New-York tribune., 1922-08-12
Hearst Rebuff
Il Erie County
Shocks Conners
.r,rgy,. Goes Into Retreat
nd Brews War Medicine
for Home District Men
who "Double : Crossed
liter Fitzpatrick's Scalp
,.,,.nhy Also Is Suspected;
Tamrnany Hunts Dark !.
Horse to snake a Noise"

:, rorners WAS so upset yes
inss .ver the news from Erie
s'ssy shst the local Democratic or
esans, es,;on Mad indorsed Alfred II. Smith
fss'lcss scs,,arnor that he denied himself
!. y III callers. His lieutenants IN room .s a
Z ~ = i the Hotel McAlpin, where the M
~ Is handed to the Hearst boomers,
g. sss;..sa that Mr. Conners woulo star.
x..a for his home county to see just
ss. /. vas put over on HIM. ;,
aes esss;a,zpatrick 4 doublc-erossed MIN,
!. the ,bs explanation offered by one
VS. us sA conners's friends for the un-
= @,.s,.ed ~ wallop handed the guberna,-
eapss, hoom of William Randolph
isI.s. ,.. bv the Erie County Democrats.
hss,'r q, ronners. his lieutenants in Room
* "a u. + be known, will take per
-. .y eharge of the primary fight he
ssaa, .aas IA wage against the organiza-
assADs ...s with the avowed object of not
w st,, santuring delegates for Mr..
kss.srs. ~ hut of ousting William II. Fltz-
'sr;ck from his leadership.
Locks Bad For Conners
rrnless Mr.. Conners succeeds in
)kIecting himself as a delegate the
Eearst forces at the Democratic State
rouvention will find their multi-nlil-
iionaire campaign director sitting IN
the visitors gallery, without any voice
/, the deliberations of the 'conven-
ton.
Mr.. Conners, it was said at Hearst
headduarters last night. would spare
neither energy or money-and he has
plenty of both at his disposal-to pun
Isl Mr. Fitzpatrick and the rest of
the Democratic organization for not
remaining neutral.
sir. Conners owns two newspapers
ii Buffalo and many other properties
IN Erie County, and employs, according
Il his own statement, about $4,000 mer
and women. He was regarded by the
friends of Mr.. Hearst here as so pow
,rful in his home county that he coulc
d. least prevent the Erie County or.
sanization--which he ran for. many
years--from taking a stand decidedly
hostile to himself and Mr.. Hearst.
Some Of Mr., Smiths friends thinl
they see in the action Of the Erie Coun.
y organization-which has always
played with Tammany Hall-the hanc
! sf Charles F. Murphy, who so far ha:
declined publicly to announce his pesi.
lion on candidates.
Put Trust in Murphy
Regardless of what up state does o,
nay do, the state convention will be
controlled by Mr.. Murphy, since, New
York City has majority of the dele
gates, and the supporters of Mr.. Hearst
srt counting on the Tammany leader t.
swing the convention, under pressure
Of Mayor Hylan, for the editor-politi
ean
Those who profess to have Mr.. Muir.
phTs confidence say that he will never
stand for Mr. Hearst, not that he
would not personally be willing to dc
70, but for fear of an open revolt such
IS has been threatened by Thomas F
Pssy, leader of the 1st Assembly
District, and next to Mr.. Murphy the
most powerful leader in the Tammany
sTganization -
Iammany in the dilemma is casting
soaut for a compromise candidate
friends OF Mr.. Smith are as bitterly
! opposed p Mayor Hylan, whom the,
regard as nothing but a tool of his
worst enemy. as they are to Mr.. Hearst
himself. The situation is such thai
almost any one who could make a noise
would be acceptable to Tammany as {
compromise. Some enthusiastic friends
OF David Hirshfeld, the Mayors Com
missioner Of Accounts, were talking o.
TINS ardent champion of the Mayor az
'ne man to oppose Governor Miller.
An addition to the dozen or more
names which nave been presented tt
Mf' Murphy as compromise, a new
one cropped up yesterday in that OF
daage Thomas 7. G. Grain, of the Gen.
/ sral Sessions bench