The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-15
HEARST CROWD BOLTS.
CLAIMED UNFAIR TREATMENT AT STATE CONVENTION.
New Jersey Democrats Send Unin- strdcted Delegation. to St. Louis
 and Adopt Strong Platform. Hearst in Minority.

Princeton, N. J. April 14-AA practically harmonious Democratic State Convention of more than 1.2oo delegates. to elect dele gates to the National Convention at St. Louis, which today selected an unin- structed delegation. was followed by a bolting convention of the supporters of William Randolph Hearst for President. The bolters numbered about 100 men, who claimed they had been illegally de- prived of seats in the regular convention. The bolting convention nominated dele gates at large and delegates from Two Congressional districts. The fourteen men named by the bolting convention will go to St. Louis and contest the seats of the 1 men selected at the regular convention. The preliminary session of the regular convention was a very quiet one. All l those not delegates had been excluded from the hall on the plea that there was
 only room for the delegates and the small | minority of Hearst delegates claimed they had been denied their rights in the mat ter of tickets. At the noon recess the Committee on Credentials heard the con testing delegations from Camden. Atlan- tic, Essex and Passaic Counties, and in all instances decided In favor of seating the anti-Hearst delegates, When tho committees report was adopted by the convention, about fifty delegates left the hall, cheering for Hearst. The regulars elected the following delegates:
 At large-James Smith. Jr., of Essex; Robert Davis, -Hurson; Johnston Cornish, Warren, and Howard Carrow Camden. The platform adopted by the Committee on Resolutions was then adopted. It fa- vors the abolition or reduction of all duties which give unfair advantages to trusts;'' charges the Republican party with fostering gigantic combinations of capital and with wasteful and corrupt conduct of the Government.
 we believe that it should be made a criminal offense,'' the platform says, "to attempt to create monopoly in the necessities of life. The government should not permit the law to remain un- enforced in. order to get great campaign contributions from the trusts"
 The platform favors the construction of an interoceanic canal but charges that the President of the United States in his conduct relating to the Panama Canal was unmindful of his duties.
 The election of United States Senators directly by the people is advocated A resolution binding the delegation to vote as a unit at St. Louis was adopted with out opposition.
 Judge Noonan just before the close of the convention offered resolution com men nQlIeE JuuSc sAlIOfl LdIhcf Oh ENCW York to the delegates This was intended as an indirect instruction to the dele gates to which proposition former United States Senator Smith was opposed. He was in favor of en uninstructed delega- ton while the Hudson delegates were favorable to instructions for Parker. Colonel Hurley of Mercer offered a sub stitute favoring an unlnstructed delega- tion. Pending the clamor which followed a motion to adjourn was entertained by the chair and was overwhelmingly car- ried.
 Only five or six counties were represent ed sa the bolting convention and no regu- lar procedure was followed in determin- ing who had or who had not right to a seat in the assemblage.
 some of those who participated in the proceedings, 1t Is said. had not been con- testing delegates to the regular conven- tion. The bolting convention adopted no resolutions. -