The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-27
BROPHY IS UNsEATED
BUCHANAN TAKES CHArR AT
 KANSAS CITY.
Parks's Crowd Evinces . Disposition to Ignore the Proceedings of its Own Reump Convention
 the Day Before.


 Kansas City. Sept. 2s.--Peaee was patched up between the Buchanan and Parks factions In the International As. sociation of Bridge and Structural Iron
 Workers at their annual convention this | forenoon. l President Buchanan had scarcely called the convention to order in regular session l when the Parks crowd expressed a de. sire to ignore the proceedings of their own rump convention yesterday and pro. ceeded in regular way. Then the con vention took formal vote on the motion phy. member of local No. and who had proxy from Scranton, Pa, had been | seated. " Brophy was unseated bv i. vooa ,,. jority. As he rose to leave the hall Samuel Parks advanced toward him with sxtend- ed hand. Brophy refused to shake hands with the New York walking delegate un- til the latter apologixed for the stlnxinr s. wcfds directed against EroRhy on Thnrsr sisssd ssszs aDsa s ssssy % iSs ss sass.u,;s g. settled down for the f1rst peaceabls ses- sion since they convened last Monday The convention was formally organized and stopped long enough in their ouar reis to listen to the snnual address of President Buchanan. which was to have been delivered on Tuesday.
 Later Mir. Brophy was invited to attend the sessions of the convention in which. however. he was to have no vote. He de- clined this offer and outside the conven- ton said:
 T will go back to New York and fight Sam Parks and his element. The majority of the Structural Iron and Bridge Work CTS of New York are opposed to them. The majority want Parks and his follow CTS out of the union and will Tn the fu- ture devote my efforts to accomplishing this thing"
 At 12:ao the convention took a recess until afternoon.
 President Buchanan, of the Information al Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. again assumed the chair this morning and called the conventoin to order. He had issued call last night for a meeting to- day at the conclusion of the turbulent session he adjourned without hour yes terday afternoon.
 Before entering the convention. which is still being held behind closed doors. MT. Buchanan refused to discuss any phase of the situation. Yesterday at his hotel he declared that the session presided over by the Parks crowd, which had unseated Delegate Brophy, holding a proxy from Scranton. was unconstitutional, and nat urally 1t was assumed that he would so hold when he should call the convention to order in regular session today.
 There were early indications that any such course would be stubbornIy fought by the Parks forces and Sam Parks said befcre h. le Ih: delegat,oo in. the con vention this morning:
 "Our acts yesterday were proper and they will stand. If President Buchanan refuses to abide by them the convention will go on without him. It has been stat ed that J. W. Keller. member of lscal union No. 2. Of New York city, would be expelled for causing the vote yesterday to unseat Brophy. and when this action was taken he would no longer be entitled to sit in the convention.
 Mir. Parks Is credited with having sent the New York local officials a telegram to this effect. requesting that Keller be ex- pelled at tonight's meeting of the union in New York. Today. however. he denied that he had sent such a telegram and said:
 MT. Keller will continue to sit in the convention. If he is busted from the union 1t will be in the regular way after we return to New York. Although this | is the sixth day cf the convention 1t has | not yet formally organized and the an- | nual address of President Buchanan, who | was on the program for Tuesday. cannot be heard until the fight over credentials | is completely out of the way
 The regular order of business this morn- ing from the standpoint of the Buchanan | element was the consideration of the written protest filed on Wednesday even- Ing against Delegate Daniel Brophy, which demanded that the first vote of the seating Brophy be reconsid- cred.
 If anything was done in regard to the Brophy matter or the acts of yesterdays trump convention, after President Buch- anan assumed the chair this morning no inklinr of 1t reached the outside. The strictest secrecy was maintained regard Ing the proceedings.
 However, shortly before il o'clock Pres ident Buchanan sent permission from the hall to the Associated Press to use his address. Evidently the Brophy phase of the gathering had either been patched up arnicably and speedily or it had been passed over temporarily that the dele gates might listen to President Buchan- ans address.
 P. S. Eustis Sick.