The San Francisco call., 1906-10-05
HEARST IS KISSED
BY DEMOCRATS S.
Candidates Name Arouses
Commotion in the. State
Convention at Boston
BRYAN IS INDORSED


BOSTON, Oct. A new era for the
Massachusetts Democracy was inaugu-
rated today by the State COMMITTEES of
that party, when, after a turbulent
struggle over indorsing William Jen-
nings Bryan and William r. Hearst
John B. Moran. District Attorney for
Suffolk County who was already the
nominee of the Prohibition party and
the Independence League, was nomi
mated for Governor by acclamation
Save in one possible particular. Moran
dominated the convention completely
The old-time leaders, Josiah Quincy
Congressman John A. Sullivan. Con-
gressman William S. McNary, and the
element represented by such Demo-
Gratis as former Governor William I,
douglas and Henry NJ. Whitney. was
utterly powerless. The ticket was COM
pleted as follows, all the names being
by acclamation:
Lieutenant Governor - e. Gerry
Brown.
Attorney General-John w. Cum
mings, Fall River.
Auditor-T L Hisgen. Springfield.
Secretary Of State-Charles c. Paine,
Hyannis.
Treasurer-Georse- NJ. Harrington,
Lowell.
Two OF the candidates besides Mr.
Moran had been nominated by the In
tenant Governor and Hisgen for Audi
tor.
GIST OF THE PLATFORM.
The platform adopted was, prolific in
demands for reform, and centered
largely in those changes in the law
which have been strongly favored by
Moran during his service as District
Attorney and in his declaration of
principles when he announced his can
didacy for Governor. The resolutions
held that it was Democracy's duty .to
wrest the government from the grasp
of powerful hypocrites who have posed
as custodians of the national honor and
who have drained mighty fortunes
through the vile channels of their
monopoly, frauds, thefts. poisonings
and violence"
leadership and Democracy of both
Bryan and Hearst.
The Endorsement of Hearst's Democ-
racy and of his leadership in New York
was the first rock on which the con-
vention was split.
Neither Bryan nor Hearst was sup
ported for the next Presidential nomi-
nation in the platform, but both were
praised.
The Bryan paragraph was greeted
with cheers and handclapping and a
general demonstration. which lasted
more than a minute, but when the first
words of the Hearst tribute were
reached there were Kisses and cries of
No! No" and Bryan only"
Then the Hearst supporters. given
new vigor by the memory that the
Hearst Independence League had In
dorsed Moran for Governor almost
drowned out the Bryan delegates.
The voice vote on the question of
adopting the platform as read was
~ Il p oh -
noes The vote was doubted, and upon
a rising vote being taken the chair
declared the resolutions adopted.
FIRST TEST VOTE TAKEN.
Professor Clark of Williams College,
a delegate, protested against the Hearst
plank, and after many Interruptions
succeeded in moving that the resolu-
tions be reconsidered. On the first test
of strength over the Hearst plank there
was a defeat for the Hearst support
ers. A motion to lay the motion to
reconsider upon the table was de-
feated, though by close margin. On
the question of reconsideration there
was vigorous debate. Congressman Sui
livan hoped that the convention would
strike from the platform plank
which would never be accepted by the
Democrats of Massachusetts, as a true
expression of their opinion"
The chair declared that the motion
to reconsider was lost and ignored
many protesting delegates who doubted
the vote.
The convention was disrupted a sec
ond time over the Endorsement of Mr..
Bryan for President. It came after all
the nominations had been made and
many of the delegates had left for their
homes. II was a move which seemed to
split the Moran forces themselves It
was started quietly by George Fred
Williams when most of the delegates
were expecting adjournment Mr.. Will
liams moved that the convention go on
record as favoring the nomination of
Mr.. Bryan by the national Democratic
party in 1908. He characterized Bryan
as the greatest Democratic leader with
In the memory of man. The resolution
was bitterly opposed by Granville S.
Mcfarland, secretary of the Moran COM
mittee. In unequivocal language he
charged that the Bryan. resolution had
been presented with "felonious intent"
The resolution indorsing Bryan for
President was declared carried after a
voice vote, and the convention was i'm
mediatefy adjourned.