Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-25
C0nnOrs to
 Resign in. April
BRIEF POLITICAL RETRIEVE
 GRANTED BUFFALO LEADER.
REGENT HARSH STATEMENTS
About Alleged Auctionins of Judge ships in New York Repudisted by Democratic State Chairman.

Albany, N T., Feb. 24.-William J. Corners made good his prediction that he would still be chairman of the dem ocratic state committee after it's meet ing today. In saving his political scalp, however, the chairman lost most of his hair. Charles F. Murphy. the Tam many chieftain, whose complete mas tery of the situa ton was realized by no one better than by Corners himself. granted the Buffalo leader brief polit- ical reprieve m the interest of party harmony, after Corners had agreed to resign in April and to repudiate his recent harsh statements concerning MT. Murphy. and the alleged auctioning of juSsc chips in New York, which he de- clared we're the result of his "infirmi- ties of temper and were unjustifed in fact.
 New Chairman in April.
 Chairman Corners was reelected for a two year term on April IT, 1908, fol- lowing the memorable state convention in Carnegie hall, New York. in which seventeen state committeeman were busted to make room for others more accpetabie to MT. Murphy himself. He announced at the meeting today that under no conceivable circumstances would he be a candidate for re-elec- ton. The office of chairnan, he said "is thankless job,' anyway, and he desired to give more time and at tention to his family and to his busi- ness than he had been able to do since he accepted the responsibilities of lead
 
 however. to work hard to uphold the hands of his successor and to aid in restoring the democratic party to pow er- The state committee will meet some time during the latter part of April to elect new chairman
 Compromise Fixed at Personal Con-
 ference.
 Today's meeting lasted less than Is minutes. After the compromise. which was arranged at personal conference between Corners and Murphy, all fear of a clash at the meeting vanished. and no attempt was made to hold an exec utive session, which had been expected early in the day when trouble ap- peared unavoidable.
 Chairman Corners came down from his room in the Ten Eyck hotel srniI- ing right and left as he eIbowed his way through the crowd waiting in the lobby and in the parlor.s Murphy, the dominating spirit of the occasion, red faced and looking straight ahead. fol- lowed Corners into the meeting place, which was quickly jammed to the doors. The chairman brought the gavei down please come to order" he said as he handed typewriter statement to Clerk John A. Mason.,It was the chair mans announcement of. his intended resignation, dictated after his final word with the Tamnany leader
 Its reading brought only comments in undertones and was quickly follow ed by the call of the meeting. The roll call showed every. district represented. about a dozen committeeman having sent proxies.
 Several resolutions which had been prepared for introduction were quick ly adopted without a dissenting voice, and the meeting adjourned.
 One Of the resolutions was in favor of a federal income tax. Another took a fling at republican misrule" and "the iniquitous tariff law"