The Washington times., 1909-05-10
CONVENTION SCENE
OF GREAT UPROAR
Birth Abraham Members
Fight for Possession
of the Floor.
Continued from First Page9


gether; # we sink, we so under with |
friendship and love STILL
For only few moments did the i'm
preston of bis words last with those
who demand a new regime. Mr.. Cab
Iinosky, of New York, was recognized
He Is allied with the conservative ele-
ment Judge Sanders, a leader CT the
insurgents, protested This was the
signal for an uproar. The delegates
women and men alike. surged to the
platform.
Two New York delegates were taken
to the floor by force. Men took OF their
coats, and a football game could not
develop the volume of sound that issued
from threats of hundreds of delegates
who cried for recognition.
Grand Master Max Stern, earlier in
the morning, seemed able to cope with
the situation. No provisions were made
to keep order, but the dominating per-
sonality of this man seemed to be
enough for previous emergencies. Even
his bitterest opponents were cowed.
"Be Decent" He Cried.
"Sit down. Sit down. Be decent.
You have got to behave. 1 am running
this convention" he shouted. Not until
Sanders took the platform and other
candidates for recognition were seated
by sheer force could the badlam be
quelled.
Stern opened the convention by de-
claring that he would not stand for any
repetition of the discord that prevailed
yesterday. Before he had finished there
was an uprOar as NJ Scheliwsky, of
New York assembled the platform He
is a candidate for grand master, and
easily seemed the most popular man
in the convention tiasS morning He ap-
peared to protest against the proposed
raising of dues from 30 cents per quarter
TO 30 cents. He presented his case In
three sentences. Before the grand
master could put the question cries of
yea, yea, indicated that on this one
point opinion was nearly unanimous.
Stern declared that the dues would re-
main at 30 cents.
After Schelfwsky was seated the grand
master, found his first opportunity to
bury the Ratchet" he said. 1--WE must
act here like men and after this con-
ventiOn must go away as friends and
brothers. We must try TO talk sensibly
about the points at issue: we must for
get animosity after the battle has been
waged''
For fully fifteen mimi. ss after Schoen
had spoken, confusion reigned and COM
bined efforts of the officers failed to
put down the disturbance.
Cries of He's got the money" greeted
Schoen when he again arose and tried
to restore order. II seemed TO be, under
stood that nominations were in order
and a fear that an attempt to railroad"
administration candidates was on foot
made the insurgents determined TO name
their men first Man after man was
pulled from the platform, and, mean
while, three or four more would force
their way up from the opposite side.
Grand Master Stern was the center
of hostilities. He was surrounded by
men screaming at the tops of their
voices, while on the floor delegates gath
cred In groups. Several of these i'm
I q almost n
into fist fights. One heated member of
the insurgent element shook his fist
in the face of New York delegate.
Inc lnsurgent was rescued from 9, small
sized mob of the Gothamite's friends.
who escorted their colleague to the door.
Nominations Made.
When order was restored the nomina-
tons were begun and the surprise of the
convention was sprung. Grand Master
Stern was nominated for another term
by Joseph Barondess, a New York labor
leader well known in labor circles and
Stern declined For the first time the
delegates seemed TO entertain some re-
mernbrance of the work done by their
executive and faint applause greeted
him as ne took his seat.
The popularity Of ScheliwsIcy was
again shown when he arose to accent
the nomination for grand master. Judge
Sanders was the candidate placed in
the field by the insure ents and in noise
II not numbers, they exceeded anything
nat had gone befo.e by their demon
stration. Only force full Intervention pre-
vented his supporters from carrying the
dignified New York CO ndidate from the
platform on their shoulders.
Other nominations were:
First deputy, Samuel Weiss and JOS
eph Barondess; second deputy, BS1Feis-
Ter, NJ Goldberg, Jacob SENT, /. Sele-
now. and Dr. A 3. Sultan, L. Epsteil:
grand secretary, G. Rosenberg. B. Koenig
Max EiSen. Samuel Fisher, Max Tferer
Jacob Schoen. Carl Levenskein. Jacob
Meyer, William Zimmerman; grand
treasurer, w. Sprung: endowment treas
ureT, D. Eisler, Max Veischleiser: chair
man finance committee. Ed Cohen. M
Steinberg. Max Granhard; chairman law
committee, Max Eckman, d. Teir- Ie,'tz
Leopold MoshkowitZ, NJ. J. Feinba.g
and Z. Ellis.
Interest tomorrow will center around
the election Of grand secretary
Schoen, who made his plea for mercy
this morning. will make a strong fight
for reelection.