The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-15
HEARST MEN B0LT
 THE CONVENTION New Jersey Democrats Have a
 Stormy Time TO CONTEST DELEGATION Delegates for Regular Organization Will Go to St. Louis Unnstructed. Movement for Parker Is
 a Failure.
TO CONTEST DELEGATION

Trenton, N. J., April 14.--A practically harmonious democratic state convention of more than 1900 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 deprived of seats in the regular convention. The bolting committee nominated delegates at
 large and delegates from five congress
 sional districts The fourteen men named
 by the bolting committee will go to St. Louis and contest the seats of the men selected at the regular convention.
 The preliminary session was a very
 quiet one. All those not delegates had
 been excluded from the hall on the plea
 that there was only room for the dele
 gates, and the small minority of Hearst
 delegates claimed they had been denied their rights in the matter of tickets. Seated Antl-Hearst Men. At the noon recess the committee on
 credentials heard the contesting delega-
 tions from Camden. Atlantic. Essex and
 Passaic counties and in all instances decided in favor of seating the anti
 Hearst delegates. When the committees
 report was adopted by the convention
 about fifty delegates left the nall, cheer ing 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 fla vors the "abolitlon 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 1t should be made a criminal offense," the platform says, "to attempt to create a monopoly on the necessities of life. The government should not permit the law to remain unenforced in order to get campaign contributions from the trusts"
 Favors Interoceanic Canal. The platform favors the construction of an inter-oceanic canal but chages that the President of the United States in
 his conduct relating to the Panama ca-
 nal 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 adopt ed without opposition.
 Judge Noonan just before the close of the convention offered resolution com
 mending Judge Alton B. Parker of New York, to the delegates. This was in-
 tended as an indirect instruction to the delegates to which proposition former United States Senator Smith was opposed He was in favor of an uninstructed dele gation while the Hudson delegates were favorable to instructions for Parker. Colonel Hurley of Mercer. offered a substitute favoring an uninstructed dele gation. Pending the clamor which follow
 ed a motion to adjourn was entertain
 ed by the chair and was overwhelmingly carried.
 Only five or six counties were represent ed in the bolting convention and no reg ular procedure was followed in determin- ing who had or who had not right to
 seat in the assemblage. Some of those
 who participated in the proceedings, 1t
 is said, had not been contesting dele
 gates to the regular convention. The bolt
 ing convention adopted no resolutions.