Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-27

ination was not made unanimous.
The speaker selected to nominate Mr..
Hearst was a beardless and slender young
man with pale face and all the air OF an
enthusiast He was William V. Cook, a
lawyer of Albany, and his speech was not
Interrupted by applause. but on the con-
frary. suffered from the interruption of de-
Dar,ing listeners. The audience seemed 10
feel the chill of the cut-and-dried arrange
ments OF the MurphyH Hearst combination.
When the speaker reached his peroration
for Mr. Hearst there was absolutely not
single cheer, but scattering fire of hand
olapping, which continued less than one
minute This was in remarkable contrast
TO the delirious enthusiasm with which Mr..
Hearsts name was received by his own In
dependence League In New York city Sep
TENDER IL.
When George Raines took the platform to
nominate Sulzer. the Brooklyn crowd turn
ed loose and cheered him for five minutes.
Then they grabbed Sulzer and ran him up
the aisle, many other delegations and the
audience at large joining in the demonstra-
ton.
Throughout the hearty and evidently SIN
cere tribute to Sulzer the Tammany dele
pie only grinned
Sulzer had the cheers but they knew that
Hearst had the votes.
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1t took the Hearst Murphy combination
twenty-four hours to clean out the contest
ed delegations of the opposition, but they
did. and thoroughly. They threw them out,
boots and baggage, sixty-one of them. neck
and crop.
That good work accomplished, at o'clock
last night the committee on credentials
washed up and went to supper.
Then the word was passed to assemble the
convention for the finishing touches to the
celebrated tragedy. THE Capture of the
Democracy" with Charles F. Murphy and
William r. Hearst in the leading roles.
The convention had met twice during the
day. only to be summariy adjourned be-
cause the contests had not been settled
Those sixty-one seats had to be emptied of
hostiles and filled with friendly braves be-
fore the play could go on.
In the meantime the anti-Hearst people
were getting another drubbing. this time in
the caucus of the Tammany delegates.
eader Murphy had called the caucus In
order to bind the Sullivan forces and keep
them from straying to Sulzer.
Well. no use to make a long story of 1t,
Murphy just put on the screws and forced
the adoption of the unit rule. Half dozen
delegates slipped out, declaring that they
would not abide by it. but the rule was
slapped on just the same, and Mr.. Hearst
was declared the choice of Tammany Hail.
Thus the deal completed between
Murphy and Hearst.
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Murphy had used the Hearst strength to
aid in capturing the state committee. seat
ing his contestants. humiliating Mcclellan
and firmly fixing Murphy's hold on Tam
many Hall. Moreover part of the deal
the support of Hearst to the Tammany can
didates for various county and state offices
was assured and the menace of Independ
ence League candidates for those offices
withdrawn.
In return Mr.. Hearst got the invaluable
support of Tammany Hall to all of his
plans in all their ramifcation.
Mr. Murphy had everything to gain and
nothing To lose by this deal if he chose to
pay regard only to his own local interests.
The combination with Mr.. Hearst solidifies
the democratic vote in New York county,
part of which strayed away last fall to the
Municipal Ownership League.
If Mr.. Hearst is beaten for governor by
Murphy will still find himself safely en-
trenched in New York city
When all these necessary deeds had been
accomplished the convention was ready to
get down to real business. 1t was $50
O'Clock last night when bluff State Senator
Grady. chairman Of the credentials. handed
up the big bundles of contested cases upon
which the committee had passed.
The crushed and downtrodden minority
were first allowed to present their case to
the convention. after which the majority re-
port was to be presented.
The cause of the minority was champion
ed by John b. Stanchteld one of the ablest
end most conservative democrats in the
state. He started in to attack Hearst from
the outset on the ground of his utilization
with a third party and his alleged nom
democratic assertions.
He struggled along through a storm of
mingled applause and Misses the Hearst
rooters in the audience making themselves
in evidence. Mr.. Stanchfield explained in
detail the hard treatment the contestants
had received In the committee, but the con-
Sention seemed hard-hearted and listened
alphabetically.
The report was supported by State sena-
ex parte arguer. He Is lion-faced brow
beating, choeric old fellow who bulls his
way long. and although he was frequently
interrupted by "Booz and Kisses he rode
down every statement Stanchfeld had
made.
The vote by which the report Of the COM
mittee was adopted showed the upstate
strength of the antiHearst forces to be
142 at that stage of the proceedings The
reading of the platform ELECTED no enthu-
siasm whatever. and 1t was adopted in
q manner SO perfunCto-y that the announce
ment was hardly heard ten yards from the
Tostrum The tribute 10 William Jennings
bryan was sympathetically but not en-
Enthusiastically cheered. Mr. Raines hitting
erraignment of Mr.. Hearst's political ami
auons stung the Hearst supporters to mad
ness. and they interrupted the speaker time
end gain. When he said that Hearst
while holding the commission of the de-
mocracy in Congress, came back to DESTROY
fhe democracy of the city in the mayoralty
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