The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-26
HEARST MEN WIN CONTESTS.
ANTS BEATEN IN COMMITTEES
By VOTE or 70 TO 20.

Prevent Denomination % Deal win
TammaBy Meeting Near RISt
GRADY and Corners the Boss Mobsmen
BUFFALO, Sept. 2S.-Hearst captured
tho committee on contested cats at its
first meeting this afternoon andr thus paved
the way for seating the contesting dele
gates from twenty-three districts. or the
greater number Of them, in accordance
with the Murphy Hearst programme. Not
in years has there been a meeting In con-
nection with any State convention which
aroused the interest that this one did.
William F. Sheehan and Senator Mo
Carren led the fight for the anti-Hearst
forces and used all their strength and
powers Of appeal to prevent the deal going
through, but it was a losing fight. Grady
rallied the Tammany members for Hearst
until they all voted as they had been told.
Corners did the same thing with the up
state men secured by the Hearst canvassers.
The combination was too hard to beat
and on a test vote on the election Of Grady
as chairman Of the committee the Hearst
side won out by twenty-six votes to twenty
for the anti-Hearst side.
Neither Grady nor John b. Stanchneld.
the candidate for the Sheehan side, voted.
hRt "OA WV OAo Stbc
vas absent at the first meeting.
Everybody was looking forward to this
vote as the first real teet Of strength OF the
two parties. The anti-Hearst crowd be-
lieved they might get the committee, but
they had counted on more districts than
they got. They lost several up the State
in addition to the Eighteenth in New York
city, controlled by james j.. Hagan. Hagan
haa alUaua haan r.f IN tho antf-Haar rot
ride and was supposed to be a Mcclellan
man, but he went over to Hearst to-day.
T. C. I. Grain, his man on the committee,
voted with the other Tammany members
to elect Grady, making the New York
vote absolutely solid for the Hearst side.
Kings county lined up solid behind Nc
Carren against the Hearst element.
II looked for a time before the committee
got organized by the election OF Grady
that 1t would break up in a row and that
the beautiful banquet room OF the Iroquois
Hotel. where the committee held its meet
ing, would be the scene almost Of blood
shed. Men shook their fists at each other
and angry epithets were exchanged. The
row could be hard all over the corridors
of the hotel.
Sheehan and MCCarren came in for much
uCuunCldJlOu ny L1c E1odTSJ crown leu ny
Corners and there we're moments when it
seemed az II the two men, standing close
together facing the angry crowd, would
be put to il to protect themselves.
1t was 3 o'clock when the committee
got dow to business. 1t wa to have met
Immediately after the convention, but
both sides seemed to want time and at Mr..
Sheehan's request il was put of for two
hours.
IN PLOTTING TRIM.
No man was in better fighting trim than
william F. Sheehan. Right before the
committee got together he told Grady
that the time had come for a lineup and
Grady said that he was ready. Mr.. Sheehan
opened the fight by asking to rave n nan
from the Onondaga district, where there is
a contest, put on the roll. The meeting
had not even organized hen and Grady
and Sheehan were face to face in a swirling
mob. Grady broke way from Sheehan
and began to shout at the top OF his lungs
TO the Tammany men:
Stand together boys said Grady.
You're being worked by paid agents OF
Ryan and Belmont here
Conners jumped up with Grady and began
to shout at his men too. Hes trying to buy
you. Belmont is trying to buy you, yelled
Corners, pointing at Mr.. Sheehan. Mr.
Sheehan tried 10 speak, but he was inter-
rupted by cries OF Put him out" He
doesn't belong here!'
Charles Bacon. another Hearst man,
called Sheehan names and tried to get at
him. Bacon was held back
Mr.. Sheehan has seen many fights before
and he isn't easily iustered. He waited
until the Hearstites got through shrieking
at him and hen in a voice that could be
heard easily he e on to say that the
contest in the Onondaga district had been
settled and that the delegates had named
a man for the committee. Mr.. Sheehan's
intention was TO get a proxy from the Onon-
daga men He said that putting this man
on the roll was not in violation of the rule
adopted by the State committee last night
that no names should go on the roll in dis.
tricts where there are two sets of delegates.
Senator McCarren spoke in the same strain,
but he hadn't got far before the cry was
raised that he too was trying to buy Hearst
men with Belmont money.
You can't do it this time, Pat, we won't
stand for it, yelled Corners. Men were
jumping over chairs and the two sides
gathered around the Leaders.
I'VE won't stand for a packed roll,'
shouted Grady, shaking his fist at Shcehan
and McCarren.
There had been no semblance OF a meet
ing up TO this time. The members OF the
committee we're surrounded by a surging
crowd OF delegates and spectators. Mr..
Sheehan told Grady that things had better
be lone properly and then both sides tried
to hsve the room cleared. When this had
been lone partly Grady, with the roll Of
members that had been turned over to him
by Secretary Mason Of the State committee,
took the chair and proceeded to run things
before he had been elected.
GRADY GRABS THE JoP.
Il propose to have this committee con-
stituted fully and properly he yelled,
pounding the table. MIR. Secretary, call
the roll"
There wasn't any secretary OF any chair
man, as Mr.. Sheehan promptly reminded
Grady.
1--we got the roll, haven't II" Grady said
RIaring at Sheehan. Mr.. Sheehan started
TO protest. Grady went on reading the roll.
When he got through Mr.. Sheehan said
that the delegate regularly elected from
the nnondaOa diafricf had NOT haan aarvad