New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-04
n r. HILLS BITTER WORDS.
TUE SENATOR FIERCELY ATTACKS CROKER.
MLAUGHLIN AND SHEEHAN.

CHIMES MAlNL1 hr<si
ocp.r1c sHIPwRECK IN THIS STATE
CLEVELAND DEMOCRATS. TOO. COME
IN FOR A GOOD SHARE OF THE
ToNGUE-LAsHTNG.
corator Hills visit in New-York this time was
. snort one. out if what certain machine men
- have been in his confidence are saying
ahout II is true. it will be memorable In state
.o,,,ics When the Senator stepped out OF the
1Iote, New Netherand at p. m. yesterday
with his gripsack in his hand ana went 10 take
w. ,ra,r for Washington he left behind him
,,rgline ears which belong to Democrats in this
o,,v and other parts of the State. Senator
,,,.r,h,, also started for Washington yesterday,
leaving his hotel in time for the S2O p. m.
,.a,r Ijeutenant- Governor Sheehan remained
.. ,our IN attend to important law business. he
soid which would keep him here until to-
morrow.
Assertions were made and repeated yesterday
that Senator Hill not present at any OF the
remocratic conferences which were held on sat
urdav. at which Senator Murphy, Lieutenant
Governor Sheehan, Mr.. Croker. eX-Mayor Grant,
Nayor Gilroy Anthony \. Brady, OF Albany;
state Senators McCarty and McCarren, ana
pistrict-Attorney Ridgway. of Brooklyn, were
named as participants. but there are pretty
we-authentcated reports that Mr. Hill saw
s,d talked with a number of Democrats while
IN this city, and that he spoke his mind with
GREAT freedom When he came TO review the
causes of the Democratic defeat in the State
he does not seem to have minced matters in the
least AS he spoke of the bogus Democrats
Who he said had betrayed the party every
time they had a chance in the last nine years.
his manner is described the acme Of Bit
terness.
THREE CAUSES OF DEFEAT.
"Three things" the Senator was quoted as
saving. drought the disaster have just
suffered in the State-the Cleveland Democrats
the liquor element. and the personal machines
conducted by Croker. Mclaughlin and Sheehan
in the cities of New-York. Brooklyn and Buff
falo." The Cleveland Democrats Mr.. Hill char
acterized as a body of mugwumps and political
freebooters who had never been loyal to the
Democratic party. and whose leaders had de-
ternined TO oppose and If possible defeat the
Democratic State ticket this year no matter
who the candidates upon it should be. He was
glad that this mob of macontents' which had
trained under the leadership of such men as
Grace Fairchild. Peckham and Coudert were
organized as permanent body. He hoped that
hereafter they might be found under their own
.'dshonorable standard" and thus would be
unable 10 deceive the people by prating about
being Democrats
Mr. Hill admitted his responsibility for the
nomination of Maynard. and said that he did
not shrink from it in the least. 1t was a nat
ural and logical nomination, and could not, in
honor, be avoided. But he insisted that the
spectacle Of the Cleveland opposition TO May
nard was pitiable after the Presidents ad-
herents had accepted all the political ad-
vantages which grew out of Maynards acts
without protest in last years election. The
Senator believed that the Anti-Snapper attack
upon Maynard was only the mask to cover
the determination to defeat the State ticket
this year. and that the Mugwump opposition
would have been as bitter against the ticket.
though perhaps less open, If Maynard had not
been nominated.
As to the liquor men who cut the ticket, the
Senator was more guarded. They had been dis
satisfied and politically discontented ever since
they failed to get all they demanded from a
Democratic Legislature and Executive Added
TO this their old antipathy toward Maynard,
whom they had defeated twelve years before
for being a Prohbtionist came up again. and
they took the opportunity which was offered
them of 's1uaring accounts with the leaders OF
the State Democracy
personal MACHINES" THE MAIN CAUSE.
To the disgust with which voters throughout
the State had come to regard the personal ma
chimes" as he called the Democratic organiza-
tions in this city, Brooklyn and Buffalo. Mr.
Hill attributed one Of the main causes which had
shipwrecked the party The complete smash
up which Election Day had brought to the
machines of Mclaughlin and Sheehan the Sen
ator seemed to think was not at all surpris-
ing and was the direct result of the utter disre-
gard which these leaders had shown for the
wishes Of the people. Mr.. Croker he regarded
as an extremely lucky man to have escaped the
food this year. Next year, he feared, he might
not be so fortunate. The people he said were
always suspicious OF men In political he VINO
became suddenly rich, but, most of all, they
disliked display of riches acquired during
period of political success. 1t was diftcult 10
convince them that wealth obtained In such
times did not come in some way out or thelr
pockets. ,
While talking about the personal machines
Mr.. Hill took occasion to revert to his urgent
admon.tion at the Democratic state convention
OF 1891 that Mr.. Sheehan should not take the
nomination for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Bue-
eyed Bily's' vaultng ambition the metnous
which he had felt forced TO adopt to attain
his ends and the way his fondest hopes had
been eliminated by the sturdy voters or Eiie
County. were pointed out to show mat ,he as
regard OF the Senator's advice had brought
bitter consequences. Those to whom Mr.. lfih
talked expected him to say something aiso
about Senator Murphy and his Trojan inachihe'
but the senior Senator was silent as 10 ms col
league ,,
The downfall of Hugh Mclaughlin furnished
Mr.. Hill with a theme on which, II is said' ne
dilated at length That he regarded Mr.. Nc
Laughln as safely in his political coffin may be
inferred from a singing reference, which the
Senator Is quoted as making to senator John
NcCarty, speaking Of him as the lega'ee OF
AcLaughlin's political estate. A.,
The rumor was revived yesterday that MI
Croker had finally decided to retire from the
Tammany Hall leadership and all pohucai
management in the future. 1t was said that
his resignation would take effect at the Pc
ginning OF the year. If in the mean time satis-
factory successor could be discovered
The Steckler- McCrea independent Democrats
are preparing to hold a mass-meeting at the
Cooper Union on the evening OF December H. AT
formally proclaimed and its war against Tam
many Hall officially declared.