Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-11
THE NEW YORK BOLT
Lockwood May Decline the Support
Of Independents.
HILL And THE ADMINISTRATION
The Anti Tammany Crusade Now
Organized.
!, And THE ADMINISTRATION
L o OKIN TO ANON T
Special Dispatch to The Evening Sta,

| he ted his harmony 10 last When he
| left for Albany he thought that ne had
things all arranged. Everything looked
WELL The third ticket movement he had
| stamped out as far as New York city was
| concerned. and the noisy boilers were CON
| lined To the Brooklyn Shepardites. lie had
| deal fixed up between Tammany and the
| Grace-Fairchild element, so that he Grace
| men should decide upon a candidate for
| mayor and Tammany should indorse HIM.
| The OILY condition was that a man should
not be selected who was personally obnox-
! ious to Tammany. He might be reforner
and all that, but not enc of their Old an
| tagonists.
| But the moment that Hill left the city
| things turned upside down. The Shepard
| ties came down upon New York in force
and tried to bring the ant.-snappers over
| to their third ticket idea. They urged and
| threatened and finally FSirchild went over
| to them. They offered to name nlm for
| governor, but this he would not accept. He
| made 1t as one Of the conditions of mis- sup
| port, too. that they should content them
| selves with naming a candidate for gov
ernor. This proposition they dill not like;
| They had their ticket all made up and
| wanted to go before the state with a COM
plete list of names.
| But Fdirchid declared that he would
| nave nothing to do with the orga niZed bolt
| unless his wish was regarded. AIR. Shep-
ard had selected as his ticket Everett II.
| Wheeler of New York for governor, John
| ID. Herman of Utica for lieutenant gov
| ernor, and Franklin ID. Locke of Buffalo
/ for judge of the court of appeals. Shepard
| insisted that such a ticket would attract
! more votes thar If they Endorsed the reg
| ular democratic nominees for The other two
| places on the ticket. His idea was that
| this would make a ticket that would be
| supported in the three great Strons holds Of
anti-Hilldom, New York, Utica and Buff
| a elf -plfl1 no Int
| ed on the ticket. If only MIR Wheeler was
| named 1t might give the idea thai 1t was
| entirely a New York local matter and
| thus drive away votes. But he finally yield
ed and Mr.. Wheeler was the only
| named on the Independent ticket.
| Lockwood May Refuse Their Aid.
| Mr. Shepard has not, however, given up
| the idea OF the whole ticket. When he
| agreed to iniorse lockwood and Brown, he
| did so with the thought in his own mind
| that they would not aceep; such an .ndarse-
| ment. Lockwood is Very close to Hill and
| he is likely 10 send ringing letter 'ieciar-
| ing that he does not wish to be supported
| by such an organization, that he prefers
defeat with their opposition to election with
| their support. In fact, Mr.. Shepard will he
disappointed If this is not done. Judge
| Brown will do what is told to him, and IL
| Hill wishes him to decline the support OF
| the boilers he Will do So without ques ion.
| If Lockwood and Brown decline this Of
| fered aid, then, of course Shepard Will he
allowed TO finish his ticket as he first in
tended.
Shepard says that Wheeler, for governor
will receive over 15o,0JO votes, but Shepard
is said to be a rainbow chaser of the thirty
third degree. The republicans only claim
that Wheeler will receive $1,000 votes. and
will lie perfectly satisfied If he gets 4U.vU.
Boilers Not Very Powerful.
The regular democrats say that this third
,l,e
who will vote fer Wheeler would not have
voted fer Hill anyway, and many of them
would have voted for Morton, so that in
reality the third ticket hurts the republican
chances. They also say that these men
have never supported Hill, and that they
knfei him when ne ran for governor the
last time, and still he was elected by a good
majority.
Hill Wants an IndOrscnent.
What Mr.. Hill wants now is an indorse-
ment from the administration. by that he
does not want glorious eulogy Of his life
and public services or any aatter.ns Ian
guage. for he knows that the country and
the state would take no stock in the sudden
conversion Of President Cleveland to Hi!
and Hillism. What he wants is a plain
statement from the fisherman of Buzz2rd's
bay that the friends Of Cleveland should
vote for Hiu this tall, Secretary Lam mt
is the one who is looked to for this pare uI
the program. He has been asked 10 see the
President and 10 JaiS IN his ear and ne IS
now on that errani. Whether the Secretary
of War VIII bring back an olive branch or a
knife no one can tell, but ii viii be one Oh
these. There can be no compromise. No
half-hearted Endorsement will do. IL must
be unqualified 81 not at all MIR. cleveland
will be asked hatly and frankly TO cuine out
for Hill. If ne viii not, the campaign Val
20 without the Endorsement, and IN.
Hill men will bide their time to pay bacd
Mr. Cleveland in his own coin.
The great surprise of the week was the
Endorsement OF tine Grace democracy of
Col. Strong for mayor. When Hill left il
was all arranged that Tammany and the
Grace democracy should join hands ana SUD
port a man from outside Tammany Hail
But the republicans did some splendid WORK
and wire pulling. and when the Grace de
mocracy held their convention it was an
arranged that they should indorse the re
publican nominee for mayor But the con
vention did SO with bad grace. The nonl- |
ration was forced upon them, and under
such conditions their support of Col StronS
will not be very enthusiastic. If Tammany
puts up good man he will receive a IargS
number of their votes In spite OF the in
dorsement.
Narrow Escape of the Crusaders.
AS q matter of fact the anti-Tammany
mayoralty crusade came very near fallina |
to pieces on Monday. Mr.. Strong was on
the verge of declining the nomination. 4
large number of his business friends are |
democrats. and by arrangement they called |
upon him one after another. Each one |
told him the same story that as his frieni |
they would advise him to get out of the
race, as he was certain to be defeated, am
that would injure both his business stand |
ing and his social prestige.
The plan was artfuily arranged and we'll |
carried out. Col. Strong is new TO politics
and the scheme was too deep for him to Sc,
through. All this advice of his business |
friends had its instant effect, and he be
came thoroughly discouraged at the out
look. He had no ambition to lead a forlorn
hope, and his real preference Is to worn
in the ranks. He decided that the best
thing he could do was to draw out and h, |
told the republican leaders so. For a few |
hours this nearly stampeded the republicans |
His withdrawal would have ended the anti
Tammany campaign, for IL would have been
an admission OF weakness that would have
proved fatal. So they forced him to keen
up his candidacy while they renewed their
efforts to get the anti-Tammany organiza-
tons to indorse him. In this they succeed
ed, and he will now lead the fight bur il |
was a very narrow escape.
Hill May Remain in the CITY.
The state and city elections are SO closely
allied that they cannot be separated. ana