Show HI SGEN AND GRAVES HEAD THE TICKET Chosen by Independence Party for President and VicePresident of the United States An Attempt to Bring the Name of William J Bryan Before Convention Conven-tion by Kansas Delegate Nearly Causes a Riot Chicago Tho Independence party it Its first national convention held In this city chose Thomas L Hlsgen of Massachusetts as their candidate for president and John Temple Groves of Georgia for vicepresident Tho nomlilatlon of Mr Hlsgen was made on the third ballot his chief competitors being Mlstprd W Howard If AlabamU and John Temple Graves of Georgia Reuben R Lyon of Now York received a complimentary vote on tho first ballot and William R Hearst had fortynine friends who rated for him on the first two ballots The nomination of Mr Graves was made unanimous all other candidates having been withdrawn The friends of Mr Bryan made an effort to bring his name before the convention and the man who attempted attempt-ed It nearly produced a riot and narrowly nar-rowly escaped physical violence at he hands of the indignant delegates The man wso sought to place Mr Aryans name In nomlnaSon was J L Shepard of Fort Scott Kan Ho did not succeed In his mission for upon icing called to order by tho convention conven-tion and questioned by Chairman Charles A Walsh he admitted that It was his Intention to name Mr Bryan That Wl1StthG flrll rae il1ttlmJ mentioned the name of the Democratic Demo-cratic leader He was promptly 0 0 9 r1 i r 7 I I t I I 111 t r G t I I If 4 s yl WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST ruled out of order by the chairman and under the guard of several ser geantsatarms ho was hustled out of Incensed the hall while some of tho delegates vainly attempted to strike him with fists and one of them swung at him savagely with a cane Mr Hearst the actual temporary chairman was not on tho platform at the second days sea of the opening Lion convention and Judge slolt of the of New York presided Ion Reuben R of ed Ho called at the conclusion commit the report of tho credentials ffuio committee ou that of the tee for organic rules order and permanent tlonThis report named Clwries A ThIs permanent the Wafsh of Iowa as Walsh mention of Mr The chairman received with name was Walshs n escorted to the plat lie was cheers ullon taldng up tho gavel form and outlining tho delivered an address policies or the party read by Clarence platfarlil was The pl York at 620 or New J Shearn unnnhnousjy adollt Qclocle and was convention ad the ed after which Il being at tho 10urned until 8 D m night session that the standard bear era of the party were chosen Chicago Amid loud und onthu slastlc cheering and with Its mom bers showing every sign of loyalty to their new standard of political faith the first national convention ot tho Independence party was opened at 8 oclock Monday night In Orchestra hallThe The main floor of the hall In which some of the largest gatherings are held In this city was filled by the delegates Thera were no alternates The galleries were crowded with a throng which entered heartily Into tho spirit of the proceedings and throughout the night applauded vigorously vig-orously whatever met their approval The entrance of George W Mc Coskerln whom the Illinois delegates dele-gates are supporting for the gubernatorial guber-natorial nomination was a signal for cheers for the next governor of Illinois Illi-nois This outburst had scarcely subsided sub-sided when the arrival of William It Hearst started a delirious demonstration demonstra-tion which lasted several minutes It was thirtyfive minutes past tho scheduled time when the temporary fergeantatarms rapped for order and asked tho delegates to vacate the aisles Milton W Hbward of Alabama took the gavel and introduced Intro-duced Charles A Walsh of Iowa sec ictary of the provisional national committee who read the call for the convention This document declared the purpose of the gathering to be the foundation of an Independence party and tho nomination of candidates candi-dates for president and vice president presi-dent Father OCallalmn of Chicago do livered the Invocation Mr Howard at the conclusion of the Invocation announced tho names of the tern porary officers of the convention Hit mention of the name of Mr Hearst was received with an outburst of applause ap-plause and Mr Hearst when he mounted the rostrum escorted by a committee of three appointed by the chair was given an uproarious welcome wel-come When quiet had been restored re-stored he began his address as tern porary chairman of the convention Following Mr Hearsts speech James II ONeil of Rhode Island presented pre-sented to tho temporary chairman a union label gavel After an address by C A Wlndlo of Chicago tho convention adjourned until 2 oclock Tuesday The committee on rules and permanent per-manent organization which met immediately Im-mediately after tho convention selected se-lected Charles A Walsh of New York as permanent chairman and adopted adopt-ed a rule that no speech from the platform should exceed five minutes In length and that no delegate should lie heard upon one subject more than once I |