The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-12
HILL MAY COME INTO CAMP
RUMOR THAT HE WILL RE p1.
GATED WITH THE OTHER
OFFICES
BRYAN RESTED YESTERDAY
VIII Resume His Campaign Mt Fort
Wayne, Ind, Tomorrow-Roose-
welt EnIightening the
Dakofas.

SAHATOGA, N. Y, Sept u-Rtchard
croker controls the situation in the DEM
ocratlc state convention, but just what his
purposes are he has not yet disclosed. He
can name whoever he chooses for the
state offices, for he has the delegates
and hghtfng against him will come To
naught. Never rtne1ess, the prospect is for
hsht, because the friends of Controller.
Coler of New York, declare thew will
nominate him in the convention. even if
senator Hill should desert their cause
There is now strong possibility that
Hill will do this. Yesterday afternoon
Senator Murphy opened negotiations with
Hill through Frank Campbell, chairman
of the Democratic state committee. Can,p-
bell spent half an hour with Murphy.
then went back to Hill and after brief
Talk returned with an answer
1t is understood that Murphy again Of
fered to Hill the privilege of naming the
entire state ticket if he would agree that
the name of Controller Coler should not
be presented in the convention for the
nomination for governor Fiji, it is as
serted, refused the offer, but negotiations
nave not been broken off, and determined
out of the convention
Half an hour before Campbell met Muir
ply, Croker's friends had asserted yehe-
mently that Hill would not be consulted
on any subject, and that the convention
would be conducted as If he were not in
existence.
The count OF noses at the meeting of
the state committee last night showed
that the Croker Murphy forces wifi be
able to control the convention with lot
of votes to spare. Just how many remains
to be settled by the conventions dispo-
sition of the contests. The Croker people
claim 26S votes, Independent of the seven
ty-fiye votes which Senator Maekey
claims he can hold throughout the con.
test With these seventy-five, according
to the Croker process of figuring. the Cro-
ker-Murphy. combine VIII have 800 votes
4 AS, there are only $50 delegates, this gives
the Hill-Coler combination but Ill votes.
HILL NoN-coMMITTAL4
Hill and his advisers will not piva anv
figures but Hill said significantly tonight:
Two can play at the game of counting"
Some of the delegates who are Gained
by the Croker crowd, he said, are on the
HiH-Coler side of the fence.
Frank Campbell, one of FIiIps- chief ueu-
tenants, said the anti-Croker votes would
foot up III. but neither side could go into
details by counties with any degree of
accuracy.
The strength of stanchfeld, 1t develop
ed, depended entirely upon the final de-
cision of the Croker-Murphy leaders. on
~ nine votes are pledged to stanchheld.
while Mackey certainly has 1872
Ihis is the way the convention will line
up, according to the best approximate es-
innate, based upon the claims of both
sides; For Croker, 279; for Hill, III; total.
45O.
Hill was asked tonight If Colers name
would certainly be placed before the con-
vention. He said he thought it most
probably would.
The Chicago platform Democracy de-
clared today, through its officers, that in
case the Democratic convention at Sara
togo nominates John B. Stauchfield or |
any other machine candidate, or any
candidate whose record in the campaign
of 1896 would have to be explained, they
would nominate candidate themselves.
~NOAAAAGA1 L. NAdCh, Ol buudlO, and w.
L. Brown. of New York. are members of
the executive committee, and Jay w.
Forrest, of Niagara Falls, is secretary.
James r. Brown, president Of the Chi
cago platform Democracy of Greater
New York and chairman of the executive
committee. said today at the Hoffman
house:
POSSIBLE SPLIT i
''The Chicago platform Democracy will
not support a machine candidate if one
is nominated at Saratoga by the Demo-
cSats. Neither will it support a man
whose record In the campaign of 1896 will
have to be explained. What difference is
it whether we have Republican machine
candidate or Democratic machine cam
didate to the people of New York? The
Democrats of New York state demand
the nomination of man thoroughly hon
est. one who supported Bryan in 1896,
and one who is not connected with the
organization too closely to be called q
machine man. :
Tammany delegates and shoutars, 1,7O0
strong, starting to Saratoga convention
this morning. filed the Grand Central
station with noise and confusion for two
hours. Last night 300 more departed.
Three special trains. with a total of for-
ty-one drawing room cars, took the
braves" on their upstate journey at
the modest charge of s4.20 apiece for the
round trip.
Special No. was scheduled to start at
$50 a. M, but at that hour hardly
hundred We're in the cars, although the
station was literally alive with them. It
required the united exertions of Senator
George w. Plunkett, John r. Carrons
Commissioner John B. Sexton. Barney
Martin, and score more fea6ers to en-
tighten their bewildered henchnen as TO
what section they were booked for. 1t
was $50 o'clock when special No. l, In
commend of John f. Carroll ard SeI.ator
Plunkett, pulled out.
AS a sample of the completeness OF the
commissary equipment, the store list on
one car, the 'sMineola,', chartered by City
Chamberlain Patrick Keenan, and friends,
consisted of three barrels of Wurzbur-
ger, eighteen cases of wine. four cases
of whisky, 100 spring chicke ems, 100 pinta
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