The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-30
HUB in A HUBBUB.
Wind.up of the Faction Fight
Among the Democrats.
ALL EXCEPT A FEW OF ONE MIND.


dominates the Same state Ticket with
George Fred Williams AT the Head-Gold
Minority Adds Variety by Putting Up
Other Men-One Life Lost by Accident In
the Struggle
Boston, Sept. U.s. I'ne Hub was in
a hubbub Saturday. and during the day
added a new page to the sensational
part of the history OF politics
in the United States. There have
been other exciting political
scenes in Boston, but none that
was lin it" with those of Saturday.
The popularity of ii all is that now il
looks as though the scenes were en-
tirely unnecessary, for the two Demo-
cratic conventions that can claim the
delegates nominated the same ticket
although meeting one in a hall and the
other in the open air. The ticket NOM
mated is as follows: For governor,
George Fred Williams; lieutenant gov
ernor. j. G. Callahan; secretary OF
state, Joseph III. Potts; treasurer and
receiver general, Thomas S. Watson;
attorney general. John d. ODonnell;
auditor Morris Ii. Cavanaugh.
Beginning of the hay State Fight.
The factional fight in the ranks of the
hitherto united Massachusetts, Demo-
cracy can be traced back TO the Chi
cago convention of last July, when, in
the struggle between gold and silver,
George Fred Williams and few others
boldly left the majority of the Massa-
chusetts delegation and voted for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
Since that time the rift in the lutte"
has gradually become wider, and the
epithets of traitors" and would be
dictators" were banded about freely
But the popularity again is that the
party managers who were opposed to
free silver were in a smaller minority
even than they were at the Chicago
convention as was demonstrated by
the action OF the two conventions held
Saturday. In other words had the con-
vention been held in one hall there does
not seem to have been the least chance
for the gold men TO have headed off
anything the silver men desired.
George Fred's Men Held the Fort.
When the sun rose Saturday there
were 600 accredited delegates to the
state convention in the Music hall where
Williams had made such a dramatic
speech Friday night, and there they
stayed with the doors locked. Early
Saturday thousands of men, scores of
whom were delegates from out of town,
assembled around Music hall, expect
ing the doors TO be opened at any mo-
ment that a compromise might ensue.
Overtures were made by the members
of the state central committee, and
they were rejected by the men In posses
sion of the hall, who were fearful of
treachery. The men on the outside
then organized in Hamilton place, in
response To the suggestion Of Timothy
w. Coakley, the locked-in leader of
the silver men, and whatever business
was transacted in the hall was in
dorsed by the outside meeting.
And the State Committee Also.
Even the state committee was silver,
il seems; for after trying in vain TO
get into Music hall that body went
TO Faneuil hall, where a convention
was held, and the national candidates
and the Chicago platform were in
dorsed. and George Fred Williams was
nominated for gubernatorial honors.
This action was protested by number
OF gold standard Democrats, who with
drew in a body, and placed ticket
favorable 10 Palmer and Buckner in
the field, on nomination papers. The
ticket. as filed by the National Demo-
cratic state committee of Massachu-
sets. includes presidential electors and
state officers, the latter headed by
George o. Prince for governor. The
Populist state convention met at
Wesleyan hall and Endorsed the Music
hall nominees.
One Man Loses His Life.
Friday nights proceedings at Music
hall were not without a tragic feature.
James Hughes, a delegate from Som
erville, lost his life in an effort to get
out OF the hall by fire escape in the
rear. Hughes was preparing TO jump