New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-25
.r rur SCENE OF THE CONFLICT.


or ADMIN isTRATION INFLUENCE - IHE HALLS
AND THE COUNTY DEMOCRACY.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
RurrAIo. Sept 24.-Roswell r. Flower plainly
ass not DESPAIR of wrestling the control of the Demo-
ersrc State Committee from Daniel Manning de
;s the first of the Democratic leaders to arrive In
Bufalo having reached here from Watertown TINS
.ven;np eff he is here early he means tight,
.a,d Michael Murphy of New-York. reflectively.
q. he looked over the register OF the
Genssee House and perceived MIR. Flowers
name before his own in the DooK.
Mr.. Flower took three rooms for himsef ana
his agents as a base of war. The politicians VINO
talked with him daring the evening SAID tha' no
was evidently in an extremely hostile mooo to"ai"
Mr.. Manning. One of them said that Mr. Flower
s.a "blood IN his eye.D Mr. Flowers inaamed
condition. it was said partly due to the belief
that Mr. Manning had nstigated Democratic anu
sven Republican newspapers to attack hin
Politicians here think that, although Manning
NAV again be elected chairman of the Democratic
state Committee, it will be substantially opposed to
him. They say that Mr.. McCune, who Will be re-
elected as the committeeman from one of the Erie
County Congressional Districts, is secretly nimlcal
10 Mr. Manning and that the same statement Is
true of John Wiley, who will be elected from the
otber district and of other coming committeeman.
Accordingly, although Mr.. Manning may to all
snnsarances triumph over Flower. the latter still
NAV actually have the most influence In the COM
m,ttee which would be revealed If it were neces-
- at the opening of the contest for the Presidency
next year. -
The earliest politicians to arrive from New
York were Civil Justice John Henry
Mccarthy and ex-Alderman Thomas Shields,
who came at noon. They brought the insplriting
news of another split in the New-York Democracy.
This ume il was no "hall" that claimed recogni-
tiou. but the Jeffersonian Democracy. They stated
that with Assembyman Roche there had been reg
parlv elected delegates to the State Convention by
the jefferson Democracy of the Fourth Ward. This
branch of the Democracy had elected an Assembly
man last fall over the heads of the "hall" organl-
cations in New-York They will therefore claim
representation in the State Convention and an
eighth interest in State Committeeman. They
also SAID that their claim for admIttancs to the
State Convention had as sound a basis at least as
that of Irving Hall. because their association had
polled 4, 600 votes Ex Sheriff Bowe and Michael
c. Murphy of the Irving Hall organization, who ar
rived little later exhibited i-feellng upon beng
informed of the claim Of the Jeffersoaians 1t Is
Thought that ex-Sheriff James OBrien's new organ
zation of Independent Democrats will also send
delegation here.
Ex-senator Koch and ex-Coroner Woltman, of
New-York, were also among the arrivals The
Tammany Hall and Irving Hall delegations will
arrive here TO. morrow night. In anticipation of
their coming the hotel proprietors TODAY
were busy getting in cots, sweeping the
markets of provisions and making grange
ments for extra bartenders. John Kelly VIII
sleep in the Tiff House. surrounded by 293
members of TammaDy Hall, while hubert "
Thompson will rest in similar security in the
nit h all
Of the County Democracy. With view of i'm
parting harmonious habits, which may be useful IN
the fall contest, $50 County Democracy and Tam
many Hall members have been placed together III
the Mansion House. There is hardly room lett
.uuengaged in tho hotels of the city. As a conse-
quence the hotel propretors for week past nave
been hiring rooms the delegates outside Oh their
houses. III -
Some of the candidates have rooms at both OF
the chief hotels James Mackin candidate Tor
Controller and State Treasurer Maxwell, candi-
date for denomination, have shown this knowledge
Of the necessities OF political strategy. William
Purcell, candidate for Secretary OF STATE mas
ROOMS at the Genesee, which he Will occupy 10
morrow George H. Lapham. OF Zen ian,
who was the Democratic candidate for controller
10 1881. is now again candidate Tor nomlnatl9n
He viii occupy rooms at the Senesee as WIZ aiso
for Attorney-General III 1851, and now once nlVIe
candidate for denomination. Mr.. Parmentef VIII oe
accompanied by ex-Mayor MURPHY Di 10y o4bn tha
State Administration, which Is said 10 De especl-
ally exertiDg itself against the nomination Oh MI
farmenter.
INFLUENCE OF THE ADMINISTRATIONS
friend of the State Administration states that
it will interfere with the Convention only TO secure
three objects namely TO protect itself from attack
10 Obtain the denomination of State Treasurer Max
WE'LL and to make certain the reelection of Manning
As chairman of the Democratic State Committee
Beyond these objects it is the understanding of poll
ticians here that the Administration will not exert
itself This self-limtation has gwen much encour
10 several candidates who feared that they
vonld be compelled to combat thu
Administration as we'll as their opponents
Notably is this the case with William Poucher can
didate for Acknowledgement, and William Purcell
candidate for Secretary of State. Their mali
strength is in the western part Of the State Th
delegates from Buffalo, aud the remainder Of Ell
County. support both heartily. although TINS Is
district more under Governor ClevelanQs lnnuehc
than any other in the State. MI foucher wa
IL New-York last week, and visiting John Kelly
asked him for the support Of tho Iammanl
Han delegation Mr. Kelly is reported TO hav
ahably replied that the Tammany Hall delegate
much admired him, but they would not give pledge
toaDy candidate until they got inside of the con
vention. At present they were occupying the posi-
ton of contesting delegation, and 1t would D'
dangerous for them to antagomze any of the candi
dstes for Office at this time by pledgDg their sup
port TO others. 1t is well known. however tina
the ancient alliance Of MIR. Poucher with the Tam
many Hall organization will bring him its support
Mr. Purcell for similar reasons may expect tue sup
port Of the Tammany Hall delegates when they are
cnce admitted TO the Convention,
Iii understood here by every one that botn the
ianmsny Hall and Irving Hall deiegatohs VIII ps
admitted to the Convention. Propaoy tn'
ratio Of representation will be the same same
q last year: Tammany twenty-four dele
yates, Irving Hall ten DELEGATES. and the county
Democracy thirty-eight delegatesj total seventy
Two delegates Yet some trouble - anticipated
sasn the tune comes to say which OF these organl