The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-22
THE CAUSE OF THE ROW
THE POWERS GIVEN TO THE
STATE COMMITTEE.
THE COMMITTEE WINS AT EVERY POINT
Platform Declares that Troops Now Called for
Service in the Ph lippines VIII Later
be Used to 0yerawe Our
Working Men.
Working Men,,

bOSlOn, MAS, sept. Zl.-Ine flOIOuS
scenes and the bitter fights between The
two factions of the Democratic patty
in this State which characterized TIE all
night session in Music Hall in 1896 and
that at Worcester the following year,
We're renewed with even greater bittre-
ness at the annual convention of the
State Democracy in Mechanics Hall
today. There was hardly moment,
after the speeches of the temporary ard
permanent presiding officers wer2 CON
cluded, when there was quiet and har-
mony in any degree. At times he en-
tire delegation was upon its 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 endeayorlng 10
speak upon the platform.
At this time it seemed as though even
the force of 100 policemen in Tie Lall
would be of no avail, so impaSslonad
were those uIaon the floor, and the eli
max came, when, at the request OF the
chairman, the Captain of the Police ap-
peared upon the platform and placed
his hand upon Congressman john y.
Fitzgerald, i'll readiness to forcibly re-
move him from the platform mad nc not
subsidized and allowed the chairman to
address and calm the excited assem-
blage.
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 Con
vention.
1t was claimed by those who opposed
the idea that it was against all prece-
dent and robbed the various districts
of their constitutional rights.
The personalities which were INDUCED
III were directed as much against Con-
gressman Fitzgerald, as against Mr..
Williams, the party leader and hard
names We're called ON both sides. The
hnal result of all the confusion and dis
cord was the overwhelming passage
of every motionand report that was
made by the State committee and the
election of national convention del,-
gates.
The delegates at large are George
Fred Williams, Colonel A. G. Drink
water, William L. Nary, and Christie
l.
Jr., was nominated for Governor.
The platforms declares that the CHI
cago platform Of 1896, like the Decla-
ration of independence, stands as a part
of the fundamental code OF Democratic
Government"
The financial plank of that instrument
IS partlcularly reiterated, and tho lnan-
cial ills of the i've years prior 80 1897.
n 10
for which Republican financial !egisIa-
tion had provided no form Of relief.
Trusts are condemned and The war
in the Philippines is characycrlznd as
criminal aggression, wanton, needless
and wasteful and inconpetently and
corruptly prosecuted. 1t is demanded
that ito the Filipinos as 10 the Cubans
shall be said today that they are and
of right ought to be free ami indepcn-
dent"
The platform alleges that ''in the reit-
Grated demands for more and more
troops to subdue the Tagalos may be
detected the purpose to have ultimately
more soldiers to employ ut home" max
ing it possible for monopOistic corpora
tions ito secure the aid of armed forces
both State and Federal, to overawe
their workingmen in time of labor dis
sensions'
The platform then denounces the con-
duct Of the military authorities in the
Cour D'Alene coal district of Idaho.
The platform fayors direct legislation
| the initiative and referendum, the cleo
tion of United States Senators by direct
vote of the people, and the enforcement
of an eight hour workday the abolition
1 A. a
bers Of the judiciary and the public
ownership and operation of street rail
ways, water works and other municipal
business enterprises.
The platform concludes with pledg-
ing the loyalty of the Massachusetts
Democracy to William Jennings Bryan.