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PRESIDENT ON
WATERWAYS.
SPEAKS AT MEMPHIS TO
GREAT AUDIENCE.
;,../.. v to Gulf Project Strongly In
dorsed — Starts for Louisiana
Hunting Trip.
'By Telegraph to TV* Tribune. 1
Memphis. Oct. — The people of Memphis gave
president Roosevelt a magnificent reception' to
,la>. It • Lined almost all day, but no amount
. f v.nior from the skies could dampen the en
thusiasm of the thousands who turned out to
prect him. All the way out to the spacious
.--kritinK rink, where the Waterways Convention
is holding its sessions, the crowds lined the
streets. Hundreds waited In the rain until ho
]ad finished his speech at the Auditorium in
cyder to get one. more look at him and give him
one more cheer.
President's stay in Memphis was only
three a:iii three-quarters hours, but e\»»n at that
the Til'iff City forty-live minutes more
led for, and departed for
■: hunt camp in Louisiana at 4:4."» o'clock
Isstead of at 4 p. m.
As h« walked up from the wharf, after touch
- thai pressed the first bale of cotton
In a new iloating compress. Dr. Alexander Lam
■ who Is to b' one of Ins hunting compan
une down the cobblestone incline to meet
"Why. Wllo. Altckl" he cried. "I'm ever so
glad to fp» you." and he seized his old friend's
arm and dragged V.irn into his carriage.
out at the. big hall there was scarcely a per-
SOB when the President arrived, for all the
streetcars had been stopped to allow the parad»
t > pa=s. But within fifteen minutes the hall
BDed as if by magic, and when he arose to
Fpeak he received a cheer that reminded one of
■ rational convention when the favorite can
didate has been nominated.
CONGRESSMEN ON SANDBAR.
The only part of the big crowd In Memphis
this evening that Is not overjoyed with every
thing in general is the contingent of Congress
men that came down on the Tennessee. The
Representatives are Just about as angry as they
run be and are standing around the hotel lobbies
Faying unprintable things. Just as their steam
er got within sight of the smoke from the
Memphis factories this morning the Tennessee
ran her nose Into a sandbar. She evidently
lilted that randbank, for she resolutely remained
there for three long: hours. In the mean time
the big show was going on in Memphis, and al
though it was raining steadily there were .no
rain checks for the Congressmen. They got to
Memphis after 2 o'clock, when the President
had made his 6peech. The crowds had melted
iron the wet streets and there were no loud
cheers for the lawmaklng laggards. "While their
boat was on the sandbar the Congressmen did
their best to while away the time by telling
Btciiea and playing schoolboy tricks. A ques
tion of personal prowess was raised between
John Wesley Games, of Tennessee, and Mr.
Cooper, of Wisconsin, and to settle It on the
Fpot a ■wrestling match was arranged. After a
few holds and locks, breaks and clinches. John
Wesley went to the floor, and when he came up
found he had acquired a sprained ankle. Th«»
rest of the day he was Industriously telling his
friends how he had slipped.
A crowd of goodly proportions gathered at the
Ftation to see the President and his party start
for Stamboul. La., near the hunting camps. He
will reach Stamboul at JO o'clock to-morrow
morning, and, if he has his wish, will disap
pear from the public rye for sixteen days.
Secretary Latta and his assistants, with the
Secret Service men. will make their headquar
ters at the Plantation House, at Stamboul, while
the President is in the canebrake.
WELCOMED TO MEMPHIS.
The President arrived on the steamer Missis
sippi shortly after 1 o'clock. The bluffs above
th» river were packed with people, who gave
htm a warm welcome. As the steamer reached
the shore the whistles of all the craft in the har
nor were blown. Immediately following th*
Mississippi was the Alton, carrying the Gover
nors and other visitors.
When all had landed the President was con
ducted to a carriage by Governor Patterson of
Tennessee and Mayor' Malone of Memphis, and
the largest parade every witnessed here began
The President was cheered throughout the
inarch. The city was handsomely decorated.
When his carriage turned into Main street he
was saluted by a regiment of Confederate vet
erans, who thereafter acted as a bodyguard.
"he President rose and warmly greeted the
warriors of half a century ago.
