The Washington herald., 1908-04-15
BRYAN TURNED DOWN
Instruction Proposal Disap-
proved by Convention.
MoCARREN BEFORE COMMITTEE
Says He viii Not Go Before Court
Again, However, but Is Seeking
Fair Play-He and AicCabe To Walk
the Plank, Declare Murphy and
Corners, Through Friends.

New York April 1.-THE McCarren in
junction having been so modified as no
longer TO Interfere with the permanent
Organization Of the Democratic State con-
yention, temporary organization was
| effected to-day at Carnegie Hall.
The convention adjourned until noon
tomorrow. after sending TO the platform
committee unread a resolution offered by
Mr.. COatswoFth, OF Erie. insTucting for
Bryan.
The platform committee got 70 work
after the convention at the Victoria Hotel
Augustus Thomas spoke in support of the
Coatsworth resolution for Bryan. Sen
ator Grady chairman Of the COMMITTEES.
appointed a committee OF seven TO take
the matter under consideration.
Later In the day this subcommittee. by
vote Of to /. refused to accept the
Bryan resolution. The committee of the
whole. thereupon. overwhelmingly defeat
ed it,
Mr.. Coatsworth said minority report
win be submitted to the convention.
Credentials Committee Busy.
The credentials committee started in to
sit all night. Conners and Murphy.
though. told their friends McCabe. OF Al
bany, and MeCarren. Of Kings. would
walk the plank Ten of the sixteen as
sembly districts Of McCarren. they added.
were TO be turned out of the convention.
including the Fourteenth, McCarren's.
McCarren, when he heard this, said:
Trouble is ahead for somebody if they
persist in this course"
McCarren denied he would resort to
further court proceedings, and smiled and
dissented from the report that he had
f1fty-one injunetions handy serve. one
on each member Of the committee on
credentials.
The committee on delegates -at-Iarge
and the alternates, Arthur A. Mclean,
had a perfunctory session and adjourned
to 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Prediction Regarding Delegation.
"A good guess" said Mclean. would
be that the four delegates-at-large will
be Mr. Conners, Mr.. Murphy, John B.
stanehfeld, and Lewis Nixon. There has
been no talk yet as to the alternates-at-
large"
The committee on contested seats got
together at 4 O'Clock and on motion Of
Daniel F. Cohalan. Tammany spokesman.
| Charles \. Bulger was made chairman.
Bulger had on a contest which was called
of by the convention dictators and he
was taken into the fold
Senator McCarren and McCabe made no
fight on Bulger because they realized
they were hopelessly in the minority.
Bulger was elected unanimously. The
committee voted TO adjourn for two
hours.
When the committee assembled again
at $50 o'clock the room was in uproar
All contesting delegations were on hand
anxious TO see that they gos fair play
The crowd was inclined to be boisterous.
Senator McCarrae and his men got
! front seats. At the start he said he had
no more court orders up his sleeve and
was only interested IN fair play
You'll get fair treatment. all right 4"
said Cohalan. THESE contests win all
be decided on their merits.
McCabe Contest First Heard.
The first contest was in the First. Sec
ond and Third assembly districts of Al
bany County. Patrick Z. MeCabe's dele
CATION had been put on the temporary
roll Of the convention.
George Delany. nominated for district
attorney by the MeCabe faction, but who
/ had deserted and Joined the forces of
Jacob L. Teneyck. who asplres TO succeed
! AcCabe as State committeeman and lead
er of Albany County, appeared In behalf
/ OF the contestants
Delany made It plain that the contest
hinged largely on charges of frauds at
the primaries. He declared that ballot
stuffing was frequent. and that had the
election been fair Teneyek would have
carried the First and Third districts.
where, he said, the chief evidence of
fraud had been gathered, and probably
the Second. where no investigation had
been made.
William Y. Cooke. who nominated
Hears at Buffalo. appeared for the Nc
; Cabe men He made no attempf To nlea4