The Mena weekly star., 1908-04-23
TIE NEW YORK ROW THE FLEET ARR|VES'
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION ApJouRNs AMID SCENES OF
 CONFUSION.
THE KclRREx DELEGATES uNsElTED

Scenes of Disorder Also Followed An
 nouncen,snt of Change In Manner of
 Selecting New State commIttes--Po-
 lice Called in 10 oueIl the Disturb
 anes--A6ccarren's Threats
 New York, Apr. 17.--Amid scenes turbulence and great confusion the state Democratic convention adjourned Thursday. After bitter contest the convention unseated Senator ratrick H McCarren and the delegates from ten districts of Kings county, seated the MeCAbe delegates from Albany county, elected four delegates at large and alternates to the national con vention and delegates from the various congressional districts. chose the pres- idential electors and elected new state committee.
 The scenes of disorder which de- veloped from the rejection of the Mo Carren delegates were increased when resolution was unexpectedly sprung under which the members of the new state committee were chosen by the committee as a whole instead of each district electins it's own members. This resolution was read amid so great . hubbub that many of the delegates declared afterward that they did not hear 1t or know what 1t was about. At the close of roll call 1t was declared adopted by vote of 254 to 12S. At this announcement the convention be- came an uproar Delegates poured from their seats into the aisles, after name after name was read and there were shouts of robbers" thieves" convention was denounced in vigorous language. A hundred men rushed for the platform clamoring to, be heard In protest and demanding their right to elect the members of the committee ip the usual fashion. Delegates seated on the platform attempted to stop the rush of those from the main body of the hall and . hand-to-hand clash seemed to be imminent.
 Hurry calls were seOt for the police. who had left the hall after the un- seating Of the McCarren delegates. Chairman Carmody vainly beat the table until his gavel was shattered. There was an altercation on the stage during which sergeantatarms Watson was struck and knocked from the platform. carrying the reading desk with him.
 Amid cries of fraud and robbery" the clerk continued to read the names of tho pew committeeman which were attached te the resolution. The police returned te the hall and thrust the clamoring delegates beck from the platform toward their seats and par tiallyacleared the aisles.
 Many delegates standing on chairs demanded recognition for the purpose of offering amendments providing that the committeeman should be chosen by senatorial districts. but the chairman ruled that the roll call could not be interrupted by the reading of amend ments. The Cattaraugus deelgation asked to be excused from voting and was greeted with cries of towards" The delegation then voted against the resolution. The Cayuga county com mittee chairman shouted that he vot- ed against this infamous" resolution. Finally the resolution was declared adopted and amidst great uproar the chairman put motion to adjourn and 1t was declared carried. Following the adjournment Frank 8. Mott, Cat taraugus county, said:
 The only remedy for an unjust pro cedurs is . contsstlng delegation to a real Democratic convection. which it is sad. will be held in Denver "a July.
 Senator MeCarren and tho delegates from the Kings county dis triets were unseated after . hard fought contest by their leader in which Senator MoCarren first pleaded for the right of his delegates to be seated and then delivered remarkable and sensational warning to the convention In which he asserted that if the Kings county men were thrown out none of those present would live to see a Dem ocratic mayor elected in New York city. After the convention Senator McCarren said:
 "The fight has just begun. We will carry this matter Into the Denver con yention and fight for the seating of our national convention delegates"
 Chairman Corners said: The people can judge whether Mccarren got a fair deal or not. The vote of the con yention on that score of S25 against S9 speaks for itself McCarren's lead ershlp In Brooklyn was inirnical to