The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-03
ENDS IN RIOT.
Fist Fights Instead of
Votes.
"a MOB IN CONTROL.
DisgracefuI !. Scenes at
S. Union Hall.
HELLER" Is. ArrAcK i .'= STAGE
Democratic Delegates Resort to
8 Violence:
+ DEUPREY ADJouRNs CONVENTION
*Weakens Under Threats and allows
= r; -: the Minority Report to Usurp
ATTACK THE STAGE
Democratic Delegates Resort to
: Violence.
DEUPREY ADJoURNs CONVENTION
:Weakens Under Threats and allows
:. =: the Minority Report to Usurp.
=: ': i. the Majority's Place.

=. With all.its record for political wran giles
+ and riOts:UnOn Hall perhaps nsyer wit
: messed q moro disoTderly and tumuftuous
scene than THAT which took place last night
sdurfng the proceedings OF the Democratic
convention. -.
g :; The. Old timers, who ara wont to talk
: about the high times in Union: HalP' in
): the days so long gone that the tales W hich
:: come down hallowed by time and uncon-
tradicted because few people can remem-
:: Der 10 the contrary, will now have nothing
to crow about to The present generation in
: the line of political hubbnbst fights and
=. noise. r.
f.. The convention came very near break
ing up altogether. 1t did dIsband in facl,
but II. in some way came together again
!: and managed TO finish. Up us business
after a fashion. -: :: 80. ~.
= Nothing could surpasS .inTowdyism the
closing Incidents of this. remarkable as
semi lage. From beginning to end the
session can be. Hkened To nothing more.
dlgni6ed or delbera tIye.t than beuIam. -;
r: The row was not Unexpected. Chairman
e. .Deuprey went TO- the Fall accom- panied: by
a bodyguard. and he delegates went there
bent en- creatinga row. 3
Before the body had been in session if
teen minutes tile. riot was Cd. and for half
an hour it looked as. If The chairman would
have nerd of all the protection he had
provided for himself or the police could
give. = ..4...-> :. :. a. ~.
Forfour days the committee appointed
:. last week to se3eeta Board of Supervisors
and Board or School Directors had. been
hard al work. They had ex perien eed great
difficulty IN getting acceptable candidates
to FuBs :: :,.:. =. g:
twas an anti Rainey- committee, and it
wanted Democrats who were free from
tie R.ainey influence aHd at the same
lime sufficiently strong to stand d chance
OF: election. The: list. was finally COM
ptefed, and the: mem bets of the com
1iiittee, sore at having had the Rainey
. Saddle strapped On the: back of the con
vefGtiop. W emit. down to Union Hall last
night determined that their report should
De: adopted hether the convention wished
to or not. =. -
: The con ven tion went down determined
: that no :felaort should be stuffed down its
.thrAaf, and the Situation at the start pre-
sentea a com ID tee with. the chairman of
:: The. congepuQn in league with it, pitted
against at lea 81 5o0.as stubborn Democrats
as er n0wled. Il throat sore
=: The halt: !, as one mass of men and
e everything auspicous for: a turbulent out
:brfaks
At The beginning some businesa of minor
= np9ftsnce was transacted aud then the
..charman announced that the report of the
:.ceminfttee on Super visors and School
>: Dire Gto r.. was IN. order. James F. Smith
advanced TO the platform and read the re-
:|.pl9rt:. He had scarcely ceased reading
= Wien the chairman declared that motion
:]Ilnd been made to:adopt the report of the
een11p1ttee. =:
f Tiers was a: great-deal Of noise in the
hail and il the motion really had been
=1par>le few; if any. people heard it, Deu-
*pfeF.then put the question, and there was
a: st9tm:: of ayes, followed by heavier
3 iortn;of noes. Down came the tack-ham-
afIef.G1 The 'bCiler-plate. and the presiding
r 5eer could be heard announcing, at The
:!t6n othIs Voice. that.the motion had been
carried.
ST. 3. .Ehe rolf THE roll" 'scall the roll"
=ealled: 200 d delegates. Then the cry was
:"+taken. up by others. and the spectators
1ean2d upon the benches and craned their
::neekste see:tre coming battle.
= =.si6e chair decides that the motion has
said Deuprey
+: TINS was followed by deepening of the
.9ieWl Tor the roI. 1t became more general
.::.as It proceeded. and at last it seemed that
:. eyeEy delegate in The vast body was calling
:. FOIL" roll, s"cal the ron.'
s. =.Deuprey :defantly yelled back: "Yon
won get the roll and you make nothing
by your howls. The motion has been put
land: carried, and declare the report OF
+ =the=committee adopted"
s. ID cots and yells answered the announce
inenf, and 1t was clear that the delegates
nad MADE their stand and did not intend 10
retreat From this time on it W as lmpossi-
bic 10 distinguish what anybody said,
II. Eddy Graney. Sam Rainey's lieutenant
kept the uproar in motion by running
d own from the stage every time tbers
seemed a prospect Of a lull and calling tn
his followers in the Forty-second Distric.
to yell for the roll. Get up there" cried
Glaney, ''and make him give it to you"
. He was flushed with excitement and fairly
screamed his orders, which were obeyed
with right good Will.
Richard Hammond mounted the plat
f0fm and cleimed the attention of the con-
vention. He was recognized by the chair,
but he did not get the attention of the
delegates. Mr.. Hammond wanted to make
q point of order where there was no order.
j he stood there before the convention wav-
: ing his arms and trying to speak, while
: the delegates drowned his voice with their
cries and laughed as his frantic gestures.
= Peter f. Dunno also left his seat and
3. went up to the chairman. He. wanted to
pc heard, but Deuprey declared that Ham
mond had the floor. Dunno had a minority
2 report which: he wanted to present. but his
appeals TO Deuprsy were in vain. He
finally determined to resort to other tactics.
EDDY Graney wasiutrusled with the re.
port, and ne placed it in the hands of one
Of his men from the Forty-secoDd: s.Yon
take it, be said. and 60 cut on the nIa,.
fern and present it. and if he fmeanino
Hammond) tries to stop you bust him in
the nose"
The delegate didn'tlike his lob. but ha
made a feint to carry out his instructions
He stepped from behind Chairman Dan
prey's stand and said "Mr. Chairman, in