New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-03
HILL MEN AGAIN BOLT.
TIMM4NY'S ROUGH WORK.
T5oo Sets of Delegates an lid Dis
trict, WeStcheSter.


The convention OF the Democrats of the hid
Assembly District Westchester County, held In
the opera house at Mount Tkisco yesterday af-
ternoon. broke up IN a fight between the Hill
and Tammany forces. The Hill people repeated
their performance at the Mamaroneck conven-
ton on Thursday by leaving the hall and hold
ing another convention. at which they elected
a contesting delegation TO the State convention
and passed a resolution favoring Judge Parker
for President. The scene at the convention
when the Hill people bolted OF wild con-
fusion.
"Spotty" MCGUIRE a labor leader of PeeSskiII.
who was chosen by the Tammany people for
chairman stood on the stage the boilers
were going out and denounced their leader. Colo
mel Francis I.arkin. OF Ossining. an migrate
and bolter. He said that Colonel LarlIin had
bolted Bryan I'm 1896 and that II nothing
new for him to leave Democratic convention
In 1896. he said. Colonel Larkin walked out of
the Chicago convention I'm the same manner, and
was willing to leave the Democracy of the great
State of New-York unEeTresenteds
Matthew j. Ciune. proprietor of the Wander
bIlt Hotel: his partner. Thomas Torpy: "Thad"
K Greene Michael Moran. Editor OF The Dem
ocretic Register" Of Ossining. and many other
delegates Of PeekskilL Ossinlng and other towns
followed Colonel Larkin out OF the hall They
said that although they had a majority OF the
sixty-three delegates. there staying.
as the Tammany men had captured the tempo
rary organization and the convention was being
run as farce. AS they were leaving the hall
they were greeted with groans and jeers by the
big gang of shouters that had been brought to
the convention by State Committeeman NJ ].
Walsh, ex-Mayor Fiske. Isadore J. Beaudras
and the other leaders who have set out to turn
Westchester County over to TaInmany Hall.
ROUGH POLITICS FROM THE START
The convention began It's session at about
o'clock and there was rough politics from the
drop of the flag. State Committeeman Walsh
and his friends had been at work in the district
for several weekr, using the influence OF water
shed appointments to get delegates for the Tam
many combine. 1t was found after a prelimi-
nary canvass that although the district is nat
urally bitterly opposed to Tammany, the dele
gates would be about evenly divided. Several Of
the towns sent contesting delegates so il became
apparent that the side that captured the tempo
rarv organization would carry the convention.
The Tammany people put in their chairman,
'Spotty" Mcclure, with rush. While Colonel
Larkin was trying to name Edward Wells, Of
PeekskiIl they drowned him out with their yell
ing. and Mcclure bounded the stage. He
could not find the gavel In time. he seized
screwdriyer and called the convention TO order.
Colonel I.arkin and the Hill men. had rushed TO
the stage, and were protesting loudly against
the usurper. Chairman Mcclure, after banging
the gavel until he could make himself heard.
said:
Colonel Larkin we might as we'll understand
each other right now. We're not here to play
marbles This is politics. and the majority
win rule Please sit down You are out OF
order"
The Hill people remained on their feet and
tried to put through the secretaries. but the
chairman had only ear, and that for
State Committeeman Walsh and his friends He
ruled everything the Hill people moved out of
order while the shouts of the Tammany dele
gates drowned out their protests. The Walsh
peopIe were proud of their chairman They
could not have selected better man to carry
on their desperate work. Ex-Mayor Walsh smil
ingly complimented him afterward and said:
The convention was certainly wise in choice
of chairman"
When Mcclure announced the committee on
contested seats the Hill people came to the con-
clusion that they might well bolt The COM
mittee was composed of Supervisor John ].
Snnott. the lieutenant Of Walsh in Mount Pleas
ant. and two other Walsh men. The convention
then took a recess to allow time for the COM
inittee to prepare its report" On the recon
the report of the committee to bolt. The bolt
came in the temporary roll call. A Walsh man
presented the proxy of delegate who could
not be present and the Hill people demanded to
see the signature. The chairman would not
show the proxy to them, and Colonel Larkin
jumped 10 his feet and shouted:
DENOUNCED THE PROCEEDINGS.
"I denounce the proceedings of this conven-
ton as a farce. They are un-Democratic and
unfair and l call upon the delegates TO go with
me TO the Elwood Hotel for the purpose of hold
ing another convention"
An uproar followed "Thad" Greene and some
of the more frantic Hill men rushed TO the
stage and shook their fists at the chairman
They denounced him tool of State Commit
teeman Walsh.
After they had gone the Tammany men put
through their slate for State delegates, John ]
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