The sun., 1908-07-10
NORMAN B. MACK REELECTED
GAYNOR For VICE-PRESTDENT IF
NEW YORK BACKS ANY ONE.
Delegation Takes No Action as 20 Voting
for Bryan, but the Members Can Sec
No Hope for Beating Him on the First
BaIl0t-v0te on Gufrey Was Not q Test.

for Bryan, but the Members Can Sec
No Hope for Beating Him on the First
Ballot-v0te on Gufrey Was Not Test.
DENVER, July 9.-The New York dele
CATION met just before noon to-day at the
Brown Palace HOTEL 1t was q short session.
Norman e. Mack Of Buffalo was reelected
national committeeman for the State and
Charles F. Murphy, chairman Of the dele
CATION. was instructed to vote tho delegation
in the convention as a unit.
There has been a good deal OF talk here
about electing William ]. Conners. q fellow
townsman OF Mr.. Mack, national committee
man. DO that some other Democrat should
be chairman Of the State committee. This
talk gave way to-day. however. when a
number Of New Workers. got It into their
heads that Bryan might by q miracle be
elected and in that event Mr.. Mack, who
has been Mr.. Bryan's national committee
man for the State since 1895, would be
good Intermediary.
The delegation took no step toward
naming its choice for President or Vice
President, but notwithstanding the entire
vote OF the delegation last night In support
of Col. James NJ Gufey Of Pennsylvania,
the drift Of the majority Of the delegation
is to Bryan.
Bryan's friends are out claiming the
delegation. They have no right to do 30,
as there has been no formal action by the
delegation.
One thing was made clear though, by
infiuen tial members Of the delegation. and
that was that II the delegation decides
to attempt to get together on Vice-Presi.
dental candidate it will be In favor Of
Supreme Court Justice William j. Gaynor
of Brooklyn. All doubt as to that was
settled privately this afternoon. When
the delegation arrived here the talk was all
Gaynor; then there was a lull followed by
revival of the Gaynor boom, and to-day 1t
was stronger than ever.
The delegation has not decided whether
it will advance candidate for Vice-Presi-
into the Vice-Presidential business it will.
unless there is marked change over night
decide on Justice Gaynor.
The New Workers. are still up a stump
on the Bryan business. They are urged by
the New Jersey Democrats, the Georgia
men, the Minnesota men and the anti
Bry an men in dozen delegations to stand
firm against Bryan.
Charles F. Murphy and his associates
in the New York delegation this morning
ton last night for and against Col. James
NJ. Guffey as national committeeman VI
Pennsylvania Guffey lost by a vote Of
8l5 to 3s7. With 1,0os delegates in this
convention Bryan requires B7l yoteS 10 De
nominated under the two-thirds rule
Bryan, therefore. according to the Guffey
vote. was So votes short Of the necessary
two thirds to nominate him. But Col.
Roger G. Sullivan, head Of the Illinois dele
cation, who voted his 54 men for Guffey,
told Mr. Murphy that he would have to
vote the 5A for Bryan on the first ballot.
That brought Brya an within two votes Of
the necessary two thirds to nominate him.
The Virginia people, with their 22 votes,
who voted for Guffey, are instructed for
Bryan; Tennessee, which gave IL votes
for Guffey, is instructed for Bryan, and
States which are instructed for Bryan gave
an additional hundred votes for Guffey,
so Mr.. Murphy was not at all impressed
by the character of the 3s7 votes for Guffey.
Georgia, however, is still pleading with
the New Workers., 30 are the New Jerseyites,
but the hopes are very slender that Bryan
can be defeated. The fact that he has
dominated all the committee by heavy
ma jority is alone an indication that he has
good chance for getting by the two
thirds mark with a reasonably safe margin.
All the New Yorkers are talking tonight
in favor of Lieut.-Gov. Lewis Stuyvesant
Chanler for Governor. Comptroller Her.
man Metz declined to take his seat in the
delegation to-day and said that he was on his
way to California starting this evening.
They stole the seats of my colleagues
said Metz, -and they would have stolen
mine had they dared. They can steal it
now il they want to because decline to sit
in the delegation" Comptroller Metz left
his alternate, Alexander j. Rooney, to
represent him.