The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-12
PULL HEARST TICKET VOTED.
CONVENTION RUNS WILD AND
DECLARES AGAINST 4 DECKER.


The Hrst convention OF the Independents
League, william Randolph Hearsss PUS-
sonsl organization. at Its session In CafneSie
Hall last night put itself iatly on record
as favoring the nomination Of q straight
ticket. This wa. accomplished only after
the convention had been thrown into the
greatest disorder. Tho communication
which was received from William ] Con-
ners Of Buffalo favOring a fusion with the
Democratic forces was referred TO tho
committee on platform and resolutions;
which will frame an answe TO IL to-day
in accordance with the action taken by tho
convention.
The 1911 delegates who made up .
tumuItuous gathering took the bit In their
teeth right at the start and ran away with
the leaders, who desired merely the nomi-
nation Of Mr.. Hearst for Governor and .
chance to dicker for support with the
Democratic convention to be held at
Buffalo on September rs.
After having won a victory at the strenu-
GUS meeting Of he State COMMITTEES at the
Gilsey House early yesterday mornings
where the u~nbending determination Of
the Ieaguers to nominate a straight ticket
made Mr.. Hearst bow to their wishesj
they vent TO the convention hall deter
mined that the Independence League
should stand on It's own feet and that
Mr.. Hearst should run for Governor at the
head Of a third party ticket.
More than nine-tenths Of the delegates
cheered for straight ticket at the sessions
Of the convention yesterday afternoon and
last night, paraded up and down h aisles
with banners inscribed "A Straight Ticket
and shouted down hercely any attempt on
the part OF Max +. Ihmsen and Others OF
Mr.. Hearst's personal representatives to
divert them.
The firmness Of the great majority OF
the delegates astonished the new boss
and his manager Ihmsen n made 1t ap-
parent to them hat amy attempt 10 ride
over the wishes Of the leaguerS would re-
suit in a wide pen split.
The leaguers announced through their
delegation Spokesman that they wouldn't
stand for nominees retiring from the ticket
in order to win support for Mr.. Hearst
from the Democratic party. They de-
clared early in the day that any attempt
Of the to run a slate through
the convention would be blocked.
Just show US the slate" they cried aloud
on the floor; -an watch US smash it,
Mr.. Hearst, OF course; will be at the head
Of the ticket to be named to-day. Others
who were in favor for leading places on
the ticket were John Ford, Clarence ].
Shearn and Reuben Lyon.
Judge Samuel Seabury Of the City Court
was chosen permanent chairman when
the delegates convened last night. The
night session OF the convention was called
in getting to the hall, and it was past 0
O'Clock when Judge Seabury began talking.
CARNEoIE ALI ONE BRO NOISE.
While the delegates were gathering be-
tween 8 and 0 o'clock Carnegie Hall was
one big noise. The Hearst shouters were in
a merry mood. They paraded up and dow
the aisles with banners and transparencies,
cheering everybody in the Independence
League they could think of. Names were
lost in the din, but nobody cared.
Outside the hall men were handing out
tags which read;
vote for a straight ticket
They tied these tags to the coat laPels
of every delegate that entered and tried
to get a pledge from him that he wouldn't
stand for anything else than a full ticket.
Few men refused to give the pledge. In
side the hall the radicals" as the dis
Rruntled lieutenants Of the boss have
dubbed them, waved placards and banners
calling for a straight ticket and nothing
else. Columns of men strobe up and down
the aisles yelling for a straight ticket and
bowling defiance at the very few whD
sought to restrain them. h spirit OF
the delegates was militant and pUgnacious.
They were a crapp lot and soon made
il apparent that they wouldn't stand
for trimming and fence straddling. They
also made it pretty clear that the INDIE
pendence League has grown to be bigger
than Mr.. Hearst, and that il is now an or
Ranization that will have to be handled
with gloves.
The racket in the hall in the hour OF wait
ing was terrific. Bunches of men equipped
with tin whistles and atrocious fish horns
shrieked and squawked in the rear OF the
hall. Other delegations rang iangling cow
BELLS and yelled to the limit of their lung
power. UP III tuc BdlCiy NhO oahu "a
doing its level best to stir up enthusiasm
and keep it going. The sweating, putting
bandmen played everything in their roper
toire but "Tammany.' For once the.
piece had a rest.
Time after time it played Waiting al the
Church" and the crowd cheered, apparently
finding political significance in Miss VIC
toria's ballad. Shouting, laughing dele
gates grabbed each other around the waist
and twostepped up the aisles.
An aged delegate from Broome, with q
two foot beard, his suspenders dangling
over his hips, did a hornpipe in the first
tier Of boxes and was hailed joyfully as the
-Dowie" and Prophet Elijah OF the Inde-
pendence League.
Everybody that entered the hall, known
to the delegates, got a round OF cheering.
Mr.. Shearn was pleasantly received. John
Ford got an ovation. So did Lyon OF
Steuben. Arthur Brisbane, in evening
dress, slipped in at a back door and went
practically unnoticed, except for a few hard
rooters on the stage. The Rev. Madison c.
Peters, who came early and stayed late,
though he wasn't called on for a speech.