New-York tribune., 1908-09-16
CHAOS AT ROCHESTER,
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lutely refused to have his delegates unseated
/ put off with half the vote.
You must" said Conners.
You'll bring disaster the national ticket.
said Mack, 'if you don't yield"
] i can't see any yielding on my part. Where
/ do we come in?" persisted Patten.
Well, you've got 10 get OUT" chorused Mack
and Conners And eventually it settled.
The committee on contested seats resumed its
! session at p m after deal of difficulty IN
/ getting room cleared of curious spectators.
/ George A. Williams. the Colerite. who had pre-
sented batch of contests, Withdrew them.
namely. those in the Sd, 9TH, sth. 18th 14th,
18th, 18th and 21st districts of Kings. He pre-
sented his reasons in the following statement,
which typiied those of the others who got out
! Of the way of the steam roller:
/ When we filed our notices Of contests with the
| convention fully intended to present ample
proof TO sustain these contests before this body,
! but since the adjournment of the convention this
afternoon, We have listened to the advice Of
! those who know have the interests of the
J Democratic party at heart. and those in whose
judgment place implicit confidence, and act
ing upon their advice we withdraw all contests
from Kings County. and do this despite the sac
rifices have u make
Our organization Of over 100000 Democrats
! this time pledges its earnest and sincere sup
port the ticket. and unqualthedly offer our
! services to the state committee during the cam
pagn.
/ CHAUTAUQCA CONTEST TAKEN Up.
/ Then the committee took up the Chautauqua
/ contest where. without argument. the Mott and
4 Heffernan delegates were seated win one-nau
vote each. In the Herkmer contest the sit
! ting delegates withdrew in the interest Of har
mony and the success OF the national ticket and
! the home rulers seated.
Then came arguments the 9th and 9th
Kings districts, Maurice Theaii who withdrew
! the claims Of William Il. Mcclure the anti
! McCarren man, in the 9th Kings District to
/ seat in the convention presented the case, in
! which II was asserted that twenty-eight votes
were frauduently cast In Of the election
/ districts. If these thrown out, he said.
the face of the returns would show Mcclure
victory He pointed TO man who had been
summoned by the committee and declared he
! had afidavits swearing that he seen 10
! push bunch Of ballots into the box.
! Liar responded the man indicated. It
looked though a fight was imminent. but
order finally restored
/ Senator McCarren sat stoldly through the
whole performance without word Theall said
that Mcclure was contestng the election In the
courts and that they expected TO win there
! If they were forced TO abandon their claims be-
/ fore the convention. Mcclure made little
speech, in which he said that he had sacrificed
! himself for harmony. william A. Doyle also
made a little speech. in which he said that he
| wanted 10 promote harmony and had therefore
! decided to lie down. He proposed, however. TO
/ keep up the fight against McCarren.
! When Harry S. Patten. OF Oneida was called
/ to do his Withdrawing act 1t was discovered
! that he had gone home In disgust But rep
/ resentative acted for him and the work of the
/ steam roller went merrily on
CHANLER PEOPLE WORK HARD
| Surface sentiment swung between Chanler
and Herrck to-day. with strong veer in the
direction of Dugro. who was considered the most
probable compromise candidate. All day the
! Chaner people worked heroically, lining up dele
gates laboring with Conners to get Murphy
aligned for the Lieutenant Governor. and labor
! ing direct with Murphy in every way possible.
/ ChanIer managers claimed forty-three upstate
counties in the afternoon; by night they had in
! creased this to fifty.
| The Herrick boom had such Industrious
enthusiastic supporters. It pressed chiefly
by older and more conservative Democrats, who
declared that Governor Hughes too hard
man for anybody except old, experienced and
! capable candidate Of tried campaign ability to
! beat.
IF the Democrats think they have any walk
over they better wake up" declared Charles n.
Bulger. Hughes is the most dangerous
we could have against US. and mere popu-
| larity on the part of any candidate is going to
win the battle for against him"
Delegates apparently were all falling into line
! for Chanler. but the delegates don't count for
|
| indiscriminately and follow of the multi
| farious bands which make the city saturnalia
| of noise Whenever the big bosses decide who
! the nominee is to be the delegates will name
| him but IL the convention actually were TO be
! Embossed" there is little doubt that the dele
! gates would choose Chanler.
MINOR PLACES HARDLY CONSIDERED.
| Secondary places hardly have been consid-
/ cred to-day by anybody save anxious place
| seekers All the makeup of the ticket will
| deuend on it's head, and the situation on that
/ remains unchanged.
Chairman Corners worked harder and harder
! for Chanler as the night went on. He dined
with Murphy tonight, and made an effort TO
sA+ him to swing the Chanler band wagon,
! hut # was Of no avail When he upstairs
! N his HEADQUARTERS there were a score OF county
! leaders from upstate there. One after an
| o+be- they were taken into the inner room and
This is the way he went at some of them:
I "Jones. have you got that Chanler badge on7'
! yes, sir
| Are you going to stick?
"you bet your life will stick"
"All right"
! Then the next was brought In. In a few
| minutes the corridor leading to Conners's head
| quarters was choked with leaders who had been
| sen, for Conners waxed more and conf