The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19
MANDAMUS
GRANTED.
The Anti-CarrOlliteS Win
in the Court.
NAMES OF CANDIDATES.
Must Be Placed on the Ballot by
Secretary of State.
POLITICAL SPEECHES IN COURT.

The Appellate Court, after Attorney
Hug j. Carroll had made three or four
warm political arguments, decided this
morning To grant the writ of mandamus
asked by Mr.. Carroll's political oppou-
ents TO compel Secretary Of state Charles
Il. Bennett TO accept certificates Of nomi-
nations for the next General Assembly.
Secretary Bennett received on March ID
the certificate Of the nomination OF Mr
Carroll's friends, and on March II re-
fused TO receive the ceI tiflcates OF the
anti -Carrollites whose nomin ations wers
endorsed by the executive commitlee. as
the first nominations appeared to be Ia
regular form.
The main point was whether the state
conventions action in giving the Demo
cratic state central COMMITTEES authority
TO decide where there were two factions
of the party in a town or city which was
the legitimate one, was superior to the
decision Of the Officers of the CITY com.
mittee, Is TO tie proper city convention
TO nominate candidates for tie General
Assembly.
maintained the state committees dtcis-
ion was supreme, while Mr.. Carroll
claimed that tho city committee was sur
preme in re gard to the control of party
affairs in the city of Pawtuoket.
During the hearing Mr.. Carroll said
the Damocratic state central committe,
was rottsn To the core, snd charged { 20
men now In charge of the Democratic
party With having changed it from a
party 18th 5000 plurality in the state to q
minority party OF IL, 000 and with having
failed To file nominations for the General
Assembly in one-half the towns of the
state.
John L. Conley, Esq. secretary of the
last Democratic convention, testified that
lJPmOCratlC ftaa
was given power TO settle controvt rsies.
Idr. Conley admitted that the notice sent
to the Carroll faction from the executive
COMMITTEES OF the state COMMITTEES did not
state why the mem hers OF the faction were
wanted.
Alderman Thomss O'Erien gave some
Interesting testimony about caucuses and
political conventions III Pawtucket
which am used even the Gi0nified mem bers
OF the court tie representatives cf the
Pawtucket electorate pre- ssnt the mem
bers of the bar of Democratic, Republi-
can and Goo Goo procliviiies, who were
attracted by reports that this was TO be
the most interesting of all Pawtucket
fights.
Mr.. o 'Brien said, among other things,
that though he received lS5 votes for del.
egate TO tne Democratic city convention
and bis opponent one, he would not be
recognized by the chairman OF the city
COMMITTEES, Mr.. Bucklin, at the city con-
vention, ana that at the latter conven-
tlon no credentials were called for by
Mr.. BuokliD or the secretary.
Secretary CT state Bennett testified I'm
regard TO the reception OF the TWO sets of
credentials, Attorney General Tanner
who represented the 80 crstary of state,
and after remarks by Mr.. Carroll in ie-
half OF bis faction, and Attorneys j. j.
Fitzgerald and a. W. Robinson for the
other ia ctiop, the court decided that the
state convention was the supreme power
in the party and it's acts were binding on
the members Of tie party.