New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-24
DARK FOR CONNERS


,,eas,,re at this session of the Iegis-
lature which will give them a chance to
fight for an entire reorganization Of the
democratic State Committee through the
! primaries in the fall.
All talk Of postponing the fight against
Conners because Of the trouble 1t is
likely to cause stopped tonight. I'VE
have got the votes and We intend to go
ahead" said Mr.. McCabe You don't
often find majority of an Organization
leading to do something and then back
ing down. do your
Friends OF Mr.. Corners were talking
vaguely tonight Of the impossibiiity OF
legally deposing Mr.. Corners, because
| Democratic state chairman has never
/ been thrown out before between conven-
lions They hint that when the enemies
of the state chairman fnd that he will
not resign they win not attempt to throw
him out
! There is good authority, however. 1or
the statement that the rules of the COM
mittee do not limit the term OF the state
chairman. Custom has always MADE IL
run from state convention to state con-
vention, but this is only an unWrltten
rule and may be abrogated at any tihe-
Il take it, said an officer OF the COM
mittee tonight, that the state commit
tee. being the highest authority In the
party. has the right to establish "nat
rules it sees fit to govern it In any par
ticular case"
OBSTRUCTIVE TACTICS.
There seems to be no doubt, however,
that this point will be raised at the
meeting Tomorrow, and the Corners
men are inclined to adopt all the OBJ
structive tactics which may come to
their minds.
1t Is understood that soon after the
meeting opens an anti-Conners man will
introduce a motion for the election of
new chairman. Who will do this is not
decided tonight. The opening fight will
come on this resolution. But the Con-
ners party do not intend to back down
even when they are beaten here. Al
though men influential in the party, and
even his own friends, are trying to per
suade him not to do It, Mr.. Corners Is
planning to make a speech in the COM
mittee which will EXPOSE the selfish and
and his friends.
The rotunda and halls of the Ten Eyck
Hotel tonight look not unlike the scenes
before Democratic state convention. It
is hard to make ones way around the
office floor, and conferences are going on
in half dozen headquarters
The centre ~of activity is on the sew
enth floor, where Charles r. Murphy has
his headquarters. He arrived about 6
o'clock. and in few minutes was in
conference with Patrick E. McCabe who
has been running the upstate end of the
anti-Conners coalition. Later he was
joined by John H. McCooey, The Kings !
County leader. Mr.. Corners says he has |
won over some of the Kings County
men, but Mr. McCooey makes it plain |
that so far as he can see they owe moth |
ing TO the state chairman.
F'UHRMANN SEES MURPHY.
Mayor Louis P. Fuhrmann of Buffalo, |
one of the Corners committeeman, after |
a talk with the state chairman went TO |
he told the Tammany boss that il he
was much mistaken; also that Mr.. Con-
ners had no intention OF being kicked
out without putting UP as game a fight
as possible. He pointed out that an open
fight at this time would hurt the Or
ganizaton and injure the chances Of
Democratic success this fall. Murphy
was obstinate, however. according to re-
port. He professed to believe that after
Corners had walked the plank it would
make very little difference what he said
or did.
Arthur H. Mclean, treasurer of the
who formerly was with Mr..
Corners hand and glove, but who is now
with his enemies, acted as an envoy |
from the Tammany leader to the state |
chairman. He did his best to get Con-
ners to resign gracefully, but apparently
made not the slightest impression.
1t will probably be an open meeting,
and the outlook is for the most stormy
session ever held by the Democratic State
Committee. Chairman Corners has all
along declared that he would insist on
The meeting being open, and friends Of
Mr. Murphy have advised him that he
would put himself in bad position by
standing out for an executive session.
At present Murphy is in favor of open
ng the doors, but several dispatches |
we're received by Tammany men to-
hight saying that a crowd of Corners
ympa thizers would come down from
Buffalo tomorrow with the intention of
ausing trouble. Corners does not deny
hat many of his friends will be on !
land but he denies that any plans for
breaking up the meeting have even been
emotely thought Of.
1t is expected that every member of
he committee will be present either in
erson or by proxy. Thomas F. Smith,
ecretary of Tammany Hall, carries in
is pocket the proxies Of Magistrate
,aniel E. Finn, who is seriously ill., OF
Sergeant Cram, who is kept away by
recent death in his family, and one or
No others.
A member Of the Corners faction de-
AIRED tonight that Murphy had tried
work a sharp trick on them He
,und three men. who for certain rea-
ms. according to the story. could not
ford openly to oppose Corners But