New-York tribune., 1908-04-19

policies in this state. II is said that Mr. Coler
will tell Mr.. Bryan all about the action of the
state convention and caution him about allowing
the seating of a contestng delegation at the
Denver convention.
COLER EXPLAINS AGAIN.
Before leaving town Mr.. Coler issued a long
statement in which he said:
The session of the committee on contested seats
was no star chamber. proceeding. The doors We're
open VIDE. me eyIGence presented there was given
for all TO near. Ine men on the committee IN.
tended nothing that would not bear the light of
There were sixteen districts in contest. In ten
Of these the committee by vote of . 10 15 found
the convention the dismissal of the delegates and
the seating of the contestants One Of the districts
included in that list was the 18th, McCarren's own
district In six Gistrictsthe 1st the 18th. the 18th.
the 18th. the 10Th and the 21st-the committee dis
missed the charges and seated the delegates rep
This Was not done as the result of a deal. Nc
Carren's delegates who were seated remained Nc
yentior for the minority report which senator
McCarren presented substitute for the report
think the action of the committee was just and
the action OF the convention Just: Personaliy 90
some OF the districts where contests had been
should have been made in Mr.. Buffers district
The matter Of making these contests howeyer
conducted the primary fight in the districts under
discussion.
Senator McCarren, in commenting yesterday
| on the expectations = tho Murphy men that
they would be able to control the election pa
tronage in Kings next fall said THE regular
| Democracy, now in control of the organization
| in Kings, will control the election patronage
next fall. I do not regard it of very great ad-
vantage, but whatever the advantage We will
! have IT. The reports that I have admitted that
I have lost the election patronage are false.
| The provision of the election law in regard TO
the recognition of factions is not mandatory
| They simply make recommendations. as does the
| law regarding the appointment OF Election Com
| missoners. The Mayor appointed a commits
/ sioner not wanted by Tammany Hall. The COM
| rnssioners can appoint any Democrat they want
to- man the Democratic primaries, and if the
! commissioners are with I will control the
| patronage"
| DIsAVOW TAMMANY AMBITIONS.
GeorgeiV. S Williams. chairman of the new
Kings County Democratic party, recognized by
! Murphy and Conners, said yesterday that neither
John H. Delaney, ex-Sherif Faherty Bird 6
| Coer James Shevlin himself, or any other Of
! the anti-MCCarren Democrats wanted to become
! Tammany leaders. Any Democrat except Nc
| Carren would suit them, said he
| An effort will be made by the friends of Will
| lam J. Bryan and Charles F Murphy to bring
| them together on Monday. when Mr.. Bryan ex-
! poets to be in town. Mr.. Bryan will meet Colonel
luncheon with Augustus Van Wyck at the Law
yers' Club in the financial district
Let the gold bugs mark the time and place. 1t
| is the Lawyers Club where the trust magnates
| get together over highbaIIs and perfectos and
| plan the combinations which send the cbfIls
| down the spine of the Peerless Leader If nos
sibIe Bryan will he photogra phed in the very lair
| of the octopus Mammon. 1t is expected that al
! that luncheon arrangements will be made 10
|
Of Mr.. Bryan temporary chairman of the Denver
! convention.
| Joseph d. Baucus, of Saratoga County
! lawyer, with offices at No 10 Wall street YES
| terday Joined in the chorus of protestants
| against the action of the Murphy-Conners rne,,
at the state ention. The Democrats of
Saratoga County talking of Mr.. Baucus as
| tho Democratic candidate for Congress there
| this fall His father was a Congressman from,
| that district.
| AN UPSTATE OPINION
The country delegates were handed gold
| brick by Murphy and Corners" said Mr.
| Eaucus yesterday. and they are just waking
| up to the fact There is a feeling among the
! upstate Democrats that the party should GET
back foundation Of principle They 10
| not fancy the Tammany way Of running poli-
| tics, and they will not accept that method The
| is
prepared to fight for il He will fight inside the
party, the primaries. Within two weeks
! there will be conference of the upstate men
| disguised with the work of the late state con
vention. That conference is likely to demon
! strate the determination of the more indie
! pendent Democrats that they will not be dom
| mated 10y the Murphy-Couners combination"
Already the Murphy-Conners men are he
ginning 10 figure the possibility of not being
! the regularly certified delegates TO the Den
Yer convention. Norman +. Mack. some Of
| whose state committeeman were thrown out
! by Murphy and Conners, is a member of the
| national committee from this state. and as such
! must certify 20 the regularity Of the delegates
| chosen by the state and district conventions
| II a contesting delegation should be chosen the
! chances that Mack would certify them
as being regular and let the Murphy Corners
men hght their way into the Denver conven-
| tion hest they can.
! 35c L5 FOR The PLANTERS e5c.
| BUNGALOE TEA.
Cost that TO RTow II. At your groceT-Advt