The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-05-13
BUT LITTLE ACCOMPLISHED BY
THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN
STATE CONVENTION.
FIGHT FROM TIE VERY START.
BEFORE THE MEE9ING OPENED
THERE WAS A-LIvELY FREE
FOR-ALL.
F1LLEY MEN wen THE VICTORY.
The Little That Was Accomplished
by the Cenvention'Was as They
Dictated.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, May 12-After whole
day devoted largely TO rioting OF one kind
and another, and wrangling when there was
no more serious disturbance the Missouri
Republican state convention, at late hour
tonight, had succeed in doing very little be-
side organizing, and an. ail-night session was
in prospect The majority report of the
credentials committee was adopted, seating
the FilIey delegates, and platform accepted
indorsing Mckinley and protection, and de-
clarng for sound money.
The convention was almost turned into
riot before the delegates were admitted to
the hail. At 10 o'clock fully 1000 people were
in front of the opera house, clamoring for
admittance The cause of the trouble was
disagreement between the Filley and the
Kerens factions for supremacy. Mr.. Filley,
as chairman of the state committee, issued
tickets to his set Of delegates. The local
committee on arrangements recognize Kerens
as boss, and this committee also issued
tickets to the convention, and having obtain
ed possession of the keys of the opera house,
refused to admit any one until Filley would
consent to compromise. At about II o'clock
newspaper reporters were admitted to the con-
vention hall. but delegates were kept on the
outside while truce was being arranged
between the factions. little after 12
O'Clock crowd of men, wearing Filley hats,
congregated in the rear Of the theater, and
attempted to smash in the rear door. They
used battering ram. The sergeant-at-ar
in the inside telephoned for the police and
patrol wagon full of officers was sent to the
scene. The sergeant-at-arms was unable to
identify the individuals using violence and
no arrests were made but the officers re-
manned on guard.
While the delegates In the street raved
Filley and the local committee representing
the Kerens' faction held consultation. FL
nally an agreement was reached by which the
doors were opened, and the delegates allowed
to enter. Then after delay of three hours
Chairman Filley appeared on the stage and
called the convention to order. The building
was packed to the doors, but the delegates
seemed to have forgotten their wrath, and
aside from few bruised heads and black
eyes, there was no evidences of what had
for a time threatened to result in a riot.
After an address by Mayor Worries Mr.. Filley
announced the temporary officers as follows:
Chairman, Congressman Richard Bartholdt;
secretary, Albert Griffin. Chairman Barthold
addressed the convention at length, and his
remarks were well received After Mr. Bart
hold closed and committees were named the
convention took a recess.
The anti-Filley followers held a caucus
after adjournment, and attempted to arrange
matters that they might seat their contest
ing delegations. A hot fight was waged in
the credentials committee rooms and the
Filey men refused to entertain proposition
for a compromise. They demanded every
thing in sight, which the Kerens faction was
not disposed to concede. At $50 the creden-
tials committee was not ready to report, and
the delegates and spectators who filled the
convention hall amused themselves by list
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gan Webster. Davis, Maj. William Warner
and others.
1t was not until after II o'clock tonight
that the committee on credentials was ready
to report and the convention was finally
called to order. The committee submitted two
reports, the majority favoring the Fflley del
egations, and the minority favoring sending
all the contesting delegations and divd-
ing the vote between the two factions. The
majority report was adopted without debate.
The committee on order of business recon-
mended the election first of state chair
man, the nomination of state officers after
wards, and, as the final business of the con-
vention, the election of delegates to the ma
tional convention. This report was unani-
mously adopted. The indications are that the
convention will be in session all night.
From this time on, the convention was
practically in control of the Filley party.
The temporary Organization was made perm
apent, and the only disappointment which the
Filley men met was the losing of one of the
state committeeman at large. The selection
of chairman of the state central committee
was awarded to Mr.. Filley by acclamation,
and to crown his victory, at 1:3O a. m. he
was elected delegate at large to the national
convention.
The platform indorses protection and Nc
Kinley, and denounces the Cleveland admin
istration. The financial plank is as follows:
I'VE are firm and emphatic in our demand
for honest money. We believe that our money
should not be inferior to the money of the
mcst enlightened nations of the earth. We
are unalterably opposed to any scheme that
threatens to debase or depreciate our cur
rency We favor the use of silver as cur
rency, but to the extent only and under such
regulations that its parity with the present
gold standard can be maintained, and, in con-
sequence, we are opposed to the free, unlm-
tied and Independent coinage of silver at a
ratio Of 16 to IL