The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-07
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.JL M A SHORT ONE, HE SAYS.
~ IN CONSIST SOLELY OF ANTS.

,.,.na 70 Vote Then for Mcclure
-. T.mporATy Chairman and mus Get
$3.50 Of the C~red.s,4'. nmit
..oo. Sept. e-SenAtor Thomas Francis
- rsmmany Hal has been here several
-, ana to-day he started a rough draft OF the
"a 70 adopted by the Democratic
-. .cnvrnuon wNeo u aSsetnD1ss here on
$50 SENATOR Grady safd that the present
= - hava che platform Nngularly hrof In
"V u,o Hs does not believe the plat
- brn ore than three hundred words. II
..,.., he said, " heKirleytsEn,
"u.,,asn snti-ulritArt-n. sntStmportal-
~.od a,tt p~Iattisn. In other words. ills 10 be
11,-,n,n, formulated In opposition TO the
s|--c-, National and etste The factt that
S...,,, Grody ia ,reyernR The platform Wis.,
- ,,ry Interesting. for the reason that It IA
80. sv,dsrt that thsC roke r-hurphy-McLaugh-
IT, o., tla Democratic party In the state
.,.yc. ,ba. IL Ia 10 have the mastery over ek-
suato, HI, not oaly at the meeting OF the
-. E,r,mi.tee, which is 70 meet at the GRAND
-, Hon! on Monday evening. but also
- -, ,,rpcra-v Organization OF the oonven-
!, senator GRADY would not now be pro
go, IN. platform II this were not param"untly
- ,be REASON that Senator Grady has been
.,.ry and even personally hostile 10 tho
- =, vol,ert's Roost for n dozen years and
80 behdas. Grady IA Tammsny's orator
"a the official spokesman In public
s.tbe-nss u Richard Croker,
r,,u renor,ed here tonight that ex-I iout-
1ov william Francis Sheehan had secured the
It. nj, Avp state Committeemen and that
!. ,,opo4s4 10 vote these five proxies at the
%.ssr, o, he committee on Monds" evening
a. sh,ahan IL hear, and soul for Hill in this
e,ht and il was Mr. Sheehan Who three weeks
s,o Il, this ,ery spot came within an ace OF
daastips the Croker wing Of the party and
1.,,,g Nayor Nc IIlre Of Syracuse temporary
,hsirrnau OF the Democratic ; tate Convention
n, Iul md Nr. Shechul were convinced that
,h.v hA ~suracient votes In the State
n os1y out be project, but at the last moment
,orr o, The committeeman who had pledged
,hs,r ,utes 70 Ri and Sheehan on The Mcclure
n,opo-,tiou broke away aud the Croker wing
xo, w A vote OF Is 20 IS. one committeeman
Dot JtinS
I~crc,iln, 70 the Information hero tonight
an and sheehAn % not propose 10 be caught
n The same way again and so Mr. Sheehan Is
,.nortad 70 have procured those hve proxies
a. stats Committeeman. and he proposes to
VOTE than IN ne intcras- OF the ain wing and
for aus candidate for temporary chairman
Of he convention, Mayor McGuire. Could Htn
has aerire control = the committee his tenn
pora-y chairman would name a Committee on
Credentials friendly 20 the Hill wtnr, and in
hat way the dozen contests that tho commit
"a. Will ba called upon 20 settle would
bA thrown TO the ain side This
would be tAirt --i1 deleg ates- But, II was
sad 70 night a determined effort VII be made
10 prevent Mr.. sheehan from voting these five
uro1ie-, n IL IA true ust he has them. This
has always ben a severely deb sted question
whether a bunch Il proxies could be voted In this
fashion II has been repeatedly doe at meet
logs Of the Populis National Committee. but
Il was dis style Of doing things In that COM
mtttee which led n - breAk-up OF the Popu-
list Damp and which resulted In the Populists
holdins two natinna oouventons this year.
one 81 sicuI Falls and one at Cincinnati.
II was stated here tonight on excellent
authority that Corporation Oounsel John
Whhcn has been a visitor 10 the home Of John
D sAnchheLc in EhnirH for the last two days.
For a month Nr. Croker and Mr.. Murphy nave
told their friends that either Stanchaeld OF
Edward " Shepard Of Brooklyn or Senator
William Fleming Mackey Of Buffalo would be
nominated for Governor and that the csndi-
dates lame were favorably viewed In the
order that hey were named The Hill people
say that Stanchfeld would never be a traitor
TO his old law partner. Mr.. Hill. and yet stanoh-
Ged for q year has been consUrting with Mr..
Croker and Mr. Murphy and their friends.
Should Mr. Hi end himself In a tight box or
defeated In the State COMMITTEES and In the
temporary organization Of the convention he
would BE- glad. it was said. % bow the knee
and agree 70 stAnChaeld or what he would con-
s,der 10 be a compromise" In that event
Senator Mackey would be nominated for
acknowledgements In response to the de-
na.L q National Committeeman Norman E.
Mack. who. with Mackey's friends. carried the
comfy ~ Erie against Mr.. Sheehan.
.ecAntiaa,e Of the croker wing OF the party
for temporary chairman Of the convention
is senator Patrick Henry McCsrreu Of Brook
.yr he likes Mr. Hill 80 well that he fire.
gl"ut.y AZ meetings Of the Democratic State
C~ot.'l.t'rs told Mr. Hi 10 his face that his
iLyarlahla custom vas 10 lie 20 all Of bis Demo-
cratic Associates, friendly or otherwise, Mr..
Croker and senator Msckey are expected hero
tomorrow or early on Saturday.
II" tac' that Senator Grady In preparing
lte platform on the lines he ~announces, only
so words long, and those or generaliues. has
led some folks 10 believe tina, the Croker wing
l. about TO adopt the Bry an tlctics concerning
Le democratic National Convenuon's demand
Tor TIE free and unlimited coinage Of silver AT
NE rato ~ 10 20 /. At Kansas City Bryan In
ssled With all his power that the National
IonveuLon should declare in specific terms
Tor - silver At 10 10 /. and this "A defance
OF the Wishes of Jones u Ark ansas,
Stone Of Missouri, Gufey Of IN,nnsylvania
1otnson o; Kans.s and Croker, NJ lrpAy. Shev-
IN ana III Of New York. Yet at his raufot-
uoh mslns in Indianapolis he said never a
surd concerning the free silver plank which
through III %instrurl entality WIS put into the
democratic national platform. In other words,
u Is TIE opinion tonight that Senator Grady
nas V!au'0n if 20 adopt the shifty methods
u bryta az Indianapolis Stanchfeld was a
.N~ silver Bryantte In 1904, Shepard was a
r"n Democrat and Il now a fres silver Bryan
IA sh MaHkey IA heart and soul committed
every public uttersnoe he has made during
= Isf -four years 10 Blyan and free silver
dHA ratio Of 10 TO
sAnes sSevlin of Kings. Mr.. MoLauEhliu's
LEI Neutonant, arrived here tonight. lie
20 NerT re'ioeut AS 20 tie Democratic oan-
uHA" Tor Governor 10 be named by the State
on' but he believed that
"Oe sort Of co.1promise would he
.eSsofd and this might mean other stancA-
Ta ot shepard. but more likely Stanch-
81 A. The H!l people still consider him one