Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-16
Kings County Leader gusted by
New YORK Democrats
After Fight.
PLATFORM MADE SHORT
Bryan Not Endorsed in Resolu-
tions That Are Finally
Adopted.

New York, April 1G.-State Senator
McCarren, leader of the Kings county
democracy, was unseated last night as
a delegate to the state convention af-
ter two days contest before the COM
mittee on credentials He was alter
nately greeted with cheers and deris-
/ i've cries when he finally addressed the
convention: Amid scenes tense and
dramatic in the extreme, he first ap-
pcaled to the convention to refuse to
sanction the majority report of the
committee and followed this up with
a deliberate defiance to those who, he
said, were excluding him from place
in the party councils to which he had
been chosen by his democratic constit-
uents.
Threat for Tammany.
He threatened the ,Tammany dele
gates with the statement that If the
plans to put him outside of the party
lines were carried out, no one in the
convention hall would live long enough
to see the election of another demo
lcratic leader of New York.
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 counter demonstra
! tons were greater in volume. He
made-his, fight ealussF and courageous
ly, notwithstanding. The proceedings
were attended with much confusion
and disorder in which both McCarrer
men and their opponents participated
| Business AImest Forgotten.
| The business for which the conven
tion assembled. the selection of the
delegates to the national convention
the nomination of presidential elec
tors and the adoption of the platform
were almost forgotten in the excite
ment over the McCarren contest
When the vote of 325 to SO was an
nounced, McCarren, with his followers
left the hall while their friends in the
galleries gave them a parting cheer
Another cheer greeted Bird S. Cole
lof Kings county, as he and his fellow
delegates entered to replace the Nc
Carren men. McCarren said he woult
carry the fight to the Denver con
yention
After the settlement of the McCaI
rem and other contests. the convention
proceeded with its task and named tn
delegates and electors and adopted
platform.
Platform in Short.
The platform says: ''We believe tha
as the country is greater than tn
party, so is the party greater than an
of its members, and therefore persona
ambition and individual prefermer
must give way to the good Of tn
many and the triumph of the cause.
| The resolutions then called 'upo
the democracy of the country to sen
to Denver in July next, mpledged, III
fettered and uninstructed, their ables
strongest and most representative me
to the end that out of the deliberate
and consultation of such men, ther
may be then and there nominated
. ticket which will rally to its suppol
: the Judgment and the conscience {
the vote of the majority of the citizen
l of the country"
Delegates mt Large.
The delegates at large are
I Parker of New York, Charles F. Mu
3 phy and Charles Froeh of Brooklyi
l Each congressional district electe
: 1.-TWO delapates and tho entire delep
4 tion was instructed to vote as un
at the Denver convention.