New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-28
BOOMERS FOR HAVENS
CAPTURE ROCHESTER
Fill the City with Pictures and
: Praise of Their Can
diddfe.
MAKERS BUSY
document Will Contain q Direct
Nominations Piank-Ante-
Convention Incidents
and Gossip.
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Rochester. Sept. Fittings were not al
together serious around this convention
CITY to-day. and when the incoming deie-
gate MANAGED to break away from the
deadIv-in-earnest Rochester Ravens BOOM
ers he found other and lighter Incidents TO
KIN time with before the real crowd ar
Tives tomorrow
Rochester stands for Ravens all right
and stands for him strongly that MS
boomers have pre-empted ell the available
sign SPACE on the Whitcomb House. That
hotel also shelters the state committee,
but the casual visitor. from a glance az the
signs which decorate the front OF the
building and the corridors inside. Vouid
he driven TO think that it was solely
Ravens headquarters. or If he knew that
the wnitcomb was the state committee
headquarters he might almost think That
the committee stood for Havens-
CONGRESSMAN Suffers boom is treated
strictly as a joke by the Ravens following
One reason for their unanirnity in viewing
II thus is the result of a flood of pamphlets
which the aspiring Congressman sent 70
Monroe County lawyers. The Rochester
LAWYERS opened the envelopes frarked by
SuIzer. expecting something bearing on
the campaign, but found a neatly bound
volume. with a tombstone Oh tAtt NCNVtf
containing memorial speeches in honor Of
a Missouri Congressman who died about
twenty years ago Some Of the Ravens
tribe were so unkind as to write to Mr..
sulzer that he had struck upon the finest
possible portrayal Of his chances for the
nomination
Corners Has Tale Of Woe.
Tbinss u-era rather in the doldr1n1s early
I'm the afternoon before the arrival Of
Charles F. Murphy, the Tamn1any boss,
and State Chairman Dix Suddenly VIII
lam J. Conners breezed into the corridor
of the whitconb House Wearing long
black overcoat and shiny silk hat, the
former chairman Of the state committee
looked more like an undertaken than any
thing else II was quite different two
years ago when ne was the big boss
and damned through the nomination of
Lewis stuyvesant Chanler for Governor
Then he was all smiles. Now he has
sad sort of look. as II he was not sure
iust where he was at.
But Mr. Corners did not intend to he
unnoticed If he could help II. He went to
look at the two small bandboxes that
had been reserved upstairs for his USE
and then came boiling down 20 the desk
with tale of woe. He had ordered a
suite of large rooms. where he could open
headquarters I'm which to receive his
friends you know. He expected, of course,
that his old chum. Thomas w Ffnucane.
who owns the Whitcomb, would look out
for him. They were sorry, the clerk said;
they had not understood.
A Direct Nominations Plank.
Direct nominations viii form one OF the
principal planks OF the Democratic state
platform this fall Talks with leaders here
show that they are counting on the Repub-
Iican party's standing for only a mid form
of direct nominations. and they intend to
derive all the advantage possible from such
an attitude on the part of the enemy.
From what can be learned the Demo-
cratic platform viii probably demand a
statewide and broad direct nominations
bill. One Of the leaders in commenting on
what ought TO be done said: Il would go
so far as to have all nominations made by
direct vote of the people. doing away with
all the conventions. The people seem to be
for II. and believe the organization would