Evening star., 1922-09-29
SESSION H|TCHED
AT SYRACUSE BY
FIGHT ON HEARST
Smith Firm in Refusal to Run
on Ticket With Pub
Usher.
MURPHY HAS HANDS
FILLED WITH TROUBLES
Gubernatorial and Senatorial Con-
troversies May Be Settled
Tonight.
BL n. O. MESSENGER,
STAN Correspondent of The Star.

BL n. o. MESSENGER.
Stan Correspondent Of The Star
SYRACUSE, n. Y, September es-
The fourth day of the negotiations
and conferences over the guberna-
torial and senatorship nominations
found Boss Murphy still impaled orr
the horns of his dilemmas, which
seem to have as many prongs as an
antlered stag. The chiefest of his
problems continued to be to induce
Mr.. Smith. if nominated for the gov
ernorship, to agree to run on the
ticket if Mr.. Hearst should be named
for the senatorship.
At 10 o'clock this morning. leaders
close to Mr.. Murphy declared that
indications strongly point to the
nomination of Mr.. Smith for the gov
ernorship. They were in a quandaEx
as to the senatorship.
The theory Of nominating Mr..
Smith is to give him a vote which
he might regard in the nature of a
mandate from his party and cause
him to dissipate his objections to Mr..
Hearst.
Firm In Attitude.
The latest reports of Mr.. Smiths
attitude. however, are that he is still
firm in intention not to run with
Mr.. Hearst. There is strong pres
sure in the rank and file for the NOM
ination Of Mr.. Hearst as senator,
even in the Tammany delegation.
One of the big democrats who is
understood to have urged taking Mr..
Hearst into favorable account is
Norman E. Mack, national committee
man for New York. He is said to
have contended that the party could
not afford to run over Mr.. Hearst. 1t
looks now as If the nominations will
be made at a late hour tonight or
In the gray of the morning. A tenta-
tive plank in the platform favoring
light wines and beers is expected
to cause a fight. The plank is merely
submitted and WITH be subject to a
vote by delegates without the en-
forcement Of the unit rule.
"situatfon Unchanged"
When Col. William Green Sterret of
Washington and Texas was attending
national convention he was ap-
preached by Louis Seibold, the we'll
known writer, at 4 stage in the pro-
ceedings when candidates. were up
in the air and asked what he knew.
Assuming a profound air. the colonel
the cream of the journalistic fore
casters and the elect of the political
sharps, and I find that the situation
has not changed. In other words, none
Of them knows blessed thing about
it."
Which remark would have applied
to conditions here at a late hour last
night after a day of fruitless confer
ences between the chief factor of this
occasion, Charles F. Murphy of Tam
porters of Mr.. Hearst and former Gov.
Smith, the contestants for the guber-
material nomination.
One feature of these conferences has
come to be very conspicuous that
Mr.. Murphy, in all these hours of con-
patient listener, but without COM
ment, has given ample opportunity
for the opponents OF Mr.. Hearst to set
forth in detail their reasons why Mr..
Hearst should not be nominated. and
their charges that his nomination
would lore the democratic party the
election in November. One might al
most have suspected. some method in
his course
At the same time, however. The
Hearst boomers were afforded an
opening to point out to Mr.. Murphy
how desirable it would be to have the
Hearst publications and the Hearst
resources at the command of the
party and how dangerous it might be
il they were withheld. 1t may be
taken for granted that this oppor-
tunity was not overlooked by the
Hearst spokesmen.
Capt. shuler I'm Field.
Washington may be said to have
candidate in the field. He Is Capt.
George K Shuler OF the Marine
CORDS, who has been stationed at the
marine barracks in Washington for
the past two years. He has an en-
yiable record of service overseas in
the world war and is loaded with all
kinds of medals and decorations.
He would like to be nominated for
the lieutenant governorship. ana his
candidacy received boom when the
republicans put an ex-service man OH
their ticket in the person Of O'Dono-
van. Capt. Shuler's friends saw Boss
Murphy last night and made strong
presentation of his case. The Tam
many chief listened attentively.
Yesterday afternoons session OF the
convention. devoted to organization,
was a tame affair as conventions have
gone. For ons thing, 1t has been ten
years since the clans gathered in con-
vention, having effected their nomi-
nations in their primaries. and 1t was
a novel experience to the younger
generation. There was none OF the
old swing and rattle to the scene, but
instead a subdued atmosphere pre-
vailed. Possibly the far-famed and
Justly celebrated Mr.. Volstead may
have contributed something to the
dullness.
Occasion was presented, however
for an outline of the kind of cam
pafgn the democrats intend to make
in this state, whoever are nominated
for governor and senator. In the
keynote speech, delivered by State
Senator Walker, Tammany leader in
the assembly. forecast was given OF
the harsh things the democrats pro-
pose to say about the republican can
didate for governor, the republican
party of the state and the republic
can national administration and
party.
Root H0tly -ChallenEea.
Elihu Roots presentation OF the
record of Gov. Miller the republican
nominee for election as governor,
which record is undoubtedly the
strongest card the republicans Of the
state have in the coming campaign,
was hotly challenged and sought to be
refuted. Three-fourths OF the speak
ers' remarks were directed to o dis
section and denial Of the claims made
for Gov. Miller. ....
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