The sun., 1904-04-18
HILL is BOSSING EVERYTHING.
NAMES DELEGATES AT LARGE,
ALTERNATES AND ELECTORS

tiOn to Adopt the Platform on which
Parker VIII Enter the National Conven.
tion rs New YOrk's Candidate for Presi.
dent-Tammany VIII Fight Against In.
structiOns Democrats OF Many Other
states waiting for New York 10 Speak
Parker and His Friends. Except
Hill. Wanted to Leave II for the Ma.
tiOnal Convention to Formulate tho
Issues-Hill Ignores His Pledge to
Murphy and Is Determined to Elect
New state Committee-David b.
Hill. Edward Murphy. August BEL
mont and James W. Ridgway to BE
Delegates at Large TO Ct. Louis.
ALBANY, April 17-Ex Senator David b.
Hill ia complete master OF the situation
here He has not only named tho dele
gates at large, but he will name also the
alternates and the electors, and, as q final
chapter, late tonight he has overridden
all opposition and will compel tho Demo
cratic State convention, which assemblies
in Harmanus Bleecker Hall tomorrow, to
| send forth the platform upon which Chief
Judge Alton B. Parker will enter the Demo-
cratic national convention in st. Louis as
| New York's candidate for the Presidency.
| This decision was reached after an ex-
| tended conference In Mr. Hills apart
| ments at the Ten Eyck Hotel. There were
present at this conference, besides Mr.. Hill.
ex-United States Senator Edward Murphy.
Jr., Of Troy: ex-Lieut, Gov. William F.
Sheehan and Senator Patrick Henry MoCar-
rem, the Democratic leader of Kings county.
| Leader Charles F. Murphy Of Tammaly
| Hall was not invited to participate In -the
conference any more than Mr.. Murphy
| was invited to name the delegate at large
to which the New York county Democrats
are entitled.
As a matter of fact. Mr.. Murphy has
been treated here in the same fashion as
the contests put up for William r. Hearst.
The Hearst contests will be flung out OF
the window tomorrow without the slight
est ado, and Mr. Mnrphys views as the
head of the leading Democratic organiza-
| ton Of the United States and the one which
furnishes the Democratic majorities In
New York State have not been requested
in this all important campaign In this all
important Presidential year.
TAMMANY WILL PUT UP F1dHT
Mr.. Murphy, however. does not seem to
| be yery much disturbed, and he and his
Tammany orators are preparing tonight
| to give the Democratic State convention
n sample tomorrow Of what they can do
in the way Of kicking But they are kicking
| against a stone wall Mr.. Hill will beat them
in all of the details Of th& conventions
work. Then Mr.. Murphy will fight on and
will carry the fight into the national con-
! yention at ST. Louis. Neither he nor his
followers are daunted over the outlook
Ever since Judge Parker's name began
70 be mentioned as candidate for President
manv Democrats have believed that the
Democratic State convention, which IL
only to elect the delegates at large, should
not enunciate the principles or policies
on which Judge Parker should 60 before the
convention at St. Louis. They had believed
that the Democrats from all parts OF the
country, when they assembled at st. Louis
should be left to make up the platform
and in this opinion such warm friends of
Judge Parker az Mr.. Sheehan and Mr.
McCarren have conceded. But at every
step thew have been met with the opposition
of Mr.. Hill, who likes to write platforms
and who has made failure Of most OF
| them.
WHAT THE PLATFORM Will BAL
The grave question all day, therefore.
has been: Shall there be platform or shall
there not be platform? and Mr.. Hill. in
order to enforce his views. decided to 20
through the form OF a talkee-talk tonight.
| As a result, the convention tomorrow will
sdopt a long series Of resolutions which
are in the nature Of a platform and which
will declare that the Democrats OF tho
Empire State favor a revision OF the tar1f
and are opposed to trusts. and so forth
and so forth In fact, it is one OF those
tuppenny platforms which every schoolboy
has read and whose issues are hackneyed
and which give no striking point around
which the Democrats Of the country can
rally. Instead of real, live issues, in place
of issues that would command the judg-
ment of thoughtful people, the convention
il to have a platform OF words, words,
words. and nothing more.
II WAS declared tonight that Judge
Parkers friends are keeping in reserve ma
tional issues which will be brought before
! the committee on resolutions OF the Demo-
cratic national convention. 1t was said
also that the real purposes OF this con-
yention are to instruct for CHIEF judge
Parker and to 80 copper rivet the delegation
of this State for him in the national conven-
ton that the Democrats Of all other States
will take heart, and in succession follow In
the footsteps Of New York and instruct
their delegations for Parker. Tho wisdom
of such a policy will be shown at St. Louis.
rAMMANY DEMANDS REcooNITIoN.
At ii o'clock tonight Victor ]. Dowlip 4
for Tammany, President Cassidy Of the
borough OF Queens. President Haffnn OF
The Bronx and MIR. Muller for the borough
of Richmond walked into Mr.. Hills apart.
ments at the Ten Eyck and demanded in
the name of the Democratic voters OF those
four boroughs that they be given dele
gate at large. Mr.. Murphy had not been
l,consulted as to the selection OF August
Belmont, and Mr. Hills visitors said that
they did not propose TO be treated In such
fashion.
MIR. Hill, until nearly midnight, talked
over with his friends the demand OF Tam
many Hall for delegate at large. an alter
nate delegate at large. and an elector at
large, and it was decided to refuse Leader
Murphy's request.
Senator Dowling and the representative
of The Bronx, Queens and Richmond
r <Is..u IL s,sN.a.