In Second street two hundred school children,
j-eated on a decorated arch, sang patriotic airs
es tn " *■"**• passed. The President rose in his
mage and bowed repeatedly to the little ones,
president Roosevelt departed from his printed
w* In seven] Instances Speaking of the
«-onfederate Uard of honor, he said it was a
'■'u.hing Fight lo see these old Confederate
MldJera carrying the flag of this great Union.
Jr any one wanted to know how they would
Sight for that flag, let him ask the Hoys in
«-ue how tbe Boya in Gray fought against it.
ii« said with emphasis that he was as much the
I resident . jf the . South as of the North, and was
devoted to the Interests of the South. He added
»<■ »as half a Southerner, and when he told of
*o or three of his uncles having worn the gray
« was tremendously applauded.
Speaking of a deep water channel from the
•ulf to the lakes. he said he favored rapid im
provement of the Mississippi River.
rX-ike Davy Crockett, the great Tenncssecan,"
Be said. "I favor his motto: 'Be sure you're
"Kht. then yo ahead.' And this deep water
Jroblfni is almost up to the"go ahead* stage,
Bui we want to be sure about it."
The Panama Canal, he said, was getting on
'11. "and the reason it Is getting on 50 well is
because we did not allow ourselves to go off at
half-cock."
VHien the canal has been completed, he said,
Mi '- nation would hot ask other governments
"kindly not to bother the can::;"; that we would
irotect IL '
"We must have, a larger and highly effective
• <vv to patrol our .oasts, not only on the At
lantic, but on the Pacific," he said.
He urged the people to disregard party linos
in all purely national affairs. In connection
vith his discussion of corporations, the Presi
dent «aid h's experience In the last few years
bad brought him to the point of fueling sincere
Kvnpathy for certain I^rsor.H who were thrown
into a frenzy by the m**t common sense re
tnarkc. It li*d eotne to the point where a . ■-
f'antuitted on fourth r i»'.
n trivcr T.-i>.,. Ptrti. "ll?n.!rick ;t; 4. on' and
"*••• •«!»-" :i... Sec Dm Ur.e advs.-Ativt.
To-dar, fair.
Nindav, partly cloudy; went wind*.
GREAT THRONG ON THE LEVEE AT ST. LOUIS TO GREET PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
THE PRESIDENT.
GOVERNOR FOLK or- MTSSOtntt (ON RIGHT)
AND MAYOR WELLS OF ST. LOUIS.
MR. TOWER TO RETIRE.
Ambassador to Germany Wishes to
Malce His Home Here.
Berlin, Oct. 4. — Ambassador Towr has written
President Roosevelt asking that ho be permitted
to retire from the diplomatic service next spring.
Mr. Tower*a reasons are understood to ho that,
having b«n abroad for nearly eleven yours, he
desires again to live in his «nn country In order
to have a home there for his sons, •who are now
nearly ready to go to Harvard University, and
to give his personal attention to his extensive
mining and railroad interests, which have been
lrft to the supervision of others during his tons
absence. As the lease on Mr. Tower's house In
Berlin does not expire until some time n< it
spring. It is presumded that be will remain as
ambassador until after that time. Mr. «ml Mrs.
Tower and their two young daughters are at
present at Baden-Baden. They intend to n turn
here at the end of this month.
Mr. Tower's retirement will remove from th«
diplomatic list one of the most experlen- ed of
the American representatives in Europe. Ho
has been continuously minister and ambassador
longer than any other diplomatist in the Ameri
can service.
Mr. Tower's flrsi experience In foreign af
fairs wao as attach.'- at the Spanish court
thirty years np\ »tnd in the long interval be
tween that time and bis appointment an Amer
ican MinlMer to Vienna in IXI7, while actively
concerned in rniiroais ,n?;<] tho iron Indui I
Minnesota, he found much time to give to th<»
study of foreign politic. t» u > „,
th<» French, government granted him special
facilities for the investigation of Lafayette's
public career In Prance, and the results of
these researches form part of his "Life <>r La
fayette."
In recognition of this work U\f French eov
ernment bestowed on Mr. Tower thf> cordon of
'irand Officer nf the legion of Honor.
DRILL EXHAUSTS POLICE.
Three Overcome, One Seriously, at
Xerc Corrective Exercises.
