The sun., 1900-08-27
MARE'SNEST M'GUIREFOUND
DEMOCRATS AMUSED BY MS SRA
TIONERY DISCOVERY.
Chairman Campbell Says That MIR. Murphy OF
Any Other Member OF tho Executive Com
mittee Had the Right TO Use Its Omoiai
Letter Paper-some History Recalled.

mtttee HAD the hIGht 10 Use otuctai
Letter Paper-some History Recalled.
Democrats hereabouts were amused yester-
day over the discovery Of the Hon. James X.
MCGUIRE. Mayor Of Syracuse and chairman OF
the Executive Committee Of the Democratic
State Committee, that somebody in New York
city had sent out invitations on the official
letter paper Of the committee to upstate Dem
ocrats to come here and consult with other
Democrats. Mayor Mctiuire says that he Is
coming to New York 10 make an investigation.
Democrats friendly TO Mr. Croker, Nr. Murphy
and the Kings county Democrats are said TO
have committed this unholy offence
Chairman Frank Campbell Of the State Com
mttee seemed TO have taken the matter In
the right spirit and says that II Mr.. Croker
or MIR Murphy or any member Of the Executive
Committee used the letter paper Of the COM
mittee IL was his right and province so to do.
1t was said that Mr.. Mcclure IL taking himself
too seriously The members Of the Executive
Committee appointed by Chairman Mcclure
himself are Mr.. nil. Mr.. Murphy. Mr..
Croker. Mr.. Mclaughlin. Elliot F. Dam
forth Perry Belmont. John Whalen, Ar
thur A. Mclean. Conrad Diehl, John l..
Shea, Jacob Gerllng. William +. Grell Frank
ID. Creamer. Charles y. Buleer. John j.
Kennedy and Thomas H. Dowd. According
party CUSTOM anu uhdEt any VI
these members has an undisputed right
to use the letter paper OF their own
committee. either for political or personal
communications In times past 1t has been
known that the Executive Committeeman have
used the letter paper of their own committee
for business social and all sorts Of uses. not for
getting even to write TO their very best girls on
this paper II they felt disposed to doeo. Nobody
ever discovered mares nest IN this before MIR.
NJ. .tNt nlayl akFa ln mi
Then Mayor NlcGuire's friends suddenly
discover that the letter paper OF the committee
York in the hope of converting them to the
wing Of the Democratic combine All Demo
crate familiar with such matters agreed yes
terday that such a proceeding was entirely
legitimate and within the strict code OF fac.
,ona Es,%re Tssse ec1ll1d
Mr, Danforth, Mr. Mcclure and Mr.. Camp
bell engaged in a conspiracy TO name Mr.. No
before the delegates to the convention had
been elected ana fully q month before the con-
vention was TO assemble This step was oon-
and none knew this better than Mr.. Hill him
self who has attended every state Conyention
amazed when Mr.. tiill attenp ted 10 Jam through
the meeting Of the State Committee Mr.. Dan
porary chairman OF the convention. In no
way had they been consulted IL was Just a
plain. ordinary subterranean am trick. ccord-
was defeated Yet Mr. McGure's friends
at the Hoffman House on Saturday were as
founded because members of the Executive
Committee had sent invitations TO Democrats
up the State to come here and aid in move
ment to make Senator McCarre1 OF Kings
temporary chairman Of the convention.
I. Why shouldn't Senator McCarren become
an asplrantlfor this honorable place Just as
well as Mr Mctiure?. was the question putforth
sun was the response. Senator McCaren
has been Democratic warrior since 1882, long
before Mayor McGuLre had put on the ,sTaddlns
services to the Democratic party have come
IN for marked recognition In Brooklyn. Wash
Finally. all Democrats agreed that Mr.
Croker and Mr.. Murphy and their friends on
the Executive f2mmittee had quite as much
rary chairman Of the convention As Mr. HILL
William +, sheehan, Mr; Campbell, Mr Dan
tempt m ' to elect ft Mr.. IT, Mcclure at Saratoga by
surreptitous methods. There is good deal
of buncombe and humbpg going on in both
Just at this time, 1t couldn't help, be other
wise when every man Of the seven;
s best Efforts to have b
financial plank inserted in the national plat
form. In word. the Democrats. not only Of
humbussnG and fraudulent, campaign, This
Mcclure mares nest IL merely an episode. 1t
would have been all right b hed bdd 99t h Tc
temporary chairman Of the convention con-
trary 10 the custom Of the Democratic party
in the State for sixty years and more. But II |
failed and now, forsooth. McCiuire's friends |
are greatly disturbed over an effort TO select |
Senator McCarren temporary chairman OF the |
convention the night before the convention |
IS to assemble, which is according TO time hon |
ored party methods.
evening that the State Committeeman who |
refused on Saturday to pledge himself for |
Senator McCarren for the temporary chair |
OF the State Convention, as was told |
in THE Sun OF yesterday morning. was Mr.. |
Borst of Amsterdam
The Democrats also added that all the talk |
Of compromise in the Democratic row came |
from the Hill faction Of the party. |
and they said that the experience OF politicians |
who have known the men for years had been |
that when Hill was in fight and there was talk |
Of a compromise II usually meant that Mr.. |
Hill himself was ready To accept any deter
mnation which the other side might reach