New-York tribune., 1900-05-31
HILLS HOPE OF SUCCESS
MURPHY AND M'CARREN SAID TO BE
WITH HIM.
THE FIGHT AGAINST CROKER GROWING
IN INTEREST-RUMOR ABOUT
PERRY BELMONT

IN INTEREST-RUMOR ABOUT
PERRY BELMONT
| Over the issue Of whether the delegation to the
| Kansas City Convention shall go instructed for
| Bryan or not Senator Hill and Richard Gro
ker will fight for supremacy in the State organi-
! zation. There are $50 delegates to the State
| Convention. OF this number Tammany Hall
| will have 105. and these will vote to a man as
| Croker directs. and he has declared for instruc-
! ton With this nucleus, the friends of Mr. Gro
| ker believe that he can get enough upstate
! delegates to give him majority. There were
| those last night who declared that Hill would
not fight and that Croker would be allowed to
win by default. On the other hand since Mr.
Croker's declaration in favor of instructing the
delegates, Mr.. Hill has been exceedingly active
and those who the inside last night de-
clared that If Hill should fght-and friends close
| to Mr.. Hill said that he would-it would be
pretty struggle. with the result close.
Some developments yesterday show that Hills
activity has not been without result and that
from conditions which at the outset appeared
to be hopeless he has organized a force with
which he can make rousing fight. Hill will
have the support of the Kings County deega-
ton In the convention. This became known
yesterday after Senator p H McCarren. of
Brooklyn. representing Hugh Mclaughlin. had
a long Talk with the ex-senator. There are
sixty-three votes in the Kings County delega-
ton. OF this number fifty-seven will vote with
Hill and six-these votes being controlled by
Senator Coffey-will stand by Croker. For some
time the Kings County organization has acted
with Tammany in all political matters. There
was time when Hugh Mclaughlin followed
Hills standard. but when Croker got control of
the city the Kings County organization, for
reasons of practical self-preservation. and in
order to get recognition and patronage, was
compelled to go with Croker This reported sew
ering of connection with Tammany and the
return to the leadership of Mr.. Hill would in
dicate that the ex-senator has re-established
relations of satisfactory nature with Nc
Laughltn and the Kings County delegation
1T CAUSES SURPRISE.
The rumored desertion Of Tammany by the
Kings County organization and the alliance with
Hill caused some surprise yesterday, but more
astonishment manifested when it was an
nounced on good authority that ex-senator
Murphy. of Troy, who time ago entered
into an alliance with Richard Croker to defeat
Hill as State leader, had broken loose from
Croker and had gone to Hill. This fact be-
came generally known yesterday and was much
commented upon. There nine delegates
from Columbia and Rensselaer, counties, and
they will be with Hill. it is said, Murphy is.
few words The antagonism between ex-
Senator Murphy and Louis F. Payn, ex-State
Superintendent of Insurance. in the Troy dis
trict. has always been of the bitterest kind.
Payn when in power able to defeat Muir
ply time after time in Troy. When Payn
tered into the contest to retain his post as
Superintendent of Insurance. Murphy, who had
deserted Hill and thrown his forces to Croker,
went to Croker and said: Croker, Payn and
lolool
district, and don't want the Tammany Sena-
tors to vote for Payn." Mr.. Croker, it is re-
ported, said frankly that it wasn't a question of
the individual. but the good of the organiza-
ton. and refused to pull off the Tammany Sena-
tors who We're notoriously for Payn. This en-
bittered Murphy. and so his detection. it is
said, may be accounted for.
At the famous meeting of the Democratic
State Committee held at the Hoffman House.
Croker's dethronement of Hill as State leader
was brought about by the help of Murphy and
Senator McCarren. Now both McCarren and
Murphy with Hill. The test on that oc-
casion arose over the seating Of a member of
the State Committee from Munroe. The factional
troubles in Munroe County are chronic. There
are two factions there which have been at war
for years. and now the trouble has broken out
again. The question upon the occasion re-
ferred to was whether Hill man or a Croker
man should be seated The contestants were
the Croker crowd. By the aid of the votes of
Senator McCarren and ex-senator Murphy
Croker's man was seated. This demonstrated
that Croker was in control of the State Com
mittee which is the party machine.
The trouble between the factions in Monroe
has broken out again. and at the coming State
Convention it will be aired more There
are several other contests up the State, so that
the domination of the State Convention means
more than question of instruction of delegates.
There are fifty members of the State Committee,
one from each Senate district. The delegations
to the coming State Convention will elect new
members of the State Committee. Both Hill and
the friends of Mr.. Croker announcing that
they will control majority of the committee to
be elected. 1t generally conceded last night
that it going to be a tight squeeze which
ever way it went.
Ex-senator Hill had long talk yesterday
with Perry Belmont, Elliot Danforth Frank
Campbell, Anthony N. Brady, Senator McCar-
rem and other prominent Democrats. After
these conferences 1t was announced that ex-
Assemblyman John Norton of Troy would be
temporary, and Elliot Danforth permanent
chairman of the coming State Convention The
State Committee will meet here the night before
the convention at the Hoffman House, and make
final plans for the convention. Ex Senator Hill
will open headquarters in the Hoffman House
next Sunday, and make rousing fight to round
up delegates.
1t said yesterday that Perry Belmont
would be named to succeed John F. Gaynor as
treasurer of the State Committee.