New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-19
TuprE MEN Ar 4 HOTEL

Senator Hiscock, Collector Fassett and MI
Thomas G.. Platt assembled and met togetner
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Monday. lheSe
gentlemen are tolerably familiar with the
streets landmarks and institutions OF this CITY
and in no specia danger of being lost or mlSleu
Inv bunco-steerers. There is no reason, there
fore. to suppose that they met for consultation
as to the most hopeful means of escaping un-
shorn to the rural districts, and in the absence
Of this motive for conference there appears
TO be much doubt in certain quarters concern-
ing the object of their meeting. Some OF our
contemporaries have expended conslderaoIo tlnie
and energy in endeavoring to starte the ooDi
munity with various ingenious oonJectureS ouV
if there was mystery they do not seem !"
have solved it.
We do not pretend to possess authentic anu
incontrovertible proofs to establish any silsie
hypothesis concerning the coming toSether VI
these gentlemen, but we are able 10 upset
several unwarranted suggestions, ana IL o'u
friends and neighbors will continue this process
of exclusion they may ultimately get at inc
trutb. First of all, and with full recognition
of the responsibility that we assume, we assert
emphatioally that Mr. Platt is not going to ac-
cent the second place on the Farmers Alliance
ticket and stump the State for General Jones
and himself. And we call upon all persons and
papers that have been preparing IN good laiOn
or otherwise to circulate report 10 THIS enecV
TO hamstring tho story before 1t gets 1alriy
started. Nor is it true that Senator HiScoch
went out to the Pacific Coast Tor the purpose
of accepting in person the chair OF Homleolcs
and the Pastoral Charge in Leland Stanford
University. We make this denial on all but
the highest authority, and every self-respectlng
journal will consign TO the waste basket all
dispatches from the West purporting to confirm
this interesting but discredited report. Ihere
is still anothe. surmise which we feel warranted
in refuting forthwith and utterly. Collector
Fassett is not intriguing with Colonel Lamont
to run Bishop Vincent for the Presidency on
the platform America for the Chautauquans
As we have said already, we do not know
why Messrs. Hiscock, Platt and Fassett INDUCED
in a triangular dinner at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel and spent part of the evening together
but we have as good right to guess as anybody
else As not few of our readers may nave
surmised the three gentlemen under conSldera-
tion are Republicans of some distinction and In
Anence. If they had been Democratic leaders
probably their first impulse, on finding them
selves in New-York on the same day, would
have been to scatter in three directions for feal
of coming in contact. But being Republicans
| their natural inclination was to meet and enjoy
one another's society. We strongly suspect
that politics came up for discussion in the course
of the evening, and if so they must have fount
the topic a particularly cheerful one, politica
conditions and prospects being what they are
| On the whole, we should not be in the leas
surprised to know that each confidently assured
the others, as the result of his observations here
and elsewhere that the party is in frst-ratt
spirits and prepared to fight and win all Owe
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