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HEARST NAMED At HEAD
OF A FULL TICKET
independence League Convention
Nominations in New York City.
Is. CHANlER IN SECOND PLACE
Candidate Checred For Thirty-five
Minutes When Followers Call
Him Up For Speech-No Dick
ering With Other Party.


New York City.-The convention
of the independence League at Car
negie Hall nominated William Ran
dolph Hearst for Governor, full
State ticket, adopted resolution re-
fusing to fuse with the Democrats
and gave Candidate Hearst a wildly
enthusiastic reception.
The business of the convention
was transacted in less than forty
five minutes, and the rest Of the
time, more than two hours, was used
up in cheering and speechmaking.
Carnegie Hall was packed to the
doors, to the limit of the law, and
the police under Inspector Walsh
turned away hundreds Of people
who wanted to get look.
The adoption unanimously of the
resolution to turn down the PROPOSE
tion of Norman E. MacE, William J.
Connors and the other Democrats
who wanted the independence League
to nominate Hearst only and keep
the ticket clear for dicker with the
Buffalo convention, was the biggest
thing which the convention pro-
duced. Max F. Ihmsen, Clarence J.
Shearn and others of the Hearst
leaders who wanted to trade for sup
port with the regular Democratic
convention, we're overwhelmed by
the sentiment for a straight ticket
and purely independent fight.
The following is the ticket nom
mated:
For Governor-William Randolph
Hearst, Of New York.
For Observation-Disclosures
Stuyvesant Chanler, of Dutchess.
For Secretary of State-John S.
.Whalen, of Monroe.
For Treasurer-George A. Fuller,
of Jefferson.
For Controller-C. H. w. Auel, of
Erie.
For State Engineer Frank L.
Getman, of Tompkins.
For Attorney-General-JohnF Ford,
of New York.
The convention, which was attend
ed by 1911 delegates and their alter
mates, was in session two days and
two nights.
= The two sessions held on the first
day-one in the afternoon and one
in the evening-were remarkable in
the history of State conventions.
Both were characterized by a hearty
cooperation on all sides in the i'm
portant work on hand. After tenn
porary organization in the afternoon
the convention adjourned until s p.
M, when the permanent organization
was effected.
A platform was adopted which en-
braces all the cardinal principles of
the. League, and then adjournment
was taken.
1t was not until o'clock p. M, at
the, final session Of the convention,
that Judge Seabury, the permanent
chairman, called the delegates to or
der and there had been solid hour
and a half of the most deafening din
ever heard in State convention.
Tin horns, hundreds of cowbells and
all kinds of noise-making things
added to the uproar.
Clarence j. Shearn, Mr. Hearst's
lawyer, was recognized the instant
the convention met to present the
report of the committee on platform
and resolutions This was the mat
ter uppermost in the minds of all
delegates, for it dealt with the reply
to be made to the proposition for fu-
sion with the Democrats made by
Norman E. Mack, w. J. Corners and
others. Mr.. Shearn read the reply,
which the Committee on Resolutions
had drafted during the afternoon.
The resolution rejecting the pro-
posal to postpone nominations was
put before the convention at two
minutes past 9.
: At 9.07 Clarence J. Shearn, chair
man of the Committee on Resolu-.
tions, which had also been made the
Committee on Nominations, an
nounced that the committee unani-
mously recommended the nomination
,of Mr.. Hearst for Governor, and the
first great storm of applause of the
night was let loose.
In rapid succession the remaining
candidates were named, with pro-
longed cheering for each man.
Z! Mr.. Shearn moved the adoption of
the committees report as a whole,
and Henry A. Powell, of Brooklyn,
In an eloquent address, seconded the
nomination.
=! The entire ticket was placed in
nomination by acclamation, and af-
ter that the convention resolved It.
self into tumultuous ratification
meeting.
1t was at seven minutes to 10 that
Mr.. Powell, after Mr.. Hearst's nom
i1ation had been made by acclama-
tion, moved the appointment of a
committee to bring Mr.. Hearst into
the convention. The motion was car
ried unanimously, and, at two min
utes to 10 o'clock, Mr.. Hearst entered
the hall, the band playing Hail to
the Chief" and the entire convention
rising to welcome him.
Z Next to the adoption of the anti
fusion resolution the reception given
to Mr.. Hearst by the 1900 and odd
shouters was the interesting feature
of the final session.
The platform as adopted demands
a recount of the New York City May
orally votes-safer insurance meth
ods-a franchise tax law-laws to
prevent bank wrecking-protectio
against the railway lawbreakers-
the probing of the State executive de-
partments and correction Of the in
.surance frauds-public ownership of
the public utilities-a good roads
,ystem-an eight-hour day-a child
hbor law-pensions and adequate
sslaries for teachers-honesty in the
public service and the three-platoon