The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
CLEVELAND CHOSEN
 TO ROUT PARKER
HE I s TAMMANY's CANDIDATE AND MURPHY'S FORGE
 WILL BACK HIM.
Lays Down Gauntlet to Senator M'Carren-Effort to be Made ct
 Princeton to Find Out if
 Former President will Accept.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
 | Cleveland versus Parker to be the is-
 sue of the fight for control of the Demo- l cratic organization of New York State
 between David Bennett Hill and Charles F. Murphy. With this as the sole issue of the fight, Mir. Murphy is confident that he will be able to control the required
 number of delegates at the State Com
 vention in Albany on April IS.
 He is banking first of all on the popu-
 larity of Mir. Cleveland in Brooklyn to give him control of the Kings county
 delegation, and on the fact that Mfr
 HilPs open espousal of Judge Parker's
 candidacy will cost Judge Parker con-
 siderable percentage of the support ne
 might have received with different man
 as his campaign manager.
 MT. Murphy will leave the city in a few
 days and will remain away for several
 weeks. This is for the purpose of elirni- hating himself from the fight as far as possible. so that the natural ahimosity against Tammany in some of the tip State counties may be reduced to the mini- mum.
 Meantime, however, it has been ar- ranged that Mir. Cleveland shall be visit. ed at his home, In Princeton, for the pur- pose of going over the situation and as- certatning whether or not Mir. Cleveland stands ready to accept the nomination in case 1t comes to him absolutely unsouRiat and without an effort on his part.
 Sure Cleveland will Accept.
 Mfr. Murphy is confident that MT. Cteve- land stands ready to accept the nonina- ton If 1t comes to him in that method. His present confidence is due largely to the tone of Mr. C1eveland's letter several days agosto Representative in Congress denying the statement that he once en- tertained negro as q guest
 MT. Murphy remained at his home an | day yesterday and declined to see any visitors. Senator McCarren. on the other nano' presided at a meeting of the United | Irish Societies of Brooklyn in the Bijou Theatre last evening. and boasted loudly | or his control of the organization and his | ability to elect a united Parker deIera- | lion from Kings county at the primaries | 70 DC held on March g. Norman 10 Mack, of Buffalo was equally outspoken n favor of Judge Parker's nomination. md predicted that every county in the state north of the Bronx would send 'arker delegates to the convention.
 senator McCarren predicted that he would have twenty-eight votes in his fa- 'or at the meeting of the Executive Com nlttee In Kings county tomorrow night 'nd that he would have no difficulty fin loioing his organization at the primaries.
 Tammany Stronghold.
 That Tammany. with it's great strensth VIII be able to make the voters of Brook. In understand clearly that the question issue is not the many who Is to dis rinute patronage fin Brooklyn or who will 'ok after the assignment of policemen nd hremen for the organization. but that
 IS solely on the question of noninat- ! ig TOT the Presidency the strongest can Idate' and above all. man who Ia sIrre carry New York State and place it in le Democratic column. " ( TO this end Mir. Murphy will have fin 'ery Assembly district in Brooklyn a cket composed of Cleveland men. both T the Congressional conventions which 'iect two delegates and two aIternatee . represent them at the National Con- q 'ntion and to select the delegates to inc o SsemDiy district convention, which elecs a 'iegates to the State Convention. As ' e leader of Tammany he will have ro n mculty in obtaining as many men ss ( requires to conduct the fight ana "a tmaries OA the