New-York tribune., 1918-07-03
Democratic Revolt Expect
ed if Publisher Is In
dorsed at Saratoga
Murphy Silent
After Conference
Eleven of Twenty-three Dis
trict Leaders Openly
Against Editor

Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany
leader, spent part of yesterday in Tam
many Hall conferring with the district
leaders, presumably over the possible
candidacy of William r. Hearst for
Governor. The boss has not clipped
his hand" ms the saying goes in the
Hall, and the small fry are utterly at
sea about what they shall spass out"
to the district captains and others.
A canvass shows that at least
eleven of the twenty three district
leaders are hostile to Mr.. Hearst as
Democratic standard bearer, and five
or six Of the eleven go so far as to
say they will fight any move to make
Hearst the candidate. They probably
will show more or less hostility to
Hearst until the boss tells them what
to do, and then the greater number of
them will fall into line. as usual.
It was learned yesterday that Samuel
Seabury, formerly judge of the Court
Of Appeals o: New York and Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor in 1916.
is to be at the state convention in
Saratoga on July %, and mis- friends
SAID yesterday that he was preparing
for war on Hearst. In a statement on
April l last Judge Seabury said that
Hearst and Tammany had formed an
alliance to seize the state government,
and the Judge, his friends say, still is
OF the opinion that Mr.. Murphy, while
detesting the man whose papers once
pictured the boss of Tammany Hall
as wearing stripes, is willing to "stand
Tor" him as candidate for Governor.
provided the Tammany district lead
ers feeding at the public crib through
the grace of Mayor Hylan are left un-
disturbed.
Expect Hearst Petitions
I'VE all expect" said a prominent
Iammany man yesterday, "to see the
Hearst petitions place Hearst in the
race, although the petitions will doubt
less be held back until the SARATOGA
convention.r
The Committee of Forty-two, sup
with reference to choosing an upstate
candidate, will meet in Syracuse on
July 3, but no one expects that the
committee will do more than pick out.
ABOUT dozen names for the corsid-
Grafton of the state convention on
July %. This viii leave the matter
open, and allow Hearst. Hyan and
Ionners to marshal their forces for
the state convention
IL Hearst can Eeop
up IN the air. until after the SARATOGA
convention he will have tactical ad
vantage which can only be overcome
by decisive battle in the convention.
and this the anti.Hearst men are pre-
pared to force if the Committee of
forty-two IN Syracuse next week fails
10 decide on some one from up the
state. Hearst, With the aid of Murphy,
McCooey aAd Hylan, can come prettv
rear forcing the nomination of Hearst.
any way the situation is viewed. the
democrats are in for q bitter fight if
Hearst is a candidate"
Fitzgibbon May Lead Fight
In Tammany Hall it is believed that
the only Hearst man on the original
steering committee of seven, which
organized the errti-Hearst conference
IN April, is Mayor Fitzgibbon. of
oswego. who supports municipal own
eershlp and other things advocated nv
Hearst. he T0mmany men who fear
Hearst believe .aat Mayor Fitzgibbon
VIII lead the fight for him among the
upstate men, thus breaking into the the
supposed anti-Hearst fences above the
Harlem. The Endorsement of Hearst
in Saratoga would be only the hegin-
nlng of the trouble for the Democratic
party. Probably President Wilson
would be dragged into it in some man
ncr.
There is not the slightest doubt
among the anti Hearst Democrats that
there Will be bolt at the SARATOGA
convention if Hearst is indorsed
formally as the candidate for Gov.
ernor. Whether it will be led by Judge
Seabury is wholly matter of con
lecture. ~o'''
In his April statement Judge Sea-
bury said that there are cover 200 600
Democrats IN the state who will not
uhaer any circumstances vote for
Hearst; Hearst has put himself out
slae the pale of consideration as a
candidate for any office on the Demo
cratic ticket. He has fought, usually
by foul means, almost every con-
splcuous Democrat who has appeared
in public life in the past two decades
PRESIDENT Wilson, Mr.. Bryan. Secre-
tary Lane in California, Governor
tuhhe IN iiilnols, and the late Mayor
daynor IN New York. He supported
Judge Hughes against President viii
son in 1915 and openly advocated the
election of Governor Whitman"
Watching Business League
Meanwhile the politicians will keen
weather eye on the lately incor-
porated Business Mems League of CITY
and State, revamped last week from
the Business Mems League which
brought about the nomination Of
Hylan last fall and backed him as a
peoples candidate. At the headquar-
ters IN Forty second Street they put
up large oil painting of Abraham
Lincoln and visitors were asked to
note the close resemblance between the
Emancipator and the Bushwick Ave
nue. statesman. The league was in
corporated. it is understood so that it
may be ready to do for Hearst what
it did for Hylan Lass year.