New-York tribune., 1900-04-08
BURNS DELEGATES BOLT
TO HOLD RUMP CONVENTION IN lid
WESTCHESTER DISTRICT
ENJOINED FROM EXCLUDING WHITE
PLAINS DELEGATION. MACHINE PRE-
PARES FOR A CONTEST-WARD
MEN WIN ALL

County yesterday afternoon tried to control the
Republican Convention in the lid Westchester
Assembly District. and, failing in the attempt
left the hall and issued a call for rump con-
vention to meet next Wednesday,
After the Burns had gone the wing OF
the party which is led by ex- Congressman Will
lam L. Ward. being in the majority. organized
the convention and elected delegates to the
State and Congress conventions.
OF the three Assembly districts in Westches-
ter County the lid was the only one that the
friends of ex-senator Burns had the slight
est hope of carrying. When they arrived in
New Rochelle yesterday and found that they
were in the minority they at once set about to
create a contest. for the purpose. it was charged
by the Ward men, of enabling ex-senator Burns
and Ben l.. Fairchild to head contesting dele
CATION to the State Convention
One condition that seemed to favor such
plan was the fact that the Assembly District
committee made up entirely of Burns fol-
lowers The Burns men in control of this COM
mittee planned to throw out the entire Ward
delegation of nine votes from White Plains but
the White Plains delegation anticipating such
a move had through Henry c. Henderson Sc
cured an Injunction from the Supreme Court re-
strainng the committee from seating any dele
gates except those elected at the White Piains
primaries.
sued was made by Samuel C. Miller, of White
Plains under whose leadership the Ward wing
recently had a plurality of 125 votes in the pri-
maries.
The reasons given by the committee for its ac-
ton in trying to turn out the White Plains dele
gates were that Democrats had been permitted
to vote at the primaries, and that there was
fraud practised by the Ward leaders In voting
two hundred Italians. many of them under as
sumed names.
When the Burns men learned that they had
been foiled in this attempt to capture the con-
vention Jacob Halstead, member OF the COM
mittee called the delegates to order and an
nounced that because the injunction had been
served the committee had decided to postpone
the convention until next Wednesday. His an
nouncement was greeted with groans and cries
of mo, Mo-" Frank " Milard. of Tarrytown.
tried 10 have Mr.. Halstead put the question or
an adjournment to the convention, but the latter
left the chair and marched out of the hall with
the Burns delegates following HIM
After they gone and order was restored
Samuel c. Miller was elected chairman and
Jerome Alvord Peck and James Taylor secre-
taries A poll of the delegates showed that or
the eighty-four who had come to the convention
forty-six still remained in the hall, and, this be-
ing declared legal majority the following per-
sons were named State and Congress dele
gates:
Stata-John w. Lounsbury. Alfred w. Cooley,
J. j. Brown John w. Free. w. A. Boyd. James
H. Moran George It. Roberts and b. +. Tomp-
kins.
Congress-Frank v. Millard. William r. Bull.
Charles Earwicker Samuel c. Miller James S.
Merritt j. II. Landers, James B. kichelmer
and Leonard s. Clapp.
Before adjourning the convention discharged
the five Burns committeeman who had caused
the trouble and put five Ward men in their
places.
The ant-Burns wing of the party won a COM
plete victory at the Ist Assembly District Con-
yeation Yesterday afterno@c n Lincoln Hail.
Mount Vernon. To use the language of Mayor
Sutherland OF Yonkers, Everything went along
as smooth as an oil factory" Henry Martyr
Baird. of Yonkers was chairman and Daniel j.
delegates all OF whom are anti-Burns men, are
follows:
State-John G. Peene. T. Ashley Atkins. Valen-
tin Marsh Leslie Sutherland, Frank p. Crasto.
Benjamin Howe Edgar *. Brown and Charles
w. butcher.
Congress-Frank N. Glover. James A. Blanch-
ard Isaac N Mills. Victor Luikert Solomon d
Oakley William j. Bear. William j. Beairsto
Charles F. Valentine and Henry Osterheld.
The convention OF the lid Westchester Dis
trict will be held next Wednesday in Mount
Kisco. Nearly all of the delegates are anti
Burns men. Their faction will have complete
control of the convention, which will meet at the
Orawampum Hotel. in White Plains. April
II to nominate delegates and alternates from
the XVIth Congress District to the National
Convention in Philadelphia.