Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-08
A FLOWER MACHINE.
The After Election Indications
Are That He Will Control
New York.
CLEVELAND AND HILL
Have No Such Chances For '92 as the
Politicians Expected.
THE NEW GOVERNOR HAS POWER
And the Presidential Bee Has Long Been
Buzzing Around Him.
THE NEW GOVERNOR HAS POWER
WHITNEY AMONG THE POSSIBILITIES

occurred. The Democrats, on the other
hand, with a complacency that is a natural
concomitsnt to victory, are asserting that
New York is now an irredeemable Demo-
cratic State. Republican statisticians have
wrestled with the returns from the country
districts and New York and Kings counties
10 derive consolation and to show, but for
this cause here and that cause there tn e
result would have been different
But above the smoke of last Tuesday,
battle looms the great political contest of
1892 Who has obtained the most valuable
advantage from Mr. Flowers election?
Have Mr.. Cleveland's Presidential chances
been weakened or strengthened bv it?
Where does this victory leave David 3.
Hill? And what course will Mr.. Flower
pursue when Cleveland and Hill begin to
fight at close quarters? Is Flower himself
q candidate for Presidential honors?
They Both Rely on Flower.
A week before the election Governor Hill
said to a Kings county friend: eff Flower
is elected 1 am all right The delegation
TO the next National Convention will not
be unfriendlv to me-" During the cam
pagn men who are generally regarded as
Mr. Cleveland's advisers derived satisfac-
tion from the remark: "Flower's election
insur Cleveland's denomination. With
Hill and Cleveland both relying upon
Flower to aid them in their Presidential
aspirations, complications of disturbing
character are almost certain to arise in the
party of Hill and Cleveland and Flower.
The latter not only holds the KEY of the
H..
trol, if he so desires the entire patronage
in the gift of the State.
AT the present time the Democratic ma
chine is in the possession of the small
clique that nominated and that now con-
idently expects to rule Mr.. Flower. The
Strongest man politically and intellect
( ually in this close corporation is Edward
Murphy, Jr., Chairman of the Democratic
State Committee. He carries in his hand
the enormous patronage OF the canals Of
the State and the State Engineers Depart
ment aggregating in disbursements over
S5,000000 a year.
Murphy Could Name the Nominee.
In his Judgment Richard Croker, the
leading power in Tammany Hall, places
implicit confidence. At his direction Ros-
well P. Flower was nominated for Cover
nor. If the National Convention were to
be held next month it would be within his
province 10 dictate the names of one-half
the delegation from this State outside of
New York and Kings. BY his coalition
with Tammany Hall, through Richard
Croker, 80 per cent of the delegates would
be rendered subservient to his orders.
Unless Mr.. Flower takes the bit between
his teeth, these men, Murphy and Croker
will select the candidate from the Empire
State for the Democratic National Conven-
tion. Naturally their choice would be con-
fined to that man, who, if elected, will prove
most tractable in their hands. From Mr..
Cleveland they know from past experience,
they can expect nothing that would imperil
his idenrity or his independence. They
fear David B. Hill for his selfshress and
arrogance Should Mr. Flower prove docile
and permit them to run the Executive de-
partment in Albany, they might encourage
him in his Presidential ambition.
Flower May Want His Own Machine.
But after ali Mr.. Flower NAV disappoint
them. may strike out by himself and at
tempt to overthrow the arbitrary Hill
Murphy machine and establish one of his
own. The great majority Flower received
Is q source of more danger to Cleveland and
Hill than smaller one would have been.
As matter of fact to-day Mr.. Flower is
more of Presidential possibility than either
Cleveland or Hill lie has none of the an
tagOniSms that poster and follow those lead
erS. He was supported enthusiastically by
the factions Of which both are at the head.
He has it within his power to become po-
litical boss of the first magnitude, but he
must cultivate liberal amount of self
reliance, courage and independence to do so.
He begins his three years term without a
Democratic Senate to confirm his nomina-
tlons for many offices now occupied by s'hold
overs, ;" VINO have hung on for years bevond
the expiration of their term because the Re-
publican Senate FOR the past eight wears re-
fused to vote for their successors But by
concessions and diplomacy he may establish
g power for himself His election has stimu-
lated the jealousy between the Cleveland
and Hill factions to the threatened distrac-
ton OF the party, and many of his friends
have already advised him that Flower
machine is inevitable
The Bee Has Buzzed for Years.
Flower is an ambitious man. Tie same
ambition that inspired him to become
Presidential candidate in 1854 and again in
1855 is by no means dead. In those years
he had nothing TO support him but his
check book. The machine in other hands
was against him. To-day politicians who
have been close TO him for years predict
that the moment the vast machinery of the
State is placed in his grasp he will forget
his ante election promises, follow innumer-
able precedents and av his own Presidential
fac.
With development in Democratic politics.
ana three factions conducting an internecine
war the National Convention would be
called upon to exercise judicious care in the
selection of the New York man for the
ticket, for in the light of last Tuesdays
majority ii is regarded as a settled fact that
the Empire State will be given one of the
two places
whitney Is a Possibility.
No matter what the upshot NAV be, the
irrec0ncilable differences between Cleveland
ard Hill, the knowledge that Hill knitted
Cleveland in 1888 and the suspicion that
Cleveland would skewer Hill were the latter
to he nominated next year, render the
nomination of a third or a compromise cam
didate from this State all the more prob
able
VIII Il be Mr. Flower or, as strongly
limited in many quarters, William c. Whit
nev, who was Clevcland's Secretary of the
Navy, whose relations with his former
chlef have latterly been very much strained
ana who was personally represented on the
Executive Committee OF the Democratic
State Committee by Colonel Dan Lamont,
who was Cleveland's Private Secretary, but
who has become wealthy since he left Wash
lngton by acting as treasurer and secretary
OF a number of corporations with which Mr.
W hItney is financially interested.
Pettigrew Still Booming Blaine.
ST PAUL, Nov. 7.-[Special Senator
Pettigrew, Of South Dakota, was in the city |