The evening world., 1894-10-12
GRACE OUT FOR scALPs NOW.
Will Work for Hill, but Is.
Determined to "Do" the
Tigers Candidates.
WILL PUTUP AsSEMBLYMEN, TOO
Calls at Democratic Headquarters
to Announce that Harmony Is
No Longer q Possibility.

w. r. Grace. leader Of the State De-
mocracy. after an interview with John
Boyd Thacher, OF Senator Hills Cam
paign Committee. at the Park Avenue
Hotel, to-day. made a formal declaration
Of war against the Tammany candidates
for Congress and the Assembly.
Until to-day Mr.. Grace had some hope
that the Tainmany leaders would divide
Congressman and Assemblymen with
him because OF his pledge to support
Hill and the State ticket. The refusal Of
the Tammany people to treat with him,
or even TO take notice OF his overtures
for harmony. incensed him so much that
he decided ~ do mis- best to defeat the
candidates put up by Tammany for Con-
gress and the Assembly. l..u.,
To this end he has resolved to put up
State Democracy candidates In all the
districts to divide the Democratic vote.
He went to Democratic headquarters
to-day to assure John BOYD Thatcher
that he would not break his promise to
support Hill, but that 1t was war to the
H KNIFE I now between his organization and
To an hEvening World" reporter Mr..
Grace said, just after his interview with
Mr. Thatcher
II have been talking to Major Hink-
ley, in Poughkeepsie. over the long-dis-
lance telephone for the last half hour.
me subject or our conversation was the
Congressional and Assembly nomina-
lions.
MIR. Huxley has also been talking
with people over the phone: who they
were do not not. know but can say now,
Mr.. Thatcher, that there Is no chance for
harmony over the Congressional nomi-
nations.
"Slnce my return from Europe I have
been unable to talk freely until now.
! have been Gfraid of telling secrets
that belong to other people.
shall speak in our own districts both
for Mr. Hill and for Mr.. Strong.
we VIII hold conference at 4.30 this
afternoon 1t Cooper Union. Room "a
dermen and Congress will be discussed.
Nobody has been slated as yet, be-
cause We waited TO see II harmony could
be brought about between Tammany and
the State Democracy.
Mr.. Hill will certainly be elected.
Party lines are drawn more closely now
then during the last twenty years, and
Gratis will rally to the support OF the
State ticket.
81 wish to say here that the present
situation-that Is. the lack OF harmony
Is on account Of no act Of ours.
I'm regard to the chances of the Con-
gressional candidates named last night
u
the men who will be pitted against
them. However, l cannot see how any
Democrat should vote for any man who
voted against tbs Tariff bill. as several
OF these gentlemen did
Speaking OF the chances OF Mr.. Wheel
er Mr.. Grace said:
lively. i don't believe Wheeler viii get
more than 10 900 votes In the State.
The municipal situation reminds me OF
9, comic opera. Strong Will certainly be
l have known Mr.. Strong for twenty
years. He Is liberal. broad-minded
man, who believes in liberty Of the
does not belong 10 the A. p. A. or the
A, p. L.. and that he has no sympathy
with either. He is blum. hearty man
and although not a public speaker. will
make a good impression"
II is not unlikely that the Grace Demo-
Gratis will take advantage OF the disaf-
lection in Tammanys ranks * G res9ltinx
man Tim Campbell In the Ninth Dis
trict, j De Witt Warner in the Thir-
teenth, and e. J; Dunphy in the Eighth;
nominate all three to win over their ad-
herents Is question that cannot be
definitely answered just yet.
mocracy, said this morning that he could
say for the organizat ton that Mr.. War
ner would be supported by Mr.. Grace In
candidate against the Tammany NOM
inee.
Dunphy," said Mr.. Monroe, but 1 can
say that If no satisfactory agreement e
Committee the State Democracy will
nominate candidate for Assembly
and Congress in every district In the
what success has there been in agree
irg on a combination ticket2" he was
asked.
swered "A conference committee has
that in charge, however. and l cannot
speak with authority"
Congressman Dunphy, OF the Eighth,
while not positively announcing himself
as a candidate against Lawyer Walsh.
who was given the Tammany nomination
last night intimated that he would runs
II Will not know for day or So" no
said to an Evening WORLD man who
saw him at his home this morning. Mat
tiers have not taken any definite shape
here. / was turned down by hessars.
Oliver and Sullivan. who seem to con-
troll everything around here. NY POSI-
ton regarding them Is very well known.
There is pretty sure TO be An cpposi-