Three policemen dropped from exhaust Inn at
thi police school for instruction in the old 69th
Regiment Armory yesterday while un<l<; going
< 'nmmissJoner Bingham's now corrective drill
for those guilty of violating the cod< . They
were attended by a police surgeon and then
sent to their homes. Two of the three have to
go through more drills before their sentences
aie completed.
Ignatius A. Devins. of the West .".7t!i strert.
station; Walter Balllngpr. of the West 30th
street station, tuul William P. Mills, of the Oak
street station, were the patrolmen who suf
fered. Lieutenant Jacob Brown is in charge of
the school. Fifty patrolmen were at the ses
sion, nearly all of whom were serving sentences
for infractions of the rules.
Last night callero at the homes of De\ Ins and
Mills were turned away. It was said that Bal
linger was In danger of serious Injury. The doc
tor who attended the men said their exhaustion
must have been patent to any observer.
"They were too fat and heavy." Ik said, "and
I am surprised that they were able to stand it
as long as they did. Their lack of condition
was .so evident that It was only extraordinary
sameness that kept them going."
Lieutenant Brown, who conducted the exer
cises, said the drill laFte.i H bout two hours, and
he supposed that it was due to poor condition,
that the three men gave out.
TO IIOI.D BACK JAPS.
Federal Officers WiU Be Stationed
at Boundary Line.
Portland. Ore, Oct. 4— A special from Belllng
hatn. Wash., says:
As ji result of the investigations mado by
Q. B. Babcock. a special agent of the United
States Treasury Department, a force of fod*>r;il
officer* will be installed at the international
boundary line to keep hack the scor. s of Jap
anew who are daily crossing the border Into the
V nlted States.
Mr, Babcock found that hundreds of Japanese
had illegally crossed, and were continuing to
do so.
Spokane. Wash.. Oct. 4 -At Danville. Wash ..
last night, an angry mob Irove a email party
of Hindus across the line Into Canada, sending
a shower of missiles aft or them. A few shots
were discharged at the trespassers, but none
wan Injured The Hindus had found shelter In
a cabin at Danville, following their escane
from Canada.
A MARQUISE TO WED GENDARME.
Ron; . Oct. 4.-A sensation has been caused In
sirlstoci-nti- circle* by th* announcement that the
Marquise Eachettl. a member >>f an ancient, noble
Florentine family ana a cousin of prince Orsinl
li :ibmit to „,..,- a sergeant . of gendarmes/ The
man Ib eight years younger than the ' marquise
NEW -YORK. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1907.-BIXTEEN FAGES.-^^TSSS^^SS^
JEROME SEES AVILLCOX.
COXFER ABOUT TRACTIOX.
Commission Proposes Auditing of
All Corporation Accounts.
Possibility of criminal action in connection
with the disclosures of the business methods of
the Metropolitan street Railway Company was
Indicated when District Attorney Jerome held
a lung conference yesterday with Chairman
Wlllcox of t!i>- Public s- :\i: c Commission. They
discussed in considerable detail the • via.
Mr. Qulgg'a expenditures f^r "accelerating"
public opinion and his expenditures for the ad
van :ement or defeat of legislation affecting the
company's Interests.
District Attorney Jerome has foil*
the evidence brought out \<y William M. Ivinr.
Each day he V>ak obtained a transcript "f the
testimony, reading every line of it with
It may be declared authoritatively tr-.it whll«
he has dill WWiai the sa; of "metal
obliquity" which ho encountered in the <i
tires resulting from the Insuranci In
. ;<--r.< c has been obtained \ • ' wht< li would
warrant criminal action against any i>r tt-.e ofß
cers or a*r-iits of th«» transit company.
Neither Mr. Jerome nor Commissioner wnicox
would say much about tie i>.str-..-t Attorney's
Mbit to the commission's office. Chairman Will
aid that District Attorney Jerome had
to see bin on public business, and thai
they liad bad a talk on these affaira for about
three-o.uarters of an hour
'What we talked aboul may be left to your
own Judgment," he added.
Mr. Jerome wns not more I :atlve. He
vouchsafed that be called to ?.•.-> Mr. Wlllcox
about public business, which would not b
helped by general public discussion at thia
ti;ne.
