The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-14
YORK STATE
CONVENTION
MEETS TODAY
Outlook Is for an Uninstructed
Delegation to the Den
yer Meeting.
BRYAN MEN WILL PUT
UP A STRONG FIGHT
SENATOR PAT M'CARREN OF
BROOKLYN SPRINGS SURPRISE
ON TAMMANY ORGANIZATION.

New York. April 1S.-The Democratic
state convention, which will open at
Carnegie hall at noon tomorrow. prom
Uses to be as interesting in its deliber-
ations as in its conclusions.
A two days session is planned, and
unless all signs fail, the time allot-
ted Will be required for the BUSINESS
at hand.
First and foremost, there will be a
determined fight i'm the interests of the
candidacy of William j. Bryan. The
Bryan mer~will in all probability lose.
and an uninstructed delegation will be
sent TO the national convention at Den
yer.
Bryan Men Will Not Quit.
The defeat of the Bryan men. who
viii be in a minority. is quite likely to
be accomplished in the committee on
resolutions. The committee, controlled
by Tammany Leader Charles f. MUIR
ply and Chairman W. j. Connors. is
expected to sQuelch anything proposed
in, the way of a minority report. The
report of the majority will probably
criticiSe the Republican administra-
ton and invite Democratic victory
in November. but will avoid a mention
of presidential candidates and resolve
that an uninStructed delegation be sent
to the national convention. Any subse-
quent attempt to get the name of Mr..
Bryan before the convention will be
sat upon.
Anticipating tomorrow action. Au-
gustus Thomas, the president, and 9TH
ers of the Bryan Democratic Progress
sive league tonight issued a statement
demanding the Endorsement of Mr.. Bry-
an. Mr. Thomas has secured the proxy
of an upstate delegate, and will make
a fight on the floor of the convention
to have the league statement adopted
as resolutions.
Stole a March on Tammany.
The TammaDy organization was TAX
en- by surprise late today. when Sena-
tor McCarren secured supreme court
writ compelling the placing upon the
temporary roll call of the McCarren
delegates from Brooklyn. 1t was too
late for a counter action today, and
when the state committee met this
evening the court order was Obeyed.
The end of this fight. however, is not
yet. The anti-McCarren delegates from
Brooklyn have already served notice
that they will make an effort to have
the court order vacated. A smart tilt
in the committee on credentials is in
evitable. not only in the case of Sen
ator McCarren's delegation, but as well
in that of the contested delegations of
Patrick McCabe from Albany county
and John n. Carlisle from jefferson
county.
All three leaders have engaged in
many campaigns. and they made it
known clearly tonight that any at
tempt to unse2t their delegations would
be stoutly contested.
Meeting of Bryan League.
There was a meeting y the Bryan
Progressive league tonight, at which
it was decided to strongly support
President Thomas. There were also
rumors of bolt in the event that the
convention refused to give any consi1-
Grafton to the move for Bryan. These
rumors, generally, were not taken Sc
riously.
Chairman Connors viii call the SON
ventiOn to order and Temporary Chair
man Thomas CarmOdy. who will prob
ably preside throughout will make the
principal address of the gathering.
Chairman Connors and Leader Muir
ply will be delegates at large, and
others being tentatively considered to.
ilASllN dlc JuASc al AAtAs OOAiA
b. Stanchfield and Lewis Nixon.
Mr.. Nixon is being talked of as the
Bryan representative. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Murphy is not opposed to the
selection of Mr. Nixon, who is known
to be friendly TO the Nebraskan's in
terests.
Statement of the League.
The Bryan leagues statement is as
follows:
The Bryan Progressive Democratic
league respectfully calls to your at
tention the following conditions ex-
listing in the country and offers those
conditions as a reason why your hon
orable body should recommend to the
convention the Endorsement of the cam
didacy Of William Jennings Bryan and
the instruction of its delegates at the
national convention in favor of that
candidate.
THE league respectfully submits that
the public conscience is awakened and
a change in the policies applied in the
government is demanded by the peo-
pie The opportunity of the Democrat
ic party lies in showing to the peo-
pie the evils that have grown under
the protective tariff
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