The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-18
PUSHING on The SULZER BOOM
ASTOR HOUSE CONFERENCE Or
GANIZES AGAINST HEARST.
Anonymous Promise That Bryan would
stump the State for the Cong sema
should He he Nominated for Gov
ernor COMMITTEES Now to Get Busy.

49, 7
ernor -COmmIttees Now TO Get Busy.
About thirty-fve or forty Tammany men
and several upstate Democrats got together
at the Aston House yesterday afternoon to
boom William Sulzer for the Democratic
nomination for Governor. After discussing
for some time the merits OF what William 4.
Ryan Of Rochester called this fair haired
Henry Clay boy" they resolved that they
saw in the Hearst movement an @insidlous
attempt TO divert the Democratic party
from devotion to its great principles.
They Furthermore unanimously resolved
that the only man who could stave OF said
insidious attempt,was William Sulzer.
Mr.. Suffers stainless record Of seven
teen years as a servant Of the people, it
was resolved, made him just the man to
unite all factions OF the Democratic party,
and every one Of the thirty-fve or forty
persons present agreed to start in at once
to take the Sulzer boom from the hands OF
Coroner Hamburger, its parent. and trundle
II up to Buffalo next Tuesday.
Neither Of the Sullivans was present.
Several members Of the old Van Wyck guard
turned out, however, among them William
Pitt Mitchell. who presided; ex-Tax Com
missioner Thomas l.. Feitner. Maurice +.
Holahan, e~x-Surrogate Ransom, ex-Judge
Pitman and ex-Judge S~chuchman.
Henry B. Martin, secretary OF the meet
ing, read a letter from John D. Crimmins
indorsinR the Congressman. Mr.. Crlm
mins's letter closed with this paragraph;
Politics has a practical side and an idealistic
one. The PRACTICAL side with the issues such
az we have this fall will be more successful,
There is an element in the Democratic party
which menaces the possible success OF the
marty and which has been attracted away
from II for the moment, many giving ALE
Riance to what 10 called the Independence
League, 0S per cent. OF whose followers are
Democrats. MIR. SulZer will bring this element
back TO its former allegiance and lead a united
party to victory.
Edward NJ. Shepard's secretary wrote
that his chief could not attend because
he was out Of the city, but the Sulzerites
declared that Mr.. Shepard had assured
them he would like to see Mr.. Sulzer nom
mated.
William Pitt Mitchell in calling the meet
ing to order denounced both Hearst and
Je rome as political vagabOnds who had
read themsel yes out Of the Democratic
party" In their place the friends Of Mr.,
S,lzer had selected him as the standard
bearer. Sulzer had spent. twelve years
in public office, having served as a State
l~epislat or and as a Congressman, and he
had emerged from his service poor but
pure.
A. Dulin, known as the friend OF Bryan,
told of the Sulzer committees experience
at Albany on September S when all hands
were agreed that the integrity Of the Demo-
cratic marty was at stake in this campaign
Thew had discovered that there were
Hearst's paid a gents at work in every section
trv ing TO control every caucus.
-Sulzer looms up az the logical candidate
~ the party." said Mr.. Dulin. AN the
good that Bryan and Hearst advocate IL
advocated by him and he is a regular tried
and true Democrat"
Cant. Charles Campbell said that HI
|, thought the upstate Democrats who hac
! indorsed the Hearst movement would ever
, vet recall their Endorsement II informed
/, ~ the methods by which Hearst was push
! INC his candidacy. We must have a radi
I cal II we are to win radical support from
!, Hearst" he said, -and that radical is VII
! William E. Ryan Of Rochester said hi
= Wrought a message from the wilderness
: He read a long letter from an UNNAMED
Democrat in Washington who said tina
, Bryan would stump the State ION EIl
. And IL Tammany would back the Congress
man unanimously there would be no pos
: sible doubt Of his nomination.
J had been nominated in 1898 he would hav,
4 beaten Roosevelt"
. A, II. Eastman. vice-president of tn
: Commercial Travellers Antitrust League
i assured the meeting that his organization
! would be glad to see Sul1er nominated.
: On motion Of Themes l.. Feitner, tn
= chairman was instructed to name com
I, mittees on finance, business men, labor
the press and hotels and transportation
vided for to urge Sulzer on State and locs
leaders.
From now until the day Of the convention
the Sulzer boomers will keep quarters ope
a at the Victoria Hotel.