The evening world., 1888-12-15
TOM PLATTS MASTER HAND.
ITS APPEARANCE IN THE UNION LEAGUE
CLUB RESOLUTIONS.
Warner MilIer's Friends Not Disheartened
and Are Still Working Manfully-Mr
Miller Meets MIR. Whitelnw Reid In an
Elevated Train and Explains why He
Hadn't Come Around Thursday Night.

Elevated Train and Explains why He
Hadn't Come Around Thursday Night.
Warner Miller and whitelaw Reid were passen.
gers on the same downtown L train yesterday
morning, and the following is a portion Of the
conversation between them regarding the action
Of the Union League Club last nights:
Reid-You weren't you around Thursday
night? Why didn't You rally
Miller-1m not a voting member-a non-resi-
dent, you know. l notice, though, that some
body did a great deal of rallying to prevent
something being done.
MIR. Miller smiled, but his words were bitter.
He had expected that his friends in the Union
League Club would pass a rousing resolution,
setting forth his virtues and extolling his fitness
for a Cabinet position.
Boss Plat had outwitted and outgeneralled the
Herkimer giant and secured the passage of a
resolution recommending the appointment of an
Ideal e Cabinet without q mention of names,
lhls explains Mr.. Miller's bitterness. His in
dorsement by the Union League Club was cut
and dried when Mr.. Plat stepped in and pre-
Boss Plat is very much elated at his victory, in
ton for Cabinet, honors through the indorse-
ment OF Mr.. Miller's candidacy by 30 powerful
He + a wary politician, however,, and doesn't
whistle WI very loud, for he knows that he is not
There's ANOTHER big scheme for the indorse-
ment OF MT. Miller on foot.
1t IL nothing more or less than the securing of
a monster petition from the people of the State,
80 overwhelming in the matter Of names that
ner Miller is a power in New, York politics. pci tcan and de-
mssn nperEn teG9sniti 10 P st. bEs h Insf1,otior Ardrow
how this petition is to be obtained.
oh R q Il. & sEinn eis Of d|SR "tsEtoS sI.o snS e..Gnnn
gresham Burleigh, of. Whitehall. had a long
eonfab in a room at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Each Of these men named il a strong. believer
in and fighter for Warner Miller, and the result
sio their td n sen tEs %Sn. is Itm said to o. be pnt the fnst11aiac
school district Of the State:
source, and may find ways and means, of balk-
IN l9g M thIs effort ~ Tto to Gb ts h. a RI 4hS . indOrse ms6t
in the Union League Club.
supt; Draper is a high muck-a-muck in the
GOOD H. IsGmipr d and naturally a great admirsr
license question in the last campaign, but he il
also n shrewd and clever politician, and wants
He is q candidate for reelection by the Legis.
iatnre at It's coming session, and he may find if
Miller's. claims to a Cabinet position that Boss
Platt will nip his second-term aspirations in the
Miller is leaving no wire unpulled which will
assist him in proving to Gen. Harrison that he
will make "a great mistake " should he accord
Plat a Cabinet position and leave the woodpulr
Baked in his attempt to secure an indorse.
ment from the Union League Club he has still
the machinery of the Department of Public In.
struction and another bureau hard at work tc
secure. him a. great popular Endorsement.
The latter bureau is a committee said to rep.
resent the business men of the State. 1t is com.
posed Of ex-Speaker Geo. H. Sharpe. ex-Chair
man Chester S; Cole, Of the Republican State
and Charles w. Hackett, of Utica.
These gentlemen have their headquarters a.
the Gilsey. House and are making ready tc
supplement Supt. Diapers petitions from the
farmers with other petitions from the interior
Meantime, Boss Platt, with the machine ant
the Vice President-elect at his back, is serenel,
confident that he will get there.