The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-13
AFTER DAVID B. HILL
STATE SENATOR M'CARREN IS
 SEEKING LEADERSHIP.
Wants the Honor of Dewocratic Nomination for U. S. Senator. His Friends Charge Hill with
 Deceiving Them About
 the Convention.

dispute David B. Hiil's right to the com plimentary Democratic nomination for l United States Senator.
 | Ills name will be presented at the AL | bany caucus in January. and he and his friends count>on a majority, if not prac- ucally every one of the eighty-two Dem- | ocratic votes.
 l Mir. Mccarrens candidacy is the begin | ming of an organized movement to un-
 horse Hill as the Democratic State lead ] CT.
 1 Greater New York Democratic leaders | will unite in the anti-I1ill crusade and
 that plenty of help will be had also from
 upstate districts.
 | will have hearty cooperation from Hugh | Mclaughlin, James Shevlin,> John L.
 Shea, Bernard J. York and possibly even ] Bird s. Coler, in Kings; Joseph Cassidy mond. They look to Charles F. Murphy
 Daniel F. McMahon. Louis F. Haffen. | John F. Carroll and others in this county
 to swing Tammany into line. l Then Edward Murphy former United
 States Senator whose Rensselaer, dele | gation was kicked out of the State Con-
 venuon; D. Cady Herrick Of Albany; Smith M. Weed, of Clinton, whose dele | gation was also booted through the win dow; National Committeeman Norman E. | Mack of Erie. and many others who | charge Hill with responsibility for the
 deefat of Coler for Governor. are to be asked to join the revolt.
 Already McCarren's packers claim twen- l ty-three Democratic Senators and Assem- l blymen-elect from tAings for the United | States Senatorial nomination. Last night members of the Legislature, and poll will be made also of all those chosen from | above the Harlem.
 McCarren is Silent. When Senator McCarren was asked last night if he intended being a candidate | for the United States Senatorship against | Hill he replied:
 T must decline to affirm or deny the | report. will not discuss it" He was equally reticent when asked If ! he intended to contest the State leader | ship with Hill.
 An intimate political associate of Me-
 Carren, however. authorized The Ameri- can to announce MeCarren,s candidacy. | and in doing so he furnished reasons for
 what had provoked it. This is what he
 said:
 There is not a Democrat in the Great | CT New York who does not hold Hill and his blunders responsible for the Demo-
 cratic disaster last Tuesday. By com | mon consent we permitted him to seize | the reins a few months ago, name his | own ticket and run the campaign to suit | himself. The result shows that he has proven himself unfit for leadership. Hence the movement to have him sup | the United States Senate, which is mere- | ly the beginning of a campaign to wrest
 control of the State machine from Hill; | "The real trouble began several months | visited New York leaders, told them. to
 get together, forget past differences, and
 that he would guarantee. har-
 mony tnn and big u asa told VH5e tse
 Greater New York leaders that the
 convention would be an open one; that | every delegate would be consulted about
 nominees for the State ticket, and that | 4A 40 for ar nf
 men would be presented to the convention
 for the several places on the ticket.
 "Hill insisted that he had no preference | for the Governorship and that he would
 not interfere with the nomination or any
 candidates. We took Hill at his word.
 Friends of Alton B. Parker, Bird s. Coler. | Elliot Danforth, Jacob A. Cantor. Rufus
 w. Peckham, Frank Campbell, Robert c.
 Titus. D. Cady Herrick. Edgar M. Cullen | and half dozen more possibilities started
 on hunt for delegates for their favorites. Hill and Mclaughlin. "While they were doing their level best | to get all the support possible for their l preferences, on a certain day in August | Hill slipped down to Jamesport and con- | ferred with Hugh Mclaughlin. The morn | ing after the American" announced that
 Hill and Mclaughlin had agreed that Coler should be the candidate for Gov
 ernor. Hill caused this story, which was
 absolutely true, to be denied and tried to
  | in which he declared for Coler For answer Mclaughlin caused bis | Brooklyn organ to come out editorially l the next day for Coler. When friends
 of the other candidates went to Hill he l still persisted that he was not for Coler and that their candidates had as good chances as others for the nomination for Governor.
 He told Messrs McCarren and Shevlin personally more than once that, though ho candidate he did not blame them for | standing by him. He assured them there was no truth in the published story that | he was pledged to Coler and told all' ad- mirers of the several aspirants to continue | to make their canvass. When the story appeared that Coler had subscribed $30000 for the establish I ment of permanent Democratic State headquarters with the understanding that he was to he nominated for Governor, | Hill vehemently denied that any such con l tribution had been received. When he was asked if 1t was true that ] he had asked Parker to run and that | Parker had refused, his responses were evasive We are informed that Hill never | preached the Governorship to Parker; | that he never intended to have him nomi- l mated. Parker's selection to the Govern orship would have made his nomination | to the Presidency certain, and that would have blocked Hills path to the White | House.
 The Pretence Kept Up.
 Well. we all went to Saratoga. Hill kept saying: Open conventions: present the names of your favorites, and may
 the best man win. How sincere was this
 declaration was manifested when on the Monday night forty-eight hours before the nominations were actually made. Fill caused to be wired to his Albany organ,
 that Coler would be named for Governor. | Bulger for Lieutenant Governor and Cum neen for Attorney General. A bit of further investigation by news paper correspondents that night revealed the entire slate that Hill had had up his sleeve for the better part of a month.
 HilPs sincerity in declaring for an open convention was shown when he issued orders to Parker. Cantor, Danforth, Her
 rick and other men who had candidates that under no circumstances should their
 names be presented, but that all of the delegates would be expected to support
 his slate.
 Cantor can tell you how brutally Hill
 ordered him out of the race after ne
 had pledged to him over eighty votes. As
 everybody knows, the Hill slate went open convention.'
 Everybody at Saratoga knew how Hill booted out the delegations from Albany Clinton, ReQsselaer. Cayuga and Monroe He got even( with his former associate in the United States Senate, Edward Murphy
 Jr.. for standing with Croker the year be-
 fore against Coler by having his delegates
 from Rensselaer, thrown boldly out. The
 delegates of Smith Nj. Weed who had
 dared oppose Hill for the United States Ssnatorship in 1892 were hurled out into Broadway. Similar treatment was ac- corded to regularly elected delegates from
 Albany, who were friends of Judge Her