New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-17
MURPHY TO FIGHT ON.
To Battle against Instructed Dele
cation an Contention.

Charles F. Murphy, following the meeting of
the Tammany executive committee yesterday
afternoon said:
My mind has not changed; I am still op-
posed TO sending instructed delegation 10
the national convention
''will YOU make a fight in the State conven-
tion against Instructions he was asked
Il do not that there is anything else TO
do" answered the Tammany boss
Mr.. Murphy's friends said last night that he
would carry the fght against Hill and Parker
to the national convention, and say to the dele
gates there that, no matter how good a man
Judge Parker is he cannot win so long as it is
known that he is the candidate of David b. Hill
and August Belmont
All the Tammany leaders at the Wigwam
yesterday said they would stand or fall with
their leader and that the Hin men would know
that they had been lighting before Hills pro-
gramme was jammed through a ST Louis.
While the candidates as delegates from
Congress districts from this city to the ma
tional convention have not been announced. II is
a safe guess to say that the list Will include
Charles F. Murphy W. Bourke Cochran. Harry
Payne Whitney. ex-senator Charles A. Towne.
Mayor Mcclellan. Borough President Haffen of
The Bronx Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner. Senator
p J. Dooling. John J. Delany. Congressman
Timothy ID. Sullivan. Congressman Francis Bur
ton Harrison. Henry d. Hotchkiss and Daniel F..
Cohalan.
At the meeting of the executive committee yes
terday the district leaders handed in the names
of two delegates and two alternates with the
understanding that from this list a committee of
five. appointed yesterday. will name two dele
gates and two alternates TO represent the va
rious Congress districts. This committee con-
sists of Dock Commissioner Featherson Senator
P. J. Doolng, James ]. Martin. Borough Presi-
dent Haffen and Alderman Timothy p Sullivan.
The committee will have its list ready to submit
to the State convention tomorrow. The names
submitted to the committee of FIVE yesterday by
the district leaders are merely suggestions. and
cannot all be included in the final selections as il
takes two three Assembly districts to make a
Congress district.
Charles +. Murphy and about twenty-five dis
trict leaders will leave the Grand Central Sta
tion on the ] o'clock train this afternoon for
Albany. The organization proper will not go
until tomorrow morning. The first special train
will leave New-York at $50 o'clock and the
second will follow fifteen minutes later. The
first section will be in charge OF Senator George
w Plunkitt. while Senator Barney" Martin
trains will afford accommodations for 4S0 dele
gates and alternates. The Tammany headquar-
ters will be at the Ten Eyck. The committee
on transportation is made up of Senators Plum
kilt and Martin and Matthew F. Donohue.
The Tammany men will meet In caucus before
the convention is called to order. and adopt the
unit rule.
After the convention has effected its perma- :
nent organization. Senator Victor j. Dowling
will speak against any resolution instructing the
lowed by Congressman Cochran and ex-senator
ToWne.