The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-05
ROW OVER BRYAN AND
 HEARST IN BAY STATE
DEMoCRATICCoNVENTIONF4ILs TO ENDORSE EITHER FOR
 PRESIDENCY.

Merely Their Leadership and Democracy
 Supported in PIatfOrm-MOrau Can.
 trols the Convention and His Ticket
 is Nominated by Acclamation--.
 George Fred Williams Accused of
 Treachery in Moving Enlargement of
 the Nebraskan.
 Boston, Oct IA new era for the Massachusetts democracy was inaugur- ated to-day by the state convention of that party, when, after turbulent struggle over endorsing 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 norninat- ed for governor by exclamation. Save l in one possible particular Moran dom mated the convention absolutely and completely, and his so-caIled radical wing of the party, of which he is the sponser, and the active leader, was striklngly and indisputably in control. The old-time factors, Josiah Quincy. Quincy, Congressman John A. Sullivan, Congressman William S. ATcNary, and the element represented by such demo- crats as former governor William l.. Douglas and Henry M. Whitney was utterly powerless. The Moran senti- ment which these men had vainly sought to stem before the primaries | swept everything before it.
 | The possible exception was in the en- dorsement of Bryan for the democratic nomination for president in 1908, for though George Fred Williams, chief of Moran's political staff, proposed an en- dorsement of the Nebraskan at the last moment, another Moran lieutenant de- nounced the move as treachery, and in timated that if Moran's wishes were known they would not be in favor of Bryan but of Hearst The convention had previously lauded in its platform the democracy of both Bryan and Hearst, though the approval of Hearst was not carried without a protest The ticket nominated follows: Governor, John B. Moran, of Boston; lieutenant governor, E. Gerry Brown. of Brockton; secretary of state, Chas. c. Paine of Hyannis attorney general, John w. Cummings, of Fall River; al1- ditor, Thomas L. Hisgen, of West l Springfield; treasurer and receiver gen. eral. George H Harrigan, Lowell
 Two of the candidates besides MT. Moran had been nominated by the in. dependent league. Brown for lieutenant governor, and Hisgen for auditor The | entire ticket was nominated by accla- mation.
 The platform toward the end endors- ed the leadership and democracy of both Bryan and Hearst.
 The endorsement of Hearst's dempc- racy and of his leadership in New York was the first rock on which the con- vention split.
 Neither Bryan nor Hearst was SUD- ported for the next presidential nonni- nation in the platform, but both were praised. Bryan was hailed as Amer ica's great commoner, whose moral leadership has been of world wide ill- fuence and whose voice has been rais- ed for the uplifting of humanity in ev- cry land"
 Hearst was proclaimed as the man who is doing "all that great wealth, great industry, ability, faith could do in expounding sound political principles and exposing to the peoples gaze the enemies of the republic.'
 The Bryan paragraph was greeted with cheers and hand clapping, and a general demonstration which lasted stn Walter l.. RamsdelI of Lynn. who was reading the platform reached the first words of the Hearst tribute he was stopped by storm of misses and cries of No, mo-" and of 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.