The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-27
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conclusion hat the fate of New York
in the worlds fair contest will end the
career of Thomas q. Plat in the poll
ties of that state. These people do not
realize that Mr.. llatt dies hard. He
appears to have nine political lives.
Once or twice NE has been deemed dead
to the politics of the state, yet here he
is to-day successfully resisting men of
great prominence i'm both parties and.
mt the end of the fight. he walks Oft
with the approval of nearly every
member of the republican state com
mittee.
Their is no sentiment about Mr..
Ilatt. Doubtless lIe is glad that New
York lost the fair. lie was prompted
by motives that were exclusively poll
teal i'm opposing the scheme He sus-
pected that democrats We're to have 90
liberal II share i'm it's management, he
believed that to be poor policy for the
republicans and he did not require any
higher motive for the course he sue
cessfully pursued. He would have re-
sisted IN the same spirit any movement
having p~lilanthrOphy or higher educa-
ton for its object. lie answers al
ways to the promptings of h political
instinct.
of course, Mr.. Plat has made bitter
enemies in his W party, but he is not
afraid of them. There will surely
be n fight i'm New York, but il is safe
to assume that he took account of that
fact in advance. Mr.. rlatt has no rea-
son to fear Chauncey NJ Depew. That
gentleman is immensely popular and i'm
all the traits that appeal to public good
will he is the direct opposite of Plat
the people like him.. But Mr.. Depew
always has to he lifted to places of
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by his W efforts. lie has not h po-
litical gifts by which men build them
selves up. lie has uncounted friends
who admire him. but he does not hold
in his fingers the strings 10y which
clever politicians draw mel unto them
and make ardent partisans out of es-
teemed friends. In short, Mr.. Depew
is not IA politician.
AS to Warren Miller. Mr.. Platt has
always been able to make him Il candi-
date and then let him get defeated-ex-
cept i'm the single instance when Mr..
Miller succeeded Plat i'm the federal
senate. Mr.. Miller enjoys the respect
of all who know him, but his career in
the senate sufficiently demonstrates
his inability to manage New York. lie
| tried il and failed. The rest of the re-
publicans who took sides for or against
Plat in the tight over the fair -Evarts,
Bliss, Root, Hustled. .Astor and scores
of others. are of account only rs Others
manage for them.
There emains one man not now so
widely known, who may yet arise to
torment Mr.. Plat. That man is Con
gresham j. j. Belden. who worked
hard in favor of the fair. If he con-
cludes to try il on, Mr.. Belden will
prove TO be one of the heavy weights
in the area of republican politics in
New York. He possesses the gift of
political management. In many re-
spects he is singularly like Plat. In a
fight he can easily range the Depews
II the rest under his leadership. he is
doubtless the coming man i'm the poll
ties of the state. and il once he starts
i'm. he will keep Mr.. Plat very busy.
Meanwhile, Platt's hold OH New York
is firm and IN reason for il is that he
is intensely true tn those who serve
him.. With his friends he keeps faith
while, in his conduct toward his enc
mics, politics always outweighs resent
ment. lie wins Il man whenever he
can, not for companionship, but simply
for the political service that may thus
he secured.