The District Attorney, It Is known, will de
vote quite as much attention to the testimony
in this Investigation during the next week or
two as he has been doing lor neveral days back
Commissioner WlUcox waa appointed yester
day a committee to consider the question of a
public audit of the accounts of all public ser
vice corporations under the jurisdiction of the
commission. The commission under the public
service commissions law has power to prescribe
the form of accounts to be kept by th< .--■•< cor
porations.
If the public audit scheme he adopted it will
mean nothing less than that an employe of the
commission or an accountant appointed by tho
commission will vi: every bill and voucher pre
sented to the commission, inspect the books
and papers at frequent intervals, and hold up
or sanction all issues of stock or bonds before
th" money for which the stock issues were made
actually has been spent. Under such a system
no "yellow dog funds" could exist, and there
would be little chance of .spending money for
Improper purpose Money raised on bond is
sues for Improving the service could not be di
verted to payment of back interest charges.
Lobbying would not flourish when the vouchers
had to be passed by a public official before the
lobbyist's expenses were paid.
Commissioner Maltbie offered the resolution for
such a committee at the public meeting of the
commission yesterday.
"In this investigation, as well as in legisla
tive investigations prior to the establishment of
this commission," said Commissioner Maltbte,
"repeatedly it has been demonstrated that im
proper methods of bookkeeping and of charging
expenditures have prevailed with certain cor
porations. Proper accounts have not been kept
In many Instances, and It has been impossible
for this commission and for others to determine
exactly what has been done with capita] and
revenue receipts.
"These conditions, every one must admltT
ought not to continue, and my purpose In offer-
Ing thLs reeolutlon Is that a committee may be
appointed to report a method which may pre
vent them. Kv»»ry expenditure should be exam
ined and approved by a professional accountant
who is In the employ of this commission and
not of tne corporation, and the account to which
such expenditure is to be charged should be de
termined by such accountant.
"Companies which have kept proper accounts
heretofore, and which have charged all times
In a proper way, will. I have no doubt, welcome
unch a system, as It would In no way Interfere
With their operation, and would In fact be an
additional guarantee of their soundness and
prof«ed management."
After the meeting Mr. Maltbie said: "Of
course, such a system of public auditing would
entirely prevent the payment of dividends out of
capital. It would also prevent expenditures ..f
ihe "yellow flog" variety being charged to any
Continued on third page.
AFTER ALL, USHERS THE SQQTCH
MALONEY GIRL MISSING.
TIIIXK SHE IS MARRIED.
Standard Oil Man's Daughter
Leaves Home with Englishman.
Asbury Park. N. .1. OcL 4.— Mrs. Martin Ma
loney. wife of the Standard Oil man, tried this
morning to get a special train to take her from
Spring Lake to New York City, where she was
to Join her husband, who was travelling as fast
as steam could carry him from St. Louis They
were to meet and start a search for their
daughter, Miss Helen Maloney, who has been
unaccounted for since Tuesday. Mrs. Maloney
said to-day that she thought her daughter bad
been married, but declared she could not un
derstand why the young woman had taken this
action, as there was no opposition
When Mrs. Maloney finally left Spring Lake,
after finding that a special train would not
carry her to New York any faster, she carried
with her a special deliver.- letter addressed to
her husband and written by her daughter. Mrs.
Maloney would not open the letter.
Miss Maloney, who hi a little more than
twenty-one, received a gift of $50,000 on her
birthday. She is now supposed to be Mrs. Sam
uel Clarkson. Her supposed husband Is a resi
dent of London, and wealthy in his own right.
Mr. Maloney while his wife was fretting here
over means of keeping a telegraphic appoint
ment h« made with her. was travelling from St.
Louis to New York, having left President Rooso
velt"s party on receiving word from his wife of
what had occurred hen and at New York since
he started on Sunday to Join the President
Mr. Maloney told his wife to meet him In
Philadelphia to-day, but he must have travelled
faster than he. expected. Before it as time f>>r
Mrs. Maloney to start for the Quaker City she
received word to meet him in New York.
Miss Maloney la said to have become acquaint
ed with Mr. clarkson In England a few months
ago. Mr. Clarkson came to this country early
last summer, and he and Miss Maloney are said
to have met frequently. For some time Mr.
Clarkson had been a member of the family
party staying at the Maloney home, at Spring
Lake That he and Miss Maloney Intended to
elope was not suspected, it Is now believed that
the elopement, it' there was one, was hastily
planned after Miss Maloney'a father started to
join the Presidential party.
