The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-25
The HEARST BOOMERS BUSY.
CONNERS CLAIMS 200 VOTES FOR
mrs CANDIDATE.

HOM0OuNFNtuu-A NAC
DeIokatIsn and the STATE COmEittee.
BUFFALO, Sept. z.-Ths has boon q busy
day for tho Hearst boomers. All day long
they have been camped on Charles +. Muir
phys doorsill. AL day long the Hon.
FinEey Corners Of Buffalo has boon seeing
delegates and trotting them In before MIR.
Murphy as evidence Of the strength OF the
boom, and all day long the Hearst men
AVE strained their ears at Mr.. Murphy's
ksyhoIe TO Try and find out what Mr.. Murphy
was really thinking about. Every time
q delegation Of alleged Hearst men were
paraded before the Tammany boss and
marched back again to the room OF Mr..
Corners the latter added q few more votes
to tho number he had previously claimed
for Mr.. Hearst. In twelve hours to-day
Mr.. Corners added q hundred TO the num-
Der OF votes claimed for Mr.. Hearst. It
stood at 800 tonight.
Mr.. Corners Is doing tho heavy outside
work for Hearst. Down stairs on the
floor below Max Thmsen 10 doing Tor trying
to dol some fine inside work and meeting
the expenses. Things haven't worked very
smoothly. That the strain Of keeping tabs
on the Hearst delegates and on the Hon.
Charles F. Murphy wa telling on Mr.. Con-
ners was evidenced in a scene that occurred
In the hall this morning. Mr.. q
came rushing out Of Mr.. Murphy's room
after having been sent for and was met by
one Of Mr.. Ihmsen's staff.
MIR. Ihmsen wants to see you at once,
was the message Mr.. Corners got.
Tell Mr.. Ihmsen I can't see him just
now, " said Mr.. Corners excitedly.
But you must" said Mr.. Thmsen's body
guard in a loud voioe
well. l won't" roared the Hon. Fingey
In a o n that could be heard clear down
the hall and brought the Hearst men run
ming from all directions.
Mr.. Corners went into his room and shut
the Goor OF the inner room. Five minutes
later Mr.. Corners meekly followed another
messenger down into Mr.. Ihmsen's rooms
and the Hearst men breathed easy again.
Mr.. Ihmsen sent for Mr.. Corners several
lines after that and Mr.. Corners found it
convenient to go at once TO Mr.. Ihmsen.
The Hearst men carly this forenoon,
while their estimates Of Hearst's vote in
the convention we're soaring. raised the
cry hat money was being used to beat
them. They rave kept it up all day. A
careful list has been kept OF all the dele
gates instructed for Hearst and Of all the
delegates supposed to favor Hearst. They
nave been met at the station az fast as
they arrive by some OF Mr.. Heanst's corps
OF trained workers and they have been
escorted right to the room Of Mr.. Conner
from the station. After .they had got
through being talked to by Mr.. Corners
and had been taken in and shown to Mr..
Murphy they were allowed to roam around
some, but they were ever under the watch
full eyes Of Mr.. Mackey, Mr.. Driscoll or
some OF the other State organizers en-
ployed by Mr.. Hearst. Even with this
careful system OF espionage the He rst
workers didn't seem to feel sure that these
upstate delegates would stand Arm under
the awful ressure they said was being
brought to bear upon them. They said
that each vote in the convention for Hearst
would be evidence Of the incorruptibility
OF the delegate who cast II.
@Mr. Hearst will "a 800. votes on the
first ballot" said Field Marshal Corners
late his afternoon, after it had been de-
cided to raise this cry Of bribery and make
the most Of II. "A second ballot will be
unnecessary. Mr.. Murphy is for Mr.. Hearst,
all reports to the contrary. He has made
no definite statement for publication, but
we expect him to do this after the Tam
many delegation gets here tonight. Mr..
Hearst will walk away with this convention,
even il the Ryan-Belmont crowd are trying
to buy the delegates. They can't get enough
Of the boys to have any effect. OF course
they will get q few, but the delegates elected
in the greater number Of counties are for
decent government. and they know they
will get II II Mr.. Hearst is elected"
Thar Ia a sample OF the ak Mr.. Corners
has been handing out all day when he wasn't
seeing delegates or rushing ACROSS the hall
to Mr.. Murphy's room.
Just before the time for the State com
mittee to meet Mr.. Conners claimed that
Of the fifty members of the State com
mittee Mr.. Hearst was certain of twenty
eight and a little doubtful OF the twenty
ninth. He said that the three vacancies
would be filed by Hearst men. Mr.. Corners,
OF course, didn't hand out along with this
statement the names OF the men he ex-
pected to line up for Mr.. Hearst. You
couldn't knock that out Of any Of the Hearst
cabinet with a crowbar.
One OF the men who has given some
trouble 10 the Hearst bunch OF organizers
Is the Hon. James X. Mcclure Of Syracuse.
Mr.. Mcclure hadn't been found by them
up till late this afternoon. He was to have
arrived here last evening, Mr.. MCGUIRE
was down on the programme Of the Hearst
men TO fll either the place OF temporary
chairman OF the oonv antion or to make the
SE~N ~ III e
Mcclure was to haze carried all OF Onon-
daga county for Hea rst. but he succeeded
in getting the delegates In only one dis
trict instructed for him.. Nevertheless, the
Hearst people have been making much of
the capture OF Mr.. MCGUIRE. All day long
there have been loud calls for him. Ac-
cordinR to the story circulated this after
noon Mr.. Mcclure was to have boa rded
the Twentieth Century train tonight at
Syracuse. The Twentieth Century stops
at East Buffalo only.
In order to see that Mr.. Mcclure got
from East Buffalo to the Iroquois Hotel
safely Andrew Kilgallen, chief OF police OF
West Seneca, was sent to meet him. But
Mr.. MCCLURE wasn't aboard the train. The
Hearst people tried to locate him in SYRIA
cuse and failed. They ave been sending
out kilograms all day long addressed 10
Mr.. MCGUIRE at different pllces on this
part Of h globe, but he raj not arrived
early this evening and IL could not be learned
that any OF the kilograms had been an
swered. In the absence OF Mr.. Mcclure
the Hearst men began to talk OF Lewis
Nixon as their candidate for temporary
chairman, 30 that Mr.. Mcclure appears
to have missed n Of his jobs by not show
ing up on time.
In the few talks that Max Ihmsen has
given out to-day Mr.. Ihmsen has insisted
that he was here simply as a spectator,
Mr.. lhmsen is the chairman Of the State
committee Of the Independence League
That OF course requires him to keep behind
the scenes. As one Of the Hearst mel said
10 wouldn't do af all for kha Trd.n~oI---