New-York tribune., 1922-09-29
Murphy Fails to Effect
Compromise Between
Hearst and Smith; Hy.
Ian Declines to Rum
Delegates Await
Decision of Boss
Up State Women Only
Ones Who Dare to De-
clare for Smith Openly
From a STAFF corresnouaen.

From Stat Correspondent
SYRACUSE, Sept. 23.--Seven hun
dred and thirty-three delegates to the
State Democratic Convention are i'm
patiently waiting tonight till the 734th
delegate decides whom they are going
to nominate for Governor tomorrow.
The 734th delegate is fat and pink
jowled and worried, and his name is
Murphy.
All day long he has been pondering
his problem. Now and then rumors
that his mind was made up leaked out
OF his double-locked post of command.
One of them was to the effect that he
might, in pinch, favor the nomina-
ton OF Hearst. Instantly the word
went back that if Hearst was named q
conslderable number of delegates,
headed by William Church Osborn and
Samuel Seabury, would walk out, the
ultimate destination of many of them
being the camp of Governor Miller.
Furthermore the Hearstophobes de-
clared that as soon as they got into the
open air they would invoke the corrupt
practices act to find out if Hreast has
spent more than $4,000 on his nomi-
nation parade, and if SO, why they
shouldn't have the law on him.
William A. Wallis, who managed
Mayor Hylan's campaign last fall, an
nounced tonight that Mr.. Smith. in
talk with him, had agreed to drop out
OF the race and support whoever was
nominated, even though it was Hearst.
This was indignantly denied by Smith,
who declared he had made no such
statement to Wallis. While the Hearst
men are. trying hard to get Smith. to
run on the same ticket with Hearst,
Smith refuses to be party to any such
There is considerable talk here that
Murphy is being prodded by Hearst to
take the revised Hearst ticket in view
editor-po politician. The latest Hearst
ticket is Hylan for Governor and Hearst
for United States Senator.
When the report filtered down into
the crowded hotel corridors that it was
all fixed for Smith, Mayor Hylan, Of
New York, placidly taking his break
fast, laid by his knife and fork, and
hurried hot foot to room 222, where
the boss is domiciled.
Hylan Protests Against Smith
Mayor Hylan informed the boss that
Smith must not be the candidate under
any circumstances, and that the nam
ing of any other than Hearst would be
regarded as an unfriendly act.
BY noon Murphy had become so
cided to take his customary exercise
on the golf links and refused to go
to the first days session of the con-
vention lest he be waylaid by sup
plicating delegates.
Tonight the great majority of the
delegates are gathered in the clouds
Of cigar smoke in the Onondaga lobby,
asking each other eagerly if any word
has come out of the seac of authority,
they are to be for tomorrow. 1t is 8
case Of the blind leading the blind, for
| the boss himself couldn't tell them at
this hour, if he wanted to.
The only significant incident of the
day was q three-minute demonstration
for "Al" Smith when his name was
! mentioned in the, roll call at the first
session of the convention. At that the
demonstration was not fanatical, but It
was good, hearty cheer and the only
outburst Of any kind that has marked
! the proceedings around here thus far.
| No further acclamation occurred for
the reason that Senator Walker, in his
| keynote speech as temporary chair
| man, sedulously avoided the name of
any Democrat named for any Office lest
| ne might inadvertently start some
thing on the floor.
Murphy Is Absolute
! On one thing is Murphy determined,
and that is that there shall be no ex-
preston Of free will anywhere or ae
any time. He would not permit this
| fight to be carried to the floor of the
convention, where it might swiftly pass
out of his control. Nor will he allow
the delegates to run amuck, SO they
go milling aimlessly about the halls of
the hotel waiting his orders.
! If the slate cannot be fixed between
now and convention time tomorrow
there will have to be an extra session.
Murphy still believes it can be fixed.
Those who have observed his futile
efforts to fix it are not so sure.
The only thing that was decided on
to-day was that John H. Walrath,
Democratic Mayor Of Republican Syria
| (Conttnued or page three}