The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-04-15
TODENVERUNPLE PLEDGED
Program of New York State
Democratic Convention.
Report Of Majority of Committee on
Resolutions Will Criticise Republi-
can Administration and Invite a
Democratic Victory In November,
but No Mention of Candidates.

Denver on the 7th of July met in Car
negie hall, where last week the Re-
publicans Of the state chose their del
egates to the Chicago convention,
which will nominate the official foe OF
the Denver candidate. The assem-
blage was called to order by State
Chairman William ]. Corners of Buff
talo, whose amiable but rugged coun-
tenance indicated his satisfaction in
the complete fattening out of last
winters attempted move to depose
him from the Democratic leadership.
Nearly all the old wheelhorses of the
Democracy were on hand when Chair
man Corners gavel announced that
he was ready for business, but con-
spicuously absent were David Bennett
Hill, who considers that he has earn
ed the right to retire from politics,
and Congressman Bourke Cochran,
whose retirement was accelerated by
Charles F. Murphy. Mr. Murphy
was there, sphinxlike as usual, and so
were the indomitabe and inevitable
Brady and Long Pat" McCarren, cool
er than the proverbial cucumber and
apparently little alarmed by the anti
McCarren uprising in Brooklyn.
Contest of McCarren and Coler
Many state committeeman at the
meeting held yesterday said that they
considered the most important busi-
ness to be settled by the convention
overshadowing even the selection of
the delegates at large-was the con.
test of the sixteen of the twenty-three
assembly district delegations form
Kings county. Seven of the twenty
three districts are not contested be-
cause the leaders of these districts re-
pudiated Senator McCarren just prior
to the primaries held on March 81. II
these contestants are seated 1t will
mean at least the temporary eclipse of
McCarren.
Among the contesting delegates are
many of the leading lights of Brook
lyn Democracy, including former gu
bernatorial candidate and Borough
President Bird S. Coler, ex-Congress
men Robert Baker and Mitchell May,
eX-judges and many county officials.
Borough President Coler is the head
and front of the fight to politically
exterminate McCarren, and If the SEN
ator is defeated it will no doubt force
the leadership of Kings county upon
Coler though he declares he does not
desire to be leader, that his only am
bition is to dethrone McCarren and to
leave the question of leadership open.
The basis of this fight is the alleged
frauds committed in almost every elec.
| ton district In which there was a con-
test at the primaries to elect delegates
to the convention. Coler and his
Brooklyn delegation have prepared
hundreds of affidavits charging all
kinds of violations of the law. Tre
contestants laid the mass of evidence
before the state committee Yesterday
and the whole matter will be threihei
out before the committee on creden.
tials. State Chairman Corners and
Tammany Leader Murphy are said to
be in favor of seating the Coler dele
gates. If so, they will be able to have
it done, as they are credited with hav-
ing control of the state committee
and therefore the naming of the com.
mittee on credentials.
Among the men mentioned as posi-.
BILE delegates at large are Alton B.
Parker, the Democratic candidate for
president in the last national cam
paign; Lieutenant Governor Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler who has a presi.
Dental boom of his own this year; d.
Cady Herrick, who came very close to
being elected governor of New York
four years ago; State Chairman Con-
ners and Charles F. Murphy of Tam
many Hall. Bird S. Coler may be one
of the big four if he succeeds in his
fight against McCarren.
Delegates at Large Unknown.
Chairman Corners said that the con-
vention will be in session two days in
order to give all contesting delegations
a chance to be heard.
The names of only two of the dele
gates at large, he said, have been
settled upon-Charles f. Murphy and
himself. The declination of Mayor
Mcclellan to attend the national con-
vention, he added, had upset the plans
Of the leaders and it was possible
that the names of the other two dele
gates would not be determined until
this afternoon.
The Bryan Progressive League open
ed headquarters in the Victoria ho-
tel yesterday and sent a delegation
headed by William Fl. Black, to see
Charles F. Murphy. Mr.. Murphy told
them that one of the delegates at large
to be chosen in the state convention
would be friendly to William ]. Bryan.
In this connection the name of Lew.
is Nixon is said TO be under consider
alton. Mr.. Murphy informed the dele
cation that no Tammany delegate
would be permitted to give his proxy
to the state convention to Augustus
Thomas, the president of the Bryan
Progressive League, who is scheduled
to address the convention in advocacy
of Nh. Bryan's candidacy.
Mr.. Thomas has a proxy from a del
egate from upstate but efforts have
been made TO secure a Manhattan
proxy for him.