New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-01
NEW-JERSEY NEWS.
DELEGATES LEFT FREE.
EFFORTS TO INSTRUCT NEw-JERSEY
DEMOCRATS FOR BRYAN FAIL
STORMY STATE CONVENTION.


STORMY STATE CONVENTION.
Trenton. May 81 (SpeciaD-Many of the delegates
to the Democratic State Convention. held here to-
day. are tonight asking themselves where they
are at They had shouted themselves hoarse for
neither was there an Endorsement of the Chicago
piatTorm. Warm battle was waged for these
thngs In the Committee Platform. but by
votes OF IA 10 the real blue Bryanites trusty
democrats, as they calling themselves In
New-Jersey were crushed. The worst of all for
them, proposed plank instructing the delegates
10 vote for Bryan defeated by a similar
The convention was to elect delegates TO the Kan
sas City Convention Of July A. 1t began business
at noon. and excepting brief recess for the COM
mittees to work in, continued hard at II until
p. m. The meeting was held in the Taylor Opera
House. and old employees OF the theatre said II
was ABOUT the noisest and most disorderly
Vehtion in dozen years. Many of the delegates
sat In their shirt sleeves. Colonel c. Meyer Zulick
once Governor of Arizona Territory. tempo
rary and permanent chairman. There were a dozen
or more secretaries. including William K Dever-
eux, secretary of the Democratic State Committee.
In his opening speech Colonel Zulck started the
excitement by declaring President Mckinley 10 be
the prominent representative of the ''robber tariff
arc Bryan the one mar ia the country who could
rescue 1t from the peris of the trusts syndicates
and milonaires and the militarism and imperial
ism favored by the Republican party" At the men,
tlon OF BryanS name hdlt the delegates cheered,
others applauded. two bands of music played. and
the further progress of business blocked for
five minutes The ''trusty' Democrats considered
the day
BRYAN MEN BECOME ANGRY
When the Committee Resolutions ready
to report Congressman William D. Daily took the
stage and announced that the platform as drafted
was one that the party could unite upon. He did
not make it known that ne struggled hard in the
committee to get better recognition of Bryan and
Bryan's theories into the platform The silver
b 5s 9t bp till ths end Of
support at Kansas City and no Endorsement of the
displeasure at in bowls of rage. Hundreds of them
demanded to be heard at the same time. Colonel
til he cracked it, Finally %ay %a e made ea for M
the convention that Bryan had friends He read
platform adopted by minority Of the COMMITTEES
Gratis 1t had complimentary reference to Bryan
in the first sentence and such phrases as cor
of men and criminal combination of centralized
sue and e sh9ed To
hoarse In approval of Them This platform con,
As
ballots ITS for Bryan The reading Of the latter panas
Edwards. of Hudson County, moved that the plat
adopted Congressman DAILY to quen the disturb
ance that arose when this motion was made de-
livered a speech to mollify its opponents. and he
This platform. he said. was the result of the
Who are theyr' shouted delegate Congress-
Mr.. Dulin wanted to be heard again. and two
hundred or more delegates demanded the right for
vlous question had been moved. This excited Mr..
Crandall. leader Of the TRUSTEES" and he de
nounced the proceedings as an outrage. He was so
in his and 1c 50 In maxi
him removed from the floor by the sergeant-at-
MAJORITY PLATFORM ADOPTED
The majority report adopted. Gloucester.
Salem. Cumberland and Bur
lington counties voting solidy for the other one,
which also received scattering votes from other
counties. giving 1t a total Of 1S votes The plat
Its effort to foster trusts in the great indus
laws against these monopolies demands legislation
against them and the removal OF protective gu
with the output of these combinations It fur
Their declares opposition to imperialism denounces
tutiona tariff upon the people of Porto Rico" and
declares for free government FOR the pni1pplne ISL
cuba be sacrediy Kept one faVors the Beers an
or he to the Of
dreG by R o sS e
question entirely, to insert this sop IN the plat,
been advocated and supported by the Democratic
party from It's inception to the present time. And
fort to force the convention to instruct the dele
gates to cast their ballots for Bryan had TO be
FORM fSnref fo their their IDOL h i0iio"'"s
I'VE recognize William Jennings Bryan the
honest and worthy to receive at their hands the
highest political honor"
The delegates-at-large elected were:
ROBERT DAVIS, OF Hudson County.
JOHNSTON CORNISH, OF Warren.
THOMAS NJ. TERRELL. of Glouscerter.
JAMES E. MARITIME. of Union.
Michael T. Barrett. OF Essex, who also a
candidate for delegate at-large received 42s votes
b45 being necessary TO choice. Essex County
voted solid for Davis. but Hudson was pledged TO
support MARITIME, and announced its regret that II
coud not return the favor by voting for Barrett.
Terrell and Cornish each received 1.oI votes. Davis
got 1051 and MARITIME 654.
The following district delegates were elected:
Ist District-George Pfeiffer, of Camden; Samuel
Iredell. OF Cumberland.
lid District-Harry H. PostolL OF Atlantic; w J.
lid District~David Crater. of Monmouth; s o.
B. Taylor, of Somerset.
with District. p Salmon. of Morris; w. How
ard Lake of Hunterdon
Vth District-W. B. Gourley. OF Passac; Addison
With District-E. P Meaney and Frank McDer-
nit both of ESSEX
both of Hudson.
Michael Doyle, OF Essex