Omaha daily bee., 1907-10-06
DEMOCRATS In ROW
Bay State Convention Divides on
Question of Credentials.
TWO TICKETS, TWO PLATFORMS
Two Meetings in Same Hall Amid
Much Turmoil.
WHITNEY MEN MAXI 1RGE
<SH,A
State Committee il .c< = " WJnfair
Deal SN.ls.
BARTII - ~ hOwLED DOWN
7HITNEY MEN MAXI
BARTLE
General Attempts to Make Addres,
After PRrtisans Declare Him
Nominated-Police Prevent
Actual Fighting.

| SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Oct. 5.--Two turb-
! ulent conventions in session here today
at the same time in the same hall each
! nominating a set Of candidates for the
| state Offices, represented a situation hith-
erto unknown In democratic politics in this
state. The trouble over the question
| of credentials. the hitney men claiming
| that the state committee had refused to
| recognize delegates duly elected at the pri-
| maries. The storm broke when the chair
man of the state committee. who called
! the convention to order. declared Bartlett
man. the choice for temporary chairman.
Amid the greatest confusion each crowd
| nominated a full state ticket and adopted
a platform.
After the convention Mr.. Thayer an
nounced that he would not accept the
nomination for the lieutenant governor
ship on the Bartlett ticket
| Immediately after being called to order
| today, the democratic state convention re-
| solved itself into two bodies, supporters of
| Bartlett for governor comprising one Sec
! tion, and adherents of Henry NJ. Whitney
the other. The Bartlett men held the stage
while the Whitney men were assembled in
! the rear of the hall. At session which
/ lasted until o'clock this morning the state
committee, by a close vote. named d. j.
Klley, a Bartlett man, for temporary chair
man and George Fred Williams for chair
man of the committee one resolutions
There were few Whitney delegates in the
Court theater when Chairman Doty of
the state committee called the convention
to order A special detail of twenty po-
licemen had been stationed in front of the
platform, with orders to permit no one from
the auditorium to go upon the platform
! without tho eli of he oh
Chairman Feeney of the state committee
called the convention to order. Daniel j.
Kiley was nominated for temporary chair
man. At the same moment a motion was
heard to substitute the name of Joseph
A. Conroy, a Whitney supporter. The Kiley
motion was declared carried.
Two Congressmen Clash.
puring the ensuing tnfinoiI ex-Congress-
man conroy, who occupied box beside
the stage, arose and attempted to act as
presiding officer. The confusion was so
great, however, that Mr. Conroy left the
box to go TO the rear of the hall. toward
which the Whitney delegates were moving.
On the way he came in contact with Con-
gressman O'Connell. brother of Daniel
OConnell, one of the Bartlett managers.
There was clash. but the police pre-
vented blows
The Bartlett delegates appointed COM
mittees, and a motion that a committee to
draw up the state ticket be named was
carried by reclamation.
AT this point Temporary Chairman Kiey
shouted to the police officers to keep order
in the rear of the hall. where the Whitney
men were assembled. This was greeted
with cheers for Whitney from the rear
which were answered by three cheers for
Bartlett from the front.
The Bartlett convention declared re-
cess to expedite committee ork.
whitney Partisans Clash.
The Whitney gathering placed Henry
NJ. Whitney in nomination for governor
by acclamstion and the rest of their ticket
was named in the same way.
A platform condemning the Dingley
tarir and advocating Unrestricted trade
with Canada and reciprocity was adopted.
When the Bartlett convention came to-
gether again, Mr. Kiley appealed to the
police to silence the Whitney men and
finally demanded that they be placed un-
der arrest. but this was not done
George Fred Williams read a platform
and 1t was adopted by acolamation. The
platform expressed opposition to private
monopolies, condemnation f'unlawful
rebates and discrimination" by railroads
and of the attempts of the New York,
, New Haven & Hartford railroad OF Con-
nectieut to obtain sole and absolute
sway over tho transportation 0f New
England" and declared that tax laws
should mo longer be perverted TO private
uses but restored to the single purpose
Of raising revenue for the public needs. -
Bartlett HOOted Down.
General Charles w, Bartlett was unan-
imously nominated for governor and John
A. Thsyer for lieutenant governor. The
state committee was authorized to COM
plete the ticket.
A committee OF the Bartlett delegates
to bring their candidate before the con-
ventiOn returned with General Bartlett.
His appearance caused the uproar to in
crease. When there was a momentaey
r lull. Chairman Kiley attempted TO intro
: duce him. His words were drowned in
an outburst by Whitney delegates. After
long wait General Bartlett tried 70
address the convention. but hardly word
was audible. He abandoned his effort.
: and after a time the state COMMITTEES re-
ported nominations for the remaining
l ofaces. which were ratified
Later the whitney delegates reassem-
bled and voted that all credentials be
formally demanded of the state commit
tee The whitney delegates then with
drew, and the Bartlett convention was
formally adjourned. The question which
ticket shall be placed upon the official
ballot will propably go to the courts.
REPUBLICANs NAME TICKET