New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-05
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MR.. PLATT AND THE TICKET.
AN INTERESTING TALK WITH THE EX.
SENATOR

SENAIOH.
HE TELLS HERALD REPORTER ABOUT HIS
RECENT CONVERSATION WITH THE PREsI-
DENr-HIs FRIENDS WILL ALL WORK
HEARTILY WITH HIM FOR RE-
PUBLICAN SUCCESS
The following account of talk with ex-senator
Thomas c. Platt will appear in "The New-forK
Herald" this morning:
I visited OK Senator Thomas C. Platt at the
Oriental Hotel M,nhattan Beach, Yesterday and IN
vied him to talk politics. Senator Platt lives at
the Oriental during the summer. He loves
the brisk breezes. lie loves the
ocean and its restless water He has an active
mind and active body, and these things are
in consonance with them He was sitting on the
eastern piazza Of the hotel as I approached and
greeted me, he always greets newspaper men,
most kindly. I told him l wanted him to talk
politics, ard that wanted TO print whatever he
said in The Herald He hesitated moment. as
if thinking over the expediency Of saying any
thing. but finally he replied. "All right; 1 sup
pose it is fair and proper that / should say
something suspect know the questions that
you have in mind TO ask me. and 50, consider
ing that perhaps it is suitable for me 10 say
something I shall talk frankly and clearly.
"You talked that way just before the MIN
neapolis Convention P" ventured to remark
aWelI. YES, so | did the Senator REPLIED
$50 did nor have anything TO take back, nor
anything to regret l did then what thoughs
WIS nv duty to the Republicans Of New-iork
and of the country. ] am going TO do what
think is my duty now We live in a land where
tie majority rules, must rule, and is going "
rule every time The majority did not agree
with me at Minneapolis. i did my best to deleat
the President, hut he had more votes thah the
other candidates, and that settled 1t. Now he "
the nominee of the Republican party. am
Republican. I a Republican in ls3?i
have been Republican every hour of every day
from then until this minute, never falterlng In
my support of Republican principles and Repunh-
can candidates no matter whether the candidates
were men OF my choice not. The aims ana
polcies and characters of parties in this country
have got 70 undergo a wonderful change pefore
| shall be anything else than Republican
Senator Platt paused moment, and during
the pauSe l suggested that, nevertheless, lie mao
been rather quiet since the Minneapolis Conveh-
ton. and perhaps of some solcitude
among the Presidents friends.
Mr. Platt smiled and said The weather has
been pretty hot, you know Then he went Oh
more seriously, Yes, l have been quiet, though
|
tay. lecn n source Of much sOlicitude. II would
be the shalowest kind of pretence for me to claim
that wac not greatly disappointed by the result
AZ Minneapolis Ny friends and my enemies have
generally agreed, think, in charging me with
strong feelings and fancy they are right. What
I believe. / believe: and know believe it; and
AS far as can, try TO act accordingly. 40 not
get over such disappointment as l had al MIN
neapolis In twenty-four hours, and confess there
has been in my mind grave question .whe'her rS
WAS nv duty, to 20 into this campaign with the
activity have Usually put forth. Because man
keeps quiet under pitcss attack, bends his should
ers to take IL and smiles more or less checrfuiiy
when he rights himself, it does not follow thas
he has experienced agreeable sensations, nor tha'
hc il proud or pleased at what has been said
I do not know that there has been man IN this
State and perhaps in the whole country who has
bcen more roundly and indecently abused than l.
In so far as this comes from Democratic ana
Nuowump sources-that il, from the common
cnemy-I expect it and am ready for it; but when
| spend day and night in the service oil the ne
publican party, doing what can to promote Tue
success of its principles ard Its candidates' "''h
out thought hope or expectation OF once OF re-
war.i. il seems little hard that should have 10
take from Republicans what even Democrats
ought tu be ashamed to give me. suppose that
our friends tine enemy, and perhaps some OF our
siucerer friends, will think it vastly amusing
when | tell you that / am not boss, that do
not want tc be boss, that | hate nothing 50
much as to have to do with patronage. and that
nv actions in occasionally undertaking TO direct
Republican methods and policies and In urging
candidates. and recommending persons for ONCE
are dictated solely BY what conceive TO be the
interests and necessities OF party and public well
fare. But that is true.
Doubts we're raised in my mind after the
Minneapolis convention how far my services
were desired by those VINO seemed then TO be
in charge of Mr. iiarrison's campaign heard
that some persons were representing 10 hin
tnat all the Inisortnnes the Republican party mad
ever undergone in the STATE OF New-fork were To
he attributed directly 10 me, and that II would De
Vood polite, for him 10 let II he understood that
lie wished 10 have nothing 10 10 with DOSES
Certainly | had desire to Obtrudc myself upon
the President, 10 force myself into the conduct
OF his campaign If was not wanted As the facts
have proved. 1 was probably oversensltive But
If man have faults that one L, anon, those
most easily forgiven.
there WAC aac'her pauye here and ! filled it
in with the question: 80 you waited :"
YES. | waited. | waited 10 hear from Presi-
dent Harrison. Some people said that | waited
TO hear from him request to take office; that
J waited 10 make sordid bargain that stood
like Il rOad-agent hOldins-up coach. these
were lies, and they were among the meanest and
most irritating, most painful and most hnrtiuI
lies have ever had 10 endure. President harri-
uon, like al men nigh III power, has a great NUM-
Der OF fool friends more or less close TO him
These creature, insoparablc from high political
station Some are very artful as well silly,
and from some the quality OF malice l. not
wanting. But he has, too, a large number OK
friends closely attached 10 INN, PROUD oi nun,
20 Ions IN his interest men who profoundly admire
him and profoundly love the party he leads:
They probably told the President that ! waG nof
ms lad as these imaginative people had panied
o %n, that | was furnished with that proper
measure me: of scIf-respect which ought TO be the
equipment of American eltizen: iney Pp,v Papp
| II |
a'S Soo1 s1' deal mors than disliked him. and per-
laps ' that my preadiees against him. like those
10 'eptertoined against me, were due In large
ne oa1,'ra vm'u 70 misapprehension. suppose they
IaeaoulS rhinas and nossiby Others even more