The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-16
TIE CONVENTION VOTES TO
 UNSEAT SENATOR MccARREN
Sergeant-at-Arms is Knocked from
 the Platform.
Piatsorm is Adopted and Delegates to Denver selectea-Bryan Men VIII Can Another Convem- ton and send Contest
 ins Delegation to
 Denver.

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 New York. April 15.-State Senator Patrick H. McCarren. leader of the Kings County Democracy. was unseat- ed tonight as & delegate to the party State Convention in Carnegie Hall to select representatives to the Denver National Convention. after two days bitter contest before the Committee on Credentials.
 He was alternately greeted with cheers and derisive cries when he final- ly addressed the convention and once was insuited by man on the platform naar 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 refuse to sanction the majority report of the Committee and followed this up with deliberate de- fance of those who, he said. were ex- ciuding him from the place in the party councils 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 convention hall would live long enough to see the election of another Democratic Mayor of New York city.
 The Senator's speech was attended by unusual and picturesque circum- stances. From the time he entered the haIl he received the cheers of his loyal followers, but the majority was against him and the counter demonstrations were greater in volume. The pros ceedings were attended with much confusion and disorder in which both the McCarren men and their opponents participated. The protracted two siay's for the Committees report sf- fected the delegates and they showed fiIe strain during the long roll call on the adoption 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 electors and the drafting of a platform was all most forgotten in the excitement over the McGarren contest.
 When the vote was announced, Me- Carren with. his followers arose and left the hall. Bird S. Coler of Kings, and his fellow delegates at once en- tered and replaced the McCarren men. Senator McCarren said that he would carry his fight to the Denver conven- tfon.
 After the settlement of the McCar- ren and other contests. the convention proceeded with it's task and named del- egates and electors and adopted a plat form The platform reads as follows:
 The Platform.
 .srhe Democracy of the State of New York in convention assembled hereby declares as follows:
 we believe that the democracy of the nation by the strength of its posi- lion on questions of great public in- nortance, and by the blunders and ex- frayagance of the Republican party, has this year presented to 1t an unu- sual opportunity to return to the con- trol of the government of the country and to that event we believe that ev- cry sacrifice which patriotism may suggest or public sentiment require, should be made by all members of the party in order to again put Democratic principles Into actual operation in the Administration of the affairs of the government. i.
 we believe that as the country Is greater than the party so is the party greater than any of its members ana therefore personal ambition and in- dividual preferment must give way to the good of the many and the triumph of the cause.
 eve 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 pc BaIueEluBS VI Nuo bCSt ih tellect, the ripest judgment and the most unselfish 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 essential to Democratic victory, with no animosity or hostility for any can didate, 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. un- fettered and uninstructed, their ablest, strongest and most representative men, to the end that out of the delibera- tion 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 the citizens of the coun- try"
 The delegates at large and their alternates are as follows:
 Delegates at large-Alton B. Parker New York; Charles F. Murphy New York; Lewis Nixon, New York; Charles Froeh, Brooklyn.
 Alternates-George T Thatcher Albany; Francis Key PendIeton, New York; James F. Schwarzenbach. Hor- nell; William E. Rafferty, Syracuse,
 A resolution that the delegates selected to go to the National Con vention at Denver be instructed tC adopt the unit rule. was adopted.
 After the platform had been adopted and the delegates named. a scene oi wild disorder followed the announce ment of the names of the new state committee. Delegates from severa districts protested that the names reaC were not those selected. The chairman replied that the question was whether the convention through its own com mittee should be empowered to nam' the new State committee. TI'e aisle' were crowded with delegates denounc ing the proposition. Order could no be restored. the delegates refusing tC be seated and the police for many min utes wefe powerless to keep them quiet It Yaa than mat midnight and the ex.