On Tuesday Miss Maloney went to Manhattan
to do some Shopping. She was accompanied by
■ French maid and escorted by Mr. Clarkson.
They went to several shops In New York and
then to luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria. There
the maid Is said to have been Instructed to wall
until '.'• o'clock for Miss Maloney's return, She
waited until '.» o'clock and then telephoned to
Spring Lake for Instructions. The maid had
meanwhile done some telephoning on her own
behalf. She traced the couple to Sherry's.
It is said at Spring Lake that Miss Maloney
telegraphed her brother on Wednesday morn
ing that sho had been married. Before leaving
here Mrs. Maloney to-day said this was not
true, but that what did arrive was the special
delivery letter she carried, and which probably
contained a solution of the mystery.
Despite this positive denial, it is said that
there was a telegram, although possibly not to
Mrs. Maloney, and that besides conveying the
information of a marriage it said further that
the bride and bridegroom were about to sail
for England. However this may be, it is now
known that on Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Carbery Ritchie, the latter ii sister of the miss
ing young woman, hurried hero and then went
away, taking with them two trunks of steamer
size. With them in personal charge of the bag
gage went the Maloney butler.
Mrs. Maloney said she had no doubt that
Helen and Mr. Clarkson had been married. She
wanted It understood that it would be unfair to
intimate that tiny eloped because of parental
objection to the marriage. She said that
neither she nor Mr. .Maloney was "particularly
prejudiced." She. said that if sh« and her hus
band found their daughter they would try to
induce her and her husband to return to Spring
Lake and spend their honeymoon In this country.
Miss Maloney was maid of honor at the wed
ding of her sister Margaret to Mr. Ritchie at
Spring Lake in June, 1004. Cardinal Satolli, at
that time the Pope's representative in this coun
try, officiated at this ceremony, and bestowed
the Papal benediction on the married couple.
Martin Maloney is a Papal marquis, having had
the honor conferred on him by Pope Leo XIII.
PRESIDENT MAY GIVE A FARM.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.
Adrian. Mich.. Oct. 4. — and Mrs. A. E. Beard,
of Weston. have bean married fourteen ypars and
have eleven children. Beard wrote to the President
about his family, and Mr. Roosevelt Is said to have
replied that if they old as well in the next fourteen
years be would be pleased to present to the parents
of the twenty-two children a forty acre farm, well
storked and In a fertile Michigan, district. Btaid
fcai exhibited such a letter to his neighbors.
(Photograph* by the Pictorial News Company.)
WILL CALL COXVEXTIoy
To Advocate Conservation of Xatn
ral Resources.
Memphis, Oct. 4. — President Roosevelt to-day
announced that he would call a convention, to
be held in Washington on January 3, 190S, to
advocate the preservation and conservation <>f
the natural resources of tht country. Including
coal, water power, oil. etc.
It waa reported yesterday on some of the boats
ipanying the Mississippi on her voyagw
down the river that such a call would be issued. It
ha>l !>• • n under consideration for some time by
the members of the Inland Waterways Commis
sion, and the details were presented by th^
members of that body to the Pn sadcM at a
luncheon M\'i> him on the commission's boat.
>lonel MacKenzie, and the Governors on
th.- Alton were taken into the commissions con
fldence when that body went aboard the Altoa
after dinner.
a meeting was organized oa the main deck
Won, over which Governor Folk presided.
and M m soon made evident tluit a determined
effort would be made to procure an indorsement
of the projw t in advance of aw tlon by the Presi
dent. Statements in explanation of the eesa
mission's plans were made S3 Chairman Bur
ton. Senator Newlands r»r. McGee, Mr. Plains*
••:>l other members of the, commission, from
whicti it appeared thai they desired to have the
convention follow the river and harbor roofer
. be held in Washington in December, and
• devoted largely to other than navi-
!:• sponses were made by newly all the gov
ernors present. \t tir.-<t approvteg the ptea,
they developed •ach a;r opposltloa that a re>.i
lutlon of commendation offered by OortraOT
Chamberlain was withdrawn. All the speakers
. %. ept Governor Brooks of Wyoming aaaoaaced
• al Of the idea of a .onventlon. but the
\\ sentiment was opposed to an •nweaslon
ol opinion before the holding of the Memphis
ntton that might be construed into an ef
forl to displace the deep waterwaya dL«;.
aa the question of paramount Importaace; This
t was t:r>-t expressed by Governor
Blanrhard of Louisiana, and the opposition
>n( developed so rapidly that before the
meeting adjourned the opinion against action at
that time was almost unanimous.
