New-York tribune., 1900-09-08
CROKER HOLDS FULL SWAY
DEMOCRATS PREDICT HE CAN CARRY
CANDIDATES OF HIS CHOOSING
ev The Associated Press.)

Saratoga, ". Y, Sept. T-Richard Croker did
not arrive here this afternoon. and neither did
Senator McCarren, but both expected TO-
morrow. Congressman Sulzer and Henry D.
Purroy are the latest additions to the group of
politicians al the Grand Union. Every delegate
who has arrived predicts that Mr.. Croker has
zhe upper hand in the contest for control Of the
convention. Congressman Suzer is predicting
so-night that there will be little OF no friction
ard AIDES: What friction there is will rebound
10 the good of the party. and will give the peo-
pie to understand that the ticket is the outcome
of vigorous rivalry. and not Ike the Republi-
cans, all slated weeks before
It is said tonight that out Of the $50 votes
3n the convention. Mr.. Croker will control 2T7
This is, provided that Kings County votes as
unit which, it is said, it will do. There are
fwenty-fouE contests noted, and the first district
OF Niagara may have contest. The faction
controlled by Mr. Hill has to its credit 149 votes
II takes 226 to control the convention and Mr
Croker starts OF with los in New York, "a in
Erie. G3 in Kings. 8 in Monroe. in Rensselaer,,
in Queens and in Westminster, a total Of
22S absolutely certain for him. On the con-
trary. Mr.. HIS largest vote from any one
county is Il in Onondaga. Mr.. Hill controls
the votes in thirty-one counties out of the sixty
one in the State; Mr.. Croker controls the votes
Of only fifteen counties outright. while eleven
about equally shared between the two
There are contests in Albany Allegheny, Cat
feraugus, Cayuga Chautauqua Niagara and
Oneida. If Mr.. Croker controls the State Com
Tnittee at its meeting and names Mr.. McCarren,
j. is fairly certain that Croker delegates will be
seated from these counties.
CROKER IN FULL SWAY.
II 3lr Hill controls the committee and Mr.
Mcclure is named as temporary chairman. it is
1F,at
the name Of Mr.. McCaTen will be made in open
convention. and the win OF the committee over
turned. If such thing occurs it will be rather
unprecedented in Democratic annals although
such an attempt was made in the Republican
convention OF 1881 by those opposed to Governor
Cornell In that convention ii was defeated bv
q majority of u. With the overwhelming odds
alleged in Mr. Crokers favor however, the at
tempt could be successfully made in this con-
Vention.
Talk Of the ticket seems to favor as the head
sianchheld and Mackey. If. however stanch-
field should not want to run. Mackey is spoken
Of for first place with Colonel Rowe of Rensse-
laeT, for Lieutenant-Governor. Rowe has a
boom tonight, and it is believed that il is DOS
sihle 10 change the ticket so that Senator
Mackey would be the Attorney General with
Rove on for Lieutenant Governor. II is he
lieved however, that the ticket will be made
For E GGysTn05aI sTAYcHEIEID chemung
For Secretary of statecolone G F. ROWE p Of f Ren.-
For controller--EDwIS ATwArER Of Butch.ss
tarie. "- PALMER OF sehO-
PLATFORM TO BE SHORT.
This is as far as ticket predictions dare 60 tn
night The statement made that Senator GRADY
has drawn an anti-everytbing platform only
three hundred words IN length is pronounce a
pure fabrication. Judge Augustus Van Wvck
OF Kings. has drawn several planks of a pro-
posed platform, and. while IT is intended that IL
shall not be as long the Republican Mat
form, IL cannot possibly be given in less than
twelve hundred words. according to politicians
here.
Colonel Rowe, Of Troy, was the first cand,
Gate for nomination 10 arrive here this evening
conferences is scheduled for to-morrow
morning among the leaders friendly to Ricbars