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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-
ton was the refusal to hear the OPP
position that developed to Mr.. Coler
from the Third district Of Kings and
from New York city. Moses Wafer
Of Kings, and one other delegate at
tempted to make speeches in opposi-
ton, but the objection of various dele
gates and the attitude Of the chair in
ruling them out of order at that time
forbade them continuing.
Straus Nearly Mobbed.
placed in nomination and the nominal
tons closed, Nathan Stratus, of New
York, offered objections to Mr.. Coler.
He was allowed to go to the platform
to present them, and he requested, in
an eminently fair manner, the privilege
Of talking. He had hardly begun, how
ever, to state his objections than he
was roundly hissedp, and finally, upon
motion of Delegate Milne, was ruled
out of order. He started to leave the
platform, 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 copies of his remarks.
He was attempting to determine
whom to give them to when a number
of Tammany delegates surrounded him
and, pressing 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
rlnc TO +, tn he ma ma oQTl
The Straus incident ended objections
to the ticket, and the rest of it was
nominated without any question or OBJ
lection whatever.
The platform tonight is looked upon
by the delegates present as one of the
best documents of it's kind that has
been formulated in years.
What the Platform Says.
The platform calls for steadfast fidelity
to American principles for the lack Of
which 1t arraigns the Republican party
demands the return to the prlnciIR?l PIE {;o OF
of the country; opposes trusts that IN
juriously affect consumer and employer
and drive out small manufacturers and
especially condemns the so-called beef and
coal trusts for "unreasonably deprlving
the people of the necessities Of life"
Restriction of the amassing of wealth
is advocated and the amendment of the
tariff law by placing the necessities of life
on the free list is demanded. The Ding
ley tariff law is condemned as a whole.
The president is criticised for dilatory
conduct and is accused of not wanting to
offend the trusts.
The platform asserts that the PROPOSE
ton to amend the United States consti-
tuition to enable the federal government
to proceed against the trusts is mere
subterfuge to get delay condemns the
neglect of the national and state admins
tration to enforce the Sherman law and
the Donnelly state law: favors trade eX-
pansion but objects to this country APP
ing England in trying to establish CO.
lonial government; condemns the action
of the government in it's treatment in the
Philippines; demands justice for Cuba in
the matter of trade by reducing the tar
iff to a strictly revenue basis; demands
public ownership of the anthracite coal
mines by the right of eminent domain
and the payment of full damages to own
ers so as to insure peace in the mining
region; arraigns the state administration
for extravaganza in the administration Of
state affairs; favorS the election of United
States senators by direct vote and con-
dennis the national administration for
trading judicial positions for state aids
Promises to Support the Ticket.
NEW YORK, Oct. /. - When the
train bearing William S. Devery and
his friends reached the city from
Saratoga tonight Devery was greeted
with great enthusiasm. He made a
speech. In which he said he would do