The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-15
County Convention at Chicago Re.
quIres 1000 Policemen and
100 Special Deputy
sheriffs.
BLooDsHED PREDICTED
Hearst-HarrIson Combine consplred
to Gain Control Of the Meet
Ing 81 the Party
Today.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CHICAGO, April 15.-county Judge
Owen took personal charge Of the
police force OF Chicago at noon today
and directed the choppIng down Of the
door Of the Seventh Regiment arnory
80 the democratic county convention
could be held there, according to his
orders as head Of the election ma.
chInery Of Cook county.
The armory had been barrlcaded by
Colonel Moriarlty and Captain octl.
gan Of the national guard and toseth-
err with AdJutant General Dickson and
100 mIlltIamen they had defIed tho
police and sheriff forces and refused
to open the doors for tho convention
under an Injunction Issued by Judge
Mckinley.
Judge Owen arrived on the scene
few minutes before noon. When
Captain octigan refused to open tho
doors, the Judge said:
"You are the first man shall get !"
Then turning to Assistant Chief Of
Police sehuettIer he commanded
"Break down the DOORS"
sehuettier called for an axe and
with the aid Of policemen hacked
down the door, Tho soldiers were
drawn up at attention Inside but made
no resistance. Behind Schuettler were
800 policemen A hundred policemen
entered the hall with Judge Owen,
Election Commissioner Anthony
czarneki and other officials. czarne-
XII, the republican election commits
sIoner, then called the convention to
order under his instructions from
Judge Owen. With the police guard
Ing the doors and scattered through
the hall, the delegates who had been
waiting since nine a m. were permit
ted to enter.
| After tho delegates began entering
the hall, the fire department was call
ed and began smashing down the
other doors of the armory.
At 1890 eight hundred Hearst
Harrison delegates gathered in var
| ious halls nearby They were address
ed by Congressman SABBATH, who plead
ed with them to stand fast for their
rights. They then passed resolutions
binding all to march on the convention
hall in body and demand admission.
They formed in line and with police
/ escort marched up to the armory,
with SABBATH at their head. SABBATH
shouted through the barred windows
that he desired to parely with Colonel
Moriarity. The delegates each wore
a red ribbon of harmony"
conference with Moriarity with the
! 500 grouped about him and the police
keeping the Sullivan delegations in
the distance.
Adjutant General Dickson arrived
| from Springfield at II a. m. and
| took personal charge Of the states
forces in the armory. He declared
that the hall shall be opened any time
/ County Chairman McGillen, the
lessee, wanted 1t opened.
MCTilIen SdlQ ne "ouiu noI opeh
the hall unless the delegates acquis-
led in Judge McKinley's Injunction
order and that there would be no
| convention as long ss the police re-
NAMED on the scene.
Word was passed among the Harri-
SON. Hearst relegates shortly before
noon that the mayor had directed his
followers to held their convention in
vallpalias hall, If they could not get
into the armory within an hour.
General Dickson said that the
armory was not thrown open to the