Show RIOTOUS SCENE IN CONVENTION + I Police Called to Control Massachusetts Mass-achusetts Democrats 4 FIGHT OF FACTIONS CAUSED TH TUMULT = Much Difficulty Experienced In Nominating State Ticket t p I Congressman Fitzgerald Narrowly Escaped Being Ejected From the Hall Delegates Stood Upon Chairs and Tables and Shouted I the Heat of Passion Republicans Have Quiet Affair at Omaha Sx Kinley Make Political Speeches Boston Sept 21The riotous scenes and the bitter fights between the two factions of the Democrats In this state which characterized the all night session in Music hall here in 18D6 and that at Worcester the following year were renewed with even greater bitterness bit-terness at the annual convention of the state Democracy in Mechanics hall today There were hardly a moment mo-ment after the speeches of the temporary porary and permanent presiding offi cers were concluded when there was quiet and harmony In any degree At times the entire delegations were upon their feet the members standing on chairs or tables shouting In the heat of passion some denunciatory remarks re-marks at the chairman or the person who was endeavoring to speak upon the platform At these times it seemed as though even the force of 100 policemen In the hall would be of no avail so impassioned Impas-sioned were those on the floor and the climax came when at the request of the chairman the captain of the police appeared upon the platform and placed his hand upon Congressman John F Fitzgerald In readiness to forcibly remove him from the platform had he not subsided and allowed the chairman to address and calm the excited cited assemblage Cause of the Tumult The cause of the tumult which raged for nearly three hours was the question before the body of accepting the action of the state committee in presenting a list of delegates to the national convention tion It was claimed by those who opposed op-posed the idea that it was against all precedent and robbed the various districts dis-tricts of their cdnstitu ional rights The personalities which were indulged in-dulged in were directed as much against Congressman Fitzgerald a against Mr Williams the party leader I and hard names were called on both sides The final result of all the confusion con-fusion and discord was the overwhelming overwhelm-ing passage of every motion and report made by the state committee and the election of national convention delegates dele-gates headed by Robert T Payne jr 1 and follows John H Mack The state ticket J The State Ticket GovernorRobert Treat Payne jr of Boston by acclamation Lieutenant GovernorJohn H Mack of North Adams j Attorney General John H Morrison of Lowell I Auditor W L Ramsdell of Lynn Secretary of State Harry Lloyd of Boston TreasurerJoseph J Flynn of Lawrence Law-rence George Fred Williams presented the report of the committee on platform The platform declares that the Chicago Chi-cago platform of 1896 like the Declara tion of Independence stands a part of the fundamental code of the Democratic Demo-cratic government The financial plank of that instrument is particularly illustrated lustrated and the financial ills of the five years prior to 1897 are ascribed to a contracted currency for which Republican publican financial legislation had provided pro-vided no form of relfef The farmers of the south and west the platform says being compelled tf sell their products In the worlds markets mar-kets in competition with silver using countries are condemned to low prices for what they sell while the rising scale of prices at home due partly tt the Increased volume of money and mere to the intervention of the trusts results in the exaction from them of higher prices for all they have to buy Accuses Republican Party The Republican party is accused of planning to surrender to the banks the governmental function of issuing paper money and controlling its volume The In the is war Philippines characterized charac-terized as criminal aggression wanton agtresson needless and wasteful and Incompetently Incompet-ently and corruptly prosecuted The platform alleges that in the plator aleges reiterated re-iterated demands for more and ierated ad more troops to subdue the Tagals may be detected the purpose of having ultimately ulti-mately more soldiers to employ at home making it possible for monopolistic monopo-listic corporations to secure the aid of armed forces both state and federal to overcome their workingmen In time of labordissensions The plai rm then denounces the conduct of the military authorities in the Couer dAlene mining district of Idaho The platform favors direct legislation legisla-tion the initiative and referendum the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people and the enforcement en-forcement of an eighthour workday the abolition of the law granting a life tenure to members of the judiciary and the public ownership and operation of street railways waterworks and other 1 municipal business enterprises The platform concludes with platorm wit pledgIng the loyalty of the Massachusetts Democracy De-mocracy to William J Bryan UTore Trouble Threatened The committee appointed to select 4 delegates to the national convention then made its report The delegates at l3 are George Fred Williams Colonel Col-onel A C Drinkwater William F Mc Nary and Christopher T Callahan There were several attempts at disturbance dis-turbance when the motion to moton accept the report of the committee was put but they were suppressed ant the chairman chair-man declared the report adopted and the list of delegates as announced The 1 convention then adjourned REPUBLICANS OF NEBRASKA J Nominate State Officers and Adopt a Platform 1 Omaha Sept 2L The Republican state convention was one o the mon harmonious gatherings ever held by the party In the state M B Reese of Lin LnB C 0 |