SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Special Correspondence New York Democrats at War New York, February 26, 1910. THE FIGHT in the Democratic State committee of New York last week served to distract attention somewhat from the...
...The threat was partly effective...
...Thus far he has made not the slightest move to take hold of the Democratic organization of the State...
...In the meantime, while neither of the factions seemed to pay any attention to William R. Hearst, the public realizes that Mr...
...He agreed to announce that he would not be a candidate for reelection...
...His strength with all classes has grown marvelously in two months...
...The letters written to Boss Murphy at Mt...
...William J. Conners of Buffalo, owner of the Buffalo Daily Courier and the Buffalo inquirer, was elected chairman of the committee in 1906, the year that W. R. Hearst ran as the Democratic candidate for governor...
...A snap meeting of the committee was called at Albany...
...Mayor Gaynor of New York has seemed to take no part in any of these machinations...
...But the League is under suspicion...
...He has been reelected each year since, but lately a determined effort was made to throw him out Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, was apparently the arch enemy of Connors and last week seemed to control the state committee...
...The Democratic League of New York is the newest powerful force in the party...
...He stands aside and lets the regular bosses fight it out...
...The proclaimed purpose of the League is to reform the party in New York...
...THE FIGHT in the Democratic State committee of New York last week served to distract attention somewhat from the great bribery scandal in the legislature...
...To many it seems queer that Tammany, without patronage, discredited in New York city as it has never before been in all its history, should yet be allowed to reach out and control the Democratic State committee...
...Yet it is true that the eyes of the entire body of the rank and rile of the Democratic party of the State are upon him...
...It was organized last fall by the so-called "silk stocking" element of the party, led by such men as Alton B. Parker, ex-candidate for President, W. T. Jerome, ex-district attorney of New York, Thomas M. Osborne of the Harvester Trust, and others well known to be close to Thomas F. Ryan and Wall Street...
...Tammany does not want an official investigation of the alleged auctioning of judgeships, so Conners was allowed to remain as chairman until the end of his term...
...Clemens and afterward published by W. R. Hearst, showed that officers of the League were in touch with Murphy, and Murphy is always in touch with Wall Street...
...He openly threatened, in the newspapers, to tell how nominations for judicial offices had been put up at auction by Tammany and sold to the highest bidder...
...Hearst is always a tremendous factor in the Democratic party of New York...
...Conners announced that he would not be kicked out by Murphy...
...It is strongly suspected that Murphy was backed by this Democratic League in his movement to throw out Conners...
Vol. 2 • March 1910 • No. 9
