The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-03-06
Rowdedow Out for Blood.

The Hon. BERNARD MCINTYRE. an Eighth
ward Democrat. publishes the extraordinary
statement here subjoined. concerning the
Hon. WILLIAM RowDEDow GRACE:
he tGR.csl told me he tried get into
anttsnap business in 1892 that he vas going to
ticket against Tsmmany Itoid him didn't believe he
was on the level. and that cLSrSLAsD d pull him OF.
'BARSEr. says he, forty CLxvELASps couldn't do It,
II uidnt take forty.ous. did It! and It wssn't
hard work. GRioE sent for sgain to help
him out with his new party. I went and saw
him and he told again how they Eoing Ia put
straight ticket In the city and the state called hts
attention TO o2 and told him he'd drop his move
ment aRain and leave the boys In the lurch IL he
could get what he wanted without putting up TICKET
said: MT Mayor II the other side puts up . ClEvE-
for Governor and CLEvtt.Sp whispers to you
from Washington, you'n lay down lie said he
wouldn't and thathe was In this thing for blood
Does BERNARD speak truly? Did he
really accuse RowDEDow OF not being. as
he says. ION the level? Did RowDEDow.
enraged at the treatment which his recon-
mendations for Office received In Washing
ton. and at the successive honors and
triumphs won by Senator HILL, declare to
BERNARD that he was lin this thing"
meaning thereby the Cuckoo. or State Aid,
Democracy for blood"p
Without wishing TO question the veracity
OF Mr.. MCINTYRE, we very much doubt it.
We doubt that the Hon. RowDEDow. when
not himself candidate for Office. adj
dressed Mr.. McISTYRE as BARNEY" He
may have done so. but 1t Is unlikely. 1t is
quite Us unlikely. that after this inter-
change Of condolences. BERNARD. indicated
in his representations that RowDEDow
would be pulled or" would salute that IL
lustrious parsonage as MIR. Mayor"
We don't believe It, The impulse to say
81 told you So" or What did / tell you ?"
or who was right ?" Is too strong to per-
NIT such thing: and Mr.. McISTYRE must
have been misguided somewhat by the
excitement OF the occasion and the salts
faction he enjoyed in the discontinue OF
the former Chief Magistrate of this town.
Mr.. MCISTYRE's narrative may be limp In
some respects. but it is unassailable in
others. RowDEDow was. unquestionably
and indisputably. pulled off in 1892. After
many vainglorious boasts OF independence.
he and his associates were compelled
to fall in line behind Tammany. in compli-
ance with the terms OF the arrangement
made by Mr.. CLEVELAND at the Victoria
Hotel. Brother DICKINSON afterward set
forth one OF the conditions OF that arrange
Let Tammany have the local Offices"
Was that arrangement TO operate through
out the term OF the present Administration
or was it to apply only to the election OF
1892? 1t is difficult to say. but the failure
or refusal Of RowDEDow and his friends to
nominate ticket in $685. after being adj
monished on the subject from Washington.
would seem to indicate that not until 1896
will the anti-snappers be freed from the
terms of the hated compact. made on their
behalf but for his own benefit. by Mr..
CLEVELAND at the Victoria Hotel.
Let the Hudson River flow! Let the At
lantic Ocean roar! Let the sun rise! Let
Tammany have the local offices! There
was nothing small. circumscribed. or diff
ferential about the bulletin OF DICKINSON
II corroborates. In its essential particulars.
the narrative OF BERNARD MCINTYRE. even
II RowDEDOw did not tell him that he. Row
DEDow. was "out for blood"
The addition by BERNARD OF the two
words ''for blood" may be the key to the
whole mystery. RowDEDow may have
merely said that he was "out." Not out
for blood; simply out. There is no gain
saying that He Is out. out heavily; but.
on the other hand. he has acquired a large
fund OF knowledge concerning the graft
tude Of the beneficiary Of his earnest and
very active efforts in the spring of 1892.