The age-herald., 1899-09-22
PAINE NOMINATED BY THE DEMOCRATS Massachusetts Delegates Had a Stormy
 Convention. CHICAGO PLATFORM UPHELD Foreign Policy of Mckinley ROundly
 Condemned. AN ACRIMONIOUS DEBATE
ACRIMONIOUS
DEBATE
Chairman Called Police to Quell Dis tnrbance Started by Congressman Fitzgerald-Thre; d to Have
 Him Removed from Hall

Boston, Mass, September a.-The demo- cratic state convention today nominated the following ticket:
 GOVERNOR TREAT PAINE, JR., Boston.
 ATTORNEY GENERAL - JOHN H. MORRISON, Lowell.
 SECRETARY OF STATE - HARRY LLOYD, Boston.
 STATE TREASURER-JOs J. FYLNN, Lawrence.
 AUDrToR-J. H. RAMSDELL, Lynn.
 The riotous scenes and bitter fights be- tween the two factions of the democratic party of this state, which characterized the all-nisht session in Music hall here in 1S96 ond that al Worcester the following year, were renewed with even greater bitterness at the annual convention of the state de- moeracy in Mechanics hall today
 There was hardly movement, after the speeches of the temporary and presiding officers were concluded, when there was quiet and harmony in any degree. At times the entire delegations were upon their feet the members standing on chairs or tables shouting in the heat of passion some denunciatory remarks at the chairman or the person who was endeavoring to speak upon the platform.
 Policemen of No Avail
 At this time it seemed as though the force of 100 policemen in the nall would be of no avail so impassloned were those upon the floor, aud the climax came when, at the request of the chairman, the captain of the police appeared upon the platform and paced his hand upon Congressman John F. Fitzgerald in readiness to foreiby remove bim rom the platform had he not sub sided nd allowed the chairman to address and, calm the excited assembage The cause of the> tumult which ragged for nearly three hours was the question before the body accepting the action of the state committee in presenting list of delegates to the national cQnvention. It was cfaimed by these who opposed the idea that it was against all precedents and robbed the various districts of their stitu ional rights.
 The personalities which were indulged in were directed as much against Congress- man Fitzgerald as against Mir. Williams, the party leader, and hard names were called on both sides. The final result of all the confusion and discord was the over whelming passage of every motion and re- port that was made by the state commit tee and the election of national convention delegates headed by Robert Treat Payne, Jr., and John H. Mack. The committee appointed to select the delegates to the national convention made it's report.
 Delegates at large-George Fred Will liams, Colonel A. c. Drinkwater, William McFarney and Christopher c. Callahan.
 Reamrmed Chicago Platform
 Tn assuming the chair MT. McNairy de- clared that the principles enunciated by Jefferson and Jackson, embodied in the Chicago platform, were the guiding stars of the mass democracy. MT. Bryan was described by the chair as "the honest and incorruptible legislator, that sound and conservative statesman, the great tribune of the plain people, the third great leader of our historic people.
 Referring to the conflict in the Phillip pines, the chairman said: 'The war which was begun in behalf of the oppressed peo- pie of Cuba and not for the acquisition of foreign territory which President McK1n- ley declared would be criminal aggression is now under the direction of the same president being brought into a conquest of sulbjugation. The United States is in honor bound to keep its sacred pledges. made before the world, to maintain it's honor untarnished and to give freedom to those oppressed and heroic people who struggled manfully for 1t.
 Kisses and Cat Calls
 A motion for the appointment of a com mittee to select seven delegates at large to the democratic national convention of 1900 met with spirited opposition. A mo- tion to amend so as to defer the appoint ment of delegates until 1900 was declared defea ted.
 Kisses and cat calls greeted the speakers on each side of the question.
 Congressman Fitzgerald raised a storm of protests by his denunciation of the state committee, which had agreed to the plan of selecting delegates at large at this time, and of George Fred Williams
 Fx-State Senator Gallavan replied to MT. Fitzgerald.
 A wrangle followed and a deputy su- perintendent of police was called to the platform at the democratic state conven- tion by Chairman McNary, to remove Congressman Fitzgerald. who. when Chair man McNalry declared the original motion carried. defied McNairy and the latter's friends
 The delegates sprang to their feet and crowded around the platform. and although no blows were struck, a perfect pande- monium resulted
 The Platform Adopted
 The platform declares that the Chicago platform of 1896, like the Declaration of Independence, stands as a part of the fundamental code of the democratic gov- ernment''
 The financial plank of that instrument is particularly reiterated and the financial ills of the five years prior to 1897 are ascrihed to "a contracted currencY for