New-York tribune., 1908-04-16
DEMOCRATS In RIOT
AS CONVENTION ENDS
IND HIS - DEL
EG1TES PUT OUT.
Says He Viii Get RcUCHgC Hhen
Ncrt Mayor Is Elected.

/ The police had great difficulty IN preventing
general riot, and order was not restored for
many minutes after the outbreak began
This elimination day of unusual turbu-
| Ience came after the announcement Ot ths
names of the new state committee Delegates
from several districts protested that the names
read were not those selected The chairman
pounded with his gavel until he broke IL. Sonns
OF those seated on the platform were thrown and
showed off. Every aisle was crowded with dsls-
gates denounCiug the methods oc the Murphy
COnners people.
Harry " Walker. one of Bryan's most en-
thusiastic supporters in New York, declared rs
would issue a call for another state convention
TO send a coutesting delegation TO Denver
Previously the Murphy-COnners combination
threw out Senator P. H AIcCarren. the Brook
/ lyn leader. and tweuty-uine OF his delegates.
putting in their places the Coler men. vho
were told they would get seats IL they would
make the fight against McCarren at the pri-
marfes. BY the action OF the state convention
Murphy now controls all the state committee
men in Kings County.
BY vote OF 80 70 50 the majority report.
bouncing McCarren and his delegates. vas
adopted. The McCarreu men jeered and hissed-
Then they tried 70 debate during roll call. and
Secretary Mason tried to shut them of by
/ ignoring them
Gag rule, You cant gag Us, Down with
Murphy Down with Tammany Hau'' shouted
the McCarren men
Senator Grady prevented the McCarren men
from taking further action in the proceedings
I by sprinEing a point OF order. He was roundly
Kissed. but the Chair sustained him.
Il want my vote recorded in the minority.
shouted Controller Metz one Of the sitting dele
gates.
Then the chair attempted 70 skip the Nc
Carreu supporters among the upstate delegates
and McCarren protested
( When the vote was announced MCCarren and
his twenty-nine colleagues got up and walked
out, amid cheers. yelIs, Kisses and groans.
DENOUNCEs TANAfANY HALL
/ Before the roll was called. in the most sen
sationaI and scathing speech heard in state
convention in Years. Senator NcCarren de-
nounced Tammauy Hall He said that II the
work last night was a sample OF the Tammany
campaign plans for the Mayoralty election
next year not a single individual in the
I organization would live 70 another Demo-
cratic Mayor. He looked at Murphy and said
that nothing now would prevent the disena-
boveIment OF the Tammany organization; that
it was a Sansonian act. and that IL the pillars
had not already tumbIed down on their heads
II was simply because the result was held tenn
porarily in abeyance-
Charles y. BUIger. OF OsVezo, chairman % the
COMMITTEES on contested seats. who prepared the
. majority report uuseating McCarre1 and his
delegates. made rather weak reply, Jus1tfytng
the action OF the majority IN the COMMITTEES by
the need of putting the Democratic organization
tn Kings in condition that more Democrats
would be able 10 join IT,
McCarren's speech was interrupted again and
again BY Tammany men, who shot questions
and jokes al him. and Mr.. Bulger was similarly
interrupted despite the repeated warnings OF
Chairman Carmody-
The majority report said that the delegates
from the 1st. eth. 18th. 18th. 2oth and 21st dis
trfcts in Kings County had been honestly
elected. but that those IN the I'd. 3D. 5th. Sth.
18th. 14th. 18TH 18th. nth and 18th districts
had not been legally elected
When Mr BuIger made the announcement the
McCarren delegates jumped 10 their feet and
groaued and hissed. while the Tammany men
cheered and appIauded-
THREE CHEERS FOR COLER
Three cheers for Coler." yelled man in the
gallery.
..Ffurrah for McCarren," responded the Nc
Carren men. as the Senator rose and made for
the platform
The crowd was stiIled al once as the ssrHtor
fared the delegates and began TO speak
Like my friend Bulger.~ ne began. 7 have
had some experience a. member OF committees
on credentials In various conventions have
expended a great deal Of physical energy in dis
charging NY duty. I want 20 congratulate tns
majority or the credentials COMMITTEES On ths
earuesrueSs they have manifested IN thsi- e.
fort to arrive ar the truth"
Instantly there vere hovvls ~ d4risiNn E-o.ns
and ordinations from the enrszed McCar-sn-
ties
ION behalf of the minority - ne crrunntrr---"
continued the Senator 7 Deg leave 70 submit -
the convention rha following statement OF facts"
McCarreu laid great emphasis on ths word
Z
vote in each Assembly district for the regular
organization candidate and the ti-NfcCa-rsn
people
IF all the claims made by the contestants,
said Senator McCarren, were conceded Their.
would be no change in the result in a single
Assembly district. (Applause) We desire 10 call
attention to the apparent motives OF the ma
tority II is really 70 give the men now IN
charge OF the organization IN the state control
OF every Senate district IN Kings County and
every state committeeman In that county. The
convention should know that the character OF
the evidence offered by the contestants was -
a nature that would be- thrown our instantly by
any court. Everything was in the shape OF ex
parte statements. which were kept secret until
they We're produced before the committee. They
/ were absolutely farcical. The minority report
/ recommends that the convention disagree with
/ the majority report ana favor OF the sitting
{ delegates"
/ Injunction Pat"' yelled man from the ball
cony.
STIGMA ON THE VOTERS
| In view of the short time at my disposal
/ continued the Senator, Il simply desire 70 have
YOU understand that the delegates TO De un-
| seatad do not feel that the contemplated aCtio-