Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-02
COLER AND BULGER
Slate As Already Announced Adopted
 At Saratoga.

SARATOGA, \. l., oct. "A con- vention so strenuous in it's closing hours as to bring almost personal con- hict and yet closing in such perfect harmony as to allow the completion of the state ticket with less than hun dred delegates out of 450 in the hall was the result of the closing day of the Democratic state convention. It began in the early morning with prepared slate of candidates. The slate was not broken in any particular, but the right of objection to it was given to all the delegates except when in the case of one New York delegate it was believed to be an infringement of the rules un- der which the convention was acting.
 Naturally great deal of the interest in the convention centered in the atti- tude it would take toward the seating of William S. Devefy, former head of the police department of New York. who held regular certificate of elec- ton from the Ninth New York district. It was not an unexpected event that the convention decided to unseat him, and it was not also unexpected that he and his followers, who were given am pie room i'll the convention to make themselves conspicuous, were Vocifer- ous in their objections.
 MT. Devery's attitude and that of his friends was picturesquely objectiona- ble. So thoroughly had he made up his mind that the convention would have none of him that he did not attend the meeting of the committee on creden- tials, but spent the earlier hours of the morning in the rear of the convention hall announcing his attitude. When. the convention decided to adopt the re- port of the committee by the prepon- derating vote of 422 to q, then MT. Devery walked out of the convention after being allowed to declare himself a good Democrat and proceeded to hold a mass meeting on the steps of the United States hotel. He was assisted in this by James Graham of the Long shoremen's S association of New York and Richard Butler of the United Bridge Workers of New York. MT. Graham took occasion to say: Labor has been overridden and insulted by different sets until they have risen up in arms against them. When they nominated Mir. Devery, they placed their hearts and souls, their every thing, the dignity of their homes, in it, and yet by the work of this convention they have no representation whatever"
 Mr. Butler said: Hill and, those oth- CTS with him have put themselves up against it in a terrible style. Their styles will not be forgotten for many years to come." a
 Then MT. DeYery started for home and threatened all sorts of disasters for the ticket, but halted long enough in his denunciations of the leaders to assert that he was good Democrat.
 Perhaps the most dramatic situation during. the long hours of the conven- tion was the refusal to hear the oppo- sition that developed to MT. Coler from the Third district of Kings and from New York city. Moses Wafer of Kings and one other delegate attempted to make speeches in opposition, but the objections of various delegates and the attitude of the chair in ruling them out of order at that time forbade them continuing. But when MT. Coler's name had been placed in nomination and the nominations closed MT. Ma than Straus of New York arose and of- fered objections to MT. Coler. He was allowed to go to the platform to pre- sent them, and he requested in an eminently fair manner the privilege of talking He had hardly begun, howev- CT, to state his objections when he was roundly hissed and finally, upon mo- ton of Delegate Milne, was ruled out of order. He started to leave the plat form, putting the notes from which he was reading in his pocket, and when he had reached the steps leading to the auditorium he was surrounded by a number of newspaper men, who de sired q copy of his remarks. He was attempting to determine who to give them to when a number of Tammany delegates surrounded him and, press ing him against the wall, took the notes from him and tore them up. Luckily he had preserved a copy in his pocket, and this copy he managed finally, after recovering his hat and glasses, to hand to the newspaper men.
 The Straus incident ended objections to the ticket, and the rest of it was nominated without any question or ob- jection whatever in q perfunctory manner
 The platform is looked upon by the delegates present as perhaps rather verbose, but as a whole one of the best documents of it's kind that has been formulated in years. It touches almost every issue, national or state, that has been before the public for the last five or six years. It is strong in it's denun- ciation of trusts and it's advocacy of canals, in it's denunciation of extraya- gance in state affairs and its pity for what is said to be the oppression of the insane and the poor by tic interfer- ence of politics in the state manage ment. To the surprise of even the most ardent Democrats it declares for the election of United States senators by the people and goes step toward municipal. ownership by advocating the public ownership and confiscation of the anthracite coal, mines.
 The following is the ticket named at the convention: For governor, Bird g. Coler of Kings; lieutenant governor, Charles N. Bulger of Oswego; secre- tary of state, Frank Mott of Chautau- qua; comptroller, Charles M Preston of Ulster; attorney general, John Gun