The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-16
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS
 HAVE MANY WRANGLES

If
 Knocked From Platform. S
 At the height of the disturbance ts sergeant-at-A Arms was knocked the platform. The commfttee's report was finally declared carriedE
 Harry w. Walker, one Of Bryan,s most enthusiastic supporters In New York. declared he would issue . call for another state convention to send contesting delegation to Denver.
 At 1;32 p. m. Temporary Chairman Carmody called the Democratic State Convention to order. there being only a few delegates in their seats. Chair man Carmody stated that owing to the failure of the Committee on Contested Seats to finish the business In hand, the convention would stand adjourned until S:30 D. m.
 Delegates Arrive Early.
 With every prospect of an inter- esting light on the floor, when the re- port of the Committee on Credentials should be read. delegates gathered early at the convention hall and wait ed expectantly the opening of the final session that promised so much excste- ment. r While the delegates were gathering. the Committee on Credentials prepared to go Into executive session In an ante room.
 While the delegates were taking their seats. fifty policemen were detached from a main body of ore hundred po- licemen, marshaied .n the outside hall, way of the building and marched to the main floor, where they were stationed in each of the four aisles. ,s
 Squads of police were also sent to the galleries. When the police inspec- tor was asked why the police had been placed on the convention floor and through out the building, he said' se
 i''wh.le I anticipate no trouble of. any character, it may be that some disorderly person might get on the convention floor and cause trouble. The police have been told to remain at their posts throughout the session" \ Harry Walker of the Bryan Progress sive League, said before the conven- ton was called to order, that Chair man Corners had promised MT. Bryan's 1 friends that if it was found at the Denver Convention that a majority of the delegates from the other States were committed to Mir. Bryan, the deie- gates from New York would cast their votes for him and make his nomiia- sA,n practically certain by making up i nearly all the two-thirds. vote neces- sary to a choice. Mr. walker further stated that Chairman Corners said he would inform Mir. Bryan at Koch ester on next Tuesday when a Democratic meeting wsli be held, of the attitude HGW
 The convention waned into the even ing with no signs of the delegates gath ering for the main work of the con- vention. They wandered In and out | of the hall in desultpry fashion, dis cussing the progress of the remark : able aght before the Credentials cofn- Im.ttee. Tn fact, the convention itself took secondary place in the interest of all concerned and t was manifest tfhat every one attached ntore import. .kAncA to the rate Of McCAffen than to | the formal work of the convention But interest was given to the electoral ticket chosen early in the day Ore of those aelected is Nathan Straus. who is knawn to be very friendly with Wil- l Ham Randolph Hearst, the candidate 1 for Governor on the Democratic ticket in 1sD6, and the organizer ofsthe Inde- l pendence League. GsE t
 ,sxt TEA o'clock, it was announced l that the Committee on Credentials had adjourned and Chairman carmody had called the convention to. oroer. At the same time 1t became known that th 6 McCarren men had retired to prepare their dissenting report on the seating of delegates from Kings County
 Perfunctory Cali. NJ
 The calling of the convention to or der was. perfunctory for no attempt to | resume proceedings was made It was the general understanding that Senator McCarren would make his own fight on the floor and deliver bis own speech on the theme, Home rule for Kings 1 county" .s
 The report of the committee on ere denfials was officially said to be that the McCarren, delegates had been un- | seated in ten of the sixteen contested districts in Kings county including the Senator's own district, the 14th, where he headed the list. e, ,-.s
 Bird S.. Coler, president of the Bor- ough of Brooklyn, heads the anti-Mc 1 Carren. delegates who were seated in the 18th district.
 ,Thirty-four of the fifty-one members of+the committee voted against McCar- | ren, fifteen for him, one. member was excused and there was one absentee on the vote of the second district when 1t was reached after a bitter debate.
 The delay in beginning the business of the convention after the committee on credentials had finished work was due to the desire to give McCarren time to prepare his minority statement and argument against the upseatIng of his delegates. The understanding was that each side would be given half an hour and that the question of seating the McCarren men or the opposing del- egates would be submitted to vote;of the convention,
 State Committeeman Patrick E. Mo- Cabe, of Albany, won his fight for re- tention on the state committee after a contest which ranked second to that of McCarren in interest. ."'r, It was just o'clock when Senator McCarren entered the hall He was greeted with tumultuous cheerlng.
 At 9:16 o'clock the convention ac- tuaIIy came to order ,and Chairman Bulger began reading the majority re- port of the credentials committee.
 Judge Bulger said that the creden- tials committee had laboreds earnestly on the report. Some of his remarks were greeted with ironical laughter by some of the Brooklyn men. When he announced that the MeCarren contes- tants had been unseated there was loud cheering. While McCarren was mak- ing his argument for the minority re- port, there was considerable disorder. He was somewhat sarcastic and de- cIared that none of those concerned in the procedure if they persisted in 1t, would ever see a democratic mayor elected in New York City.
 While the convention was voting on the committees report, there was con siderable wrangling. At the end of the roll call. it was announced that the majority vote had been adopted by a vote of 325 to-s9. Upon this, Sena- tor McCarren and his followers left the hall.
 The friends of W. J. Bryan today de- ceded to abandon the idea of present ing a minority to the democratic state convention from the committee on res ofutions favoring an instructed delega