SUES FOR $25,000,
Hugh Gordon Miller Brings Action
for Assault in Streetcar.
[ By Telegraph to The Tribune. ]
Norfolk. Va., Oct. — Hugh Gordon Miller, of
{he New York State Jamestown Commission
and vice-president of the Robert Fulton Memo
rial Association of New York, entered suit this
afternoon in the United States Court against
the Norfolk & Portsmouth Traction Company
for $25,000 damages for Insult and assault and
battery by a conductor to whom he protested
against the operation of a car upon which he
was riding by an alleged intoxicated motorman.
The plaintiff charges that he was being beaten
by the conductor when a "high federal Judicial
official" accompanying him beat the conductor
Oil with an umbrella, demanding in the name of
the law that the attack cease.
Judge Wadding, of the United States Federal
Court, is understood to he the official referred
to. Mr. Miller was his guest, on his way to a
neighboring resort.
SAVED DRIVER FROM ANGRY MOB
Three policemen last evening BSrved Angelo
IV 1m lice. ..f No. ;u Harrison street. Brooklyn,
driver of ;i team which had just run over and
killed Mary Roma. si\ yean of ag>-. in front of
her home, at No. .",01 West 4.'.th street, from
being badly beaten by a mob.
In the gathering dusk the heavily laden wagon
knocked the child down, and the mother's cries
attracted ■ veag*fol crowdC Patrotasaa PTaas
gaa, of the West 471h street station, called f..r
help, and Patrolmen Levy and Sperba came to
the rescu*. The child was «1--m>l when taken
from limit r the wagon. De Felice was hold on a
charge of homicide
PREFERS SAN FRANCISCO TO BOSTON.
Berkeley. Cal.. Oct. 4.— "1 would rather live- in
San Francisco than in Boston." said President
Roosevelt to Benjamin Ide Wheeler when Mr.
Wheeler naked the President about the advisability
of giving .up the presidency of the University of
California jto accept the presidency of the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology.
' Pr>sid.nt Wheeler told of the incident to 3/"*>
students of the University of California while they
were gathered in Harmony Hall to-day to express
their appreciation of President Wheeler's action in
declining the offer from Boston at a hlsher salary.
GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER.
il_ purity has made it famous."— AdvU
vnivi: TiißKi-; cents.
BARTLETTS NAMED
BY ROTH PARTIES.
M'CARREX FORCES HASD
Of TAMMANY LEADERS.
Murphy-Conncrs Faction Compelled
to Yield After Learning
S 'iblican Actiitn.
The two Bartletts were nominated for tli9
Court of Appeals bench by the " Democratic
State Committee yesterday, Patrick H. Mc-
Carrcn forcing: the Mnrphy-Connen faction
to accept JaMaga Willard Bartlett.
Karlier in the afternoon lbs Kcpublican '
State Committee, in a brief session, named the
Bartletts. with only one dissenting vote— that
of Lou F. Payn. who opposed Willanl Bartleit.
EIGHTEO BEAT THIRTY
"Long Pat" Skons Bosses a Mathe
matical Paradox.
Senator Patrick Henry jfcCanva, professor
of applied machine adaawa in .state rx-mocratic
po'itics. yesterday demonstrated to Charley V.
Mi rnhy and William J. Conners. kindergart
ners. how IS can be made to beat ?fi.
He compelled the Daassoatlc Stat^- Commit
tee at Its adjourned meeting in the afternoon
to nominate the two Bartletts for the Court of
Appeals, although the Murphy-Conners major
ity had been saying; that they would not do it.
On Monday laat. under the accelerating; influ
en.-e of the political knout wielded by Murphy
and Conners. the state committee, by a vote of
T.O to IH. turned down the proposition to nomi
nate the two Bartletts. Professor McCarrea
admonished Messrs. Murphy and Conners that
It was time to stop playing "fathead polities'
—whatever brand that may be— and nominata
the Bartletts.
