The sun., 1891-11-09
REPUBLICAN KNIVES DID IT.
yxssB1T sLAUGHTERED AS FOLGER
WAS UP THE STATE

The riot 20 Down Pistt wss FcrseA Iens
neforc tho Conveutiou That No.issset
Ys,.trs Man Mr. Outside.the-Breast-
works Miller Has Giatted His IRE.
The Republican revolt against J. slont Fas-
sett and his associates on the Plat ticket has
occupied tho politicians since election day.
Tho detection OF Warner Millers friends. the
: sIashing course pursued by James ]. Belden,
aud tho conduct OF Henry g. Burloigh. Titus
: sheard. George B. Sloan. and their satellites
was fully understood when the returns from the
upper counties were received at the Fifth
Avcnue Hotel on election night Until these
returns began to come In there was rejoic-
ing Whom their import was fully understood
there was bad language The Platt people had
been taken in and done for by the Hungry Joes
and the Grand Central Petcs OF the Republican
party Of the State. Just why the Platt people
Ind put any confidence in tho Half Bfoods ID
beyond the comprehension OF many.
This revolt was practically planned from the
hour that President Harrison arrived In Wash.
iugton to be inaugurated. Warner Miller had
been defeated for Governor. He believed that
he had stood In the breach. and although he
had fallen "outside the breastworks" he
nevertheless thought that his old colleague
in the Senate. BENJAMIN Harrison. should
give him place either in the Cab
met or one OF equal national renown. The
President thought otherwise. and Mr.. Miller
learned. or thought he had learned. that
Thomas @. Platt represented the Administra-
tion in Now York State. He believed that Mr..
Platt had cut him in the Gubernntorial tight IN
order to aid the election Of Harrison. Mr..
platt and his friends have denied this en-
phatically time and time again. 1t is charged
that Mr. Miller in that race disagreed with
Mr. Platt and all Of tho shrewd thinkers In the
Republican party. In his speeches Mr.. Miller
deliberately afYronted thousands Of Republic
. cans not only In this city but In the interior
who were engaged in the LIQUOR traffic. The
Platt Republicans told him at the time that
they were behind him on the high license
issue. but they also told Mr.. Miller that in
carrying out this principle it was not neces-
sary to describe every man In tho liquor trade
, as either thief. criminal. or o murderer.
: But Mr.. Miller. with the dogGed stubbornness
for which he is noted. persisted in his course
and was defeated His friends then charged
that tho Platt people had not been square with
him.
The Miller idea that Mr.. Flat had obtained
all the Federal patronage in New York State
under tho Harrison Administration cannot be
substantiated. J. Sloat Fassett was MIR. Plat 8
candidate for Collector. The President de-
clned to appoint him. saying that he was too
young for tho place. Col Joel b Erhardt was
Mr. Platts second choice He was practically
forced upon Mr.. Platt Surveyor Lyon also
was practically forced upon Mr.. Piatt So was
Naval Officer Willis. and 80 also was Ap-
pralser Marvelle w. Cooper. In neither OF
these appointments did Mr.. Plat obtain
his first choice. The only appointment
which can be considered Q right down
Platt appointment Is that OF Postmaster
Cornelius Van Cott. President Harrison went
/. further than this and refused to appoint MI.
Platt Secretary Of the Treasury. The result OF
his policy in practically ignoring Mr.. Platt was
disastrous He did not satisfy Mr.. Platt OF his
friends and he had snubbed outright Mr. Nil
sSoss s and ns
this te ss
ssf%S dnfsSttF fss soRss S.,a s sss ss y, S
5fsisesdrtsas aistsssd e s1 "! Rs $es
eeived Col Erhardts letter He Fsye sssEss-
tsy se pa5 M &s s% aapoe
He did not wish on the eve of E PresideIti.l s,d
eitizop as Col Erhardt had practically been
forced to resign his place.
the ns nndesstsndne that was to BE- acsepted
on. Aug. l.. The President in replying to Col
Il tss hsns
| slS s SdS. IL
nsoace ScOl Grhsrds az to reconsider his
July Co. EEha1ds ,s wEots the s.s'rna 1sssi
hs The sf ssat sa ssS
was IN earnest Just about that tmS 3S,ne 1nS ne
AIr EnGantf SpcrptArY OF the commit
. arc informed that when he saw that Erhardt
thsi ssstoR EoHns %sn that Mr. Plat
: PresIdent's experience with Mr: Fassett had
| not been such rs to load him to forget who
sas MSsny had Visited
;sS Ike Tdss f s ss Sss
+, summoned to Care May, and was told that he
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@ r. i$ss sonssq Ss Ia" dists,Ssts4 ,ais il
inE %sers ens%es sasss f0u& Ga 0n Rhsras rends
wss wRGs m S n eR
ments to kelaborsrs q tI,e nybls stsres.
tary Foster. who had mistakenly turned out 80
many men on Aug. ! as t, to inlare the worki5nEs
when young F.ssctt went to Rochester to be
nominate, ior Governor and to bo succeeded
by Collector Hendricks 1t may be said In
passing right here, that HSndrlcks also en-
sibie benefit to the Platt wing Of the Repubi-
z. can party.
. refused to appoint Fassett Collector. 1t is
known that the riatt wing 81 tho party de-
, {fovernor in 1891. Step Ly step he was. put
forward us tho bright young champion OF the
Rem bliruu lnrty In tho Stute. Ono of these
ateps consistcd In the Pint persecution Of the
Penocr1i" party in NeT Enrk city y.u senator hsp
man q tic fassett", y, Investigating Commit,
big man OF the committec to attack the Tam
.nany tiger =, The whole, m, fight was to
work ondcd q failure, failure; Ever, Event the III MI
! tho management OF this city; merely Z, bring
himself forward, The Belden people also
Eutsss EFFORTS q fasstst But Eassst. sh
I. Chrmung Snnntor had so imprensed himsolf