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

There is one member from each Senate
district. Under the reapportionment law,
which provided for an extra Senate district,
the committee will be composed Of ffty-one
members.
HEARST REFUSED NOMINATION.
BUFFALO, Sept. 27.-The Democratic State
convention adjourned this morning at 4
o'clock in a brutal ainstorm. Somehow
this word brutal seems to have been the
one most used by all interested in this
convention. Perhaps the last brutal act Of
this convention was it's refusal to make the
nomination OF William r. Hearst unanimous.
This refusal was one Of the most marked
features OF a convention which will long
be notable. There is no record that any
Democratic State convention in the annals
Of the party in New York State ever re-
fused a unanimous nomination before.
Democrats who have attended every
State convention Of their party since wal
times said to-day tina no matter how bit
ter the struggle, no matter abovt the thous-
ands and thousands Of epithets hurled in
preliminary passionate fractional dispute,
the winner in a State convention has always
been greeted with an Official unanimous
nomination.
''f~pO NSAACokANOANC "ACoO ~
ness It is to be familiar with such matters
and who have had opportunities for a life
time to be present at all kinds Of conven-
tons, Republican and Democratic, said
to-day that they could not r~ecollect when
any kind Of a political convention in any Of
the States in the Union had refused the
winner in a convention a unanimous nomi-
nation. In the hurry burly rush, whirl, bois-
taro.nunaaa tnr1tlinaaa and rfOfOtna aranaa
OF the convention there was not an oppor-
tunity to ascertain just why Mr.. Hearst's
nomination was not made unanimous.
The explanation came to-day when
inquiries we're made of many Democrats
interested in this convention and a COM
posite interview with them ia herewith
appended. This interview for obvious
reasons cannot give the names Of those
who gave il. but it il from Democrats who
for the last six days and nights have worked
twenty hours out of twenty-four to pre-
vent Mr.. Hearst from becoming the can
didate OF the convention, and to prevent
Charles F.. Murphy of Tammany from
turning over the Democratic State organi-
zation to Mr.. Hearst. The interview is
as follows:
THE EXPLANATION
-Nn&lrT0An NIXON gave the convention
plenty OF time for any delegate to rise
in his place and move to make Mr.. Hearst's
nomination unanimous. Mr.. Nixon also
gave the convention plenty Of time for
Mr.. Hearst's agents to scurry around and
poke one of their men up TO demanding
that the convention make Mr.. Hearst's
nomination unanimous. We all observe
the evident desire OF Mr.. Nixon TO bring
this about. Evidently Mr.. Hearts, agents
had been informed as to what wouh be
the result if anybody attempted to make
Mr.. Hearst's nomination unanimous. Mr..
Hearst could not have been made the unani-
nous choice Of this convention. Any
delegate who attempted it would rave
been confronted with the fiercest opposi-
ton, and this could have had but one re-
suit, the humiliation Of Mr.. Hearst and
the greatest sort Of a scandal in the con-
~vention. A motion to make Mr.. Hearst's
nomination unanimous would have been
met by a volley Of objections, first from
delegates from Tammany Hall. who nave
had M sympathy with Mr.. Murphy's con-
duct; second, over one hundred dele
gates from upstate counties would have
jumped to their feet and protested against
making Mr.. Hearst's nomination unani-
nous. They would nave lone this on
the ground that Mr.. Hearst Is not a Demo-
crat. The leaders opposing Mr.. Murphy
and Mr.. Hearst in this convention had their
people we'll trained. Mr.. Hearst's agents
learned Of what was up and they had to
be content with Mr.. Hearst's bare nomina-
ton"
STATE COMMITTEE o TO MEET TILL
MONDAY.
Another disturbing feature to-day was