The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-09-23
sUPREME COURT JUSTICE HEADS
STATE TICKET OF THE NEW
YORK DEMOCRATS.
OTHER AsPlRANTs WITHDRAW
NOMINATION OF THE SUCCESS.
Full CANDIDATE is MADE
BY RECLAMATION.

situation which at times seemed al
most impossible of amicable solution
the leaders of the Democratic party
Wednesday found a way to unanimous
action, and at 1923 o'clock in the after
noon adjourned without day after hav-
ing nominated unanimously the follow
ing ticket:
For governor, Supreme Court JUS
tice D. Cady Herrick, Albany; lieu
tenant governor, Francis Burton Har-
rison, New York; secretary Of state.
John Palace, Jr., Monroe; attorney
general. John Cuneen, Erie; comp
troller, George Hall, st. Lawrence;
state treasurer. William Muench, Onon-
daga; state engineer and surveyor,
Thomas H. Stryker, Rome; chief JUS
tice of the court Of appeals, Edgar M.
Cullen, Kings, Dem, now an associate
judge OF that bench and the Republic
can nominee; associate justice Of the
court of appeals, William E. Werner,
| Monroe, Rep, now of that bench by
designation Of Governor Odell and the
Republican nominee.
David b. Hill himself presented to
the convention the name Of Supreme
Court Justice Daniel Cady Herrick Of
Albany. Judge Herrick's name was
received with great enthusiasm and in
dorsed with cordial speeches of sup
kpOrt by representatives OF three OF the
I elements whose attitude had been an
important factor in the serious situa-
ton which had formed the subject OF
the conference. A rousing reception
was given to David B. Hill. A notable
feature of the convention was the dis
appearance of all open evidence of the
factional warfare between the Kings
county organization, headed by State
Senator Patrick H. McCarren. and
Tammany Hall under the leadership
of Charles F. Murphy.
Points Of the Platform.
The platform adopted includes q d.
rect personal attack on Governor
| Odell, as we'll as a ~denunciation Of the
Republican administrations; an en-
dorsement of the Democratic national
ticket, platform and resolutions and a
strongly worded discussion of state
and national issues from the Demo
cratic point of view.
The chief participants in the cor
~fererces which finally brought about
unanimous action were David B. Hill,
William F. Sheehan, George Foster
Peabody. Cord Meyer, William s.
Rodie. State Senator McCarren,
Charles F. Murphy, State Senator
Victor ]. Bowling. National Commit
teeman Norman E. Mack, August Bel
mont and Former United States Sen
ator Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy.
Justice Herrick was a compromise
candidate as between Edward M.
Circuit of Brooklyn, comptroller Of
Greater New York, and Edward M.
Shepard. of Brooklyn. Mr.. Shepard
was dropped because of the opposition
Of Senator McCarren and the Kings
county organization, and Mr.. Grout
was relocated by Tammany Hall.
Two factors dominated all the ne
gotiations leading up to the final dis
position of the ticket. One was David
B. Hills announced intention to sim
gle out the strongest possible candi-
date on whom anything like an agree
ment could be reached. The other
was William r. Sheehan's insistence
of unanimous action. Both EXPRESSED
themselves after the convention as
satisfied with the results.
M. Hill made a speech at night
from the halconv of his % in the
Grand Union hotel. A crowd Of dele
gates gathered, on the walk. %serenaded
him with a band and clamored for his
annaaranco