The Portland daily press., 1895-09-26
Tile Democratic Hosts in New York
Had a Fight.
TAMMANY SMITES THE GRACE
FAIRuHILD CONTINGENT.
The "Tiger" Smiles While Independents
Are Melancholy-The Latter Bolt the
Convention in Disgust-A Truly Demo-
cratic Platform.

were in a chaotic condition this morning,
when the Democratic statesmen got out
of bed. Many Of they had been up nearly
all night wrestling with the excise and
Sunday law plank, or with the contest OF
the Grace Fairchild men. 1t was, there
fore, weary looking crowd that filled
| the hotel lobbies and hustled for seats in
the dining rooms at the breakfast hour.
The Tammany men and the Grace
Fairchild Democrats from New York city
had bad night of it. They fought their
fight before the committee on contested
seats until after midnight and then when
the committees verdict was learned both
were dissatisfied Of the two the con-
testants were the most put out, although
they had won victory. Instead OF being
thrown out bodily, as they were last
year, they had been accorded one-hfth OF
the New York city seats.
Tt is true the resolution adopted by the
committee for presentation to the conven-
tion, did not uphold their claims TO
regularity, and was worded carefully 70
prevent its being used az precedent, and
the small recognition made was stated to
be for the sake of harmony, and not be-
cause it was just.
gained something and it was thought
they would be satisfied but all their talk
early this morning was about packing
their grips and going home.
They called caucus to meet at the
Vanderbilt hotel at nine o'clock to decide
whether to stay out of the convention un-
less third representation is granted.
Convention Hall began to I'LL up snort :
Iy before 10 At the hour set for business
all the spectators seats were taken and
most Of the delegates were in their places.
The band in the gallery had things all
their own way for half an hour. At 10. 80
there were 1000 people in the hall.
THE BATTLE WAGES.
At II. 26 the convention was called to
order. The first business was report OF
committee on credentials. James D. Bell
of Kings county reported the resolution
adopted last night by the committee,
giving the New York State Democracy. q
one-f1fth representation in the convention
and for this convention only, and declar-
ing the Tammany delegates to be the
only regular delegates from New YORK
county. Each Tammany Hall delegate,
under the resolution, was given four
fifths Of vote and each Grace -Fairchild
delegate one-ffth vote.
Charles j. Patterson of Kings county
offered a resolution providing that the
sitting delegation from New York county
be accorded 10 votes and the contesting
delegation 35 votes, and that the sitting
delegation select eight members OF the
State committee and the contesting dele
gates four members of the State COM
mittee.
Mr.. Patterson in speech then appealed
to the convention to do JUSTICE to the
the adoption Of the reportiof the commit
tee on credentials. Senator Guy and ex-
Senator Grady of the New York Tam
MANY delegation spoke in favor of the
Tammany side of the dispute.
At 1925 the vote was taken on the Pat
terson amendment, placing the names OF
both delegations on the roll. 1t was lost.
Then the question Of adopting the re-
port Of the committee on credentials
giving the contestants one-ffth represen-
fatfon was put and carried by a large
. Confusion Followed, Tammany was
cheered. yells were:heard from the specta-
tors benches. In the midst of 1t all the
Grace Fairchild Democrats marched out
them and the Shepard Democrats from
Kings rose in their places and gave the
retiring delegation three cheers.
Chairman Belmont pounded on the
desk with his gavel but it was several
minutes before business could go on.
The report of the committee on perma-
nent organization was presented. 1t
named the Hon. Roswell P. Flower for
nermanent chairman, and the usual list
of vice presidents and honorary secre-
taries. Mr. Flower was escorted to the
nIatform and made speech,
FLOWERS SPEECH.