The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-06
BOILERS At E RENO
Two Conventions Choose Two
Sets of Everything.
NINETY MINUTES IN CHAOS
Machine Versus Anti-Machine
Lists of the Honored.
NINETY MINUTES IN CHAOS

FL Reno. o. T., June .-Extraordinary
scenes characterized the meeting Of the
Democrats of Oklahoma here today. a
fight Of an hour and a half between the
machine" and "ana-machine" factions
threatened TO result in free for all
fight and finally terminated in a walk
out by nearly half the delegates. Two
separate conventions were held, two del
egauons to the Kansas City convention
named, and two territorial committeeman
selected The boiling faction, which rep
resented a minority / nthe convention.
entered a vigorous protest against the
rulings Of the chairman, Freeman Nil
Ter, Of Saltwater. SarCastically, excited
delegates addressed him as tom Reed
and Mark Hanna" and threatened him
with several varieties Of dire vengeance.
The fight was between the machine
crowd and the "anti-nachinists
After several hours Of confusion last
night a slate headed by J. r. Jacobs
for national committeeman was put in
the field. It was packed by a majority
Of the delegates. and the forces which
opposed, represeted candidates who had
been left in the cold It was part of
the machine program to name only six
delegates on each Of the three commit
tees. The personnel OF these committees
was arranged before the convention met
Colonel Johnson Of Oklahoma City, in
opposition TO the slate makers, moved
"a -
placed on each committee. A motion to
table this was promptly mada and a
test Of strength was made Chairman
Miller declined to allow and discussion
Of the subject and a scene Of the Wild
est uproar ensued Harmony, II it ever
existed. was scattered broad cast. The
excited delegates Of the minority mount
cd chairs and hurled threats at the
chairman and their opponents. For
ninety minutes pandemonium reisned su-
prerne and order wa. restored Only when
the forces Of the "aHtis" were NJ arshaled
10 the rear Of tho hall and a separate
organization perfected Then two con-
ventions were heI1 in one hall.
The convention was called 10 order by
Jasper Sipes. chairman Of the territorial
central connrittee and after prayer Hon
r = Forrest was introduced to welcome
the delegates on behalf Of the city OF El
Reno. Forrest was greeted with great
enthusiasm snd loud cries eff "Hurrah
for our rext congressman" etc. as was
ornirentIy be1tting a vicarious sacrifice
in next falls campaign. Forrest spoke
in his usual happy style and made fire.
ouont hits that evoked considerable ap-
Tlauee.
" n. CardvreH Of Custer county re-
s0o~ded in behalf Of the convention and
the state nominal ions OF Freeman Miller,
the saltwater poet politician, and Zen
C1ardv Of Tecumseh for temporary chair
man and secretary respectively, were
rushed through without opposition. The
spending riot developed when Leander
Pitman moved that the usual committees
ha appointed by the chair and to consist
OF seven members each. Colonel Johnson
promptly moved 10 amend by making the
different committees. one from each coun-
~. and Wrightsman OF Pawnee moved TO
lay the amendment on the table. Then
there was trouble. For a solid hour each
factior maintained a continuous uproar.
the chair IN the meantime patiently
pounding in a vain attempt to restore or
der. During all this racket the secretary
went through the farce Of calling the roll
and informed the chair that the motion
10 lay on the table had carried. and dur
Ing n temporary lul. the chair announced
the result Then tumult was resumed.
and The racket was so prolonged and
Geafenisg that even the reporters were
Tot able to catch tke names of the dele
gates Composing the committees as they
were called of by the chairman.
u was here that the lookcd-for bolt oc-
CURED. 'Curley' Caldwell and Colonel
Johnson mounted the stage il succession
and invited their followers 20 the rear
end 90 the hau for the purpose OF organic
ing convention. Probably ore-half Of
the delegates responded and temporary
organization was effected by e,ecting John
s Mitch OF Wellstou chairman and Frank
stevens of Waukomis secretary. The
usual committees were then appointed,
and the boilers adjourned until p m.
During these proceedings the so-caled
regulars" remainde I'm the other end OF
the hail and derided the boilers while
awaiting the reports Of their committees
The report of the committee on creden-
tials showed 40 properly accredited dele
rates She number being subsequently,
swelled to 1So
TIE committee a permanent organiza-
ton named 5. L. Johnson % Alya for
permanent chairman and Ben Claydy for
secretary. which was agreed to.