' The vote of 30 to 18 shows Just where the.
state committee stands on the Bartletts." said
Mr Murphy on Thursday, and then he predicted
that they would not be nominated by the Dem.
ocratJ-. no matter what the Republicans might
do. That looked brave enough In print, and
Tammany henchmen all over town began to>
talk about their organization forcing the nomi
nation of William J. Gaynor.
SPEECHES SWAYED FARMERS.
Meanwhile the speeches made for the Bart*
Mia in the Democratic State Committee meet-
BSSJ on Monday by Charles N. Bulger, of Os
waas>; Fletcher C. Peck, of Livingston County.
and Senator McCarren were doing their worlc
among the "gentlemen of the cornfields." Let
ters began to pour in to Mr. Conners and others*
saying the Democratic party would be buried
out of sight on the eve of a Presidential elec
tion if it did not stop juggling with the Judiciary
nominations and name the two Bartletts. Good
friends of Charles F. Murphy on the Supreme
C.urt bench mildly suggested that If he wanted
to continue to be happy he would better turn In
and nominate the two Bartletts.
Mr. Murphy couldn't see it that way. and
turned his eye toward the Republican Stat*
Committee and Justice William J Gaynor. He
hoped that the Republicans would go into a
combination with him and name (iaynor. When
the Republicans yesterday noon dashed this
hope to the ash heap. Mr. Murphy figuratively
throw himself supplteattngly at the head af
Jastfcc Gajmor. Justice Gaynor has a record
for doing heartrending things In times of po
litic ii exigency, and when Mr. Murphy, with
political red paint all over his hands, implored
him for succor, the Judge succored htm, aa
usual, with an axe.
M CARRE X CALM TX VTCTORT.
All the while Senator McCarren was smillns;
coldly between bets and saying;: "Sit tight!
We've got th<» ring in the bull's now. m show
you how IS will beat 30."
And he d!d. It's ;i fine story for all the way
far, rs not on the Murphy-Conners band wagon.
and even the Tammany men last night smiled
as they rubbed their sore spots.
The Stat« Committee was scheduled to meet
at a o'clock. When Chairman Conners learned!
of the action of the Republicans in naming th*
two Bartletts he held a hurried conference with
Charles F. Murphy. Daniel F. Cohalan and
other?. The oniy salvation left was Justice
tiaynor's assent to go on the state ticket. Mr.
Conners and hia colleagues took steps at one»
to see if such a thing could be arranged.
They had been told that the committee of th«
Workingmen's Federation of the State c* ' •
York had gained the impression from a visit to
Justice Gaynor that hn would consider the ac
ceptance of such a nomination.
GAYXOR TURNS COMMITTEE DOWN
A messenger was sent to Brooklyn, and Jus
tice Gaynor consented to come across the bridge
and meet a committee from the Democrats at
Delmonicos. This committee, consisting of
Charles F. Murphy. W. J. Connera and Daniel
P. Cohalan. went to Delmonieo's at I:3© o'clock.
They told Gayaor that he could have the nom
ination, if he desired It. and tried to persuade
him that his election would be assured. It was
impossible to learn ju.st what Justice Gaynor
said, but the committee was informed, by him
that he felt that so Ions; as he had been nom
inated to succeed himself as a justice «>f th*
Supreme Court by the Republicans and the Tn
depeadoace League and was as receive ih*
Democratic nomination in that district also, it
aimM be unwise for him to decline, in order t.>
accept a later nomination for the Court of Ap
peals.
When the committee members returned to th«
H'tel Victoria they had long faces, but th°y
■would not admit they had been in conference)
with justice Qayasr.
Then the Murphy and Conner* people got to
gether and tried to devise some way of defeat-
Ing Senator MeCarrrn's plan for the nomina
tion of Judge Willard Bartlett. Suggestions
were asked for and. among others, the name of
Justice John W. Goff was mentioned. Conner*
wanted to name Denis B. Lucey. but Murphy
would not stand for him. Then they threw, up
the sponge and decided there was nothing to do
but to follow the lead of the Republicans and
name Judge Wlllard Bartlett.
"FINGEY" DID IT ALL.
Asked what happened at this caucus State
Chairman Conner* said: "Well, I made them a
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