New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-12
GAYNOR'S BOOM RETIVED.
RIDGWAY STILL HOPING FOR THE NOM
NATION FOR GOVERNOR.
BROOKLYN REGULAR DEMOCRATS IN A MIDDLE
TOWNS SAYS HE VAS BEATEN BY FRAUD
SILVER TO BE SWALLOWED
WITH A GULP.

! SILVER TO RE SWALLOWED
WITH GUIP.
| Justice William J. Gaynor Will return to America
on the steamship Umbra. which Is expected TO ar
rive In port by to-day. II Is understood mat
Senator =. H. McCarren is tire same ship. The
of the Justice has naturally revived the TAX
of a boom him the Democratic candidate for
4 Governor. talk which has somewhat suhsidcd re-
Gently because of the failure of Judge Gaynor to
respond to the message If inquiry which II Is siiL
was sent by Mirabeau l.. Towns and Senator +. h.
McNulty.
/ The perennial Gaynor boomers not able to
shake of the letter which Judge Gaynor wrote
previous TO his sailing. ana in which he pitched into
the plutocracy after the Bryane sque style A prom
incnt Gavnor enthusiast told Tribune reporter
Yesterday that he had talk ID with Senator McNuliy
during the day. and that the Senator. VINO mas
been elected delegate 70 the State convention
/ from the Flatbush District. told Inn that he IN
tended to present the name of Justice Gaynor TO
! the State Convention. The Gaynor man said he
| asked Senator McNulty whether he had authority
! to make the presentation, and the Senator replied
that he going % do IT. authority or no author
/ ity.
The Tribune reporter met Senator McNulty on
the street a few hours later and he denied that he
intended TO present ;he name of Judge Gaynor.
But however that may he. II Is certain that the
Judge will be urged let his name 20 before the
/ convention by some Of MS enthusiastic admirers
! II Is improba Bile that II he should consent I'M
ccuivocab to be a can liGate for the nomination
the Kings County deegation might be captured
for him John Delmlr and Daniel Ryan are known
10 be favorably disposed toward him. and those VINO
are nearest TO Hugh Mclaughlin say that ne is
by no means antagonis:ic to the Judge
1t seemed to be the general belief in Democratic
circles yesterday that Kings County. II 1t does not
get the nomination for Governor. should have mat
for Lieutenant Governor and that Brookiyn man
should be pittcd against Park Commissioner Tim
h4f
mentioned in connection with the nomination for
| Lieutenant Governor are Edward NJ Grout ana
James w Ridgway. Both have been elected dele
gates the State Convention from their respective
Assembly districts Mr. Grodt's candidacy VIII. OF
course not become active until he knows what are
| the desires of his late law partner. Judge Caynor
Mr. Ridgway is still pegging away under great
| difficulty for the nomination for the head or the
| ticket and assumes the attitude OF spurning
les ser nomination. His friends were active III TIE
| Assembly district conventions on Thursday night
and say that they have secured some delegates TOT
him They indus,riously circulated an explanation
TO the effect that the real reason why Wiloughby-st
Is opposing Ridgway for the first place Is that he
| was considered fresh In At once sending mes
sage of congratulation and support to Bryan De"
fore Boss" Mclaughlin had announced what atti-
! tude the organization was TO take. This argument
was used with telling effect among the silver men on
behalf of Mr. Ridgway. p F.. Callahan, who man.
l.
| everything his own way. He turned Michael J. Me-
| Goldrick a ring man. down as delegate to the ju-
dietary convention. Mr.. Callahan was elected uele-
| gate 10 that convention and also alternate 20 MT
Ridgway TO the State Convention and the young
| ex-Assisant District-Attorney VIII present MI.
| Ridgway's name at Buffalo.
There was a three-cornered fight In the XIth
| Assembly District Convention, b. j. York. repre-
senting the ring; T.. Clarence Murphy representing
Mr.. Ridgway. and Mirabeau L. Towns taking up
cudgels for the extreme free-silver forces MT
| York and Assemblyman Guider were elected OH
the first ballot. For the third place an equal num-
| Der OF votes counted for Messrs Murphy
| Towns and Michael H. Hart. The latter was the
| York candidate, and has just been elected SUI
| preme counsellor TO the American Legion or Honor.
| Towns's friends maintain that he was elected but
counted out. As proof, they point TO the fact mat
two more votes were counted than there were
possible DELEGATES On the second ballot Murphy
succeeded in winning. and this was victory lot
Mr. Ridgway Murphy, however. Is known 10 De
friendly to both Judge Gaynor and Mr. Grout
Mr. Towns Yesterday declared b. j. York 10 be
a political Pooh-Bah, and charged that he crowns
| was defeated by fraud. lie said that special
orders were sent up from Willoughby-st. mat no
efforts must be spared TO defeat him. There was
a lively story in town yesterday 10 the erect that
that poet -lawyer had especially desired TO 20 10
the State Convention TO spring a mighty coup
detat therein. His plan was 10 make In the Con-
vention a terrific onslaught on plutocracy III gen.
eral and the Rothschilds in particular BY so
doing he expected to Bryanize the Convention ana
that the delegates would. with one accord, break
out with cries Of Towns for Governor. and then
the Convention was to arise n its power end pro-
claim him its nominee by acclamation- 10 th'hk
that mere orders from Willoughby-st should nave
interposed to prevent the Buffalo Convention from
following the example OF the Chicago Convention
i'm selecting a one-spcech man - ,u
Warden Patrick Hayes will take James d. Bell
rnct ED 70 Vote for both the Chicago ticket and
platform He positively declined YESTERDAY TO say
noted that he has not yet followed Senator iiill's
ana dsep16 the os Of the nsS a
yesterday that Bell would vote as the rest pi thc
Former Fire Commissioner John Ennis. who has
had a knife UP his sleeve for several ! earS t1r
enGrai Enns as snd two Of his friends are
d ieanE from the XIth District Farrell VIM Of
course go with the delegation as secretary OF the
ener2 gnmtS ne as tbe Wife Eeph%n
Terry was ,h 0ny man MU %h0 Of a them eo
medicine IKE the machine Poica RaCRS 'noy
srce, silver in a porfunctory way. But Terry put
up ngh, IN the lst Assembly District Convention
mt st Of the honest money men having droiper OK ~
Of the organization Richard lacey ana T. ID q
sir Terry viii take the stump against Bryan. and
viii carry many FIRST and Third ward Democrats
The Following the delegates selected to ,he
, ,lu O. salmon lid Michael J. Cummings IXth,
| patrick r. Callahan; Vth Henry Newman; vim,
woncr y Rodney: With. Luke ID. Staplcton;
WIKI WITl, John NJ. Gray; IXth. George W Phillips:
| X1Ith' John -. Myenborg; XllIth James Coyic;
| Tivth Richard Clcary jr.: XVIII John G. !ioerH'
XvIth Charles Wild XViIth, Thomas J. kcnna
! XViiIih Patrick J. McKenna; XlXth. Peter nel-
man: XXth. Curtis r Iiubbs; XXis'' John Har-
| rington. Ill, ..s,a,. ror,s
| These are all machine men and VIII tamely regis
| ter ,he will Of Hugh McLaughn. Thomas A.
! Pearsal Almet j.. jerks and 3. Stewart White
! bouse are said to be already slated FOR ludiclary
nominations Things look little dubious for Judge
| clement and Judge Brown. who want to succeed
| Themselves II Brown and Clement or either one,
he turned down by the machine Il Is a safe predlc-
ton that the Shepardtes will either indorse the