Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-19
EMPIRE STATE POLITICS.
New Workers Anxiously Awaiting Outcome of Conventions Next Week

Washington, D. C., Sept 19.-All eyes political now are turned toward New York. It is evident that
 showdown" will have to come in that state within a few days and the nature of the action to be taken will determine the political complexion of the state perhaps for several years. For a year or more, there has been a deal of abluffing in the political game in the Empire state. but the convention to be held by both the re- publican and democratic parties next week, the former at Saratoga and the latter in Buffalo, will clear the polf- tical atmosphere materially.
 Nobody seems to know what may be done by either party in it's state convention. The most spectacular in terest attaches to the action of the democrats at Buffalo. A serious situation has been created by the work of the Independence league. It not only nominated William R. Hearst for governor, but against MT Hearst's express wishes, also nomfn- ated full state ticket. MT Hearst desired to be in position to dicker with the democrats at Buffalo, but, in measure. he has been handi- capped by the nomination of a com | plete Independence League state friends, however, that this will not prevent him, necessarily, from nego- tiating with the Buffalo convention for the regular democratic guberna- torial nomination. That is what h
 wants. If the convention. should nominate him for governor. the lfkeli-
 hood is that several of the nominees of the Independence League for minor offices will be dropped from the ticket and the nominees of the Buffalo convention substituted for them. This would clear the deck in New York for decisive action be- tween MT Hearst and the guberna- torial nominee of the Saratoga con- vention. The result of such a con test is regarded by the republicans
 with grave apprehension.
 If, however, the Buffalo convention should nominate William T. Jerome
 or some other democrat than Hearst
 for governor, three-cornered contest
 would result with the advantage in favor of the republicans. It is re- garded here as probable that the re- suit finally will depend upon the att titude of Tammany half If Leader
 Murphy should lipeup his cohorts for
 Hearst it seems probable that he may
 throw the regular democratic nomir nation to him. but the best informed New York observers expects Murphy to spring some new candidate in an effort to, defeat both Hearst and Je-
 rome. While he has expressed him. self in favor of Hearst, in tactful way, it is known that he has no use for either Hearst or Jerome. Both
 of them have expressed their utter dislike and contempt for Murphy. The situation is one of the most
 anomalous ever known in New York politics. ..-... .-
 What the republicans may do is
 equally an unsolved problem. Repub- lican eyes generally are turned to-
 ward President Roosevelt with the
 idea that he may, at the last moment,
 name the republican nominee for
 governor. He is aligned with Cover
 nor Higgins, but is not insisting that
 Higgins should be renominated. It
 is pretty we'll understood now that
 Charles F.. Hughes. the insurance in-
 quisitor, will not accept the nomina-
 tion unles it should come to, him
 practically without fact!onal differ
 ences. One prominent New York po-
 litician, who was here this week, took
 a dark view of the situation.
 If the president does not take a
 firm hold on the situation," said he,
 we are likely to be beaten into a
 pulp. The president is opposed to the domination of the Odell-Platt--
 Quigg crowd, yet he is doing practi-
 cally nothing to head 1t off. If he
 could be aroused thoroughly I am
 certain a solution of the questio'
 could be reached very soon that
 would be satisfactory generally to re-
 publieans. Unless he does take hold. I'm afraid we shall be in serious | cs fta =