The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
GAYNOR IS URGED FOR PRESIDENCY
 BY NEW WORKERS
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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE D  to say some things in private tomorrow calculated to make his enemies sit up and observe things.
 Fl Up the state Thomas Mott Osborne. president of the democratic league has been waging war against Chairman Con nors. MT. Osborne is in Albany where he has maintained headquarters after giving up a sl5,000 public job merely in order to fight the chairman. Osborne Is supposed to lead the skstocl1ing contin- gent Of the democratic party. Morgan J. O'Brien, legal partner of Alton E. Parker, was one of the founders of the democratic league. S. s. Monken, a big Evaporation lawyer was another. The anti-Connors men were not communica- tive today. Mr Gaffney reported by Eonnors 10 he Murphys henchman in this fight, laughed blithely during the afternoon and declared that he was not at all interested in the coming of the chairman.
 Why to show you how little l am Interested in this meeting I will tell you that I am going to Hot Springs early in the week and will be there when the State committee meets on Thursday Tammany Hall Silent t Abound Tammany hall the usual silence Has maintained. There were whispers, ! However, that MT. Murphy might have been hurt by the famous letters to a boss" published by newspaper here be- fore Christmas. They were written by New York politicians to Charles F. Mur- phy while he was in Mount Clemens, Mich. To every question MT. Murphy allavely replied:
 | # Referred to the committee on ru- mors."
 . M The duty of sounding the presidential ,bugle for Mayor Gaynor abroad in the land falls to former Justice Augustus INan Wyck. The Jeffersonian club of | Springfield, Mos, will hold it's annual dinner in April when MT. Van Wyck will : sound the slogan. Democratic leaders want to have the Gaynor boom we'll under way before William Jennings Bryan arrives in the United States.
 It is understood that Col. Henry Wat terson of Louisville, national figure in the political arena, has also been invited ito speak at the presidential dinner' ia Missouri but whether MT. Watterson will Tourney into Missouri from Florida where he has been spending the winter to help Hong the Gaynorites, is not definitely known.
 The tentative outline for the Missouri boom brings Colonel Watterson to the fore as a sort of sponsor for Mayor Gay nor The Mssourians planned to have Colonel Watterson speak upon the topic
 Has New York Produced Another Tiden?"
 And he will be followed by MT. Van W-yck. who will reply in effect that New York has done that very thing and that his name is Gaynor
 Corners Will Not Resign
 New York, February 2O.-"Ive got just one thing to say,' declared William J. Conners, chairman of the democratic state Committee, here tonght-''Tll not resign, and I shall still be a democrat whatever happens.
 MT. Corners had just returned from Palm Beach and had canvassed the situa- tion with his supporters. He had hurried lbrth to intrench his position before the Gpecial meeting of the state committee to be held in Albany on Thursday at which his opponents hope to oust him. He will remain here until Wednesday, when he will go to Albany and in the interval he expects to see every one of the state eommitteemen individually.
 # Shall you see Charles F. Murphy?' was asked.
 q don't know whether he'll call on me or not" answered Mr. Corners quickly.
 How many votes have they got against fyou in the state committee?"
 sf They've got less than they think they have-how many will be shown on Thurs lsy
 We democrats he went on, always mix in at the wrong time. The organza- Hon is in better condition than I have seen At in 20 years, and I claim I'm the man that had some of the doing of it. I spent my money and I spent my time, and I never meddled in Brooklyn or New York I'm in favor of calling meeting of the state committee at this time but I'm not In favor of a party row. If they want to put me out, why didn't they wait until the Segular meeting of the committee?"
 Corners was asked if he would retire if bis failure to do so meant the disrupting of the party.
 "pm not disrupting the party an- swered MT. Conners Its Murphy that's doing that. I've made good all along the line"
 There were two phases of the situation that MT. Corners would not discuss to- night-the reason why his smouldering quarrel with Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, has recently burst into flame, and the attitude of William Ran Aolph Hearst. whose shadow also lies across the political map. One of his ad- visors was Franker though he, too, de- oiined to let his name be used. In sub stance this person said that Murphy moves now because he must either move or die of inanition nothing else is nov ing in Tammany Hall. Mayor Gaynor' 8 administration goes on looping branches of the plum tree and no fruit falls in the Tatmmany basket. Murphy has to be stir ring or lose his leadership at home. If he wins against Corners he may regain another lease of power to tide him over the shallow years of the Gaynor admins tratlon; but if he loses he loses not only at Albany but in Fourteenth street.
 4r. Hearst is saying nothing Nobody assumes to speak for him with authority, but persons close to him in his last cam paign believe that although he has been twice defeated for mayor of New York and once for governor, he stands stronger with the people now than ever. These persons point out that it was through MT. Hsarst's candidacy that Tammany was defeated and reform ticket elected, and that after the election he received public praise in a quarter where he had reasons to believe he had heretofore been held lightly. The greater the disruption in the two established parties, they say, the stronger will third ticket be taken in the fall, should MT. Hearst care to put enc in the field.