Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16

recent primaries In Brooklyn NECTAR
rem won practically every district he
has ever claimed as his own personal
property.
Only One Object.
The attempt of Murphy to extend
the influence of Tammany hall across
the river failed entirely at the pri-
maries. but it is to be renewed at the
convention. Apparently that is all the
Rochester convention is for. The nom
ination of candidates for governor and
other state officers has come to be en-
tirely side issue and the only ques-
ton which the leaders are asking is the
extent to which Murphy will go in his
effort to destroy McCarren as a polit-
ical force in Brooklyn.
Bryan is due in the center of the
state about the same time as the dem
ocratic convention, but it will be i'm
possible for him to pour oil upon the
troubled waters or to prevent a fac
tional fight in the Rochester conven-
ton, which Will come near to disrupt
ing the New York democracy.
AS preliminary to the national con-
vention at Denver, the New York
democrats met in Carnegie hall last
spring At the time Murphy was in
absolute control of the state machine.
Acting under his dictation the con-
vention proceeded to GUST the regular
members of the state committee from
Seneca, Oneida, Niagara. Ulster, Kings.
Erie and Chautauqua counties.
Will Demand Return.
The state committee was then re
,;,r. ha i1ta of HESin fyV''
Corners by the election of the commit
teemen from these counties by the
convention itself. The object of this
high handed proceeding was, of course,
to put Murphy and Connors in COM
plete control of the state organiza-
ton and to deprive McCarren of all
influence in the party.
Now McCarren has gone up to Ro-
chester with demand that the con-
vention shall return to the old order
of things and permit the delegates
from each county to elect their own
representative on the state committee
Murphy and the Tammany braves are
keeping their mouths shut, but there is
every reason to believe, from the talk
of vhe subordinate Tammany men,
that they propose to administer to Nc
Carren another and a more drastic
dose of the medicine which worked
such startling results at the conven-
ton in Carnegie hall.
Pat McCarren has his fighting
clothes on and he says without hes
itation il single delegate from Kings
county is unseated. or If the conven-
ton assumes to override the assembly
distric. in the counties and to put men
into the state committee who have nc
local following. he and his delegates
will walk out of the convention nall
nail the black flag to their mast, and
come out openly in opposition to any
ticket that may be nominated.
1t is generally understood that Nc
Carren men in the First and Fourth
districts of Brooklyn are to be thrown
out of the convention and there is not
a democratic politician in Greater New
York who does not say that if this is
done there is not the slightest posi-
bility of Bryan carrying the state
Fight Is fractional.
Signs are being multiplied this
week. The republican leaders are
against Hughes while the people are
overwhelmingly for him. II the democ-
racy were united they could take ad-
vantage of the situation without diff
Guilty, but the fight between McCarren
and Murphy has progressed to point
where democratic harmony is impossi-
bic, no matter who may be nominated
at the Rochester convention.
1T is equally difficult for any demo-
cratic candidate to be elected governor
without the united votes of New York
and of Brooklyn, and it is now appar-
ent it will be impossible during the
present campaign to get Murphy and
McCarren together Neither one OF
them cares a snap of his fingers about
Bryan and the national ticket, and the
whole fight in New York state this
year on the democratic side will really
be confined to Greater New York, and
will be concerned entirely with the riv-
airy of the two great men of New York
and Brooklyn.