Connecticut western news., 1896-05-14
ROWS IN CONVENTION
REPUBLICAN FACTIONS IN MISSOURI
 USE FISTS FREELY.

The Delegates, However. Are All For Mo
 Kinley-Fierce Factional Fight In Deia-
 gins Adherents Bolt the Convention
 ST. JOSEPH, Mo, May la-Chsunoey l. Filley is away ahead as the result of the proceedings in the Republican state con- vention.
 There was a riotous wrangle about ad- mission tickets at the start John L. Bit tinger. representing R. C. kerens, got possession of the keys to the opera house and undertook to limit the number of tickets given to the state committee for distribution The sergeant. at arms was a Filley man, however. and in the end his friends got In and had things their own way.
 Filley obtained control of the credentials committee Joe Mccoy being chosen chair man and the faction having a clear ms- jority of the committees Filley was given another strong advantage by the commit tee on organization adopting a rule that candidates for delegates at large should be voted for separately. Representative Bart lett was made chairman He Is a Ftlley partisan
 An angry mob of 5000 men were bat ting with 50 policemen for admission to the opera house 16 minutes before the con- veDtion met
 The mob at the entrance of the building was rapidly increased and grew more de liant The police beat them back with their cluba At the front were the l0s Kereps delegates from St Louis, with Colonel Kerens. c. H. Spencer, Thomas W. Booth and Nat Frank as their leaders, bravely combating the police They had been given tickets of admission by Bit tinger and were trying to make a rush for the seats allotted to the St Louis delegs- tion, which the state committee had as- signed to the Ffiley delegates
 The confusion was worse confounded when Major Bittinger found the proprie- tor of the opera house, gave him s160 for the use of the building, was handed the keys and looked the newspaper men and telegraph operators in the building.
 scantiing Used In the Melee
 An assault was made by the Ftlleyitcs on the back door. but they were repulsed by the guard, who used a scantling.
 Finally a compromise was effected and Chairman Filley led the state committee through the front door. The mob that choked up the street cheered liked madmen when they saw his hat
  crowd Filley led the small procession to the stage and looked out on a sea of empty seats, except the few occupied by favored delegates
 The Filley delegation from St. Louis was the first admitted. The Kerens dele gates held their places In the line on the outside and set up a mighty howl when they saw the Filley men pass the guards at the door. . More than hundred fights occurred in the crowd outside the building. Some of them partook of the nature of small sized riots.
 Tbe committee wranRles continued for several hours, when majority and minori- ty reports were presented by the creden- tials committee. After a long fight the majority report was adopted and the 10S Filley delegates from St Louis were seat ed Contests from Clay and Pike counties were also settled in F1lley's favor.
 The platform favors reciprocity and protection and demands sound money. The delegates were instructed for McKin- ley for president No other presidential candidate was mentioned Wild applause greeted MoKinley's mama Fractional Fights Tn Delaware DOVER, Del. May 1a-The Republican state convention met here. and before the | adjournment one of the stormiest battles in the history of state Republican politics had been waged-
 Charges of fraud were exchanged and | fighting over contested seats indulged In | until it looked as If the convention would end in chaos. The war was between the Addicks and ex- Senator Anthony Hig- gins The Higgins men bolted the con- vention and held a separate one In the statehouse, w. Hastings presiding These national delegates were chosen: Anthony Higgins. John Filling, Hiram Reedy. Dr. Paris T. Carlisle, Cornelius F. Swain and George H. Hall. They were instructed for McKinley.
 | The regular convention selected J. Ed ward Addicks, D. F. Stewart, J. Frank | Allen, Dr. Hiram R. Burton and Dr. Ca leb R Layton
 The fight between the factions was pre- | cipitated by a motion for the chair to ap- point the oommittee on credentials The Higgins people fought for the naming oi | the committee by the district caucuses, and bitter wrangle followed. The mo | ton for the chair to appoint finally car ried by vote of e7 to 5e, scoring first blood for the Addicks men. Mir. Addicks, who sat as a contestant from Brandywinc, | declared that he had been prosecuted by the Higgins men, and that he would stand | their frauds no longer.
 | When recess time was reached, nothing further than 6 temporary organization had been effected. with Dr. Caleb R. Lay. ton of Georgetown as temporary chair man.
 After the recess the turmoil was oontin- ued. but break came when the commit tee on credentials reported in favor of un- seating several Higgins delegates from ] Wilmington. The Higgins men protested i In vain and then left the convention. The Addicks men applied the unit rule tc nearly all questions and carried every. thing before them.
 The Addicks delegates are uninstruoted as to presidential preference. The resolu tions of both conventions declared in favoi of the gold standard and the Republican policy of protection and reciprocity.