The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-19
TammanyG Gracefully Takes Its Medicine. ALLOWED TO NAME DELEGATE ATLARGE Hill, Murphy, Ridgeway and Ehret the Four
 Elected. Delegates to St. Louis Bound by the Unit Rule-Platform is Brief. Grady's Speech is Character
 ized as Misleading
 by McCarren.

Albany, N. Y., April 1s-The State Con- vention for the election of Democratic delegates to the St. Louis Convention selected the following delegates at large:
 David B. Hill of Albany; Edward Mur- phy. Jr.. of Troy; George Ehret of New York City and James w. Ridgeway of Brooklyn. AS alternates 1t selected C. N. Bulger of Oswego; w. c. Ely of Buff falo; c. H. Alderman of Brooklyn and Francis Burton of New York.
 The delegates were instructed by a vote of S01 to 149 for Alton B. Parker as the States candidate for President.
 Tammany was not treated as badly as had been predicted. being allowed to name delegate at large, MT. Ehret, and an alternate, and one of the two electors, Harry Payne Whitney, the other being John woodford.
 The platform adopted is brief and in instructing for Parker compels the dele gation to vote as a unit
 Cnvention Meets.
 The Democratic State Convention to elect delegates at large was called to order in Harmanus Bluecker hall this af- ternoon. Great confusion resulted from orders which had been given to keep the doors closed until the last moment. The result was that when the doors were opened at three minutes before 2 o'clock the crowd burst in with yell and a rush. In three minutes the top gallery was filled with stamping and shouting mass of men and boys Tn the galleries were a number of Hearst banners and a running fire of shouts and comments was main tained by the gallery crowd.
 While the delegates were assembling a rurnor gained circulation that Senator Hill and the Parker forces had partially decided that between the sessions of tho convention they would Inform the Tam many people that they would concede choice of Charles F. Murphy in the dele gation at large to the National conven- tion. .,.
 The crush before the hall was tremend- ous. The aisles were filled with scramb- ling crowd. demanding seats at the ratio of about three persons to one seat The police wereeaA but helpless. Hats were smashed, clothing torn, faces scratched and feet trampled in the rush.
 Raines the Chairman.
 Order was finally secured and former State Senator George Raines, of Monroe County, was introduced as chairman, and he delivered speech to the convention.
 Mir. Raines denounced the Republican party in its administration of both State and National affairs and its policies. de- claring that there was feeling of unrest among business men, a lack of confidence in the judgment and levelheaded conser- vatism of the National Administration. In the coming campaign, he said, the Democrats of New York desire to act in accord with the rest of the Democrats of the Union.
 We have no peculiar tents to put forth" he declared; mo isolated ideas to frame as New York idea, and no single war cry for this campaign. We do be- lieve. however. that no party policy should be insisted on or deserves a place in our platform for the campaign. upon which the party is not substantially united"
 He then discussed at considerable length the tariff, trusts, labor. the colon ial policy of the government and said
 We do not doubt the wisdom of our national convention and shall abide by its decision that the interests of the nation shall receive it's attention, We recognize the patent fact that the eyes of the whole country are turned to the New York Democracy here as- sembled. Our action is awaited with keenest interest What does New York think? What will New York do?
 Await Voice of New York.
 Our large electoral vote, our com mercial interests, our great popula- tion in factories and upon the farms, our stake in the maintenance of the government in it's purity our contri- button to the illustrious names in Democratic history warrant the res pectful difference with which our equals in Democratic councils wait the voice of New York. We to-day know whom the satellites of Republican rule oficeholders, bosses and tariff benefci- aries have selected as their candidate. He is a citizen of New York, but the people at large are not seeking mili- tarY heroes nor for one who is vocif- erous, spectacular or adventurous.
 They are looking for a safe. con- servative, ievel-headed, well balanced candidate. There is among us no divis- ion, especially as to our choice As I read the sentiment of this convention is a difference of sentiment it is mere- ly as to the form in which the one choice should be expressed"
 Without mentioning this candidates name the speaker said that from the valley of the Hudson arose ''one whose Democracy has never been questioned, whose popularity is we'll attested whose fairness. impartiality and learn Ing have attracted the attention of the public men of the country, and have conferred renown upon the highest court of our State"
 After the roll call, the matter of contested seats was referred to com mittee. and recess was taken until evening.
 Stopped by Police.
 When the doors of the convention opened at GAS tonight, there was rush that was stopped by the police. The word had gone forth that there would be a fight on the floor of the convention and within a few minutes, :he balcony gallery and stage were damned. The police elected hundreds of persons who had pre-empted the delegates seats. It was not until almost o'clock that the convention was called to order. sAna t"r Mccarren presented the re-