The Sun

MURPHY CONTROL COMMITTEE?
SAYS THE STATE CONVENTION WILL BE HELD HERE,
About April 18, and Committee Will Not Attempt to Commit Delegates to Any Candidate for President-Murphy Opposes Cleveland Mass Meeting.

Charles F. Murphy said last night that despite the reports that have come from up State that the Democratic State convention would be held either in Syracuse or Albany, the convention would be held in this city.

In making this announcement Mr. Murphy made it apparent that he expected to have his way about it and while he would not admit that he was in a position to control the action of the State committee it was learned last night that Mr. Murphy has already with him twenty-four members out of the fifty. Mr. Murphy not only said that the convention would be held in this city, but that the date would probably be April 13.

"I have seen reports during the past few days," Mr. Murphy said, "to the effect that either Albany or Syracuse would be the place for the convention, but we will hold it in New York. This city is the logical place for a State convention in a Presidential year, and it will be held here."

Asked if there was any possibility of the State committee passing resolutions in support of Parker, Mr. Murphy said:

"The Democratic State committee will do nothing of the kind. It will take no action by a vote of the majority that will attempt to commit the delegates from this State to any candidate."

It was evident to those who heard Mr. Murphy speak that he was confident that he and his allies would be able to control the committee. His friends last night at the Democratic Club figured out that of the members of the State committee Mr. Murphy would have the support of those whose names in this list are marked by an asterisk:

Dist. 1-- John J. Kenney*
26- Elliot Danforth,
2- Joseph Cassidy*
27-J. H. Brown.
3- Hugh McLaughlin*
28- J. H. Glavin.
4- John W. Webber*
29-P. E. McCabe.
5- William A. Doyle,*
30-- David Morey
6-- J. Shevin. *
31- J. T. Finck.
7-P. H. McCarren. *
32-Geo. Hall.
8- John L. Shea, *
33- Clinton Beckwith.
9- Edward Glinnen, *
34-J. H. Flanigan.
10--Daniel E. Finn, *
35-J. N. Carlisle.
11--T. D.Sullivan. *
36 John Dunfee.
12-John T. Oakley. *
37- C. N. Bulger.
13--P.H.Keahon. *
38- H. G. Jackson
14-*O.F.Murphy. *
39-- C. F. Rattigan
15--F.B. Harrison, *
40-- Danl Sheehan
16-*G. F.Scannell. *
41-Frank Campbell,
17--D. F.M'Mahon, *
42-C.A.Lux,
18--T.J.Dunn. *
43--W. F. Balkam
19--H.C. Hart. *
44-Jacob Gerling.
20- Thomas F.M'Avoy. *
45-G. W. Batten.
21-Louis F.Haffen. *
46--F. W. Brown.
22-M.J.Walsh, *
47-J. J. Kennedy
23-Michael McCabe. *
48- W. H. Fitzpatrick,
24-James Purcell, *
49- Henry Burgard.
25-I.M. Black, *
50-oT. H. Dowd.

Outside of Richmond, Queens and this county, the starred delegates come from Albany, North Bay, Rochester, Lockport, Buffalo and Salamanca.

To clinch his control of the committee Mr. Murphy is depending upon the defection of some of the members from Brooklyn. His friends are already at work on the other side of the river, and that they will succeed in winning the two votes needed by Mr. Murphy to make a majority is not doubted. Senator McCarren's fight to have the State convention instruct for Parker has not led to any personal feeling. The result of this pacific attitude on the part of Senator McCarren, it is felt by Mr. Murphy's friends, is that for the sake of harmony the Brooklyn members of the committee will not object to one or two of their number going over to Mr. Murphy in order to give him the control of affairs at the meeting at Albany on Saturday.

Following out his policy of having an uninstructed delegation go to St. Louis, Mr. Murphy has checked the plans which Thomas E. Rush, the Tammany leader of the Twenty-ninth district, has been preparing for a great Cleveland meeting in Carnegie Hall in the latter part of this month. Although Mr. Rush has been of the opinion that in arranging for this meeting he was in sympathy with his leader Mr. Murphy said last night:

"I do not agree with the holding of a meeting of this kind, particularly at this time. I am, in fact, opposed to holding any mass meeting for the purpose of urging the nomination of Mr. Cleveland. While every one knows that personally I am in favor of Mr. Cleveland, yet to hold such a meeting would be contrary to the course I am hoping the delegates from this State will take, of going to the national convention absolutely unbiased.

"My idea is to have the delegation go free from any pledge whatever, but if some of the districts in this city begin to get up mass meetings in favor of Mr. Cleveland it would go to show that there was not a free and unbiased feeling among the delegates."

H. H. Perry, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Georgia Senate, who will be a delegate at large to the national convention, was in this city yesterday. He said:

"If Mr. Cleveland would accept the nomination we would be in a better position in the South.

Amid the clash of views as to politics Mr. Cleveland is the one man in whom the people of all parties have confidence and who feel that the party would be safe with his hand at the helm. Cleveland is still popular in the South. We never willingly gave him up. He would sweep the South twenty to one over Bryan, or any one else."