New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-07
CONVENTION INA TUMULT
Acceptance Forced Upon the
Nominee After Prendergast
and Hotchkiss Had
Locked Horns in
Desperate Fight.
IGNORE COLoNEL's WISHES
Davenport lTamed for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Despite Statement by Hotch-
kiss That Roosevelt Earnestly De-
sired Cook to Have the Nomi-
nation for Second Place.

| hIoS IudL hOOScVclJ Earnestly De-
sired Cook to Have the Nomi-
nation for Second Place.
| From STAFF Correspondent OF The Tribune
! Syracuse, Sept. Oscar s. Straus,
phianthropic worker, merchant, diplo-
mat under the administrations of
President Cleveland and Mckinley and
Cabinet member under President
! Roosevelt, was nominated tonight As
the Progressive party's candidate for
! Governor under circumstances as re-
markable and picturesque as ever at
tended the nomination OF a candidate
! in this state.
| With the convention hopelessly
snarled up through rival candidates.
and facing a serious deadlock. a Wild
eyed person who in other years had
been Hearst enthusiast, with red
bandanna handkerchiefs streaming
| from various portions Of his clothing
and swathed around his slouch hat,
jumped TO the platform "Suspender
Jack" McGee, the butt of many q po-
litical gathering. gained the attention
Of the convention by his wild de-
meanor and began 10 pour forth an in
coherent stream of words, accompanied
by startling gestures. erding with a
! handsome eulogy of Mr.. Straus.
Mr.. Straus. presiding over the ses-
| sion, was lost in the storm which
struck the convention. Amid the
tumult Of cheeis and yells and parad-
, ing delegates and bandanna waving
spectators up near the front OF the half
empty hall. he raped feebly with his
gavel few times and then abandoned
it, stepping back into crowd of ex-
cited persons who surrounded him
! The band swung into the hymn "On-
ward, Christian Soldiers" and every
body sang it as the demonstration con-
/ tinued.
In the thronG surrounding Mr..
Straus. clapping him on the shoulder
and crying Take it. Take it," were
State Chairman Hotchkiss, Walter
Chandler of New York: Maurice Min
ton, delegate from Duchess County.
who has been known i'm the past as a
political manipulation and boom pro-
moter for various and sundry persons,
and General Horatio G. King. per-
sonal friend of Mr.. Straus. tn. chair
man shook his head in mute rcyation
time after time.
Mrs. Straus trembling with excite
ment and pleasure at the tribute his
name evoked took her husbands arm
and clung 10 it,
"He Accepts" Draws Shouts.
| The opportunities of those who
would have Mr.. Strsus accept re-
doubled, and after couple of minutes
Mr.. Hotchkiss scribbled OH huge
sheet of yellow paper in big letters.
He accepts This he displayed for
all TO read. In a second the word
buzzed to the end of the hall, and
mighty shout went up.
| This was the elimination of a days
hard labor and the solution of as
serious political problem as the new
party is likely TO face. II was solu-
ton which relieved State Chairman
Hotchkiss of a great weight and the
responsibility of having allowed the
| Roosevelt party. while under his guild
ance, to be steered into a highly dan
|
smothered at least temporarily, the
bitterness of the fight between his sup
porters and those of Controller Prem
dergast, who had been charging him
with trickery and underhandedness
toward his erstwhile friend and asso-
ciate.
Up TO the moment when State Chair
man Hotchklss hoisted the impromptu
placard announcing Mr.. Strauss ac-
ceptancc, there had been nothing in the
course of events TO indicate anything
like that very rare thing, a STAN
peded' convention. There followed I'm
rapid fire order a series of events so
like what Tim" Woodruff calls "the
mechanics of politics that many per-
sons here will never believe the "stam-
pede" was not a carefully worked up
demonstration to force Mr.. Strauss Sc
lection and thus end the impossible sit
uation between the Hotchkiss and
Prendergast hosts. Some saw in it the
political craft of no less a master than
Theodore Roosevelt, of Oyster Bay.
Anyhow. stampede o: machine made
demonstration, ii worked.
Rush to Make Il Unanimous.
Before Mr. Hotchkiss. who had OBJ
tanned unanimous consent to take Mr..
Strauss place as chairman. had re-
stored order, John A. Kingsbury, OF
Westchester, Hotchkiss worker,
yelled a motion that the nomination of
Mr. Straus DC made unanimous. A
shout of approval greeted the sugges-
tion.
The Rev. J. Wesley Earnshaw, Of
Lowyille. rushed to the edge of the