St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-29
TOM PLATT rs KING.
AT Last He Is Fixed to Succeed

AT Last He Is Fixed to Succeed
Our Own" Evarts as Senator.
Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-Tom Platt is
Eng. This is what the Republican
state conyeniiiCc::s, did to-day. 1t crowned
nm as far as it could crown him. and it
remains now only for the next legisla-
lure to place him in position which he
most eoVets, that of being elected
United States senator to succeed ssOnr
Own" Evarts. Whether his reign will
be one OF rule or ruin remains to be seen.
FROM the talk of the stalwarts
tonight, it looked as though it would
De one OF ruin. In July, 1881, Mr..
flatt. after having resigned as "Me
100 from the United States senate. was
deIeated for reelection. He then was
at the potion of the Republican party.
FROM that day to this he has been doing
MS best to work himself on top. and to.
night he believes he sits on the top of
the Republican pile. He has had divers
interests to conciliate. There
were several prominent men i'm
his way. There were Warner Miller.
Lew t. Morton and ''Our Own" Eyarts'
AS ,,'Our Own" EVarts hasn't done much
III the senate, his claims didn't amount
10 much, and were simply cast aside.
Lew L. Morton, who poured out his
Doodle IN the campaign against Eyarts.
has been shelved with the Yice-presi-
dental nomination. Warner Miller. the
other opponent, has been conciliated
with the guberDatorial nomination.
Inns left the field clear for Tom Platt,
anu Tonight 1t is safe to say
HE Is BOSS.
Inere is no question but that he man.
ageu the convention held at Saratoga
idO-day with the most consummate skill.
1he JOB has been in preparation for
months: The machine was gotten all in
order. The journals were all oiled. From
an accounts there wasn't particle of
1rlctlon. 1t went through like clock
work. The ticket that Tom Platt wrote
out on a slate was nominated. 1t had a
peculiar head and an eminently dudish
tail. Wood Pulp Miller" was on the
top and "Claw-Hammer" Cruger was at
the bottom. Both have money and ex-
pect to furnish the wherewithal to aid
the republican machine. The oniy
thlng that is incongruOus in their meth
odS is the high license tariff platform
This was compromised. due to tne de-
mands of Warner Miller, who believed
that he would be swamped under the
national platform of free whisky. and
that the only salvation he had was to
get state platform which might bring
10 hlm few of the prohibition votes.
While the thing went through
very smoothly at Saratoga TODAY. il
didn't go down the throats of some
Republicans with equal ease in this
city. There is intense and bitter feel
ing against Warner Miller. 1t is that
OF the old stalwarts against the half
% eeds. 1t will be remembered that i'm
ouly' 1881; Warner Miller defeated Ros-
eoe Conkling for reelection to the
United States senate. That action has
never been forgiven by Conk-
ling's friends, nor the pro-
nounced Stalwarts. 1t took form
i'll 1884, when the secret stalWart
organization was formed to defeat
James q. Blaine. In that year mem
berS OF the organization carried around
pocketbookS, on the inside lids of which
were pasted the following legend:
Remember COnkling'S defeat: remem-
Der Folger's slaughter" | saw several
OF those in the Fifth Avenue hotel. I
met one OF those StalwartS who
showed me the book in that campaign
L asked him what he thought OF the
convention at Saratoga, in response he
pulled out the small book. He showed
the same legend. He said: II carried
that for four years. It's going to work
now as it did in the last presidential
campaign. We will never forgive ~
men who mercilessly stabbed RosceIz
Conkllng in the fifth rib.'' How much
this kind of talk will amount to.
no one can tell at present
IL is matter of historical
fact, however, that in 1884 the stall
warts. 1000 strong, in Oneida county
alone voted for Grover Cleveland. Most
OF them, from the above statement, will
vote the same way this year. Senator
Eyarts' friends are also very mad. They
see that he has been played for
dummy. 1t is stated that he was brought
up to Saratoga simply for effect and
that in reality he was made to toot over
his own senatorial grave.