Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
HOW IS PARKER FEELING?
Also, the Personally Conducted indie
pendence League9
PAT McCARREN IS BOILING
And Hands Out Some Mighty Harsh
Language About Murphy and
His Course.

NEW YORK, April 1S.-Bryan will be
here Monday. He is to lecture in Harlem
| in the evening. In the morning ne Will
breakfast with Col. Watterson at the
Manhattan Club and in the afternoon ne
is to lunch with Augustus VanWyck at
the Lawyers Club.
! No word has been received from Judge
Parker as to whether he Is to accept the
place Of one of the four MISUNDERSTANDING
| from New York state to Denver. He has
| been leased a good deal in personal con-
versations and over the telephone as 10
| the possibility Of his being compelled TO
vote for Bryan. The delegation votes I'M
der the unit rule, and Mr.. Murphy OF
Tammany is to decide at Denver how
these seventy ght delegates shall vote.
Parker stood by Bryan in 1896 and 1900.
but even the sturdiest of Bryan's friends
have not said and will not say that the
Bryan fellows stood by Parker in 1904.
Bryan, in personal conversations. explains
the Bryan detection four years ago by
saying that. while he did everything that
he possibly could for Parker, he could not
hold his followers. AS a matter OF fact.
it has always been regarded as q very
grave mistake in democratic national pol
tiles that Bryan was not nominated In
1904 That would have been three times
and out, and thus Bryan might have been
finished.
Bryan will Talk Shop.
BRYAN, while in New York city, is to
discuss the democratic situation in New
York state. Inasmuch as he has had a
talk with Corners. apparently an unfruit-
full one for both. it was said today by
Bryan's friends that he is to go over mat
tiers with Chas. Murphy.
On all of Bryans visits to the metropo-
lis in the last six months he has called
on William r. Hearst. but has always
failed to meet Mr.. Murphy. 1t was pre-
dicted though, today that Bryan will not
call on Hearst this time. because Hearst
has authoritatively announced in public
statement that under no circumstances
in the approaching national battle will the
Independence National Leogue, OF which
Hearst is the n-chief sup
port either Roosevelt, Gov. Johnson OF
Minnesota, or Bryan.
Bryan knows all about contesting
delegations, such as McCarren threatens
to send, to Denver for Bryan broke into
the democratic national convention OF
1895 at the head of contesting dele
cation from Nebraska. Bryan has al
ways insisted that he needed the regular
delegation without splitting hairs on
that question. The anti-Bryan delegates
from this state were on the temporary
roll of the convention but after the
Bryanites captured the permanent organi-
zatiOn of the convention and therefore
| the committee on credentials. the anti
Bryanites from Nebraska were tumbled
| out neck and crop, and Bryan and his
| followers marched into the convention
hall jauntily, just like the other day
when Murphy turned McCarren out.
Who Will Succeed Macke.
The New York delegation to Denver
will select a national committeeman to
| succeed Norman e. Mack. 1t may be
Mack and may not be. Mack has had
some very severe words to say concerning
the action Of Murphy and Corners in fore
| ing the state convention to take from the
senate district the power to select state
committeeman and give it to the conven-
ton, which means Murphy and Corners.
| Corners is quite provoked by Macks
structures. Anyway, Murphy and Corners
can turn out Mack. noanatter what Bryan
says. Mack for twelve years has been
the consistent and loyal friend of Bryan
| in the Empire state. But he and Corners
have not hItched very we'll in Erie county
politics. There is not room. it was re-
marked today for two such positive
characters as Mack and Corners in the
| county. One of them must sooner or
later go to the wall. Bryan, it is known,
wants Mack reelected. but Bryan won't
| have a voice in the matter. The fate of
Mack is in the hands of Murphy and
ConnOrs.
Bryan. while in town, is also to have a
talk with his national manager. ext. s.
Senator Richard Franklin Pettigrew. So
sure is Bryan Of the nomination that he
| has already, according to the best infor-
nation. selected Pettigrew to be tempo
rary chairman of the national convention
at Denver, chairman OF the national COM
mittee to succeed Tom Taggart. and. in
the event<of Bryans election, Secretary
| of the Treasury. to succeed George b.
Corteiyou. Pettigrew was republican
until 1896, when. with Senator Teller and
others. he boited the Mckinley conven-
ton on the silver issue. Pettigrew was
always a personal friend Of James ]. Hill.
| He is wealthy, with fortune above
million.
A Knock From McCarren.
Senator McCarren had this addition to
| make today to his Friday nights inter-
view: 1.-The democratic party of this state
is no longer a representative political
| body. 1t is owned by Murphy and Con-
| ners. They own 1t body and soul and
| can do with it as they please.
Murphy. however. has not control of
Kings county. and will not win there in
September. The election inspectors will
| be the same this fall as this spring. thank
| God have no fear Of the outcome. we
| will win hands down.
/ Delegates from thirty-five of the coun-
| ties in the state will meet soon to see
what shall be done. They will decide
| then whether to take court action or to
| hold a real convention. Until they decide
| / cannot tell what I will do
The old machinists. though, have taken
| a different view Of the whole matter They
| pointed out how that at Buffalo In Sep
| tember, 1905, scores of delegates were
turned out, some of them without even
| the basis of a contest. and SO general
was the slaughter of delegates that Sen
| ator Grady. chairman of the committee
on contested seats. when the job had been
| finished and the days work completed
| said that is the dirtiest days work IN
| my career"
1t was announced at headquarters that
| Senator Conrad Hasenflug. the state COM
mitteeman from the ninth district, had
| placed his proxy In the hands of Senator
McCarren. SO that he may attend all meet
ings of the state committee.
| There has not been a single break from
McCarren in the executive committee of
| the organization as result Of the action
| of the state convention. 1t still stands
| twenty-five for him and six against.
Senator McCarren. when asked about
| the committee which IL coming soon to re-
| organize the democracy of Kings county,
| said:
| How About the Primary Lawp