The Portland daily press., 1888-10-30
SCHEMlNG TO CARRY NEW YORK.
Various Plans in the Minds Of Demo-
cratic Bosses.
General Newton Tells Story of the
Days Of Boss Tweed.
Ben Butler Speaks In Detroit on
Harrison and Protection.

NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-Eugene Higgins said
late Saturday night over game of faro up
town that if the Sackville-West letter had
appeared Thursday or Friday the cause of
Democracy for 1888 would have been entirely
lost. This remark from one so close to the
Democratic manager in whom all hopes
are centered just at present-Arthur P. Cor
man of Maryland-is a complete epitome of
the desperate situation of the Cleveland
ticket. 1t shows, too, how the representative
Democratic intellect runs to letters in the
last stages of a campaign, and besides all
this teaches that it is the determination of
the Democratic managers if their fight is
lost fairly on the issues. to win it unfair
lyon the Barnum ground that any means,
no matter how unscrupulous, justify the
end-by some trap or cheat.
Yesterday furnished the first tangible evil
dence that the next resort to be tried to re-
trieve their shattered fortunes is nothing less
than the arrest of Chairman Quay of the
Republican national committee.
Half dozen tips day on the average had
been brought to persons good deal interest
ed in the Harrison and protection cause dur
ing almost the whole week. Yesterday the
details OF the conspiracy became known
more completely. The method is similar to
budb uoou ny bHt DtmOcTdtlc managers IN
New Jersey. They conspired to have some
worthless fellow swear that General Ramsay,
universally respected citizen, soldier a
candidate for the assembly last year, who
had been counted out by some Democrats al
ready indicted, and at present-and here is
the main point-a member of the Republi-
can State Committee, had hired him to pro-
cure false registration. 1t was the fist
sign that the Democrats, in spite of all their
bluster, were not satisfied with the Jersey
IN nf nAA
The Democrats are not pleased with the out
look In New York or in the country. They
have been specially troubled since the West
letter was written, and more so after the ad-
yertlsed 10000 business men who were to
have .paraded turned out 1900 in the
first bad weather the President ever ran up
against
New devices must be turned to. The anti
Chinese riot was discounted and would not
do. The letter of the President, purporting
to be called for by representative knights of
Labor, ana to be written for their especial
benefit, was to demolish trusts at one fell
swoop That may still be issued; but it has
not yet suited the emergency. Rev. Mr..
Vincent, whoever he is, has been heard from
IN several quarters as the coming Burchard.
Yesterday, so far as known, the clergy and
the sermons afforded the Barnum-B Brice-Gor-
man people no bounding satisfaction. They
look forward. it is true, to next Sunday for
better results. But that may be too late.
Something must be done at once; for, ac-
cordipg to the Higgins idea, Thursday is
about the right day to let go death dealing
campaign settler.
Two suppositions are most probable. One
is that forged letter will be issued that
shall purport to be General Harrison's own,
and that shall admit to be true all the charges
made by Dollar Day Liar Gould. The 9TH
tened on Senator Quay. What that may be
cannot be imagined at present, but meantime
the scheme to arrest him is on foot. Some
Dody is to be procured to swear that the Re
publican chairman offered him money to pro-
such to be hired. The scheme, the Demo-
Gratis think, might result in some temporary
annoyance to Senator Quay, and to the seri-
ons and perhaps fatal discontinue of the
Harrison cause; for it might take two or
three days for the matter to right itself, and
meantime, the Democratic press, itself loyal
and desperate, could be trusted to makelthe
most of 1t.
oaths to Tammany Leaders.
New. YORK, Oct. 29-Gen. Newton of the
Department of Public Works yesterday
issued his second answer to the charges
made againgt him by Sheriff Grant, and at
the same time charged Richard Croker, the |
head of Tammany Hall, and other men |
of the same organization, with binding |
themselves by oath to the will of Tammany |
leaders when they were aldermen in the |
days of Tweed.
Gen. Newton says that Mr.. Grant well |
knows that the Department of Public Works |
can be made the strongest and worst polit- |
cal influence in this city with its control OF |
its many millions of expenditure. Today j. |
knows no politics, and is purely business |
department Your course" referring to |
ShariH Grant bofn hox
elected to the Office you covet, is proof that,
should you be elected, you would take pos
session of it as quickly as possible, which |
will be to place it in commission for
Tammany Hall. You are the can
didate and representative Of that
body and Richard Croker is its head. 1t may
be well for the people of this city to have an
object lesson in MIR. Cookers theory and
practice as to subordnating duty to the pub
lie to loyalty to the machine. You, as u
Tammany man, must know: the people do
not. When an Alderman of this city Richard |
Croker first took an oath to obey the laws
and subsequently took an oath to obey the |
mates in the machine than he, when subor- |
dinate was willing to concede to the |
machine?"
The object lesson is the oath taken by the |
aldermen of 1870. General Newton makes |
this comment on the oath:
Il give you copy of 1t Ghe oath) in the |
form In which the original came into my |
possession and call your attention to the |
fact that so far as l know, all the persons |
whose names appear either in the body of |
the document or as signers, and are still |
alive. are now supporting your candidacy |
and Mr.. Stevens is in your employment"
The fac smile of the oath is somewhat be- |
wildering. General Newton furnished the |
block from which it is printed. and also a |
type written letter alleged to be a copy of |
this affidavit. 1t was not copy, however, |
inasmuch as the conjunction Sand" which |
appears in the fac simile before the name of |
George III. Purser did not appear in the type |
written copy. Moreover, the type written |
copy did not, of course bear the remnants of |
a name or names which apparently headed |
the list. The block, to the ordinary observ- |
er, gives the impression that it has been |
chopped, and there were other names upon
it which General Newton did not wish to |
make public, and for that reason chopped |
them out Of the block. The work was,
however, clumSily done and the telltale evil |
dence remains. What are the names chopped |
out, and why were they not permitted to re. |
main with the others? A reporter last night |
called upon General Newton, Dick Croker |
and others, and discovered conclusively that |
the block had been tampered with. The |
Tammany men said they signed the docu-
ment to defeat Tweed. They therefore |
bound themselves to obey Harry Genet, who |
was Tweed's friend.
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