The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-24
" R. HEARST NAMED BY
DEMOCRATS At BUFFALO
dominated For Governor of New
York on First Ballot.
BITTER FIGHT IN CONVENTION
Hearst Had 300 Ballots to 12i For
soulzer - Lewis S. Chanler For
Lieutenant-Governor - Contests
Decided For Hearst.

IlculeHlHlsOoSCEu - SoAtSSlo
Decided For Hearst.
Buffalo. n. Y.-After as protracted
and at times exciting convention as
the Democracy of this State ever
held, William Randolph Hearst was
nominated for Governor at 2 o'clock
in the morning. 1t was surprising
assemblage, totally unlike the usual
convention of Democrats.
Although Hearst's majority was
overwhelming. the bitterness with
which he was opposed to the last de-
veloped a situation more tense than
has ever been witnessed in any con-
vention in the political history Of this
State.
The final overthrow of his oppo-
nents came in the evening when the
delegation from Manhattan and the
Bronx went into caucus, and by a
vote of sixty-three to thirty-siS de-
termined to support Mr.. Hearst and
apply unit rule, this giving him the
entire 105 delegates.
The nomination was made on the
first ballot Hearst had 800 votes,
William Sulzer 124 .nd John H. Dix
seventeen.
The voting for Governor began at
LAS a. m. Albany County led off
with nine votes for Hearst.
Tammany cast ninety-six votes for
Hearst and nine for Sulzer.. Kings
cast sixty-nine votes for Sulzer.
When Onondaga County had been
reached on the roll call Hearst had
already received 229 votes, or three
more than necessary for nomina-
ton.
The announcement Of the Hearst
vote was received with great cheer,
which was quickly hushed, however,
to hear the vote on the other candi-
dates.
At $50 a. m. Chairman Nixon de-
clared William Randolph Hearst Off
cially the candidate Of the Democra-
tic party for Governor.
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, OF
DutcheSs, was nominated for Lieu
tenant-GoVernOr.
John S. Whalen, of Monroe, was
chosen unanimously for Secretary OF
State.
Martin H. Glynn. of Albany, was
unanimously chosen for State Con.
troller.
William Schuyler Jackson. Of Buff
falo, was unanimously chosen for
Attorney-General.
For State Treasurer Julius Hau-
ser, of Suffolk, was unanimously cho-
sen.
Frederick W. Skene, of Queens,
was unanimously chosen for State
Engineer and Surveyor, completing
the nominations.
Chairman Lewis Nixon called the
convention to order at 7.55 p. m.
The hall was packed, every available
foot of seating or standing space be.
ing occupied. All sorts of subter-
fuges were resorted to by outsiders
to get seat on the platform.
Lewis Nixon was temporary and
permanent chairman. Senator T. F.
Grady was the chairman of the Com
mittee on Contested Seats. Bourke
Cochran drew up the platform.
The platform was unanimously
adopted.
The convention did not meet for
business until about $50 o'clock p.
m, and it's early hours were taken
up with a debate on throwing out OF
the anti-Hearst delegations
On the question of substituting the
minority report for that of the ma
jority a roll call was demanded by
Stanchfield. This vote was regarded
as a test of the Hearst strength
Kings County cast sixty-nine votes
for the substitution of the minority
report. This showed Senator Nc.
Carren opposed to Hearst Murphy
cast ninety-three votes NO. and the
motion was lost by vote of 244 tC
142. This forecasted the nomination
of Hearst, and there was storm oi
cheers.
When nominations were called fol
William V. Cook, of Albany, present
ed the name of William R. Hearst
Allegany County seconded Mr.. Hearst
and Broome County named Congress
man Sulzer, sending George Raines
of Monroe, to the stage to make the
nominating speech, amid cheering
The cheering for Sulzer continued
for several minutes, many of the
delegates standing on the chairs and
calling loudly 'Sulzer."
Thomas M. Osborne, of Cayuge
County. one of the originators Of the
Albany conference of anti-Hears
Democrats, took the platform a.
1920 a. m. and placed in nomination
John A. Dix, Of Washington County
a nephew of the late Governor Dix
of New York.
At LAS the nominations for Gov
ernor were declared closed and the
secretary began to call the roll o.
counties for their votes.
The vote on the nomination fol
Governor was:
SulZer .-'..... $500.
DI.
William Randolph Hearst, son o
Senator George Hearst and Mrs
Phoebe A. Hearst, was born in Sa!
Francisco on April 20, 1863. Hi
father was Missourian and hi
mother the daughter Of Randolph
Walker ADDerSOn, born in Virginia.