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Show SPLII OHniNTIH Daly and Clark Each Hold a Convention. Butte, Mont., June 20. There will be contesting delegations claiming admission admis-sion from Montana at the Democratic national convention at Kansas Cit3 Two state conventions were held today after a lively time in the state committee. commit-tee. . The convention was called to meet here at noon. An hour before that time the state central committee met to make arrangements. The chairman of the committee.- W. M. Cockrill, is recognized as a Da":y man. The friends of Senator Clark on the committee, including in-cluding those who held proxies, were in the majority. Chairman Cockrill refused to recognize the proxies nd appointed in the places of the absentees absen-tees men known to be favorable to Dalv. John S. M. Neill of Helena, a member mem-ber of the committee, took the iloor and proposed to depose the chairman. The scene in the room at this time v. as wild. A number of deputy sheriffs, under the leadership of Under Sheriff Murphy, pushed their way into the room and attempted at-tempted to eject the Clark people. For a while it looked like a riot. The Clark people stood their ground and the Daly men finally withdrew. When this had been done Chairman Cockrill was deposed by the vote of the committee and Xeill was elected in his place. i Meantime the delegates and hun dreds of spectators had assembled at the Auditorium, which Cockrill had selected se-lected as the place of the meeting. They found the doors barred and the place in charge of a number of deputy dep-uty sheriffs and policemen, acting under un-der the direction of the Daly people. After waiting vainly for an hour they were informed that the convention would not be called to order until 5 o'clock. Before that time the state central committee had met with its new chairman presiding and had selected se-lected the Grand opera house as the regular place of meeting for the convention. The convention was called to order there shortly after 5, and E. C. Day. one of the men who voted for Clark, was made temporary chairman. He made a short speech, stating that this was the first real Democratic convention that he had seen in Montana for years. After the i appointment of the usual committees, the convention adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow. The Daly people, representing nine J counties three of them regular and the others contested, met in the Auditorium Audito-rium at the same hour .". o'clock. Admission Ad-mission w;is by ticket. State Senator II. L. Myers of Ravalli, one of the Democratic members who voted against j Clark in the legislature, was made tem- porary chairman. After the appointment of the usual j committees the convention ailjoLiin. l until s o'clock tonight, when it elected Martin Maginnis, W. M. Cockrill, Governor Gov-ernor Robert i ;. Smith. Paul A. Fusz. S. Hartman and Ir. J. M. Fox del egates t" the national convention. The platform denounces "'in unmeas- 1 ured terms the action of W. A. Clark of Butte in corrupting the late legislature, legis-lature, in assailing the integrity of the supreme court, and attempting to debauch the people of the entire commonwealth com-monwealth as the coilossal crime of the century." Senator Clara's resignation after the report of the senate committee an I tun appointment by the acting governor ia denounced as a "disgrace to the state, a shame to the American nation anci an insult to the senate." |
