New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-24
Mayors Pressure Wins
Brooklyn Boss's Pledge
of About Ids Votes to
Publisher at Syracuse
Murphy a Hold-Out,
But Is Wavering
Party Split Seems Sure;
Smith Will Tear Things
Wide Open Friends Say

brooklyn DcmOcIAllC oIHhliAaAtNif 80"
yielded 10 pressure exertcd by Mayor
Hylan and william r. Hearst and has
given informal assurances to William
J. Conners that the Brooklyn delegates
in the Syracuse convention will vote
for Hearst for Governor. II at that
time Mr. Hearst is candidate.
Within the last three weeks Mr..
Conners has called on Mayor Hylan
two or three times. with the result that
through MeCooey's aid Hearst and
Conners have broken into" the New
York City delegation. which usually
votes all one way. Mr.. McCooeys OF
ganization will have about one-ffth OF
the 734 delegates in the convention,
and Mr.. Conners's success IN corralling
them early gives him grounds for say
ing that Hearst will not have serious
opposition at Syracuse.
In conversation with lis political
licutenants Mr.. McCooey says that
Hearst is entitled 70 the support Of the
Brooklyn delegates II he really wants
to be the Democratic candidate for
Governor. According 10 the McCooey
men, Mayor Hylsn never has asked
them TO do much in recognition OF his
services TO the organizatSss. Now
that Hylan desires TO sqrsre accounts
with Hearst and wants the Brooklyn
delegates for the publisher 1t is only
doing the equitable thing 10 give him
what he asks for, they say.
Murphy Resists Pressure
Mayor Hylan is exerting the same
sort of pressure on Charles +. Mur-
ply, but the Tammany boss Is avoid
ing any sort Of assurance that the
wigwam delegation will be for the pub
Usher. The two leaders are not simi-
larly environed. Mayor Hylan, Ike
McCooey, is a Brooklyn politician, and
he has sustained the Brooklyn o1gani-
zation with official patronage. There
is no special reason why MeCooey
should not recognize his claim. In
Manhattan II is different. Former
Governor Alfred Z. Smith is about as
big factor in Tammany Hall as Mr.
Murphy himself. One has control Of
the organization, while ,he other pos
scsses the real affection Of the rank
and file. As matter OF politics. Mur-
ply Is tempted 90 yield 10 Hearst and
gates, as Conners predicts he will, but
II means a break with former Governor
Smith and a probable split in the
Democratic party in the state.
The Wilson men and women in the
party will stand for Tammany as long
as "Al" Smith Is the standard bearer,
but they threaten TO bolt the convention
IL Hearst displaces Smith, and Murphy
Is postponing the day Of wrath - the
day Of dccision-in the hope that
Hearst will give up the quest Of the
Governorship and the Presidency.
Corners claims thirty counties up
state, including Erie County. With the
accession Of McCooey and his big del
egation, he is content 70 let things drift
until the convention assemblies in Syra-
cuse, confident that Mayor Hylan's
pressure on Tammany Hall will bring
Murphy around 70 abandoning his long
time side partner Alfred +. Smith, now
classed BIZ the Mayor and Mr. Hearst
as being unmistakably identified with
"the interests"
Party Split Forecast
There is no longer any doubt In the
minds Of Democratic politicians that
the Hearst candidacy has split the
party. The Hearst-Hylan-C Conners COM
bination is steadily crowding former
Governor Smith to the wall. II he will
"be good" and 20 on the ticket as the
candidate for United States Senator
the revolt against Hearstism at Syria
cuse may be kept within bounds, bat
"Al's" friends predict that he will tear
things wide open" at Syracuse and that
there will be two conventions.
The obstacle preventing Smith from
going on the same ticket with Hearst IS
a set of resolutions read by the then
Governor himself on the night OF Oeto-
Der 20, 1919, az a crowded mass meet
ing in Carnegie Hall, when the Gov
ernor made the following denunciation
Of the publisher:
"That William Randolph Hearst has
pursued a career OF yellow journalism,
in which willful Interpretation OF
policies, perversion Of facts, distortion
of the truth to suit his hate and self
will have been conspicuous charac-
teristies.
THAT William Randolph Hearst has
been tried by public opinion and has
been found wanting as truly loyal
American In one of our nations most
critical hours.
THAT his vituperations, ISLANDERS end
falsehoods directed against some Of
our ablest and most devoted public
servants, living and dead, among whom
may be mentioned former President
Woodrow Wilson, former President
Cleveland, former President Mckinley,
William J. Gaynor, Theodore Roose-
welt, John Purroy Mitchell and Alfred
Z. Smith. have violated every principle
Of justice and fair dealing and tended
TO discourage disinterested public serv-
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