The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-16
M'CARREN BEATEN
Brooklyn Boss Ousted From
Democrat State Convention.
Declares He will Garry the
Fight to Denver.
UNIT RULE ADOPTED.
Delegates Will Go to National
Meeting Uninstructed.
A Fight Follows Report on Com.
mfttee Membership.

ASSW 1orA, april 16.-State Senator
Patrick II. McCarren, leader of the
Kings county Democracy, was un-
seated as delegate to the partyss
state convention in Carnegie hall to
select representatives to the Denver
national convention after a two days
bitter contest before the COMMITTEES on
credentials. He was alternately
greeted with cheers and derisive cries +
when he finally addressed the con-
ventfon and once was insulted by a
man on the platform near him. The
senator told this man he would talk
to him outside the hall. Amid scenes
tense and dramatic in the extreme he
first appealed to the convention to re-
fuse to sanction the majority report
of those who. he said, were excluding
him from the place in the party coun-
ellis to which he had been chosen by
his Democratic constituents He
threatened the Tammany delegates
with the statement that if the plans
to put him outside the party lines
were carried out no one in the con-
vention hall would live long enough
to see the election of another Demo-
cratic mayor OF New York city
The senator's speech was attended
by unusual and picturesque circum-
stances. From the time he entered the
hall he received the cheers of his
loyal followers, but the majority were
against him and the counter demon-
strations were greater in volume. He
made his fight calmly and courage
ously Notwithstanding. The proceed
ings were attended with much disor-
der and confusion, in which both the
McCarren men and their opponents
no v-f firirn fa6 III I,xre
| for the committee report affected the
| delegates, and they showed the strain
during the long roll call on the adop-
ton Of the majority report.
| The business for which the conven-
tion was assembled, the selection Of
| delegates to the national convention,
the nomination of presidential elec-
| tors and the adoption of a platform,
was almost forgotten in the excite
ment of the McCarren contest
| When the vote was announced
! McCarren, with his followers, rose
and left the hall, while friends in the
| gallery gave them a parting cheer.
| Another cheer greeted Bird s. Coler
| of Kings as he entered to replace the
McCarren men. Senator McCarren
| said that he would carry his fight to
| the Denver convention.
After the settlement of the Nc
| Carren and other contests the con-
| vention proceeded with its task and
| named delegates and electors and
adopted a platform.
Alton B. Parker, New York:
Charles F. Murphy. New York; Louis
Nixon and Charles Froe. Brooklyn.
| were chosen delegates at large. AL
| ternates were also elected and the
| selections of the various districts
| ratified.
resolution that the delegates to
| the national convention be instructed
to adopt the unit rule was adopted.
| Upon the reading of the names of
| the new state committee a score of
| delegates were on their feet protest
selected in various districts. They
rushed down to the edge of the stage
clamoring for recognition, and the
| convention became a scene of great
| disorder. The chairman declared
| that the question was whether the
| convention, through its own COM
| mittee, should be empowered to name
| the new state committee. The aisles
were crowded with delegates de-
| could not be restored. the delegates
| refusing to be seated. and the police
| for many minutes were powerless to
| keep them quiet. 1t was then past
| midnight and the excitement was
greater than during the McCarren
incident. At the height of the dis
| turbance the sergeant-at-arms was
knocked from the platform The
committee report was finally de-
clared carried. Harry W. Walker, one
of Bryan's most enthusiastic sup
porters in New York, declared he
would issue a call for another state
convention to send contesting dele
cation to Denver.
The convention adjourned at 1890.