Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-16
N CARREN WAS
STORM CENTER
Ater Hard Fight Kings County
Democratic Leader Unseated
As Delegate to Convention
PARKER LEADS DELEGATION.
Bryan Leader Walker Threatens TO
Cali Another Convention 10 Send
Protesting Delegation to- Denver.

New York, April l5.--State senator
Patrick III. McCarren, leader OF the
Kings county Democracy, was unseat-
ed tonight as delegate to the party's
state convention IN Carnegie hall TO Sc
lect representatives to the Denver ma
uonal convention, after a two-days
bitter contest before the committee on
credentials. He was alternately greet
ed with cheers and derlsivc cries when
he finally addressed the convention, and
once was insulted by man on the
platform near him The senator told
this man he would talk to him outside
the hall. Amid scenes tense aud dra-
matte in the extreme he FIRST appealed
to the convention to refuse the sane
tion of the majority report of those
Who he said, were excluding him from
the place In the party councils to which
he had been chosen by his Democratic
constituents. He threatened the Tam
lnany delegates with the statement that
II the plans TO put him outside the
party lines We're carried out no one in
the convention hall would live long
enough To see the election OF another
Democratic mayor of New York City.
The senators speech was attended by
unusual and picturesque circumstances.
From the Time he entered the hall he
received the cheers OF his loyal follow
crs, but the majority was against him,
and the counter demonstrations We're
greater in volume. He made his fight
calmly and courageously, notwithstand-
ing The proceedings were attended
with much disorder and confusion, In
which both the McCarren men and
their opponents participated. The two
days waiting for the committees re-
port affected the delegates. and they
showed the strain during the long roll
call on the adoption of the majority
report
The business for which the conven :
ton was assembled, the selection of
delegates to the national convention,
the nomination of presidential electors
and the adoption of a platform, was
almost forgotten in the excitement over
the McCarren contest.
When the vote was announced Nc
Carren, with his followers. arose and
jeff the hall, while their friends IN the
gallery gave them a parting cheer. An
other cheer greeted Bird S. Coler OF
Kings as he and his fellow delegates
entered To replace the McCaren mon.
Senator McCarren said that he would
carry his fight to the Denver conven-
ton.
Afer the settlement of the McCarren
and other contests. the convention pro-
ceeded with it's task. and named dele
gates and electors. and adopted plat
form, which says, in part;
I'VE hold that Democratic traditions,
bound up as they are with much that
is greatest in the history of the coun-
try, require that national conventions
should be gatherings of the best in
tellect, the ripest judgment, and the
most unsellish patriotism of the party
for the purpose of studying the needs
and striving for the welfare of the
country at large.
"And, therefore. we. representing the
party In the greatest state of the Union.
a state whose electoral vote Is essen
tial to Democratic victory. with no ami
mostly or hostility Tor any. candidate,
and animated only by devotion to the
principles of the party, call upon the
Democracy of the country to send to
Denver In July next unpledged. unfet-
tered and uninstI1icted, their ablest,
strongest and most representative men,
to the end that out of the elaboration
and consultation of such men there
may be then and there nominated a
ticket which will rally TO It's support
the judgment, conscience and vote of
a majority of tho citizens of the coun-
try"
Alton r. Parker, New York; Charles
r. Murphy, New York; Louis Nixon,
New York, and Charles Froeh, Brook
lyn were chosen MISUNDERSTANDING
A resolution that the delegates to the
national convention be instructed To
adopt the unit rule was adopted
After the platform had been adopted
and the delegates named. "A. scene o.
wild disorder followed the announce
ment OF the names Of the new state
| committed. Delegates from several
districts protested that the names read
| were not those selected. The chair
man replied that the question was
| whether the convention, through Its
| own committee, should be empowered
| to name the new state committee. The
| aisles were crowded with delegates de-
nouncing the propositions Order coult
| not be restored, the delegates refusing
| to be seated. and the police for many
minutes were powerless to keep then
| quiet. II was then past midnight, ant
| tho excitement was greater than dur
| ing the McCarren Incident. At the
| height of the disturbance the sergeant
| AZ arms was knocked from the plat
| form, The committees report wal
| finally declared carried.
| Harry w. Walker. one Of Bryan
most enthusiastic supporters in New
York, declared he would issue q. call fo
| another state convention to send a con
testing delegation TO Denver.
The convention adjourned at 1880.
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