The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28

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cratic State committee will not, according
to the custom Of generations in the party's
history, meet to-day and elect its new
chairman. II was said that the new State
committee, which was elected by the dele
gates seated by Mr.. Murphy and Mr.. Hesrst's
committee on contested seats, will not meet
until Monday in New York city to elect a
chairman to succeed Cord Meyer, Jr. The
memory OF man runneth not back to the
time when the new State committee has
not met Immediately after the adjourn
ment OF a convention to select it's new chief.
Usually the new chairman Of the COM
mittee has been elected before the delegates
to the convention leave the hall after adj
journment.
OVER CHAIRMAN.
The trouble in the present instance. II
was made known to-day by those familiar
with the situation, Is that Mr.. Murphy has
promised Mr.. Meyers place to two eminent
and distinguished Democratic statesmen,
Fingy Corners OF Buffalo and Packy McCabe
OF Albany.
N KINKS RE EARNED THE HoNoR
Fingy Corners insists that he ought to
have the place OF State chairman for the
reason that on June 7 he made a tour Of the
State in an automobile rounding up State
committeeman for the work to be performed
hero. Mr.. Corners made this tour in behalf
Of Mr.. Hearst, and was the go-between
between Mr.. Murphy and Mr.. Hearst in
carrying out the programme to slaughter
the Democratic organization Of the State.
Conners also declares that even before June
7 he, in an interview in London, declared for
Mr.. Hearst, and Mr.. Conners's friends add
that he ia entitled to the place OF chairman
of the Democratic State committee because
ever since last winter he has known and
carried out Mr.. Murphy's plans in the inter
est OF Mr.. Hearst.
M'CABE's CLAIM TO THE HONOR.
Packy McCabe's friends. though, still on
the field here, insist that he ought to be
made chairman because he has been the
real brains Of the Murphy Hearst Corners
combination. and that had it not been for
his keen political understanding all the
brutal work OF the committee Of contested
seats here would have gone for nought.
Packy's friends supplemented their state
ments by pointing out that it was only at
l o'clock on Tuesday morning OF this week
that Mr.. Murphy, Mr.. Hearst and Mr.. Con-
ners could breathe a sigh Of relief and an
nounce that Mr.. Hearst had secured the
goods" by which control Of the committee
on seats would result.
In seating the contestinR delegates manu-
featured by the Hearst uTphy-Conners
combination Packy's friends, further
more, are not backward in saying that had it
not been for him the State committee could
not have been captured eve by that slende
majority Of "a to %, which carried with il con-
control of the committee on the contested
seats and the sitting OF sixty delegates in
place OF delegates who had been legally
elected by majOrities ranging from 70 to
3,4OO.
Packy's friends, in their contention,
also, asserted to-day that while Fingy
Corners may have performed some ser
vice in capturing State committeeman
and delegates for Hearst in rockribbed
Republican counties in the western part
Of the State, Packy had been Charles F.
Murphy's chief adviser in pointing the
way by which Mr.. Murphy and Mr.. Hearst
could turn the trick here and secure con-
troll of the State committees and COM
mittee on contested seats, which was the
key 10 the situation. In other words,
the strife between Fingy Conners's fr n
and Packy McCabe's friends for MIR. Meyers
goloshes az State chairman became so
Bitter to-day that it was predicted Mr..
Murphy will have to rely upon the con-
centrated wisdom of Representative Cochran
and Senator Grady in directing him in
the gentle art Of breaking promises.
CLEAN SWEEP IN STATE COMMITTEES.
Friends OF the Murphy-Hearst combina-
ton here said to-day that there was to be
a clean sweep in the State committee.
That won't bother Cord Meyer much,
for Mr.. Meyer said on leaving town that
he would be glad to be relieved Of all re-
sponsibility in the approaching campaign.
years has been secretary Of the committee.
echoed MIR. Meyers sentiments. The
Hearst Murphy people said that they
we're to have a new treasurer in place Of
William +. Balkan OF Rochester. They
added, a more handy man. They declared
that Balkans methods are old fashioned.
They insisted that he was a back number.
and that tho new treasurer must be ION
to his job until election night"
The Hearst-Murphy people said that
they would like to have Perry Belmont
OF the First district remain on the com
mittee. for the reason hat IL was known
that Belmont is probably one OF the most
adroit and sucoessful students Of political
profundity since Thomas Jefferson time.
Joseph Cassidy il to remain in his place
for the Second district because the twelve
legally elected delegates from Queens
county were turned out OF the convention
by the Hearst-Murphy committee on con-
continue in his old place as State committee
man for the Sixth district for the reason that
Senator McCarren, now the complete
master Of the Kings county Democratic
ORGANIZATION, mas announcer man IOr MT.
ShevIin's place. The Hearst-Murphy peo-
pie are to elect State committeeman in the
Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Thirty
first districts, three places made vacant
by death. There will be a nucleus OF real
Democrats in the State COMMITTEES, and il
was said Of this contingent to-day that
they know their business, Those who eX-
pressed these sentiments did not care to
speak Of their political significance.
IT WINS A HARD FIoHT
Anybody who imagines that the Murphy
Hearst combination accomplished their
aims in this convention with ease should
nave been on the ground and taken a hand
in the shindy. At no time until 1 O'Clock
Tuesday morning were the Hearst-Murphy
people sure Of winning. The opposition
was so strong and so calamity led and so
deep was the modification and humiliation
over the prospect OF handing the Demo-
cratic organization over 70 Mr.. Murphy
and Mr.. Hearst that IL was fight, fight, fight
every hOur Of the day and night. The fact
that Mr.. Hearst was nominated by 300
votes, or 81 more than was necessary TO a
choice. must be coupled with the statement
Of Democrats here to-day tina sixty Of these
votes were the result Of work done by the
Hesrst-Murphy COMMITTEES on contested
seats and that, according 10 the best politi-
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