The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-26

learned early this morning that Mr.. Murphy
had put T. G. T. Grain on the COMMITTEES
on contested seats. The three delegates
from the Fifteenth district TO this con-
ventiOn are Mr.. Hagan. Mr.. Grain and
Frank NJ. o'Brien, Mayor MOClellan's
secretary.
Mr.. HagAn had intended all along that
either himself or Mr.. O'Brien should repre-
sent the district on The committee on con-
tested seats. Mayor Mcclellan sent for
Mr.. Hagan and told him to go TO Mr..
Murphy and protest against Mr.. Grains,
selection, Mr.. HagAn and Mr.. Murphy
had the stiffest kind OF a row. but Mr..
Murphy insisted on the retention Of Crainy
and Mr.. Grain, believing that Mr.. Murphy
Is to nominate him to one Of the ten
Supreme Court Justiceships in New York
county this fall, has acted with the Murphy
Hearst combination in the committee on
contested seats.
It has developed from other sources
that Mr.. Murphy has promised these ten
Supreme Court Justiceships about 40
times over here and that nominations
for Congress, Senate and Assembly in
New York county have been promised a.
thousand times over. Everybody is loaded
with promises from Mr.. Murphy.
Take another evidence Of what has been
going on here. Thomas 4. Rush, Mayor
McClellan's former law partner and leader
OF the Twenty-ninth Tammany district.
came out manfully a week or so ago for
Jerome for Governor.
When Mr.. Rush's delegation to this o
vention was to be made up ex-Representa-
tive Francis Burton Harrison called on
Mr.. Rush and asked to be sent as a deleJ
gate from the Twenty-ninth.
Who are you for for Governor. Mr..
HARRISON" asked Mr.. Rush.
oh" replied Mr.. Harrison, I'm for
Hearst and I'm for Charlie Murphy"
Mr.. Rush thereupon refused to send
Mr.. Harrison as a delegate from his dis
trict to this convention. Mr. Harrison
has been here for several days. He in
the State committeeman for the Fifteenth
Senate district. He il in good health
and able to attend the meetings of the
State committee, yet he has turned over
his proxy to Representative Bourks
Cochran, and a. a recompense Mr.. Murphy
is to nominate Mr.. Harrison for Congress-
in the New York city district now repre-
sented by Mr.. Hearst
Unless something in the shape Of a
political miracle occurs Mr.. Murphy and
Mr.. Hearst will be able to carry out their
programme tomorrow and nominate the
ticket which heads this despatch and which
represents the present views Of Mr.. Murphy
and Mr.. Hearst
CONTESTS TO BE CARRIED BEFORE CON-
vRNTIoN.
The opponents of the Hearst-M Murphy
combination decided tonight that they
would take their battle to seat their dele
gates into the convention tomorrow.
They believe that they have been unfairly
treated in the committee on contested
seats. Their Representatives in the COM
mittee, before they nav been allowed to
speak, nave been asked by Senator Grady;
chairman Of the committees: If your dele
gates are seated, will they support the nom
inee OF this ~convention2"
Senator Grady met a. tart answer this
evening in Commissioner William B. Ellison
Of New York oty, for when Senator Grady
put that question to Mr.. Ellison, Mr.. Ellison
replied. I'm answer that question when I
finish the argument in this case" When
Mr.. Ellison finished he turned to Senator
Grady and said:
Now, I will answer your question. Y0k
want me to say that these delegates, IL
seated, will vote for the candidate Of this
convention. I now tell you for them that
IL William R.. Hearst is the candidate OF
the convention they will not vote for Mr..
Hearst"
The programme of the anti-Hearst and
anti-Murphy people in these contests to-
morrow will be, it was asserted tonight.
to submit minority reports in every in
stance. They are perfectly aware that
under the rules Of the Assembly Of the
State Of New York, by which this onven-
ton is guided, their opponents nave the
right to move the previous question, and
they are bound to submit TO it. Never
theless. they still have the right to hand
up to the chairman OF the convention their
minority reports, and in this manner these
reports become part of the Official record
Of the convention.
PLOT TO HELP EARsT
While many OF the features Of this cons
vention nave been peculiarly annoying;
if not actually distressing, even to battered
political sinners, there Is one story which
even the most hardened political repro
bates do not want to believe until corrobora~
ton is actually forthcoming.
The charge is openly made by RESPONSE
bile men, citizens whose OWL personal in-
tegrity is above ~reproach, that employees
Of the Democratic State committee under
Cord Meyer as chairman have for the las0
six months furnished TO Mr.. Hearst's rep
resentatives information by which Mr..
Hearst's representatives could with ease
capture the Democratic organizations in
many Of the upstate Assembly districts.
This matter is to be taken up later on. In
no convention in the last quarter OF a CEN
fury, Democratic or Republican, has there
been such a record OF falsity, treachery.
ingratitude and all the many traits incident
to disordered minds.
AUGUST BELMoNT ACCUSED,
Charges Of bribery are as numerous as
raindrops on an April day. The political
atmosphere OF Buffalo is about az shabby
as it well could be. To-day James C. Ben
nett, Democratic State committeeman for
the Fiftieth Senate district which includes
the counties Of Chautauqua and C~attaraugus.
in a sworn AFFIDAVIT declares that Joseph
Tanning, an employee Of August, Belmont.
tried to bride him TO vote in the State COM
mittee against the Hearst people.
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