The sun., 1907-12-03
SEEKS ALLY AGAINST BRYAN
CHAIRMAN CONNERS REACHES
OIT 4 HlND TO M'CARREN.


PredlrSIass THAT the ReDaDlIeRH state Goa.
VcntI0R Sn the sprImE WIN Declare FOR
Hughes WOo'lrun ThInLs AsSsInlIy-
man NIuFDhy Wm Ae GItlcs dhalrUnaA
The chickenReed politics hereabOuts yes
teTday was: Chairman William j. COnners
OH the New York Democratic state COM
mittee has opened negotiations with Senator
Patrick Henry MC('arren " Brooklyn
looking Ia making common cause against
William !. Bryan. Mr.. COnners has already
declared against MIR. Bryan. and MIR. McCar-
rem. speaking last evening Of Mr.. COnnerss
Overtures for harmony ON an anti-Bryan
programme ia the State. said;
That's easy. Mo. Corners and ! can
easily get together ON that idea. for every
one knows I'm opposed 10 BIyan's third
nomination. | was opposed even to his
second nomination. Ia speaking up for
Judge Parker In 1904 I think I made my
opinions Of MIR. Bryan rather clear"
The significance of MIR. COnnerss desire
10 ROregather with Mr.. McCarren ON an
anti Bryan programme lies perhaps in tho
fact that it was Mr.. COnners and Charles
r. Murphy who precipitated the litigation
looking for the dismissal Of MIR McCsrren
as a member Of the Democratic state COM
mittee because Of Mr.. McCarren's hostility
to William ". Hearst as the Democratic
candidate for Governor Of New York last
year. That litigation is s,ill pending. The
Court Of Appeals is t0 be the final arbiter
Ia the lower courts Mr.. McCarren has
beaten Mr. COnners AMI Mr.. Murphy.
Since that litigation was begun both Con-
ners and Murphy have fallen Out with
Ian af.lfA.
mated al Buffalo on the Hearst ticket by
Mr.. Coaners and Mr. Murphy, has broken
away from Mr.. COnners and Mr.. Murphy.
aud in the appoint nients of receivers for a
dozen or ~ financial inst siituii0ns upstate
and down-State has had Hs many 1T Hearst's
men as possible appointed.
Ex-President Cleveland and others Who
keep tab ON New York state Democratic
politics believe that there is an under
standing between Mr.. Bryan and MIR. Hearst
aud vet here are the three most powerful
l-aders of the Democratic State machine
Conners Murphy and Mcarr-n out
with both Bryan aud Hearst.
The Progressive Democratic League Of
New York State Augustus Thomas. prt-i-
dent. called yesterday a convention tO meet
~ Cooper Union on Tuesday, January =
Fhis league il a Bryan affair. Mr.. Thomas
Is a playwright and there IL an affinity
between himself and Mr. Bryan because OF
the fact that had Mr. Bryan failed to I've
nominated for the Presidency ia ISVI he
was to have become an actor man.
Mr.. Thomas convention In called for the
day on which the Democrats under Mr.
C0nners are TO assemble a. the Waldorf.
Astoria To discuss the attitude TO be as
-unled in natiOual Democratic affairs next
year. On January Mr.. COnner~ and the
New York Democratic state committee are
IA. - ~ a
Democratic United States Senators. Con
gre-smeD. Governors and ex-(iOveTnOrs,
national commit eeInen and State and
county committeeman. Mr.. Thomas said
last night that his convention WIS tO Ice ia
the int crest Of MIR. Bryan.
Chairman Woodruff OF the New York
Republican State committee w9s OF opinion
yesterday that the State con- entiOn tO
name four delegates at large To he Repub-
liean national convention would I've held ~
thi- city any day between April aud April
~ next Usually these conventions have
been held in March.
No New York Republican State delegation
since hat OF 1870 has been instructed for
Presidential candidate. IN that year
u part Of the delegates refused to obey the
inst r1ictiOns tn vote for Cien. Grant, and the
record Of the States vote in that national
convention waS: The first sixteen ballots,
Grant. 81; Blaine. -; sherman. >. aud on the
next nineteen ballots. Grant, 81; Blaine, ~,
ami sherman, >: on the thirty-siNth and last
ballot. when Garfield was nominated. the
vote Of the state wa. Grant. -. Garfield, ~.
The prediction was freely matle Yesterday
that no matter what Mr. Roosevelt. M.
Woodruff or Mr.. Parsons desired the New
York Republican ~ - convention to be- held
in the spring to name these four Delegates
at large to the national convention would
Iureservedly aud unQualife1lly indOrse
Gov Hughes as the chOiCa Of New York
Republicans for the Presidency
Chairman Woodruff believes that As
yanblyman Charles i. Murphy Of the Tenth
district OF Kings will bc made chairman Of
I he Assembly Committee Ou Cities in place
~ Edward q. Dowliug Of the Seventeenth
district of Kings. just elected Municipal
Court Judge in Brooklyn.