The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-27
CHUCKING OUT THE DELEGATES
CONTESTING HEARST MEN IN
TWENTY DISTRICTS PUT IN.

BUFFALO, Sept 20.-The Murphy-HeaTst
plan to seat Hearst delegates in twenty
districts where contests had been brought,
and thereby gain sixty votes for Hearst in
the convention, was carried through this
afternoon after the committee on con-
tested seats had sat continuously since
10 o'clock this morning.
| II was not until 1 o'clock that a vote
was reached on the first contest, that In
the First ChautauQua district. All day long
the Tammany men had been kept In line
and 40 had the men secured by the Hearst
agents up the State The vote IN the
first contest was p to Fl, practically the
same vote that seated Grady IA the chair
man Of the committee yesterday. The
votes on the other districts varied some
what, the Tammany men gaining several
upstate member to vote to unseat the
Mcclellan delegates from the Seventeenth,
Nineteenth and Thirtieth districts. On the
first two districts the vote was 20 to 10 to
unseat the Williams and Ahearn men.
The vote was unanimous to unseat Percy
Maggie in the Thirtieth and seat the Cowan
delegates. Everybody seemed to think that
Maggie had won by fraud at the primaries.
The closest vote was on the four districts
Of Queens. There vas more interest in
these than any on the part OF the delegates
here, because everybody knew Cassidy was
not told to bring these contests until he
reached here Sunday. He had nothing to
charge except that the police had assisted
Bermel under orders from Mcclellan and
that his men had been kept from voting.
He had no afidavits nor any witnesses here.
The vote to unseat the Bermel delegates
was IS to %. 1t took all the persuasion Of
the Tammany men to get some OF their
upstate allies to stand firm and they lost
several at that. No exception was made
in any district and the Murphy-Hea
forces went right down the line throwing
out the anti-Hearst delegates in seventeen
districts. In the Essex county district, the
Wayne district and the T~hirty-ffth New
York district. where the contestants were
anti-Hearst men. the contestants withdrew,
seeing that they had no show. SO that a
vote was taken in the case of only eighteen
districts.
At different times during the long session
of the committee to-day it looked as though
the Murphy-Hearst combination might lose
the slender margin which they had in the
committee The Tammany men who had
been forced to sit until 8 O'Clock this morn
ing got very restless soon after the COM
mltt9e TeCOnVoneu AL ~ o ClOCk luls InOTu-
ing and kept going out.
Al 1 O'Clock this afterno on Mr.. Sheehan,
who had kept his seat with Senator McCar-
rem and the leaders in the fight against
Hearst, saw that he then had a majority
IL a vote could be taken. but this was impos-
sible, and when it came time for the voting
the Tammany runners had brought in
enough delinquent and the Hearst forces
had a majority.
The NEW Y DIRK CONTESTS.
The committee heard the New York dis
tricts until 3 O'Clock this morning. The
Mcclellan men presented credentials from
the Bureau Of Elections and showed the
! margin which they had certified to over
their opponents. The contestants in these
cases used only the one argument. They
charged that the Mcclellan administration
had turned over the Police Department
in New York city 10 defeat th'ir candidates
at the primaries, that their men had been
thrown out of polling places, that general
intimidation had been resorted to and also
repeating. Each Of the Tammany con-
testants had brought a small supply Of
~afidavits. There was no time for the
Mcclellan men, Of course, to present ahi-
hdNlIS III ICpy W NiNFt IA ah VI NhNAh
characterized the char ges as preposterous.
The talk OF the Murphy men to the commit
tee in these cases sounded exactly like that
of the Hearst men last year.
When the up the State districts we're
reached charges of bribery were freely made
by both sides. The anti-Hearst mel in
most cases h d had scant notice Of a con-
tes', but they presented in numerous in
.ao,ao. o,r;Ag ~ The rotp,,taa ,nf ,opx,aNNiopa
TO show that they had followed the regular
proceeding Of Democratic conventions.
In the casa Of the Second Oneida district,
the Hearst men claimed that the convention
had been illegally called and that they had
bolted. The boilers held their convention
out Of the district, in the Hearst headquar-
tiers in Syracuse. The anti-Hearst men
were headed by Mark Dillon, who has been
the county chairman for years. He said
that he had called the convention in the
regular manner and that the Hearst men
had bolted after a resolution to indorse
Hearst had beer rejected. Mr.. Dillon made
a fierce attack on eX-Mayor Mcclure, whom
he said had entered the pay Of Hearst.
INQUIRE CALLED A CEssPooL.
This political cesspool, " said he, docs
not dare to come to this convention and
present his case. would give all l possess
to get him here and meet him. | repeat,
he is the worst political cesspool in the State
Of New York"
Dillon charged Mcclure with having re-
ceived 5000 before the primary election
and 1000 afterward. He said that he had
promised him, Dillon, the nomination for
Attorney General n then gone down TO
Mr.. Murphy andtold Mr.. Murphy that Dillon
was unworthy Of a place on the ticket.
They say there is overwhelming
Hearst sentiment in the county, said Dillon
That il a lie. In one district, where the
Mcclure people cast fourteen votes they
put it in the papers at l42. That is a
sample Of their work"
THE OUTRAGE ON oUEETs.
The talk was much the same in the other
districts that we're taken up. When il came
to Queens a big crowd surged into the room
to hear what Cassidy was going to base his
case on. The Bermel side had the first hear
ing and showed that Bermel had got a
plurality OF 300 votes at the primaries,
carrying every district. and that the election