The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
HEARS NAMED Al HEAD
Of tFULL TICKET
independence League Convention
Nominations in New York City.
is. CHAMBER IN SECOND PLACE
Candidate ChecFed For T~hifty-llvc
Minutes When Followers Call
Him Up For Speech-No Dick
ering With Other Party.

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New York City.-The convention
of the Independence League at Car
negie Hall nominated William Ran
dolph Hearst fer Governor, a full
State ticket, adopted a resolution re-
fusing to fuse with the Democrats
and gave Candidate Hearst a wildly
{ enthusiastic reception.
The business OF the convention
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 a look.
The adoption unanimously of the
resolution to urn down the PROPOSE
ton of Norman E. Mack, William j..
Connors and the other Democrats
who wanted the independence League
to nominate Hearst only and keep
the ticket clear for a 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, were overwhelmed by
the sentiment for d straight ticket
and a purely independent fight.
The following is the ticket nom
mated:
For Observation-Disclosures Randolph
Hearst, of New York.
Eor Lieutenant-Governor-Lewis
,5tuyvesant Chanler, of Dutchess.
For Secretary of State-John S..
Nhalen, OF Monroe.
For Treasurer-George A. Fuller,
Of Jefferson.
For Controller-C. II. w. Auel, of
Erie.
For State Engineer - Frank L.
Gesman, of Tompkins.
For Attorney-General-John 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
1ay-one in the afternoon and one
In the evening-Were remarkable in
he history of State conventions.
Both were characterized by a hearty
Cooperation on all sides in the i'm
9ortant work on hand. After tenn
oorary organization in the afternoon
he convention adjourned until S u.
n, when the permanent organization
vas effected.
A platform was adopted which en-
braces all the cardinal principles of
he League, and then adjournment
Mas taken.
1t was not until 8 o'clock p. NJ. at.
The final session of the convention,
that Judge Seabury, the permanent
chairman, called the delegates to Or
Ter and there had been a solid hour
and a half of the most deafening din
ever heard in a 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 flu
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-
2 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-
lions, which mad also been made the
Committee on Nominations, an
hounced that the committee unani-
mously recommended the nomination
Of MI. Hearst for Governor, and the
FIRST great storm of applause of the
5alSht was let loose.
In rapid succession the remaining
candidates were named, with pro-
slo1ged cheering for each man.
Mp. Shearn moved the adoption of
the committees report as a whole,
aud Henry A. Powell, OF Brooklyn,
in an eloquent address, seconded the
nomination.
The entire ticket was placed in
nomination by reclamation, and at
ter that the convention resolved il
self into a tumulttous ratification
meeting. :
1t was at seven minutes to 10 that
AR Powell. after Mr.. Hearst's nom
tnation had been made by acclama-
ton, moved the appointment of a
committee to bring Mr.. Hearst into
the convention. The motion was car
fied unanimously, and, at two min
" Ntes toto o'clock, Mr.. Hearst entered
thesh hall. the band playing Hail to
the Chief" and the entire convention
rising to welcome him.
Next to the adoption of the anti
fusion resolution the reception given
to Mr.. Hearst by the 1000 and odd
~shouters was the interesting feature
OF b final session.
The platform as adopted demands
a recount of the New York City May
crafty yotes-safer insurance meth
rOds-a franchise tax law-laws to
prevent bank neutrality-suspicious.
against the railway lawbreakers-
tie probing Of the State executive de-
partments and correction of the in
uTaDc fraUdS-Oub lic OwnarrhiD of