The Jersey City news., 1906-09-06
BOSS RULE OPPOSED
New York Democrats Hold Con-
ference In Albany to Discuss
the Situation.
JEROME MAKES AN ADDRESS

District Attorney Says Real Leader
ship Is Nowhere In Sight-Object of
Meeting Declared to Be Antagonism
to Hearst Movement = Congressman
Sulzer Named.
Albany, N. Y, Sept. 6.-Two events
of Importance in preparation for the
Democratic state campaign took place
here, and the city is now buzzing with
political interest First and seemingly
| more important was the conference of
Democrats from many counties of the
state called to discuss the situation in
the party. The central figure of the
| conference was District Attorney Je-
rome of New York.
While most of those responsible for
calling the meeting disclaimed its be-
ing in the interest of or opposed to
| any particular candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for governor, it was
privately conceded on all hands that it
was aimed chiefly to prevent if pos
sible the nomination or Endorsement
by the state convention at Buffalo of
William r. Hearst Several illusions
in the speeches were interpreted as
having no other possible meaning.
Sulzer Named For Governor.
The other incident was conference
of representatives of several radical
Democratic organizations from which
emanated a statement criticising Mr..
Hearst and declaring in favor of the
nomination of Congressman William
Sulzer of New York.
The conference was presided over
by Edward NJ Shepard of Brooklyn
and was addressed by Mr. Jerome, ex-
Mayor Thomas M. Osborne of Auburn
and Mr.. Carlisle. Adjournment was
taken to Sept. % at Buffalo, the day
and place of the state convention. and
resolutions were adopted setting forth
the views of the conference and pro-
yiding for the appointment of a COM
mittee to lay before the Democrats of
the state the principles voiced by the
conference. These resolutions are in
part as follows:
Resolved, That Democrats should
recognize and repudiate boss rule in
every form and especially efforts from
/ any direction to obtain control Of the
party organization by purchase, by in
timidation or by hired agents.
Socialism Opposed.
That the principles of the party re-
qufre unfinching opposition to protec-
tionism, socialism and Imperialism.
We recognize the right and the ability
of the people to regulate and control
public interests in the state, but we
resent any effort to commit the party
to socialistic position or to dictate
the policy of the Democr tic party.
In his address Mr. Osborne asserted
that the agents of a certain s.multi-
millionaire had been engaged in de-
bauching the party in their efforts to
capture the delegates to the state CON
vention at Buffalo from county conven-
tions. He declared that these agents
had stopped at nothing to gain their
end. They had used money, influence.
chicanery and criminal practices in or
der to compel delegates to pin their al
| iCSidute " lltu eLiplUNeF.
The chief feature of the early ses
sion of the conference was the speech
by District Attorney Jerome of New
York, who denounced bosses and what
he called the socialistic trend of the
Democratic party
Mr.. Jerome mentioned no names in
his address. He began by declaring it
as his understanding that the confer
ence was in the interest of no particu-
lar candidacy, sleast of all to dictate
| to or threaten the convention of our
| party soon to assemble at Buffalo,
Real leadership is nowhere in sight" !"
said he, s'and what passes for leader
ship seems to consist Of demagogfc de-
nunciation of existing conditions and
the advancing of vague schemes of So
cialism and paternalism which are es-
sentially revolutionary in character.
Methods of Past Adequate.
"We are not .on the threshold of the
| greatest political awakening this ma
| ton has ever KNOWN marking the be-
| ginning of a new age,' but we are,
| believe, about to return to our senses
and to earnestly address ourselves to
the solution of the difficult problems
confronting US by the methods which
the past has shown to be entirely ade-
| quate to meet the greatest emergen-
! cies.
"Our elections where national politi-
| cal parties are involved have become
little more than ignoble scrambles for
office, in which each candidate declares
how good he will be if elected to-effice
| and yies with his opponents in claim
| ing trust busting and anticorporation
| virtues, not forgetting to emphasize
how warmly his heart beats for organ
| lied labor.
I'm the midst of all this the plain
/ people go about their business Sober
| and sensible, Industrious and prosper
Gus, honest and patriotic, they do their
| thinking quietly and are neither alarm
| ed nor greatly misled by the loud out
cries of the politicians.
Bosses Only "iired Men,
s4The leader has disappeared The
/ boss who has succeeded him is only
/ apparently boss and In reality is but
the hired man of the capitalist whose
sinister influence lies back of party