New Britain herald., 1922-09-28
TAMMANY BOSS IS
 MUCH CONSULTED
Murphy Spends Day Listening to
 Rival Candidates Workers

Syracuse, Sept 2S.--Charles F. Murphy occupies the advance listen | ing post before the convention which will undertake today to nominate a democratic candidate for governor. ! Murphy Is trying to decide the gu- bernatorial situation and from every indication he Is having the hardest task of his long political life.
 He listened all day to arguments from friends of former Governor Smith, and he listened to arguments, pleadings, caiolery and threats from the friends of William R. Hearst, Last night he was still listening and today he will follow the same pro gram. Murphy listens and keeps mum. His visitors are no wiser when they leave him than when they ar rived
 In corner room on the second floor of the Onondaga hotel Murphy sits in big armchair and smokes innumerable cigars while he listens. It is Room 21S and there is a steady stream of people going and coming. 1t is a room to be remembered for it is where the next democratic can didate for governor is to be named. There is no illusion among Murphy's visitors as to the power he wields. It is conceded by everyone that the Tammany boss is the whole conven- tion SO far as the selection of can didate for governor is concerned. When he stops listening and decides who is to be named the identity of the candidate will be known.
 The list of Murphy's visitors for one day reads like page from Who's Who in New York's democracy" All sorts and conditions of leaders, up- state and down-state, are in the throng. They appear, tell their tales and vanish. They seek Murphy out as soon as they arrive in town and then appear again if Murphy sends for them. Organization democrats, Smith democrats, Hearst democrats and independent democrats-all are welcomed. They include congress men, state senators, assemblymen, mayors and just plain leaders. Some, like William H. Kelley. democratic boss of Onondaga county, are more favored than others and get Murphys ear at all times.
 Mayor Hylan of New York had barely got planted in the hotel yes- terday when he sought out Murphy. Hylan was accompanied by Grover Whalen, and the two had an audience of half an hour with the Tammany chief. Murphy has a real liking for Mayor Hylan, and those close to him say that he will do anything for Fly Ian within reason. Of course. Hylan came to plead the cause of Hearst. But even Hylan does not know just what Murphy is going to do. Hylan's' argument was that Smith was un- reasonably opposed to Hearst, and if he insisted on his anti-Hearst po- sition party harmony would be ser iously imperiled. The mayor arg B,d that Hearst was the more logical can ddate for governor. He insisted that the political trend of the country as shown in recent elections was toward radicalism. and that Hearst's record in this regard was far better than Smiths.
 Smiths stand on upstate public service utilities and fractions subjects, as well as that of the Port Authority were cited as proof that he was in closer accord with Governor Miler's policies than ever Hearst would be and that the democrats must nomi- nate a candidate who was the direct antithesis of everything Governor Miller represents.
 Murphy was told by the mayor and | other sympathizers that Smith should | sink his personal enmity against |