New-York tribune., 1908-09-14
BUSY AT ROCHESTER
SITUATION IS CHAOTIC.
Chan1er Boom Gains Strength-Big
Possibilities of Fight.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune.I

Rochester, Sept. 13.-The deep interest Of the
traction railroad and lighting interests in the
Democratic situation, shown by the sudden
springing into prominence of w. Caryl Ely OF
Buffalo as their candidate for Governor, coupled
with reports that big campaign fund had been
promised by Wall Street men TO elect Gov
ernor who would name new Public Service COM
tnissoners favorable to them. marked to-days
Developments here The Ely boom was later
withdrawn however.
Added to that was the growth of situation
u,bera any one OF a dozen incidents might bring
on the trouble among the big bosses Whlch
ali are striving to prevent. An especially un-
savory morsel for them to digest was furnished
nv The urgent demand Of Attorney General Jack
son for denomination. coupled. IL Is reported
with threats Of disclosures of an alarming ex-
tent which would involve important Democrats
IN all kinds of trouble if his demand were NOT
needed
with the arrival in the city late tonight of
host of upstate delegates to the Democratic state
Convention, which begins on Tuesday. the can
didacv OF Lieutenant Governor Lewis Stuy-
vesant ChanIer took a decided upward turn T.
= Perkins chairman of the Dutchess County
delegation issued statement that during the
evening he had received assurance OF the sup
port of twenty counties. with many of the Chah-
Ter stronghoIds yet to be heard FROM Chairman
conners announced at midnight that he had
talked with 125 delegates to the convention anu
that 90 per cent of them had favored Mr. Chan-
Ter The chairmen of a number OF county dele
cations in interviews expressed preference IoF
the Lieutenant Governor
George w Batten. state committeeman from
! Niagara County. tonight announced the with
drawal Of the candidacy of W. Caryl Ely OF
Buffalo for the Governorship.
When Mr Conners was told that Chairman
Smith of the Erie County delegation mad sai1
| that the delegation would vote as unit tor
Mayor Adam for Governor, the state chairman
said:
Erie County will vote under the unit rule.
hut not for Adam" He declined TO say who the
delegation would support.
Actual work on the slate for the free
and uabossed'' Democratic State ConVen-
tion will begin tomorrow. when Charles
F. Murphy, of Tammany and Senator McCar-
rem. of Kings. Join State Chairman Conners
here AMI they go over various propositions to-
sether In the mean time there exists what
most of the delegates refer to proudly as real
Democratic situation" with half dozen candl-
dates for Governor and countless names men
toned for every one of the secondary places All
OF ,.hom. except the favored ones. will vanish
when the "big three have got together-un-
less of course there should be railing out
among the 'big three" In that case the oeie-
gates actually might have word or two TO say
about the nominees for some of the offices. ana IL
Is that proposition which every man OF any I'M
nortance here pooh-poohs and secretly breads
but virtually expects. II is the poss1biEty or
trouble between Murphy Conners and McCar-
rem which is dwarfng the most serious OF the
candidates booms. and causing even some Dit
ter factional troubles within the Democracy TO
seem small by comparison
Delegates began TO flock into the city to-day
and with them came booms boomlets and half-
size boomlets. 1t a poor county which did
not produce at least three candidates for any
thing short of Governor. Boomers were lurking
IN every chair in the hotel Hobbies, and their
honeyed words fioated out into the still Sunday
atmosphere until even the flags on the buildings
dripped political sweetness.
SITUATION is CHAOTIC.
There are three candidates for Governor who
have real life size delegates committed to them
az this moment, but there several others to
whom the nomination might be swung at the
bebest of the big bosses. Tonight the situation
Is little short of chaotic IL probably will remain
So for another twenty four hours. and may even
I'D to the opening of the convention. The nam
ing of the candidate for Governor will in itself
eliminate about all the small fry candidates for
secondary places.
lieutenant Governor Chanler and Congress-
man sulzer have delegates ready to vote for
them, and either could obtain the support OF
| many not committed TO any candidate. w. Caryl