hall by the door, went
in through the same window, which they reached
by means of a tall ladder.
THE MAYOR UNABLE TO PUT THEM OUT.
At this time there were in the hall about one hun
dred men, and the State Committee which had hired
the hail. requested Mayor Pratt to clear it Of the in
truders and place the room at their disposal.
The chief magistrate of the city, who is
aiaild-mannered man, requested the Butler men to
leave the hail. They told him to his face that they
would not go, and that he had no right 10 put them
out. .e retired consulted, and returned to parley
with the mob in possession. He finally said that he
requested the gentlemen to withdraw but if they
would not go out he should allow them TO remain.
This announcement was received with loud cheers,
and propositions to place Mayor Pratt's name sec
oDd on the ticker to be nominated.
When it was settled that the Mayor would not
turn the Butler men out of the hall, the hundred
men who were in possession were 80 elated that
they began to arrange things as though they were
the convention ITSELF instead OF a small portion of
faction They appointed a committee TO examine
the credentials of those who were still outside. and
W he all a6 lint fbavy
speedily brought to their senses by the refusal
of the Mayor and his police to let any of those pass
whose papers the Butler committee approved
In the meantime, five or six hundred Butlerdele-
gates. who had not arrived in time to get into
Mechanics Hall before the Mayor closed the doors
organized an indignation meeting in Washburne
Hall in the same building, which General Butler
had secured in advance The speakers denounced
the State Central Committee in unmeasured terms
declaring that it bad usurped powers which be-
lOhged 70 the people alone, and that the committee
ought 70 be depOsed. The more severe the language
used y louder was the applause.
q REGULAR CONVENTION ADJOURNED
The tate Central Committee was in session all
the morning. When it was learned that the Mayor
refused to clear the Butler men out of Mechanics
Hall, several plans Of procedure were proposed
One was that the regular delegates headed by tho
State Central Committee should 20 to the hall at
IL o'clock and take forcible possession. This
rs what Southern Democratic Convention wonld
have DONE and l doubt if the New-York
Democracy would have allowed a hundred men
70 keep them out OF a hall which they
had hired for such purpose. But the Democrats Of
Massachusetts, wanted no bloody row in Worcester
to-day, and being convinced that an attempt TO take
the place would result in a fight, that plan was
speedily abandoned. Another suggestion was that
the committee adjourn the Convention to Faneul