New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-01
HOLD RUMP CONVENTION. |
Pdrh'er Men Bolt IN Westchester-
Tammany Claims VictOry.

By riding roughshod over the Hill people, the
Tammany combination I'm westchester County
,rrs. a Victory at the IId Assesrt'y District eos
v,ntfon in the MaTnaroneck Town Han yester-
day. and captured all three State delegates. Civ
ing the county 20 the Tammany leaders at the
coming state convention. The convention was
one of the most uproarious AMI exciting ever
held in the county In the midst OF the proceed
ings the Hill people consisting of delegates from
Rye White Plains New-Rochelle and Scarsdale.
tolted. and. marching out of the hail. amid
teers and Kisses. held separate coRvention at
the Merchants Hotel. where they elected con-
testing delegation and adopted resolution in
dorsing Judge Parker.
Tammany now is sure Of six out of the nine
Westchester delegates The remaining delegates
are TO be elected tomorrow at Mount Kisco.
where both factions assert they will carry the
Cay. The Hill adherents declare the State con-
vention will upset yesterdays proceedings and
seat the delegates nominated by the boilers
one OF the results of the convention was the
complete rehabilitation OF ex-Mayor Dillon. OF
NewRochellc. a leader I'm Westcheste.. 4
year ago he was thrown out Of the party by
State Committeeman NJ ]. Walsh. ex-Mayor
Fiske and others TO make way for John G. Agar
rs the head of the New-RoChelle Democracy. Ex-
Mayor Dillon went to the convention In a spe-
cial train of trolley cars. and marched into the
hail led by brass band and followed by hun
dred or more adherents. who carried tin horns
and American hags.
As Dillon marched up the street at the head of
his band, Mr.. Agar and his followccs OF the
champagne Democracy" as the opposition calls
them, went down the street in carriages. when
the two forces met at the convention hall there
was n scene OF confusion. The band pay'd
Dillon's slogan From Tarrytown TO Rye" and
I ba ba Oh IN
salute again and again. The Tammany people.
who were led by ex-MayOr Walsh. ex-Mayor
Fisle l. J. Beaudrias and Tom" O'Neil of the
Annexed District. soon realized that Dillon had
the largest crowd in the convention. They also
discovered that Mr.. Agar. William Temple En-
met and the reform Democrats OF New-RO-
ctelle had made alliance with John NJ.
Digney, controlling the White Plains delegates
and the delegates from Rye and Scarsdale. by
which they expected to carry the convention for
Hill and Parker.
Walsh and Fiske made n desperate attempt TO
avoid calling Dillon for help. for they realized
that to seat him and throw out the Agar dele
CATION would a split They tried to
break the Rye delegation by Offering to send
Benjamin Mills to the State convention. but
Mills and his friends could deliver only two Of
the fifteen delegates Of that town the scheme
was abandoned and the committee on contested
/ seats, which the Tammany people had captured
1T the outset of the convention. reported In favor
OF Dillon and his seventeen delegates declaring
that mis- followers had not had fair chance to
enroll and exercise their rights DemocratiC
electors at the New Rochelle primaries. There
tremendous cheering at this. Dillons band
! IA the gallery struck up THE Wearing OF the
Green" and the delegates stood the chairs
and waved flags.
The Reform Democrats this demonstra-
! tion with blanched faces. The realization sud
! denly dawned them that Dillon and his
! shouters who had come to the convention as a
band of insurgents, to go back home as the
| regular Democracy OF New Rochelle.
Mr.. Agar was the first to find his speech
Il wish to protest against this reportw
shouted he "ft is unfair and unjust The DEL
| egates won't submit to It, | call upon all the
delegates 10 withdraw to hold another conven-
| tinp -
"All right Put them out-throw them out"'
/ yelled the Tammany people.
The delegates from White Plains, Rye and
ScaTsdale Joined Mr.. Agar and his followers in
their bolt. While they were going out. Chair
man Stephen J. Stillweli. who had been elected