Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-16
OPENLY MADE M UGLY THREAT
Told Delegates That if They unscat
ed Him No, Ono of Them Would
Ever Live to See Another Demo
cratic Mayor in New York-Al,on
q. Parker One of the Delegates.
lny Associated pressl

tor Patrick II. McCarren. leader of
the Kings county Democracy. was nm
seated tonight us delegate to the
party's state convention in Carnegie
Hall TO select representatives to the
Denver national convention after n
Two days bitter confess, before the
committee on credentials. He was
alternately greeted with cheers and
derisivc cries when he finally adj
dressed the convention and once was
insulted by a man on the platform
near him.
The senator instantly told this man
that he would talk TO him outside.
Amid scenes tense and dramatic he
first appealed to the convention 10
refuse to sanction the majority re-.
port Of the committee ana followed
this up with deliberate defiance of
those who, he said. were excluding
him from the place in the party coun-
ellis 10 which he had been chosen by
his Democratic constituents.
Makes Broad Threat.
He threatened the delegates with
the statement that il the plan to put
him outside the party lines were car
ried ont that no one in the convention
hall would live long enough to see
the election of another Democratic
mayor of New York.
From the time he entered the hall,
McCarrcn received the cheers of his
loyal followers but the majority were
against him and the counter demon
STATIONS were greater In volume. The
proceedings were attended with much
confusion and disorder in which both
the McCarren men and their ,oppon-
ents participated The business for
which the convention was assembled.
the selection of delegates TO the ma
tional convention, the nomination of
presidential electors and the adopt
ion of platform. was almost forgot
ten in the excitement over the Nc
| Carren contest.
When The vote was announced Nc
Carren with his followers rose and
left the hall
Bird S. Coler, OF Kings. and his
fellow delegates at once entered and
| replaced the McCarren men. Senator
! McCarren said that he would carry
his fight to the Denver convention
After The settlement of the McCarren
contest the convention proceeded
with its task and named delegate:
and electors and adopted "A platform.
The Delegates at Large.
! The delegates at large and of their
alternates are as follows: Delegal es
nj large, Alton +. Parker. New York
Charles f. Murphy, New York: Lewis
Nixon. New York: Charles Froeh
Brooklyn. Aternates. George II
| Thacker. Albany; Frank Key Pendle
ton. New York; James L. Scwarzen
Inch. Hornell; William +. Rafferty,
! Syracuse.
A resolution that tho delegates Sc
lec,ed TO 90 10 the national convention
Mt Denver, be uninstrncted and to
adopt the unite rule was adopted
After the platform had l.een adop-
ted and the delegates named, a scene
of wild disorder followed the an
nounccment OF the name of the new
state committee. Delegates from sew
eral districts protested that the name.
read were not those selected Tho
chairman replied that the question
was whether the convention. through
It's own committee should be empow
cred 10 name the new state commit
tee. The aisles were crowded with
delegates denonncing the proposition
Order could not be restored. the dele
gates refusing to be seated and thc
notice for many minutes were power
less to keep them quiet.
= 1t was then past midnight and III,
excitement was greater than durins
the McCarren incident
I AT the height of the disturbance tn,
sergeant at arms was knocked from
the platform. The committees re.
port was finally declared carried.
Harry w. Walker. one of BRYAN.
most enthusiastic supporters in New
YORK declared he would issue n cal
Tor another state convention to SEM
n contesting delegation to Denver.
The convention adjourned ut l2:aC
o'clock.
{ No Fight for Bryan.
The friends of W. j Bryan toda,
decided 10 abandon the idea of Drc
senIing minority report to the De
mocratic state convention from III,