St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-15
SOLD OUT BY PLATT.
The New York Boss Said to
Be Already Getting In
Fine Work.
He Is Thought to Be the Cause
Of the Absence OF Fassett
Enthusiasm.
Signs Of an Incipient Rebel
lion in Republican Ranks
Against Platt.
Democrats Turn Out in Ire
mendous Numbers at the
Des Moines Meeting.

politicians who claim a familiar and
long standing acquaintance with 'Boss"
Platt. who runs the Republican politics
of the Empire State, are not the only
persons who believe that his candidate
for governor, young Mr.. Fassett, of
Syracuse, will be defeated at the cleo
ton in November. Politicians of his
own sort believe it and the impression
is. furthermore, becoming current that
Mr.. Plat will not be chief mourner at
the obseQuies either. The enthusiasm
over young FaSSett'S nomination, which
characterized the first few weeks of the
campaign, is running at very low ebb
at the present and the only speculation
INDUCED in is over the probable size of
Flowers majority.
Politicians of both parties do not hest
tate to proclaim Platt's trickery, and
rumors and whispered declarations of
deal between Platt and Tammany are to
be heard upon every hand, except, it
seems, by the Republican newspapers,
which have been singularly reticent in
eXl OSing the reports and defending
their candidate A deal between Tam
many and Platt is one of the natural
consequences of a New York campaign,
and no man in New York stands better
in the wigwam than Mr.. Platt, whose
word has great influence in political
way. The rank and file of Republicans
in the state VINO have been led about by
the nose by Mr.. Platt are a Submissive
lot of patriots, and their fortitude in in
viting defeat by following his leadership
has always been the most admired of
their attributes.
For ten years they have stood it, and
the outlook seemed favorable until a
few days ago of their putting up with
it for ten more. Now there are signs of
an incipient rebellion against the reign
Of The ''boss," and some of the leaders
are hunting for his scalp. The break
whlck will result from the kick may
land Mr.. Fassett little nearer the gu
bernatorial chair than he would be if
Mr.. Platt is permitted to manage his
campaign, or mismanage it, as the kick
ers style it. New York Republicans
have always been suspicious of Mr.
Platt, and his conduct during the last
month or so has not been of such
character as to encourage confidence in
him. 1t is manifest at this late day
that if Mr.. FaSsettis defeated, the rule
of Plat Will end for all time.
Platt takes what to an observer ap-
pears to be childish delight in exercis- |
ing his influence over New York poll |
tics. He struts about the corridor of the |
Fifth avenue hotel from dinner time till |
midnight ordering the petty bosses |
about with the air Of an autocrat, re- !
ceIvlng the homage of rural visitors, |
talking in high key of himself and his |
party, and hobnobbing with newspaper |
reporters. He demands unceaSing at !
tention to his person from his followers
and lays down the law to them In |
smooth, oily tones, much after the man
ner in which Matt Quay, of the neigh
boring state Of Pennsylvania, used to |
lord it over his henchmen until he met |
the fate that is in store for Mr.. Plat, |
unless the handwriting on the wall is |
misleading. Respectable Republicans
of the state keep away from the boss,
and the gang which surrounds him dur |
ing the four or five hours he permits the |
vulgar horde to gaze upon his august |
person is not much better than the mob |
of Tammany thugs and rOpers-in that |
follows in the wake of Croker, Cochran |
eft al.
The methods of Platt are very like |
those of the Tammany leaders. There |
are great many Republicans who do !
not hesitate to say that he would throw |
the state ticket to carry ward or defeat |
a respectable Republican who disputed |
his rule. OF late the number of these |
skeptics of Mr.. Platt's honesty has in |
creased very rapidly, and already Re |
publlcans are beginning to be appre- |
hensive of the defeat of their ticket, |
which, when nominated, was hailed as |
the savior of the state from Tammany |
rule. Plat is being watched. and his |
utterances discounted by Republicans |
as never before.
Young Mr.. Fassett, who is going to |
be made martyr Of this time, is repre- |
scented as becoming cognizant of the
fatality of Mr.. Platt'S friendship, and it !
is said will allow the report to be circu-
lated a few days before the election that
he and Platt are out for keeps. Fassett |
has discovered that the best indorse-
ment he could have is to break with |
his arch-friend Plat. He has been
making tour Of the state for the last
two weeks and soon learned, according
to a gentlemen who accompanied him
part of the way, that while the voters |
OF the interior do not relish the idea of
Tammany controlling the state they are
more averse to handing the control of it
over to anybody upon whom Platt has
such a substantial string as that which |
he uses to keep Fassett in step. The
further west Fassett went the more
pronounced was the sentiment against |
plattiSm, and so it Is given out in
uiet way that Mr.. Platt will be asked |
step aside and keep his hands off. |
4latt, being extremely fond of pulling |
strings, will decline, and then there |
will be a row, the result of which will |
be the defeat Of Fassett and Plat, too.
That's the way it is being figured out |
at least by people who know and ad
mire Fassett and who know aud con-
denim Plattism. The election of Flower,
with its accompaniment of Tammany-
ism, is viewed as foregone conclusion. |