Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-26
HEARST HAS HIGH
HAND At BUFFALO
Opposing Factions Endeavor to
Make a Showing.
.SUlLlvAN'S LITTLE GAME
He Was Informed When Murphy
Would Get in Line.
EFFORT TO IMPRESS THE VOTERS
Prospects of Dying Hard and It Was
Necessary to Make Show
With the Clans.
EFFORT TO IMPRESS THE VOTERS

'2peeiai rFoin Il stan correspondent.
BUFFALO, September 26-In the NOM
mating speeches tonight the conservatives
propose to hammer away on this point with
their best speakers. They viii not urge the
delegates to bolt but will point out the
danger Of the voters boiling the ticket on
election day. The conference of conserva-
tives resolved to support Sulzer as against
Hearst.
The Tammany caucus met at . o'clock,
an, will apply the unit rule. This will take
Sullivan men away from Sulzer and give
Hearst Tammany's 10o delegates, insuring
his nomination. One of the big Tammany
leaders said this afternoon: we will vote
as unit for Hearst and he will be NOM
mated. In my opinion he will be beaten
worse than Bryan. but the game is framed
for his nomination and 1 vii, follow my
leader"
BUFFALO, N. Y, September o.
The work OF trimming up" the opposition
was entered upon by the Hearst-Murphy
combination in the committee on credentials
last evening and was continued gaIly
throughout the night and resumed this
morning. 1t might be added that a good
job was made Of it. The committee was
there to clean out the hostile delegation and
did SO in ship shape fashion
The Hearst-Murphy folk organized the
committee with a majority Of five and then
proceeded to do business. State Senator
Grady with a big walking stick for gavel
opened the ball. He announced there would
be no need Of secretary, he would attend
to all minor business himself II a motion
was inimlcal to his side he refused TO put
1t and there was an end of it. The anti
Hearst people stormed and fumed, but the
portly, red-faced Tammanyite at the head
Of the table thumped with the stick and
told everybody to shut up and cut 1t out.
a Pile OF aftidavits high as a corn bin,
piled up by the table, related to the sixty
odd contests brought by delegates. The
committee started in to consider them and
every one was contested and argued by the
opposition. 1t was decided not to act upon
any until all had been considered.
Record on First Ballot.
In other parts of the hotel the anti-Hearst
people were running around comforting and
condoling with each other, mostly condol-
ing, over the wound received when they had
been run over by the Hearst Murphy
freight train. Their conferences related to
the selection OF some candidate upon whom
to center all the elements that opposed
Hearst. SO as to make record on the
first ballot to show that there was at least
a trace of anti-Hearst sentiment in the
convention. They looked around and found
that barring Hearst there was only one
democrat who had a delegation behind
him and he was Gaynor, with the sixty-nine
Kings county men. controlled by McCarrel1
but Gaynor would not suit as they wanted
to break Tammany's solid front if possible
by taking away Sulivan's support.
Sullivan's Twenty-Five Braves.
Sullivan's twenty-one Tamman-ites came
to Buffalo shouting for Suffer- and while
they shouted Big Tim winked the other
eye at Murphy and tipped him off that at
the proper time they would be found in
line with Murphy. The conferees, however
chose to assume that Sullivan was acting
square and picked out Isulzer as their can
didate, the sixty-nine Kings county men
promising to come along as well as twenty
one in the Erie delegation. with 1O7 votes
and Hearst with 100. the majority being
225
The Albany conference" democrats in
the meeting held conferred upon Adam of
Buffalo, but the Erie county fellows were
ready to follow Sulzer. Then there were
some nebulous upstate votes which might
be claimed, the exact state of their uncer-
tainty depending upon how many of them
were left after the committee on creden-
tials got through with the contest.
1t took more talking and comforting to
plan this little party to man the forlorn
hcre of the conservatives than Murphy had
REQUIRED to frame his successful combina-
ton with the Hearst men, and in the mean
time the plans of Hearst and Murphy were
moving along smoothly and successfully.
About all the anti-Hearst men could see
ahead of them was the prospects of dying
hard, and to make their own slaughter as
the voters of the state with the fact that
they lad made an effort.
The Reply to Jerome.
The reply of Messrs. Ratigan and Os-
bourne to Jerome's imprisoned declara-
ton that he would bolt is construed to
mean that the rank and file Of the con-
sentative democrats will not favor a bolt
or a rump convention. AS Osbourne ex-
planned to the meeting, he was present as
a representative of democratic constitu-
ency and would not take the responsibility
of boiling. :
Jerome made a most scathing attack on
the Hearst Murphy combine. Three or
four men got together In a back room and
framed up this convention ard selected a
candidate. 1t is not democratic conven-
ton, and before 1t adjourns should adopt
a provision that no democrat need be bound
by it,
Edward NJ. Shepherd and others made
more temperate addresses, but all in the
line of bitter opposition to Hearst. No
other speakers. however. went as FAR as
uerome in declaring that they would bolt
and support a republican candidate.
The significance of his talk, however, is
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