The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-29
H|SGEN and GRAVES
; ARE NOMINATED
BY HEARST PARTY"
CONTINUED from First Pnge.)

ea&-calls. When quiet was restored he
launched into an eulogy of Bryan.
That precipitated the riot. Kisses were
beard nrst. Then there was. bedlam
NJ yCa<s ana yells. Men leaped from
'khedY seGtA calling Sheppard a traitor.
,pns man rushed for the speaker with
ak1s cAne uplifted. He was followed by
"a army 81 others. who would storm the
p1atccrm.
A score cf sergeants-at-arms rushed
fn ahead OF them. and for the time pro-
tscted Sheppard from violent attack.
"A call was sent for the police reserves,
and while waiting for their arrival the
sergeants-at-arms worked Sheppard
away from the centre Of the platform
and toward q side door.
Spectators and delegates climbed over
the platform, many of them trying to
reach Sheppard with fists and canes.
all Of them loudly denouncing him as a
traitor to the party. D.
When the police reserves arrived In
several patrol wagons Sheppard was
taken safely Eway. n then John
Waterbury, Of Kansas. took the plat
form, and, d~enouncing Sheppard as a
Bryan. agent, declared that he was
about the only man in Kansas who
favored Bryan. Mr.. Waterbury declared
that the other delegates from his State
had been unable to discover S%heppard's
intentions when he took the platform,
but had not been greatly surprised
when he turneds out to be a Bryanite.
Results of the Ballots.
The vote for President on the first
ballot resulted: yHisgen,. 1896; Graves.
213; Howard, 200; Lyon. Il; Hearst, -
On the second ballot Hisgen received
500 votes; Graves dropped to 1870. and
Howard to 1O9. Hearst held his 40 and
Lyon was eliminated. it{+
Mr.. Hisgen's nomination came. on the
third ballot. The vote was: Hisgen,
ss1; Graves, II; Howard, IS; Hearst, 2.
On motion Of Georgia, Mr.. Hisgen's
nomination was made unanimous.
Clarence J. Shearn placed John
Temple Graves in nomination, amid
great cheering.
e. G.. Ballard. of Indiana, placed
Charles r. s. Neal, of Indiana, in nomi-
nation. Stephen Chartres, of Ansonia,
was placed in nomination by John
Kelly, of Connecticut. C. A. Wendell,
Of Illinois, named DIR. Howard Taylor,
Of Illinois. DR.. Taylor withdrew his
NoAti ii0 IoiiS
Of Chartres and move to suspend the
rules n make Graves's nomination
unanimous. This was done, and the
convention adjourned sine die.
Thomas L.. Hisgen, although a citizen
Of Massachusetts,, was born. in Peters
burg. Ind. and is fifty years Did. When
| he was 16 his family moved to New
| York State, near Albany, and he and
his brothers worked in a clothing store.
A few years later they started the bust
kness which has since developed until
the Hisgen Brothers are the most sue
cessful rivals of the Standard OIL Com
pany in New England.
! Hisgen Known as "Honest Tom."
Mr. Hisgen was not a politician, was
not even in politics. when he was nomi-
mated by the Independence League in
Massachusetts last year as its candi-
date for Governor. He mad a per-
sonal canvass of the State land polled
70, 900 votes, 5000 more thai the reg
ular Democratic candidate. He is a
successful business man, a forceful
speaker, and is known to all New Eng
land as Honest Tom" Hisgen. He Is
married and has three children.
John Temple Graves is a Southerner,
having been born at wellington Church,
Abbeville County, South Carolina. on
November 9, 1856. His father was Gen
eral James Porterfield Graves, n his
mother Katherine Calhoun, a niece of
John C. Calhoun.
Mr.. Graves was graduated from the
University of Georgia in 1875 and went
into Journalism. He was a presidential
elector from Florida in 1884 and from
Georgia in 1888. In 1905 he was a can
didate for United States Senator from
Georgia, but withdrew.
Mr.. Graves was for years q lecturer
on the Chautauqua circuit.
For about . year he has been an
sditss1ai wris r for the Hearst papers.