The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-12
CORD MEYER I'LL SERIOUSLY
FsTIL TERMINATION FEiRED
~ FlMILI am IRIEN ~.
EN-DemOeratle state Chairman sun -TIng
FROM . Complication Of Troubles ~
IAis Home In Great Neek Hts Career
IN Politics and In Business

Cord Meyer. a son Of the late Cord
Meyer Of the old time firm OF sugar rein
srs Dick h Meyer. and since lisa inter
ssted in New York Democratic state
politics. u seriously III at his home IA
Great Neck l.. For several weeks
Mr. Meyer has suffered from Comphca-
ton OF diseases and his friends and several
members Of his family were alarmed
seriously yesterday. fearing fatal
termination
MIR Meyer was always a Cleveland
Democrat. was The Democratic candidate
for Secretary Of State in isa3 and was
defeated by George NJ Palmer Of Albany
For two years. from 1904 To lSOd. he was
chairman Of the Democratic State CONF
mittss.
Early in 1909 Mr. Meyer heard Of a
movement seeking his retirement before
the close of his term engineered by
William J. Corners Of Buffalo and Pat
rick y. McCabe Of Albany Mr. Meyer.
promptly notified Mr. Corners and Mr..
McCabe and their friends on the com
mittee that he didn't desire the place II
he was not wanted. that they must call
the committee together and h" would
retire. Mr. Corners and Mr. McCahe
William r. Hearst for Governor. and Mr..
Meyer was unalterably opposed To MIR
Hearst MIR. Meyers challenge was not
accepted and he remained TO call 70 order
the Buffalo convention OF that year which
nominated MIR Hearst.
After the Murphy & onnors committee
on contested seats IN that conv IGNITION had
thrown out enough delegates 10 secure
the nomination Of Mr. Hearst. Mr. MeyeC,
still Democratic State chairman. Issued
this statement:
This - one of the most brutal DAYS work
ever done IN q Democratic state convention
have attended all the Democratic state
for the last thirty vsar~ have
Witnessed many contests IN ~ hitch many
in inst ,ces " ere done for the purpose Of CON
rolling the orgauizat ion against nv protest
In to-day's work of rhe committees on con-
tested seats the wrongs and out RACES com
mtted were for tho purpose 81 controlling
the convention and nominating Hearst.
In all nv experience this - the fret time
that delegates vere wronRfIlly admitted
a nd the legally elected delegates turned ou'
for the .ole purpose 81 nom mating Gov
rrnur In Queens B@rn"i " on over tas-idN
on pr,n try dav hy over lUpn. and Vet Err-
m,l'- tvsive d'lagL'e4 were 'urncl out
In Nassau, the county live m. ther. was
no ius'incaton for admitting IN" Hearst
delegation any more than here was for
Queens The committing ~ these acts and
an tho other acts by the committee on con-
tested seats proves that Hearst could not
have been nom mated " the honestly elected
delegates TO this convention had not been
uns.Rted by the-., methods Of political dts
honesty.
Mr. Never was elected Democratic
State chairman AT Albany on April 90
1904. despite the opposition 81 David X
Hill MIR Never was born at MAspath
l. l. on October q. 1854. and vas educated
az the East Twenty-'hird street public
school IN this city and al the College Of
the City of New York In politics he has
fou ght the late Mayor Battle Axe Glea-
son Of Long Island city and Joseph Cas-
sidy and local Democrats affiliated With
Mr. Cassidy n business man. on the
death 81 his father Mir Never had AZ his
command a fortune ~ 81 .Os1 an. a great
"a r. ~ " hich IN recent years has been de-
! otsd 20 Long Island real estate ieN elop-
ments originally planned many wears ago
bv his father