New-York tribune., 1908-04-14

viii appoint credentials committee The
Kings County contests viii not come before 'hat
committee until after the argument is heard
at the return of the order before Justice Crane
on Wednesday If the court should .vacate the
order and the credentials committee should
throw our men out. we would have TO stand IT.
If another judge should vacate- the order the
situation would be different We would appeal
State Chairman Conners presided at the meet
ing Of the committee. which at the start went
into executive session. During the session it
was announced that George V. S Williams
chairman Of the Kings County Democratic
party, the anti McCarren organization was out
side and desired to be heard. Senator McCarren
moved that he be admitted. Mr.. Williams
served notice OF contest against the McCarren
men, but Secretary Mason refused to accept
the notice.
ANTI-MCARREN PROTEST.
Mr.. Williams, in signed statement, said:
The state committee has refused the right to
present credentials and requests 10 ne PiSGer
on the temporary roll We shall carry the matte @
Vention decide who entitled to the seats from
the sixteen contesting delesatons In kinss & SoGE;
committee has left it, and let Nc aIrens annex me mo 10
t"naf the ffeP4Rsafi d@hS eatioP party SEND us
The 5er eSafnf IN Kngs cSung ou ne
ought certainly to seat our delegates
The Murphy and Corners men were not lhe
only people yesterday with chills and fever.
The Bryan Progressive Democratic League SET
up shop at the Victoria. on the same floor with
the Democratic State Committee William Har-
man Black former Commissioner Of Accounts.
headed a delegation which called on Charles f.
Murphy and asked that Augustus Thomas, pres
ident Of the league. he admitted to the con-
vention as a New York delegate.
MIR. Murphy said he had given instructions
l,1o fVpV,N
this county He told the delegation that one of
the delegates-at-large would be friendly to
William J. Bryan. This probably means Lewis
Nixon. who has frequently entertained NJ
Bryan. But Mr.. NXon's friendship for Bryan
has not for the last three four years been
productive of unmitigateG JOY.
Mr. Nixon was one of the big in the
Ship Building Trust. and the Bryan men are
already fearful that if Nj. Nixon appears at the
Denver convention Mr.. Bryan's personal
representative in the New York Big Four the
Republican papers viii give Mr.. Nixon a grilling
trust magnate of the worst stripe.
A BRYAN PLEA.
The Bryan men have made arrangements 20
have Mr.. Thomas sit in the convention on the
proxy Of of the upstate Henry w.
Walker says he has had profers from four
different delegates The Bryan men last night
drafted a memorial recommending Mr.. Bryan's
canulddCy 10 be presented to-day 10 the COM
nittee on resolutions. II called attention to the
tariff issue and the alleged fitness of the DEM
ocratic party 10 handle it. Mr.. Bryan's previ-
Gus record as a runner was highly praised, and
the statement made that he was more popular
than ever.
Despite the activities Of the Bryan men. who
at the outside do not exceed one-fifth of the
delegates. the delegation will go TO the Denver
convention uninstructed.
State Chairman Corners says that there will
be no platform, as the framing of one is prop
erly the work or the national convention The
pressure for a platform may be sufficient to
compel change in the tentative plan
Charles F Murphy and William J. Corners
viii be two Of the Big Four For the other two
places ex-Judge Alton B. Parker. Lewis Nixon
and John B. Stanchheld are talked of. Mayor
Mcclellan could go OF the four if he so
desired. but he said yesterday that official duties
probably would keep him in town. Lieutenant
Governor Chanler's friends said that he would
not permit the use of his name.
Patrick Z. McCabe, the Albany leader said
last night: i notice that the papers say that
Bulger. Of Oswego. Carlisle, of jefferson. Nc
Carren and myself all going to be kicked
through the skyght 1t will not add TO the
harmony to do it; still il wouldn't seem like a
real Democratic convention if we didn't have
a fight, and certainly it would be an odd thing
for the Democrats to go into a fight without
being divided among themselves"
The Bryan delegates are those from Chen,une
Erie, Allegany, Cattaraugus, Oswego, Franklin
and Yates.
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