New-York tribune., 1908-04-16

We hold that Democratic traditions, bound up
as they are with much that is greatest in the
history of the country, require that national
conventions should be gatherings of the best in
telect, the rpest judgment and the most un-
selfish patriotism of the party for the purpose of
studying the needs and striving for the welfare
OF the country al large.
And therefore we, representing the party in
the greatest state of the Union. a state whose
electoral vote is essential to Democratic victory
with animosity hostility for any candi-
date. and animated only by the devotion TO the
principles of the party. call upon the Democracy
OF the country TO send to Denver in July next.
unpledged, unfettered and uninstructed, their
ablest, strongest and most representative men,
the end that out OF the deliberation and con-
sultation of such men there may be then and
there nominated ticket which will rally to its
support the judgment, conscience and vote of
majority of the citizens of the country.
UNIT RULE RESOLUTION.
The resolution adopting the unit rule read as
follows:
Resolved. That the delegates to the Democratic
National Convention are hereby instructed by
this convention TO act and vote as unit in all
matters pertaining to said convention, and in ac-
cordance with the will OF the majority of the
said delegates, and the said delegates are fur
ther authorized TO fill any vacancies which may
arise from any cause in said delegation in case
of the absence of the delegate and the alternate
Immediately after he was read out of the
convention Senator McCarren announced that
the fight on behalf of the ousted Kings County
delegates would be carried into the national
convention where contest would be made for
the seating of the McCarren national convention
delegates. McCarren, with Herman \. Metz
his left and Congressman Fitzgerald on his
right, left the nall and started down Seventh
avenue, with the McCarren delegates and half
a thousand supporters making a long process
sion.
What you going TO do, SENATOR he was
asked.
The fight has just begun. We will carry
this matter into the Denver convention and fight
for the seating of our national convention dele
gates.' he replied. Il going to sleep to-
night and there won't be anything doing but
we are going TO carry this right into Denver"
Controller Metz who was properly seated as
a delegate. left the convention with McCarren.
Il left the convention he said, because I
want to show that with Senator McCarren
first and last. 1 had a right to stay, but 1 got
out. There won't be any caucus tonight, and
l am going home 10 Brooklyn to sleep
McCaren-McCarren. and how to get him!
That about all there was of the Demo-
cratic State Convention in Carnegie Hail.
If the lean and thoughtful Brooklyn leader
had been a maneating royal Bengal tiger with
a prize up for the one who could jab a spear into
him. there could not have been greater activity
in his capture. The effect of the spectacle
the voters Of the state a minor considera-
ton. Probably it not thought of.
Nor did 1t occur to Murphy and Corners that
they were making it easy for the Republicans
of Kings to make a sweep there this fall
The fact that the Democrats on election night
will be looking for encouraging returns and that
certain gentleman in Lincoln, Neb.. will be
looking TO how New York goes-none of
these things had any weight with the large Ind
ian Of Tammany Hall. All he wanted was Nc
Carren. So he passed the word along. and then
all that his henchmen wanted was McCarren.
They set out to get" him in the committee
on contested seats with the avowed intention of
throwing out all the districts whose leaders
were tried and true McCarren men, and leaving
undisturbed those who would jump" Tam
many.
WHAT MURPHY WANTS.
With McCarren out of the Kings leadership
it Will be easy to make the Kings County organ
ization of Tammany Hall The step
taken yesterday in unseating McCarren
delegate was the first one Next fall Murphy
will beat McCarren at the primaries If he can.
and next year, II all goes we'll with the Tam
many programme, McCarren will have nothing
say about the nominees on the city ticket.
Mr.. Murphy wants the Controller we'll as the
Mayor and President of the Board of Alder
men.
State Chairman Carmody from the platform,
announced to the practically empty benches at
1:32 o'clock that the convention would stand
adjourned till 3:30 O'Clock. 1t was a false alarm.
Delegates came and went from the hall, and
$50 o'clock came and went, but Chairman Car
mody did not report until $40 o'clock, when he
announced that as the committee on contested
seats had not finished its work the convention
would stand adjourned until o'clock.
In, he ,7r,ojtf Hroo tha taetu
being heard it was the same old story
how TO get McCarren.
HOW TO GET M'CARREN.'
McCarren inside with some Of his friends
facing Daniel F. Cohalan Chief Murphy's ex-
ecutioner. Meanwhile there We're mutterings
of revolt among the upstate men. They did
not like the way things were being done. The
old-timers in the delegation were used to it,
but the convention this year contains a num-
ber of young men who have in some way OBJ
tained the impression that there ought to be
decency in politics. These youngsters failed to
see anything funny in the head hunting play
called How TO Get McCarren."
During the tedious wait at the convention
hall for the delegates to get down TO the Iegiti-
mate work OF the hour there was plenty of time
10 discuss the small news that drifted in from
the Hotel Victoria where Charles F. Murphy
and State Chairman Conners talked over names
for the delegates-at-large. Finally came the
announcement that the Big Four would be
Alton B. Parker, former chief judge Of the
Court of Appeals; Lewis Nixon the ship
builder; Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany boss
and Charles Froeb, of Brooklyn
FROEB FOR GERMAN VOTE.
Mr.. Murphy picked out Mr.. Froeb. He wanted
A wealthy German on the ticket to hold the
German vote" the Tammany men put it, and
so Mr.. Froeb chosen. Mr.. Froeb is presi-